Ildsaye [they/them]

Laptops use the same operating systems as PCs, and preserve as many PC functions as possible in their portability, which is probably behind a growing tendency to conflate the two. But your point is taken.

I like having useful options so manifold that some users get confused, this is a PC dammit, down with smartphone thought

Almost. Isn’t running on a modern browser inherently less secure than just running on the OS?

The issue is that I and most other people are not technical enough to audit such a system and be satisfied that identifying info was not retained or intercepted, or the code furtively changed or disguised etc. etc. If what you’re suggesting can be done, that’s neat, but it makes no difference to me because I cannot know when it is and isn’t being applied or if it’s being comprehensively applied, and I will go on assuming that if I show my ID, it is leaked or intercepted instantly. And knowing I have shown my ID would distort my political discourse for sure.

If some people are not certain whether I’m an astroturf, that’s a tradeoff I can live with.

I used Reddit when the only thing they asked of me was a username and password. When they told me I could clear my account’s name for ‘suspicious activity’ by providing an email address, I stopped using Reddit altogether. If there is a class of ‘bots’, I am of it.

You’d hope so. People are at last actually ditching Windows for Linux, so it’s possible.

Several ambitious and promising-sounding sections that will always just say ‘under construction’

I’ll add, the manga Witch Hat Atelier is a much better execution than Potter of the premise “a young orphan is abruptly brought over into a secretive world of mages overlapping with the mundane, but for mysterious reasons repeatedly draws the attention of dark forces.”

If only AI was real

I’m disabled and lack community. I would do art until I succumb to the fate the eugenicists who designed my environment and society have arranged for me.

Window awnings are also very good.

You’re saying the same thing to DHH about migrants and trans people I trust?

There are enterprise versions that cost a lot more, but come without the bloat or spyware, that are typically included in office installations at larger firms. Sometimes it is possible to obtain one for home use when an office is being renovated.

More of a non-loss, sort of. Digital ID being normalized in any respect is still a loss for everyone.

I suspect the closure of Craigslist Personals had nothing to do with “stopping human trafficking” and a lot more to do with increasing the marketshare of the online-dating-as-a-data-harvest format.

Craiglist’s sin is that it demonstrates how simple and good the internet could be.

Green veggies will help fill you up and add needed fiber. You can also get good fiber from lentils.

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And the Clearchannel takeover was set loose by the Telecoms Act of 1996. Prior to that, it was illegal in the US to own more than 7 units of media - any combo of radio or TV stations, magazines, newpapers, etc. There was too much media for the billionaires to own it all under the old regulations.