Well, that’s probably the only people left who could get paid for porn. There’s lots of republicans on the internet.

The public launch of tor was only 1 year before i2p.

Are you suggesting the drives are accessed more slowly before this update?

Sound like it went the same way everything else went. The less money is involved the more trustworthy it is.

AI was never intelligent. It’s a marketing term, that’s all. It has absolutely no meaning.

I don’t trust tor. It’s western tech developed by the US and they’ve been caught lying multiple times about security features being removed from tor browser.

I’m glad it’s there and we should always have multiple options but at this point i2p has more credibility and fewer questionable ties than tor does.

Product placement has always been a thing. I once saw some show on tv where there was a hospital with shiny Apple computers in every scene and I laughed my ass off at how tonedeaf that was.

OMG the honey fiasco was such an incredible explosion to watch. I never trusted it. I knew it was shady. But I never actually studied it. Just dismissed it as ridiculous shit being shipped everywhere and avoided it. Then the truth came out, LTT and many other got caught with their pants down and looked really bad, and I felt my distrust validated.

So satisfying.

It’s kind of a guilty pleasure for me. I like it in the background sometimes. It’s like watching code blue cam. Cops are occasionally useful bullies but I don’t watch it for the cops. I watch it for the white trash judge judy bullshit. It’s a methed out freak show sometimes. It’s spectacle.

LTT and gamers nexus face similar but not exactly the same pressures. Gamers nexus is able to be more aggressive than Linus is but Linus structured his business in such a way that made it vulnerable to such a things.

The clearest example of this was when the Intel overvolting bug was being hidden by Intel PR spin and GN noticed a pattern, said fuck all that noise, and raised hell over it. GN was right. Intel was wrong. And GN was rewarded for it. Linus has to keep sponsors happy whereas GN regularly throws punches with industry titans like NVIDIA.

The risk is higher but so is the reward. People trust GN specifically because of that reputation. Linus is fun, his channel is interesting, but he’s squarely in the influencer/entertainment category.

I can also expel incredible energy very quickly but it just makes me feel ashamed.

I really respect Gamers Nexus for actually doing the shit Linus Tech Tips just haws and haws over.

Until they decide those tools are illegal as well. They solve a different problem. The government will ban things it cannot control so you have to fight governments directly, not just work around them.

Oh they will absolutely turn on him if they smell blood in the water. Someone just has to make him bleed first. They want everything he is doing but they also know he’s gonna be dead soon enough and all the anger from the collapsing cult will be focused on them.

He’s done everything they wanted. He has nothing left to offer them. Now they just need to dispose of him with a massive public spectacle and focus all the consequences on him. Thats what the Epstein files are. Everything about this says the rich and powerful want out and to have him be the scapegoat.

Enter Russia. He’s still very useful to Russia. So Putin props him up by threatening those in his own party. So until Putin dies, this will continue.

When Putin dies, Trump will be completely vulnerable. That’s when everyone will finally oust him.

Anything KDE. My mom and stepfather are using Kubuntu and it’s working out great.

I used to work at a place where it was just a small operation of us three in the IT dept. helpdesk goon me, network engineer, and IT boss. I wanted more experience on Linux in a corporate environment. IT boss saw this as a learning opportunity and gave the green light so I switch my machine over.

Then network guy switched. IT boss thought this was fine too. “We learn some lessons the hard way” he mused.

This lasted several weeks and we had basically no issues. We were actually more productive than he was. He eventually was getting frustrated this little experiment of his wasn’t going the way he wanted and mandated we “had to use windows because our customers were using windows.”

We switched back. Everything went back to shit but it was familiar shit so he was fine with it.

I brought in an old surface pro X and used it. Technically still complying and it did help us figure out some issues some of our other ARM based customers had. Any it worked better than the shitty dells we were given.

Normally I’d say they agreed to the advisory role as a simple get out of lawsuit play. They have to hear him, but not actually act on what he says.

But looking at where we are in 2025, they will likely do everything he says.

You’re going to break things. Then you’ll fix things. Then your break them again. Then you’ll realize there was an easier way to fix that last issue. It’s a fun learning experience.

Homestarrunner.com is the only flash thing I miss.

It’s cute you think VPNs will survive this.