you want us to take to the skies

Lol you think you’re getting one?

This is the result of two decades of deliberate, calculated effort by the largest technology companies on earth to turn users into consumers, instruments into appliances, and technical literacy into a niche hobby for weirdos.

Has there ever been a time when computer geeks weren’t consider a weird group of outsiders?

BTW, I was raised on MS-DOS and it didn’t help my computer literacy one bit (heheh). I still can barely navigate my computer in the CLI, much less build anything or do anything cool from some internalized “mental model” of how a computer works. Meanwhile, there are a bunch of toddlers running around with Arduinos and doing all manners of mind blowing shit.

“Please laugh”

Meant to be a watched talk though, not an article – some of the original tone is prpbably missing in the transcript.

The dude literally has a 100 trillion dollars, it’s fine

Good link!

It is more fucked that the exploitation is targeted at kids, but it also really mirrors the general scammyness of the online economy at large (i.e. a gold rush with a few winners making it big and millions working for free hoping they’ll eventually tap in to a big ore that’ll make the platform rich and pay them a pittance).

Oil has been kinda shit though because of really low oil prices for a long time, evilness not withstanding.

Doesn’t look like a game for me, but appreciate your quality post.

Lol is this an actual ”feature”? Can’t tell anymore.

thank you for condoning — nay, endorsing — my prolific editing of animal porn and crypto blog spam <3

Things people miss:

• IT not yelling at you for going rogue and UNINSTALLING EVERYTHING
• Being able to access company resources
• Having a job

If their Windows machine is company issued, that is.

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Sounds more like an admission that there is something that needs jailbreaking in the first place

People are buying takeout on credit. Pushing small recurring fees (and interest) for things consumers can’t afford to buy outright has sort of been the name of the game for the consumer economy for the last 20 years or so.

Maybe more interesting that there is enough of an overstock to do this.

These link only clickbait posts irk me a little. First of all, I’m not going to take the bait. Second, I’m not going to use your ”privacy tool” without understanding it’s upside and having a tentative grasp of what it does and what data it uses. Third, I’m not convinced there are any best practices, privacy-wise, for using blatantly statesponsored Chinese spyware or that there’s any helping you if you’re still on X.

Thanks, just had my ass handed to me by you :D

It’s fun, maybe make sure to feature articles related to the Wiki resources used so that my random guesses can result in some learning?

Some pictures are very hard (obviously), maybe find a way to have different “levels”?

To me, it would also be fun with more trivia oriented photos (landmarks, famous things in museums) but that would of course move away from the geography theme a bit.

Well, it’s not uncommon in some countries with perpetual loans for individuals, so sure!

It’s usually a matter of agreeing the right interest and offering the right security. You will get a worse deal than Google.

This is some true believer shit.

Google launched less than thirty years ago.

At the current rate of deterioration, it’s not exactly certain to what extent the planet will be able to sustain human life, much less whether a much loathed spyware company will still be around to pay the bills.

I think its usually in some Microsoft subscriptions if you’re on PC/Xbox, could give you a decent chance to give it a go. If it turns out to be a forever game for you, that might end up more expensive in the end – but maybe that’s fine in that case

It was just boring and empty, except for Space Pirates using clean language and some other really bland factions. It tried to cater to everyone and just sucked. That’s to say nothing of the endless load screens and RNG planets

On my death bed, one of my many regrets will be having played Starfield