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That's Android. You want an Android. Buy a Samsung and flash whatever rom you want onto it.

I was very surprised it didn't ship with those at launch, so there's likely some licensing or patent issue with Sony over them. I wouldn't expect to see them outside of Playstation controllers anytime soon.

The problem is that people take quotes like this as an excuse to slippery-slope into loving everything else Stalin did too. Why, I couldn't say. It's pretty fucking obvious that Stalin and Mao and Mussolini and etc. were horrible people but yet we still have people in the modern day tripping over themselves to suck off dictators that died a century ago.

Make it a FOSS project then. No profit motive, no problem, right?

Granted, I understand that's hinging on someone actually wanting to work on this project for free. But I feel like FOSS decentralized forum software is something we might be able to get the grognards on board with.

If they were in the middle east they would be Muslim. These people did not choose Christianity from a multiple choice option. They were led down a path. If they lived in a different area they would have been led down a different path and the end result would remain the same, just with a different name.

That's a good point. A really good app that can parse a standard framework that a thousand independent forums can stand up for their own purposes (Say, MyBB for instance), would go a long way towards reviving the forum scene as a whole with a very Lemmy-like or reddit-like experience.

Jersey Mike's consistently has good Phillies in places that don't know how to make a good Philly. I'm also personally a fan of the club sandwich mike's way. But that's about it. Everything else I can take it or leave it.

Those Phillies though, they keep me coming back to JM's in new places.

have absolutely no authority whatsoever to approve or deny anything,

Then these are explicitly not the people I am talking about. The ones implementing the policies that cause prices of medication to skyrocket and then denying that same life saving medication to the people who require it, are the people I'm talking about. This situation isn't nobody's fault. It was caused by people and those people deserve whatever karma has in store for them.

The easy answer for the wage slaves is to say "just work somewhere else" but I've been desperate enough before that I know that's not always an option. I have no beef with those guys. Clocking a 9-5 and going home isn't the great evil that's being called out here.

I'm sorry you had to live through that and, honestly, while I don't consider my perspective to be changed I do respect what you're saying here. People who threaten violence on call center workers are idiots. But you have to admit that their fear and anger has a legitimate source.

Good thing this isn't reddit. Also, OP is right. They aren't actively calling for harm against them, only stating that they deserve death, which I agree with. Anyone who makes a conscious decision to cause the suffering and death of another person, most particularly doing so purely in the pursuit of profit, deserves whatever is coming to them. I'm not going to show up and murder these people but I also won't be too disappointed to hear that someone else did.

In the words of Mark Twain, "I have never wished a man death, but I have read some obituaries with great satisfaction."

That said.... point taken. I'd prefer if we didn't call it out so coarsely. This one is toeing the line of "Won't someone rid me of this meddlesome priest?" and we shouldn't invite calls to violence.

Sounds like Shinto. The Japanese have done quite a lot of thinking about that, and for the most part I quite like what they've come up with.

We don't love racism, we just hate you :) go have a nice life literally anywhere else.

Ah, I see. So it's now considered "racist" to... checks notes have the ability to publicly disagree with the leader of your nation without risking imprisonment or execution.

Yeah, okay.

Try harder, and next time, try with less taste of boot. Authoritarians and their enablers are not welcome here.

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Texas can't even provide proper climate control to their regular unincarcerated citizens. The prisons never had a chance.

Un-robbing a bank also isn't easy, but that doesn't mean I'm able to just say "it too hard :c" and then walk off into the sunset with my looted gains.

It's the Library of Babel. Sorry, pedantic, I know, but the Tower of Babel is something different. If people go searching for that they're going to find a lot of discussion around the bible story and no links to the text generator.

If Iron is built on Chromium, which its website says that it is, it will be affected by Google's upcoming changes.

Media executives in general can't be trusted to act in anyone's interest, even their own. Why did Game of Thrones get rushed out the door when the writers were approved for twice as many episodes and 3x as much budget as they used? Why did Witcher go from a universally beloved series to a dumpster fire based strictly on the ego of the directors? Why did Netflix drop all the shows anyone wanted to watch and is now full of first party garbage and literally nothing left that people want to see?

Some of the answers to these questions must make sense in some perspective, but I'll be damned if I know what that is. Each of these seems like they had very simple solutions that were ignored.

These days I fix cars for a living. Same shit different setting really. You're still chasing gremlins while the end user stares at you through the window. I find vehicle repair more enjoyable and more fulfilling than printer repair though. At least here I get to meet a person and directly improve their life in a measurable way instead of just generally keeping the rat race running at Corpo Inc.

I never did school IT, only corporate, though I did sort of hang around the guys who did in high school. I didn't really see the inside politics of that though, since they weren't students, they didn't tell me much about that.

I think I'm eligible to weigh in on this since I was issued a MacBook in high school and then went on to work IT later.

Do not, ever, under any circumstance, for any reason, use your personal device for business. Whatsoever. This includes school. If your job requires you to install an application on your phone, they better provide you a phone with it installed. If your school wants you to use a chromebook they will provide you one and you will use it. It is never a good idea to put these things on your personal device for convenience. The reason for this often comes down to security. For employers, they want to make sure their data is secure, and will retain the rights and the ability to remotely wipe or disable your device. If that's the work phone, who gives a shit. If that's your personal phone, suddenly you are the one who very much gives a shit. For schools, they want to make sure their students are properly monitored and cannot cheat or get up to illegal shenanigans, so the devices will be locked down tighter than Alcatraz and they will likewise retain the rights and the ability to remotely wipe, disable, or take control of the device. And some of those lockdown programs they install will put entries in your registry or something that causes them to be pretty goddamn near impossible to ever get rid of without a full wipe and reinstall, and frequently make it extremely difficult to wipe and reinstall without the assistance of the administrator. School IT would be able to fix this for you once school is letting out, but probably the only way they do it is by wiping your whole hard drive, or at best, restoring an image from before the beginning of the school year.

And that's not even getting to the point where if all the students have a standard issue chromebook and one person has a much nicer one, it's not a matter of "if" but "when" it will be stolen or broken.

Honest to God you are both going to be miles better off just putting up with the shitty one and keeping the good one at home. I promise with every shred of my cold shriveled ex-IT heart that that's in your best interest.

Edit: Just realizing, chromebooks don't really keep shit on their hard drive do they? My prior warnings still apply, but if there's nothing on there you're really worried about and you don't mind if the chromebook gets nuked and resurrected, go for it I guess. This warning was mostly in the perspective of the MacBook that I used personally, or phones for employers which is relatively common. Just be aware that you're handing the school IT the keys to the kingdom for a while, and they'll pretty likely be able to spy on anything you ever do on that device.