implying Google has customer service

Laptop and Chromebook are two very different things. A laptop is sufficient for any use case that doesn’t demand GPU power, but if you’re ever considering buying a “gaming” laptop, don’t. You can get a cheap laptop and a decent gaming desktop for the same price and they’ll last you longer and run better.

A Chromebook is just walled garden bullshit.

Iain M. Banks’ Culture

Cops will never help you

When you go to PM, it clearly shows a message reading “Warning: Private messages in Lemmy are not secure. Please create an account on Element.io for secure messaging.”

It’s a public message board, don’t put anything you don’t want public on it.

the ! addressing allows you to post a link that anybody can click to get their instance’s version of the community link. So for example, !linux@lemmy.ml posted anywhere on lemmy becomes a link to https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/linux@lemmy.ml for me, but the exact same link is a link to https://aussie.zone/c/linux@lemmy.ml for you

The matrix is capitalism and being cis

Think of the poor cluster bomb manufacturers. How will they maximize shareholder value if nobody uses their widely banned weapons that mostly kill civilians?

Tradition, one of the worst reasons on earth to do anything.

I tend to binge through books. I just finished Andy Weir’s Artemis and Project Hail Mary in about one night each.

Which means the things I’m in the middle of tend to be web serials since I can’t just rush through. I’ve got dozens of tabs of royalroad open in my phone’s browser. Everything by Ravensdagger is good, and I’ve been enjoying Return of the Runebound Professor and Let’s Not Obliterate, and awaiting the scheduled return from hiatus of Ends of Magic on Monday.

firefox and a torrent client

It’s not crypto mining, because crypto mining is basically worthless on consumer hardware now. What it does is run its own ads and pay you for enduring them and being spied upon by them in its own cryptocurrency.

Rimworld, KSP1, Stellaris

A recipe for frequent civil wars

Pop os, but don’t install brave, it’s bullshit cryptocurrency spyware.

Really the whole Trashfuture extended universe is fantastic

It’s to feed your suburban paranoia

I unironically agree with your equivalent, too. Car bad bike good.

Putting a camera on the front of your house is stupid just answer the door asshole.

A normal goddamn doorbell

Trashfuture is the best tech podcast