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Cashier: "So, uh... Why are you returning this?"

Serial Return Activist: "Because I have to use Chrome to install the device, and I don't want to use Chrome because of browser monopoly and privacy concerns."

Cashier: "Got it."

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I like my phones to be lightweight, thin, and durable.

Ya know, so I can have my phone at-the-ready when under a car, upside down trying to fix my sink, or when I only have half a hand while scarfing down some lunch.

Turns out a heavy-ass foldable doesn't lend itself to doing any of that without risking permanent damage.

So Samsung, when your foldables are less than 200g, less than 72mm wide, fully ip68, and less than $1000 in today's dollars, I will consider them. Otherwise, I've already got a perfect phone.

Soldiers were sharing nuclear secrets in flash card apps.

Just because someone has a secret clearance, doesn't mean they've ever been told that the entire Internet is siphoning their data in any way possible.

But Google takes their security super seriously, and the only person they're sharing our data with is the government.

That's not a good thing, but if you need a chat app that pretty much everyone already has installed, for non-sensitive conversations, you could do much worse than Google Meet.

House arrest in Trump's giant resort mansion.

It makes sense, but it's more than a little unsatisfying.

Personally I'd love to see Trump in ADX Florence.

I think I'd be more interested in finding a cardiologist at that point.

Those are paid features?

Jesus Christ.

Trump has such a large fanatical following that it's almost certain the next Republican president will use a Trump pardon as a poker chip for gaining party support on whatever plan he needs pushed.

So personally I think it's almost certain Trump will be pardoned.

But it's possible he could die in prison before that happens.

How does nuking multiple cities not contribute to the American war effort?

There are 1000 decision making paths you can follow in regards to the atomic bombing of Japan, which wasn't decided lightly, but ultimately the prevailing understanding is correct.

This "holier than thou" alternate history thing you have going on is, sorry to say, it's delusional.

I'm just guessing here, but due to the expensive safety, security, disposaal, and political requirements, big reactors are likely going to be the most cost effective for a long time.

Plenty of real people are quite aware of our current issues, they just get drowned out online.

She's trying to be mayor, not the queen.

One mayor stands no chance against the system of DAs, lawyers, unions, and judges, that protect the police.

Between qualified immunity and "no specific obligation to protect", you'd be hard pressed to find any charges that stick.

If you believe your partisan opponents are the only enemies of freedom, then you're already in chains.

I converted one of these Chromebooks to Linux as a test project and the results were, not good.

To start, they have a bootloader lock screw under the motherboard, so you have to take the entire laptop apart to load anything but unsupported ChromeOS.

Then you have to use a Google tool, can't remember the specific one, to swap the bootloader. That might be possible to automate but I didn't look into it because...

... The hardware sucks. We're talking like 4GB of storage on a lot of these Chromebooks. The driver support is all over the place, and there are issues everywhere even on "supported" distros.

With the vast amount of junk Chromebooks out there, I'm sure community hospice support will get better, but it's never going to be an easy bulk conversion because of how common the bootloader locks are.

sheds a single tear as I unzip my trousers

The Twitter branding and userbase were the only value in Twitter.

Now old users are going to have no attachment to this weird new look and name.

And new users are not going to come, because they're going to think "it's still Twitter, why would I care about that?"

Lemmy.world got way too big too fast and the small team behind it can't handle it all.

Everyone should disperse to a random stable instance, or make their own, and it'll be better for the health of the network.

Can someone point me to an overview of why the submersible would be useless in a cave environment?

I hate to ever give law enforcement any leeway as abuse is so common, but if someone is hurting children I don't care how you stop it.

Is this satire? Because that's exactly the excuse government has been giving for hundreds of years, to take your freedoms away.

It's never about the children. The Catholic church operating with near total immunity, after all these millennia of abuse, is proof of that.

And guess who's got a lot of funding to run honey pot nodes?