[-] poweruser 15 points 1 month ago

"Put yourself under the command of the United States, if it is still there"

JFC nuclear weapons are horrifying

[-] poweruser 15 points 1 month ago

Stay away from any that are the "Verizon version"

Verizon deliberately conflates the term unlocked to mean not locked to a carrier (can use a non-Verizon SIM) instead of the bootloader being unlocked (can install a custom OS ROM such as GrapheneOS or LineageOS).

Their "unlocked" phones are all locked, so if you want a new OS that doesn't have their closed-source spyware then F you for buying the Verizon version

[-] poweruser 17 points 2 months ago

They rage in favor of the machine Rage Against the Machine rages against

[-] poweruser 15 points 2 months ago

They did have Rush Limbaugh crowing about smoking bans, but the lung cancer that eventually killed him makes it harder to take his advice

[-] poweruser 15 points 2 months ago

One of our two parties wins more when more people vote.

Therefore, the other party must oppose voting by the largest groups, such as young people and people who live in cities.

The less popular party also has disproportionate control of government policy.

Which is to say, they oppose democracy itself. It is only a question of degree

[-] poweruser 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I had one of those too, until it was stolen.

Back in my day your entire music collection could be stolen in an instant.

...up hill, both ways!

[-] poweruser 12 points 6 months ago

Lmao so he's just swimming back across the river with the goat!

Someone should try animating these solutions. I'm picturing close-ups of the goat wondering why the man has lost his mind

[-] poweruser 14 points 11 months ago

It's very tempting to tell you the wrong name, but at the risk of ruining the joke I'll answer sincerely.

The quote is attributed to Kurt Cobain but it comes from a song by Nickelback. The portrait is not of Kurt Cobain or even Chad Kroger. It is instead actor Owen Wilson

[-] poweruser 15 points 1 year ago

Is this post a paradox?

[-] poweruser 14 points 1 year ago

Good point. Many of us didn't get to choose whether we "are political"

[-] poweruser 12 points 1 year ago

I did back in college. Mobile computing was just becoming a thing but I was way too hipster (and poor) for a PDA or one of those newfangled "smart phone" devices.

I hacked together a wifi SMS texting gadget following a tutorial on Hack a Day. It ran Debian with Linux kernel 2.6 and was so fun to tinker with.

It had 32 MB of RAM but X used 11 MB of that so you couldn't really do anything in graphical mode anyway. A shell running GNU screen however only took 4 MB so it was much more usable from the terminal.

I eventually figured out a way to pipe images and even (non accelerated, since it didn't have a GPU) video from mplayer to write directly into the framebuffer. It was a real bear to get it translated into landscape mode.

I Am Legend in 144p never looked so good.

Even with the terrible specs, I have never loved a phone so much as I loved that little computer

[-] poweruser 17 points 1 year ago

Hosting video content must be insanely expensive so I have some amount of sympathy for YouTube. However, ads earn such a paltry amount that I can hardly fathom how anyone can put up with it.

The total amount of ad revenue between all sites is only like $12 per user per year. So IMO it is a net benefit to block all ads (save your sanity!) and simply pay the creators of content you like.

Even just one $5 Patreon sub is worth more than all ads I'm likely to see so I block everything I can and IMO my conscience is clear

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