LunchMoneyThief @ LunchMoneyThief @links.hackliberty.org

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The above being a rhetorical question, I just wanted to take a temperature of the room.

I have lived without a phone pretty much all my adult life. The experiment for me would be to get a phone and see what changes. In that way, I have answered it for myself and the answer is a clear "you don't need a phone".

I had a Lemmy ambassador knock at my door yesterday

How many girls and boys across the world are literally missing a part of their body because of religious beliefs?

I knew that anything from Lunduke wouldn't be well received from ultra-left lemmy before I even opened this comments section.

You're comment would have won me a swig in a game of "drink every time lemmy does XYZ", assuming I were degenerate enough to imbibe alcohol.

Laughs in OpenPOWER

I regularly laugh at proprietary software slaves. I almost forgot, which dish is on the table tonight?

checks link

TechAlter. A guy with a name like TechAlter is crying about being trapped and exploited by some software. HAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh, when will they ever learn!

Not having endless hedonistic recreational sex in the first place? Is it really that difficult to remain abstinent?

Calendar

Non digital is sufficient. And if it must be digital for some reason, no you don't specifically need to use a serf phone for that.

map

I get around just fine without proprietary tracking BS. Navit + Openstreetmaps pre-downloaded binary data + detachable USB GPS transceiver.

communication with partner

Softphones and SIP telephony are fine for this.

Sauce: I am a functioning adult who lives without a phone as a matter of principle.

Most of the population is choosing be enslaved by it. Buckle up.

Average people were only "thinking" about it for as long as it remained in the news cycle. Once the new cycle moved on, so did they.

Is a phone a basic necess[ity] for a normal life?

Modern opiate dealer

You're "trapped & can't switch".

Okay, why are you trapped?

What choices did you make to get yourself into that position?

What choices can you make now that can get you out of that position?

If you cannot answer these questions and effect positive change for yourself, then by all means yes you deserve to be trapped and abused by your overlords. Enjoy.

What, you don't want audience participation voting?

The goal, as ever, is to present to the public an accurate reflection of what the people as a whole think about candidates and issues.

Can this not simply be harvested from the endless volumes of online posts made to the public internet? Why do they act like they need to go on the hunt for something that is normally difficult even to avoid?

Maybe he just doesn't want to run DRM in his browser.

Maybe he wanted use a a least-friction streaming option.

Maybe he doesn't want the NFL to correlate and data broker his viewing activity.

Maybe he has some ethical qualm with the NFL or their streaming infrastructure choice.

Maybe "It's Free, it's for Me" was meant as in liberty and not price.

If the stereotype is to be believed, why is this, do you think? Why would Linux and open source software attract such a disproportionately high number of transfrem individuals?

And would it be causative or is it or non-causative?

I usually use

    
dd status=progress conv=sync,noerror bs=64k if=/path/to/source/drive of=/path/to/destination/drive

  

Take a reading of the drive health first with something like smartctl and if it has a lot of failing attributes, consider lowering the block size to something rather smaller like bs=512.

Edit: To elaborate, using the sync and noerror arguments will instruct dd to ignore errors and continue in the event of read failures, while allocating zeroes to the remainder of the block space. Which is also why smaller block sizes are better for potentially failing drives. The copy will take longer, but a single error won't take large swaths of data with it.

CPUs from around 2005 onward are all perfectly usable IMO for the purposes of x86 desktops. As long as it's got x86_64, SSE4 and at least two available threads. I would even wager that Pentium 4 hyperthreaded models (Wolfdale?) are still acceptable if we're really pushing it.