Charlatan

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[–] Charlatan@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

GrapheneOS on a Pixel 9 Pro. It's nice to have better control over what data is leaving my device. Updates / patches from upstream AOSP are usually offered in GOS in the same timeframe it takes to hit regular Pixels.

[–] Charlatan@lemm.ee 55 points 6 months ago

Thank you Michael. Hopefully you're only writing checks for 4 years.

[–] Charlatan@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I disagree with your premise that this is all evil corp. The fact is that demand drives housing. Someone is going to buy and build on that property. Full stop.

I am not aware of any fire proofing techniques for homes in a situation like this. References please.

As mentioned above, we've had nearly 100 years of fire suppression practices that kept fuel from burning. I'm not sure how else to mitigate the properties other than clearing all trees and bushes. I don't think it would help in this situation.

I agree that climate change is a problem and a contributing fsctor.

[–] Charlatan@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

We won't know the winner til Thurs eve or Friday. My money is on Friday.

[–] Charlatan@lemm.ee 16 points 9 months ago

I hope Gen Z shows up. I don't buy into poll results.

[–] Charlatan@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

Which is exactly why the US is looking at a sale / ban scenario. I doubt it'll ever actually happen.

[–] Charlatan@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

No argument on US companies not being much better. At least there's some paperwork that gets in the way.

[–] Charlatan@lemm.ee -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I suggest you read the article, specifically the section "Get flexible with your thinking." :) A Trump win, while disturbing, has a lot of possible outcomes.

[–] Charlatan@lemm.ee 26 points 9 months ago (8 children)

No it's not. It's because it, like other Chinese companies, are at risk of being browbeaten by their government into providing whatever information they have on American users to use as they wish. One can easily argue what kind of risk that actually poses, but that's why they're trying to ban it. Unless you have some sort of proof....

[–] Charlatan@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think you elude to it, but just to clarify...VC's and companies have been buying homes like crazy, thus reducing an already anemic inventory.

[–] Charlatan@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Totally agree on the opinion section. I think if they want to they can opine on their candidate of choice, but I don't see it as a necessity.

Clearly I can't read....

[–] Charlatan@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

True. I guess I can't read... Editorials are open season.

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