Depends on who your dear is 😁

Is helium used in deodorants these days?

It’s surprising an experienced deep sea explorer would go along on something like this.

When I first read about it, it took me less than 5 minutes to discover many, many reasons it was a bad idea.

Wow, I hadn’t thought it through like that, but yea, you’re right.

One or the other. Pick.

The difference is even this pittance of a fine wouldn’t happen in a planned economy - it would be like the planners fining themselves.

What we’re seeing here is a result of the amoral “beastly” types concentrating power. What you’re suggesting is to intentionally concentrate that power from the start.

Facebook is a great example of democracy - the billions of people using it have effectively (in their voluntary ignorance) voted for it to be like this. These are the same people who would vote for policies in a pure democracy.

And you’re ignoring what happens in the SMB space, where people aren’t part of the corrupt circle.

You’re welcome to start a small community anywhere in the US with a planned economy, as proof of concept.

You could call it… A commune, to indicate its goals.

I’d not heard of OST, so just read an article summary and realized I’d discovered I needed a “distractor” to get school work done when I was about 10 years old. I had no idea it was understood since the 50’s at least.

Wow.

Not to excuse MS crap, but you consented by not managing the system during setup. If you accept defaults, you’re consenting to what someone else thinks about how your system runs.

I’ve never once had Windows do updates behind my back, because I configure the update system as part of setup. At work, we manage the updates for all systems.

Hahaha, you’re so full of shit your eyes are brown.

All companies with more than a handful of employees, have HR. It’s a legal issue for them.

Salary vs hourly really has fuck all to do with this.

Good HR people are there to protect the company, yes, but they’re also there to protect the employees.

Their primary responsibility is to protect the company, protecting employees only matters in the context of protecting the company.

Didn’t bother reading the rest, because you’re already bullshitting.

Source: almost 4 decades in very large (tens of thousands of employees) companies

Why the hell would I want to:

1. Use that garbage called discord

2. Use corporate spyware like shitcord?

3. Give all this local gossip detail a place online

4. Let alone in spyware garbage like shitcord?

Did I forget to mention what utter shit discord is?

Have you never used NextDoor? Ffs, people are such gossipy ignoramuses on an app like that, why would I bother?

I wonder if maybe some kind of notification system for her, and you, would be useful (in addition to blocking).

Then maybe you can interrupt her, perhaps talk about it, or setup some tools for her to use to help manage stuff and learn along the way.

Guess what I’m going for is the learning/growth angle, rather than just automatic constraints (which hy themselves don’t teach or help us learn to manage this stuff ourselves).

Seems like there’s a need for all this for all kids, not just neuro-atypical.

Your “job” isn’t to “change” anyone’s view - and a real pastor would know this.

Change is an individual thing, and a “real” pastor would be appalled at your idea of the implication of denying individuality by thinking you can make another person change.

Your job is to help people examine the world, examine themselves, and gain understanding, so they can determine for themselves what change needs to take place.

Thinking you can make others change (and thinking that the change you choose is the “correct” one) is the height of hubris, and offensive to the very concept of personhood.

Pastor my ass. Nothing more than a sophist.

By supporting networking (and also using a mesh to increase range).

As I understand “walkie talkie” radios, the spectrum they use (GMRS/FRS/CB/MURS, etc) isn’t permitted to transmit data in a way that’s useful for proper data networking (there’s some allowance for data but not really anything like what most people think of as networking, and encryption is right out of the question).

For the most part, these radio specs can only increase range by use of repeaters. IIRC meshtastic takes a mesh approach to increasing range and reliability.

Hurr durr, 'Muricans Stoopid

People like you crack me up, all butthurt cause Americans don’t give a fuck about where you’re from.

Just shows you want attention from Americans, like you’re mad your crush doesn’t know you exist.

Only New Yorkers think this way.

How do you know someone’s from New York?

Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.

Yep, an OS would need to be monolithic for a given device.

Something the computer world decided was a Bad Thing in about 1978.

Omg, stop whining. Do or do not, there is no try. If you don’t want to drive, then why are you doing this?

Driving is one of the easiest things you’ll ever do in life (wspeckally with cars built after about 1990).

If learning how to drive is this difficult for you, what are you going to do when something truly difficult comes along?

Being car free is totally possible.

Lol, OK, you do you.

Have you checked with Lineage? That’s the most likely source.

Samsung phones are complex - if it can be unlocked depends on the exact model number (not just A15, there are often separate versions of each model).

Generally, US versions aren’t unlockable or flashable. Generally.

I gave up on Samsung several years ago because I got tired of fighting to do anything. Even the unlock and flash procedures were a pain.

The MDM APIs in android land are a hot mess

Ain’t that the truth.

I avoid Google stuff, actually going Google free on the phone I’m setting up now, so Family Link is out for me. And I try to avoid all-eggs-in-a-basket anyway.

Yea, it sucks. I’ve looked at a LOT of MDM for Android.