“loyalty cards” are common. stores (and each of their 369354764 data sharing “partners”) get to track everything you buy and when. in exchange, you get token “discounts” on a small selection of products. some stores have done away with the actual physical cards, and use mobile phone apps or just the mobile phone number to track you.

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afaik the only things is the desktop watermark and being locked-out of the personalization in ‘settings’, so stuck with default theme, wallpaper, and so on.

registry edits or using a pre-configured custom installer can get around some (or all?) of these items.

updates will still be offered and installed.

usmobile.com does a cellular-based ‘home phone’ (base station you connect a traditional POTS phone to) for about the same ($9.99/mo, $99/yr), plus hardware at about $100. walmart does the same (via ‘straight talk’) at $15/mo and about $50 for the hardware. no internet needed for the service as they use cellular.

they should be given sentences

my guess is he’s delivering intel to assist with russian hacking of the midterm elections

not ‘everyone’. i’m sure he’s getting all the assistance a drunk idiot needs to deliver whatever the fuck he’s taking there.

yea, i think so.

it loaded ok into a new tab here. just a vid. should play on any relatively-recent browser. here’s a frame grab:

the gnome foundation, however, is a u.s. organization, based in california.

semiconductor fab profits are also ‘abnormally high’.

it’s not FOSS (it is ‘free to use’ at home) or a ‘server’ application (it’s a windows application), but i just use mailstore home to create and update a local archive of a gmail account. its dot.net requirement is minimal (v4.8 or higher) but i have not yet tried to run it with wine, as i have a separate box that runs windows stuff.

https://www.mailstore.com/de/produkte/mailstore-home/
https://www.mailstore.com/en/products/mailstore-home/

this one would end up at sc®otus regardless of lower courts’ actions.

federal duties will still apply, and that stuff has changed a lot in the last year. most of what used to come in ‘free’, is not any longer.

many states will expect a buyer bringing-in items to use in-state that were bought elsewhere, with lower or no sales tax at point-of-sale, to pay the equivalent of the sales tax, commonly called a ‘use tax’, if the items would be subject to sales tax if purchased locally. such use taxes are difficult to enforce, and are rarely reported or paid voluntarily by individuals.

also note that the cheaper switch2 version sold in japan is region locked to that market and language

that whole family is off-the-rails, but with her reach, she could do a lot of good… but instead, this.

tour guide for school/scout groups at white house.

… at dipshit’s request, no doubt… remember he’s the one that literally begged russia to hack clinton during the 2016 campaign.

vital parts of jitsi are not multi-threaded, so a beefy machine with fast single-thread performance will be needed. but the network and bandwidth requirements will probably be an even bigger obstacle. going off their recommendations, it’d be at least 7.5gbps for 720p to 3000 participants.

this is the idiot that took down twitter when he yeeted racks out of a data center and threw 'em into a u-haul… ones that were still powered on and used by the site. so anything’s possible… but i don’t think even he would be so stupid as to release the algorithms or his special ‘tweaks’ to them.

it can be really dumb, but it can also be extremely useful for some things. i think that’s pretty much linus’ stance–and if you do use it, you are the one wholly responsible for what comes out of it.