I bought a cheap-ass Asus laptop knowing that the installed wifi module was not supported by linux. So I bought a new wifi module that had linux support for like $20 and swapped it in.
This is the one I got, but I’m sure there are more like it. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07SH6GV5S
It sounds like you’re making an angry accusation about me, but I was definitely agreeing with you, so I don’t understand why.
Deregulation of markets and industries and weakening of social programs. Overall making the power of large corporations and a small number of wealthy people way more than the power of huge numbers of average people.
All completely supported and promoted by the people who benefited from the opposite.
This is a person who thinks that everyone else in the world is to blame, instead of considering the far more likely answer that they are the asshole. Jesus.
Baby… it’ll blow your mind.
I mean… parties and sex are pretty cool though.
I liked that I could get loud bursts of static in real-time!!
The chatter identified as “Paul” said “Hippo”. I don’t think the person above you made a bad assumption.
That checks out. I live near a college town where for 2-3 years there was a rash of “college riots” where police tear-gassed everyone in the streets when they felt it was getting out of hand. The solution to keeping the students from rioting ended up being… stop sending cops out there. Everything was fine.
As arch users, we would never need the help of some low-level IT person though. That would be ridiculous.
I remember back in 2017, I didn’t really need any big desktop apps anymore. All I used was Salesforce, Netsuite, O365, Postman… I asked my company to just give me a Chromebook. Now I hate Chromebooks and I could very much do my job on a Linux distro mainly using web apps if needed.
My IT dept would never allow it because they can’t install security software on it. Obviously I’d be pretty safe from malware, but they’d have to trust that I set up firewalls and password protection because they couldn’t enforce a group policy, and their data loss prevention tools wouldn’t work.
Yeah, don’t do this, and you should be fine.
Kinda. I’m using Elementary OS right now, and I think of it more like a Chromebook… with more options to expand it.
From the Description:
Jan - Google fired 12,000 staff including their head of health and wellbeing
Feb - Google said employees must come back to the office and share desks. Bard (Chat GPT competitor) launches.
March - Google gave data to the police to help prosecute abortion seekers after Roe vs Wade was overturned. And they fired multiple staff after giving birth.
April - Google announces cost-cutting measures including cutting back on staplers. Google, Meta and X propose an alliance to combat misinformation.
May - South Korea fined Google for anti-competitive practices and Google continued to sell climate disinformation ads (after promising to stop).
June - Google replaces it’s fired workers with “low-paid foreign workers” and donated to an anti-abortion Republican Committee
July - Google uses our data to train Bard and increases the cost of YouTube Premium.
Aug - Google offers staff an on-campus hotel room for $99 a night. And YouTube ads may have led to the online tracking of children.
Sept - Google Pixel Watches have no parts or repair program and Google Maps led a dad to his death over a collapsed bridge.
Oct - Google’s AI consumes as much electricity as Ireland and Alphabet hired an underqualified man (who didn’t even apply for the job) over a woman.
Nov - Google backs out of building affordable housing in the Bay Area and spent $26 billion to be your default search engine.
Dec - Google caught putting ads on adult websites 🌽 and McDonalds is using Google AI to test if your fries are fresh.
I’ve been on an iPhone for about 3.5 weeks now and iMessage is driving me nuts. It might be the reason I go back to Android.
This is dumb. I used that feature constantly. It’s the worst thing about the switch.
You joke… but isn’t that what Amazon Sidewalk was invented for? And isn’t it sort of what AirTags do? They don’t connect to the internet… they connect to partner devices in ways that are unseen by the owners to co-opt their internet access.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if Samsung TVs without internet access are using nearby Samsung phones to connect to the internet. Or maybe they partner with the ISP to use those default guest wifi networks. If news broke tomorrow that this was already a thing, it wouldn’t surprise me at all.
This may be unpopular to hear… but most of the justifications for not having roommates are like the ones in this thread. People say they can’t have roommates because they have social anxiety or other people are just jerks.
To an older person it sounds like “My generation can’t have roommates because we don’t get along with other people, and they don’t get along with us.” That’s not an economic problem.
It’s actually far far more worrying than that. What happens to a generation that has no ability to coexist with other people? What happens to the world when they are in charge of it?
Surprised to not see anyone in here mention Movies with Mikey (on YouTube under FilmJoy). He does really thoughtful movie analysis with great audio and video production. He’s one of my favorite creators.
He’s also on Nebula for people who’d rather see a video edit that can employ fair use without being taken down automatically.
Interesting. I just tried it and that worked: I launch the site from a shortcut, and I appear to not be logged in… but if I click refresh, I am logged in.
I’m on Brave Version 1.60.125 Chromium: 119.0.6045.199 (Official Build) (64-bit), running on elementary OS 7.1.
You should really learn more about it before deciding that you have an expert opinion on it.