You’re thinking villager. A villain is a dried seed pod, used as a spice.

It’s can be fun to plumb the limits of computing and Arch’s gimmick is living entirely on the bleeding edge of computing - it’s where all the exciting issues are being actively identified and worked on. However, if you’re not into tinkering, I agree - Arch is ‘C tier’ for average users - specifically because of the dangers of playing in deep waters. As an enthusiast myself, I have Arch on my daily driver, but only because I have a NAS, home server, backup strategy, and other Linux machines running Debian, Fedora, and SteamOS at the ready in case I hit one of Arch’s infamous ‘Bad Days’.

One difference: the horse vehicle may run off to the fjords, the truck vehicle may run off to the Ford’s.

Or posting on-time, yet being too short, or too detailed; Play it cool, but speak fire… keep it light, yet deep.

Propaganda?

Right?‽ the logic of this is just so messed up on both ends

Bought one yet it arrived red and tasted sweet. When I asked why they sent me something that looks and tastes like an apple, they said it must have been a lemon.

This is the part I don’t understand. Mobile data would work in your houses too, right?

Actually, first - ironically mobile coverage is terrible right at my new home since I moved. Great about 200 yards from home and most everywhere I go, but there’s a weird blind spot at my address specifically.

Second, Most mobile data plans are 30-80 Mbps†, most home WiFi plans are 300 Mbps-1Gbps†. WiFi isn’t just faster, it’s a lot faster. † your milage may vary, these are based on my experience

Finally, again this is another case of maybe I’m weird, but my friends and I are into retro gaming, and self-hosting and both of those have LAN-specific options that only work within the WiFi and home network.

Oh, so to clear up confusion - switching to Linux destroys the local storage of the GDID, and Linux has generally much better privacy (to the degree the OS is involved - browser privacy is a related subject). However, it doesn’t undo the past - if you previously signed in with your MS account on that system, Microsoft will have that record in perpetuity.

Best solution would be to wipe any system you acquire without ever signing in to Microsoft. While switching to Linux will not change any of the components serial numbers that Microsoft has, you will at least not be actively associating most of your web activity with your M$ account.

Tangent - if you’re gonna do shady stuff, use VMs or TailsOS.

I use WiFi at home and friends. I use cellular for work and travel (usually between home and friends). I’m glad you have a simple enough arrangement that it’s worthwhile to manage it by hand.

Further, in recent versions of Android, factory settings are set to automatically turn WiFi back on if turned off - plus there’s several methods to indirectly turn WiFi back on (https://thedroidguy.com/stop-android-turning-wifi-on-automatically-1261625). This is that dark patterns thing. Getting people to do what you want by being frictionless with your preferred options and ‘polite’ but obstinate about options you wish to steer people away from.

Cannot wait for the Motorola/GrapheneOS collab phones.

Please note: I didn’t say you had to connect to these networks. This happens as a background process unless you do a ritual to shut off location services and actively work to keep it off. Most people do not know/care to do this. And even if it’s off in settings, some apps have the permission to temporarily override this (and will ask you once to grant it such permission and then have that permission for the lifetime of the app). And regardless of which app overrides said setting, Google gets a copy of whatever the background scan finds (for all Android phones that have the Play store installed, which is most of them).

Yup!

Motherboard, CPU, GPU models and serial numbers. Ram size and speed. Those were used during Windows activation as old as windows 95. But likely yes, a full list of every component connected.

Your Android phone collects every WiFi network it has ever seen and sends it to Google, so we should assume Microsoft does the same (Android can locate you without GPS by using your neighbors’ WiFi signals as position identifiers, and can triangulate you to a few feet using the relative networks’ signal strengths)

Old man, you’ve been a lifelong clown,
I said, “Old man, get the hell out of town”
I said, “Old man, be buried under the ground”
There’s no need to be unhappy

I read the news and saw that TRUMP PASSED A-WAY
Let me say again we know that TRUMP PASSED A-WAY-ay

#Future us, hopefully not too far off

I am but one person, so I’m not even.

If it makes ya feel better, most of history’s greatest inventors, scientists, and engineers are in hell, as well as many of the history’s best leaders and moral advocates. They have probably harnessed geothermic forces and have built a paradise with air conditioning and modern amenities.

Or not. Frankly, probably doesn’t even exist. Enjoy your life and maybe we’ll look back and laugh about this post in the afterlife.

Congrats, @IAmUser1234567@lemmy.zip - you chose Lemmy over Bluesky, Tildes, Threads, 4Chan, or Slashdot. We’re glad to have ya here. Welcome!!

Yup! And some clever fallen angel is like “how can I use memes to send more people to hell?” And you fell for it. Sorry hellbound - thems the breaks.

Praise Claude! As in ten years, as ten years ago, from the beginning of time to the end of all days, Claude be. Claude be with you, co-author of all things; ask all unto Claude.

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That could not be further from my position. I’d prefer marijuana be largely decriminalized for personal use, not simply legalized. I’d prefer that we have universal healthcare and that Regan’s war on drugs be officially over with, with appropriate medical research be started for relevant substances and harm reduction policies enacted for public health.

@Mouselemming points out that as soon as the “fun” part is separated from the pain suppressant part, the latter will get insurance support and the former will be left on the cutting floor of history, due to market pressures.

@chonglibloodsport suggests we don’t let “the bosses” make this decision - as if it’s going to be a vote or something similar and not the wheels of capitalism doing it’s thing. People won’t get a choice about how bosses exert influence on this.

Nobody wants the bosses to be making these decisions, it ought to be in the hands of the people with guidance of medical professionals and the backing of science. But pretending like meddling isn’t exactly what corpos are gonna do is kinda naïve, in my opinion.

If you think there’s some other takeaway I’m missing, I’m open to contrasting opinions.

Pretty sure Valve thinks the same. They’d rather their ‘consoles’ establish a performance floor than a ceiling. They don’t want to make hardware - they don’t want to make an OS, it’s just what’s required to compete with Microsoft (who’s actively threatening them since they announced the Windows Store for Windows 8 and Xbox game pass at the time)