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Unemployed journalist, burner, raver, graphic artist and vandweller.

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Doesn't an in-progress eruption mean the highest alert level has already been reached? Like, what else is it going to do? Erupt harder?

So, back in the day, you paid for a Windows license. An exorbitant amount unless you had a .edu email. You paid once, and they left you the fuck alone. No data/telemetry collection; MS had gotten its pound of flesh and was quite content to wait until a new version came out so you could either pay another license fee or just buy a new computer.

Now, the OS is functionally free because you are the product.

I picked up a mini PC a couple of years ago with Win11 Pro, 16GB of RAM and a 500GB SSD for $99. Only a few versions prior, a full license cost more than this whole machine, and some inflation happened in the interim.

If you have a pihole, it becomes immediately apparent just how often Windows is attempting to phone home. This is what's commonly referred to as "surveillance capitalism."

I'm going to guess you also use Facebook if any of this is a surprise to you.

Outside of election night, when pizza is de rigueur in a newsroom, pizza being ordered is also a reliable predictor of a huge news night ... all hands on deck, and you aren't going home for hours.

No Chinese spyware, just Google and the CIA.

Don't you measure your camera spex in mAh?

Abusers gonna abuse. I endured seven years of "you don't do what I say, and I can make your life hell." I can only imagine what she would have been capable of had I needed her for citizenship reasons.

But, seriously, Crystal Justice? That sounds nothing like a real name.

Always remember that any GOP accusation is actually admission of guilt.

This news broke last week.

No one wants to. This is just a suppression lever.

After years in Oregon and Washington, this whole thing of having to go to a polling place was weird. Also, even the secretary of state in Arizona mailed out voters' guides that we apparently need LWV to put out. Not that I'd trust Paxton with anything but a loaded gun in a locked room, but how we run elections here is pretty anachronistic.

Schell is the only politician I went after off campus. Locke was fucking useless, but Schell loved to fuck up at every chance he got.

And I ran the editorial board at Seattle's third-largest daily (bearing in mind the P-I was still printing), so I got to do it anonymously.

Know your audience. Just because you think something is a fit for this community does not make it so. And dismissive shit like this is not a fit for Beehaw.

You spammed, got called out for it, and now you're saying the problem isn't you, it's everyone else. That's the fascist playbook (or, at the very least, your ex's explanation for why everyone sucks).

.ml has different rules. You don't get to bring your litterbox here.

Can't be worse than Paul Schell.

A time element for the election would be nice here to understand the context. I've not lived in Seattle for 25 years, so I don't remember the cycles, and I'm too mentally exhausted to deal with a search engine.

Wait ... you're local? I intended to go today, but my Street Medics chaperone got sick yesterday, which I only learned about when reaching out to finalize plans around 1030.

I'm 45 and have never been to a true protest, let alone covered one (I got pressed into reporting in college from time to time, but those weren't protests so much as students sitting around for a couple of hours). I was hoping to get eased into it today, but alas. I mean, it's not as though more of these aren't coming down the pike, but it sure as fuck gets hotter from here.

He ages like a sourdough starter.

You can say that again!

Yeah, that's to be expected after launching a war against another country to hold your government together enough to avoid being subject to prosecution.

Tehran wasn't going to be like "Yeah, let's just take this in stride."

What is with this end-times porn? I don't like to kinkshame, but, like ... making sure to escalate things that will affect tens of millions of people because you don't want to end up in court -- and I don't say this lightly -- is straight-up evil.

Is there truly an audience for "I don't want any proof, just answer my question"?

As Elon said, let that sink in. Perhaps an unpopular position, but if that's all users want and it makes them more money, of course that's what Google will do.

I'm in no way suggesting this is a good direction, but it's unsurprising.

Suggestion: Keep the SSDs and get external housings. They're unlikely to generate any significant income, so using them as backups may be the better solution.

I'm ambivalent about Sync, but before the server upgrade, it was one of the only games in town still supporting the 0.18.4 we were on. Now that we're up to 0.19.11, I'm certainly considering other clients, and while that may solve your issue, I know no one likes shopping around.