Low-key, the fact that that skit is no longer funny and is nothing but straight facts is absolutely paralyzing.
Monty Python’s Flying Circus was terrifyingly, utterly lucid. That was the straightest skit they ever wrote.
It’s funny because it is, in fact, completely true.
My ancestors beheaded kings. One of the only good things they ever fucking did, imho.
Do you know where the entire idea of left-vs-right even came from?
After the French Revolution, after the people stormed the Bastille and overthrew the monarchy, they were still working out the concept of a government without a king. The National Assembly was split pretty much down the middle; the people who sat with their friends and coconspirators found that muttering ideas to each other was easier when the other side of the room couldn’t hear them. Like any high school lunch room, people found their own assigned spots with their friends.
The Monarchists ended up on the right side of the room, and the Republicans ended up on the left.
My brother in Christ, the GOP was ALWAYS about dragging us back into the dark ages. It’s what Conservatives have wanted for as long as Conservativism has existed as a political orientation. France and the UK still have monarchist hangers-on in the far-right wings of their politics.
Oh my GOD, the dude on the far right looks like he had his face turned inside out and stuffed like a third grader’s first ever sewing project. Somebody at Build-A-Fash forgot to do QA.
Please, God, if you’re listening, do something really really funny with this.
Ooh, a Russian troll! Quick, whack him with the hammer, they’re worth extra bonus points!
Damn you, McCarthy! Your imaginary list of communists doomed us all!!
Dennis! There’s some lovely filth down 'ere!
Do you like cancer research? How about fighting forest fires? Averting mid-air plane collisions?
DOGE sure hates all of those.
I think we’re headed for balkanization. We’re seeing the breakup of the USSR all over again.
Exactly. Just using an adblocker is like tying on a blindfold and claiming that the minefield has no landmines.
Digital self-defense isn’t about ignoring trackers, it’s about evading and disabling them.
I appreciate that you are standing for moral dignities like personal privacy. But understand, Google’s entire business model IS surveillance capitalism.
Profits aren’t infinite if the resource is finite. Eventually, they would have to dig the mineshaft deeper, take more material to sell more product. This is what happens when capital is left laissez-faire, it grows more tentacles.
Some author openly claims to be a terf. If she calls herself a bigot, then call her a bigot. 🤷
God, the ALSA-PulseAudio Wars never fucking ended, and we’ve been stranded ever since. It’s the Wayland/X11 windowing struggle all over again!
“This package uses a legacy windowing system, and is insecure.” You know who else is insecure? The devs!
On non-Ubuntu distros, for ProtonVPN, I’ve had better luck using their CLI interface. It works just fine, it just means learning a bit of the terminal. I like the automatic killswitch, especially since I’m a habitual pirate.
Proton advises against using third-party repos, which I feel is sensible. But for all other options, I tend to appreciate the plug-and-play nature of .deb and .rpm packages and Flatpaks. Flatseal puts my paranoia at ease. Set and forget. :)
Proton’s a bit behind the curve, feature-wise, but I trust them more than I trust NordVPN or ExpressVPN. For one, their advertisement blocker ACTUALLY works as advertised.
AMD has open-source drivers that play better with Linux distros. If you’re running post-2020 Intel hardware, good luck.
GoG install scripts are actually community-submitted and not actively maintained. You might have some luck with Lutris or WINE. Sometimes, Bottles or even PlayOnLinux are compatible. WINE actually lets you emulate older editions of Windows for PC games. Sometimes, all you have to do is switch the toggle from ‘Win7’ to ‘Win95’, and it works.
https://lutris.net/games/jazz-jackrabbit/
It’s a headache, and a loooot of googling, trying to get games to run. But with Proton’s introduction, it’s gotten a lot easier to get things to run without pulling out wads of hair.
But you’re right, if the app is non-native? Have fun breaking out the thumbscrews, because ya better like pain. 😂
Less user-hostile? Maybe. Hostile to the tech-illiterate? Oh, absolutely. There is no handholding. There are no guardrails. You wanna “sudo rm -fr / --no-preserve-root”? o7, gamer.
Right. Sure. Keep shilling for daddy Putin, you’ll get your promotion for sure if you keep it up.
Fuck you, Russia STARTED this fight. Imperialism and capitalism are the god damn problem, and here you are enabling them both.