TechnoBabble

If you believe your partisan opponents are the only enemies of freedom, then you're already in chains.

I converted one of these Chromebooks to Linux as a test project and the results were, not good.

To start, they have a bootloader lock screw under the motherboard, so you have to take the entire laptop apart to load anything but unsupported ChromeOS.

Then you have to use a Google tool, can't remember the specific one, to swap the bootloader. That might be possible to automate but I didn't look into it because...

... The hardware sucks. We're talking like 4GB of storage on a lot of these Chromebooks. The driver support is all over the place, and there are issues everywhere even on "supported" distros.

With the vast amount of junk Chromebooks out there, I'm sure community hospice support will get better, but it's never going to be an easy bulk conversion because of how common the bootloader locks are.

sheds a single tear as I unzip my trousers

The Twitter branding and userbase were the only value in Twitter.

Now old users are going to have no attachment to this weird new look and name.

And new users are not going to come, because they're going to think "it's still Twitter, why would I care about that?"

Lemmy.world got way too big too fast and the small team behind it can't handle it all.

Everyone should disperse to a random stable instance, or make their own, and it'll be better for the health of the network.

I hate to ever give law enforcement any leeway as abuse is so common, but if someone is hurting children I don't care how you stop it.

Is this satire? Because that's exactly the excuse government has been giving for hundreds of years, to take your freedoms away.

It's never about the children. The Catholic church operating with near total immunity, after all these millennia of abuse, is proof of that.

I'm honestly surprised that people are so partisan, instead of saying "fuck them all, we want change!"

It's 2023 and people are rooting their entire identity based on their political party. It's madness.

For many people, Google controls the entire network stack from their ISP, router, OS, DNS, their browser, all the way down to the platform hosting the content they watch.

Google has captured such a wide part of the Internet that any changes they make will have at least a moderate effect on our lives. Even if we don't use any Google services.

The only thing that can stop them is probably the EU at this point. And I'm sure Google has a plan for that.

Where's the limit on acceptable surveillance on your own property?

Should the state be able to check for unlicensed structures by drone?

What about sending investigators into your backyard? Into your house?

Just because people break rules doesn't give the state the right to inspect their citizens any way they please.

NHTSA estimates that approximately 96 percent of model year 2013 passenger cars and light-duty vehicles were already equipped with EDR capability. The significance of this measure is in the specifics of what data it requires such devices to collect and its guidelines for how the data should be accessed. - Black Box 101: Understanding Event Data Recorders

Event Data Recorder - Supported Vehicle List

I will debate part of what the previous poster said, in that EDRs are technically optional, as there doesn't seem to be any US law that requires them.

But automakers benefit from the data they provide, so I'd expect just about every new car contains one.

We know for a fact Tesla, for example, uses Video Event Data Recorders, and they have near total access to any footage recorded by the vehicle at any time. That's one big reason I'd never buy one.

It's definitely been in their back pocket since the early days at Google.

As a corporation they are always going to be greedy, but calling them dumb is an extreme underestimation.