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Hah, that absolutely makes sense. They should block these country-specific things from main so they don't show up for random weirdos! Cheers!

We've got millions of the things in my country and I've never seen one with a helmet included.

In my country, while it is illegal to download or to share pirated content, our law enforcement really only goes after the big fish doing the sharing. Sites may go down, but as an end user, my only real risk is getting a DMCA notice from my ISP if I'm sharing data (seeding torrents) while not using a VPN, and possibly having my service disconnected if I continue. While technically I could be in trouble with the law, it is not really a fear in my country to be a downloader of pirated media.

Stronger legislation could mean laws that entice law enforcement to act on smaller uploaders or even downloaders.

CPU/BIOS-level system management engines such as Intel IME/vPro or AMD Secure Technology give device access to IT even if the OS is replaced or the system is powered off.

If your IT staff isn't utilizing that technology, then when you boot into a corporate-managed OS, they can see any hardware that is currently connected to the system.

If they're not doing any monitoring at all, you're fine (but the viability of the business is in question). If they're doing OS-level monitoring, stick with the USB thing and leave it unplugged when booted into the corporate OS. If they're doing CPU-level monitoring, you're already likely flagged.

If you're unsure how much monitoring they're doing, attempting to find out may also be a resume-generating event (RGE). Cheers, and good luck!

Cakeday. My app (Voyager) says 3y, but if I click on it, it pops up a timestamp dialogue.

As rubbish as America is today, you're out of your goddamn mind if you don't think the British have been the bad guys throughout most of their imperialist past, including during the American revolution.

Though it makes me sad to think we needed to make "hopepunk" a word; how is having hope a "punk" thing? :|

It's punk af. Punk is a leftist/inclusive/anti-authoritarian movement that focuses on self-reliance and direct activism to get shit done. A lot of the general punk scene has been all over the board on their optimism/pessimism about our ability to affect meaningful change. Recently, subgenres of punk have sprung up that are very much still punk, but focus on one category of change or have a more optimistic outlook. Solarpunk is a branch of the punk movement with a green focus. Hopepunk focuses on can optimistic outlook with traditional punk values. Fashion-wise and music-wise, they tend to lean towards greens/blues or brighter/lighter colors or more folk-punk or upbeat tunes.

Weird Barbie would definitely qualify as hopepunk.

Just like any other sub-genre, though, if it rubs you the wrong way, it's generally fine to just refer to it as the parent genre. Hopepunk is still punk, so feel free to call it that if it works better for you.

I need to make it a priority to give logseq a try. I moved from Joplin to obsidian.md a couple years ago, because i realized an open data format (plaintext markdown files) was more important to me than an open source app (because I can still easily query and manipulate my data with open source CLI tools). I think at this point if I can replicate about 75% of my obsidian workflow in logseq, I'll make the jump and adapt my workflows to logseq's strengths and capabiities.

I'm a capable troubleshooter. I'll take 5 minutes of troubleshooting once or twice a year to save a cumulative few hours opening an app store to manually check for and install updates. I'm glad they're giving options to both of us!

Bookware seems to be audiobooks, but I'm surprised it's so low on the list.

Tradition. We just thought it looked rad af in the demo scene and warez scene in the 80s and 90s and its just one of those timeless things that seems to remain cool generations later.

Is Arch the most popular Linux distro at 0.15% of 1.95%? What’s missing here? Steam OS?

A couple of things -- yes, SteamOS is by far the most popular Linux distro and it was left off this part of the list, and also Arch is the most popular because it's a rolling release distro, so we're all running "Arch Linux" no matter how far behind we are on patching our system. Ubuntu would probably come out on top if you bundled every other version besides 22.04.3 LTS together into one line item.

Here's a screenshot of the Linux breakdown with a few more entries (though most are still bucketed under Other). SteamOS alkone is almost half of Linux deployments.

Why are Arch and Manjaro in quotes, but Ubuntu LTS and Linux Mint aren’t?

They're probably putting the rolling releases in quotation marks -- I'm guessing they're pulling the Description field from "lsb_release -a", where "Arch Linux" says just that, while each Ubuntu/Debian/Mint/etc distro will show specific version numbers (and that would explain why Arch shows up as a higher share than Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS) -- I'm sure there are several more Ubuntu entries in their list that would total more than Arch's percentage. I'm not sure why they arbitrarily truncated the Linux list at 4 while showing 5 Windows/Mac releases, though.

EDIT: Found another screenshot where they list "SteamOS Holo" in quotes, too. So I guess they just include quotes for every distro that doesn't show a version number in that field.

$1 million for an advertising campaign is chump change. It seems like a lot to the average person, but that gets eaten up really fast in a large business, and you're talking about a national campaign that affects multiple industries. That's not much at all.

Jerboa. It does the job, and does it well. Boost is slightly better for my needs, but not enough to overcome the non-free aspect.

Listen, if we could afford to give up half a terabyte just for our OS install, we'd be running Windows.

There is no solution for that beyond properly setting user expectations. Users may want to understand that anything published on the internet should be assumed to be a permanent record. Anybody that can access a post on any website has the ability to copy and re-post it on another website such as an internet archive.

What does that stake get them? They own a bit of Grinding Gear Games (Path of Exile), and GGG has said Tencent basically gave GGG a big cash infusion in exchange for the rights to modify the game for the Chinese market, and they otherwise leave global game development alone. Ten cent is happy farming their Chinese gamers with p2w microtransactions, and from a user-perspective, the non-Chinese version of the game hasn't seemed to suffer from the arrangement.

I mean, even without the bias, nuclear is pretty rad and we don't have nearly enough of it.

“newest self-made billionaire.”

Uh-huh. She was in a relationship with Sergey Brin when she founded 23andme. She really tightened her belt and pulled herself up by her bootstraps. Such an inspiration.