Allowing tech giants to monopolize all of our communications was a mistake that was always going to lead to this. What alternatives do we have? There's grapheneOS, but even that is placing too much trust in Google's proprietary aspects of the hardware. I wish non-android linux phones were at a usable state.
I'm so close to ditching android and smart phones entirely in favour of a dumb Nokia and maybe a mini tablet for when I need the power.
you're not my dad
... are you?
The cognitive dissonance over at r/conservative is showing cracks over this one. Same with the "dictator" comments about Zelensky. You can make MAGATs believe a lot of things, but telling them that, actually, Putin is the good guy, and Nazis are pretty cool, is a hard sell.
I'm sure they want to mean it. But the reality is that when Russia starts making moves they will be pre-occupied and likely won't be able to help much across the Atlantic
The only European countries with nukes are the UK and France (225 and 290, respectively). As of January 2024 the world has ~12,121 nukes. America has 5,044 of them
Yeah. The moment American soldiers step foot across the Canadian border what are we going to do? It would already be over. We have no defense against the largest military in the world, and we stand no chance of defending the longest continuous border in the world. We will only be able to fight as an occupied resistance.
I'm looking for reasons to be optimistic and coming up short; but if democracy really did survive, overcome, and adapt to fascism's latest iteration, what a glorious start to a new chapter of our history that would be. I hope we live in that time line. Democracy winning would inspire in me a hope for the future that I have not believed in for decades.
They work well on desktop and mobile (firefox). As the other replier stated, you may want to avoid using multiple ad blockers (decentraleyes, privacy badger, and ghostery) alongside UBlock; and NoScript's functionality can be achieved with UBlock.
Lol the name came from a ironscape clan member from my osrs days. I don't suppose that's you?
For those who still need to run Windows, I recommend that you utilize the Windows 10 LTSC IoT iso (can be found online; make sure you verify it with a checksum from microsoft) as it will receive security updates until 2032. You can debloat the iso significantly using this guide, though be warned that it is very easy to break and you may need to re-modify and re-install it to fix any weird errors that you introduce. Mine works great, totally removed defender, all telemetry I could find, etc, but my BitLocker doesn't work lol.
If you need help give me a shout. I wont share an ISO because tbh you shouldn't trust a stranger for that, but if you have questions I've done this about 12 times for myself and others
I have a novice coding question using the mouse tracking as an example: Is it possible to intercept and replace mouse tracking data with generic inputs? For example, could you implement an overlay that blocks mouse interactions, and instead of physically clicking on elements, send a direct packet to the application to simulate selecting those elements?
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