Also, getting paid to install linux on people’s computers seems like it violates… something.

Nah, even the GNU people themselves explicitly encourage that.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

That’s why they’re investing heavily in bunkers, a panopticon, and killbots.

Given that the primary is over, is there any better alternative?

Nah, this is the best version:

The fuck are you talking about? Intel is American.

TSMC.

(If that isn’t “Western” enough for you, Intel had a 14nm process in 2014.)

I just put OpenWRT on a (at this point quite old) TP-Link non-DIY home router. The only thing wrong with it is that it isn’t a rack-mountable rectangle, which offends my perfectionism.

I don’t care if TP-Link thinks it’s EOL as long as OpenWRT doesn’t. You should check the supported devices list for your current hardware.

Yes, congratulations to Russia for catching up to what the West was doing in – [checks notes] – 2013.

(The fastest chip mentioned in the article is claimed to be manufactured on a 16nm process.)

That’s when I use my ad blocker to zap the nagging. I ought to see if there’s some list to subscribe to to circumvent those automatically…

The US has a lot of gun owners, but it also has a lot of people who don’t own guns but are MAGAs anyway.

Being the host makes it very not likely that he was the one responsible for managing the footage since those are two different jobs. That makes it unfortunate, if not borderline-libelous, to put his face on this article and give the impression that he was the one responsible for the fuck-up.

It’s worse than an ad network; it started out as a crypto scam wrapped in a protection racket. “Sure would be a shame if we MITM’d your ads and didn’t share a cut with you because you wouldn’t help us legitimize our funny munny.”

Pepperdine University

I’d never heard of it, but apparently it’s not some no-name diploma mill like I’d assumed. US News ranks it #80 in national universities, tied with places like Clemson and UC Riverside.

I feel like there’s at least one historical example of a worm being released that was designed to attack home routers and patch the vulnerability it exploited, but my search is failing.

Anyway, that’s the sort of tactic you’d need to do what you’re asking.

You guys are restarting your computers?

Well, when it comes to politics, I think things are just aggregations of individual people and their power.

Consider the difference between some number of individuals having similar ideology but acting alone, vs. a political party/union/activist organization.

Emergent properties, network effect, a bunch of other phenomena I can’t remember the names of right now…

Macro is very often different from the mere aggregation of micro. That’s why macroeconomics isn’t the same as microeconomics and it’s stupid to try to run a country like a business, for example.

Ah, that way of explaining it makes a lot more sense. You’re talking about “protecting property” from a macro perspective, rather than an individual owner’s perspective.

I’m not necessarily sure I agree that people in power are thinking about it that intentionally (as opposed to it being an emergent consequence of how the city is organized, as I explained in another comment), but I can see how it’s plausible.

Why do you hate property rights?

Sure you didn’t wait too long before updating so they had to force those updates?

That is some making excuses for your abuser shit, right there!

“He had to hit me, it was my fault for doing something wrong that made him mad!”