All of those things, save for the MRI, are valuable life skills.

I don’t need to know everything about an engine, but I have basic competency in changing my oil or replacing my air filter.

I don’t know everything about the structure of my home, but I know enough to install some shelves or blinds.

If a problem is outside of my knowledge or ability? I call someone who can fix it for me.

A computer should be the same way. People should have a base level of competency in technology, and that technology should lend itself to people fixing problems themselves.

Everything being a proprietary, closed source, magic mystery box, that spies on you, and can only be fixed by the company that made it, is very bad, actually.

What an absolutely brain dead take on what people should and shouldn’t be doing with their time.

Farmers have to waste time hacking their John Deere tractors, just to be able to start fixing them. OP isn’t the one dictating what people should or shouldn’t do with their time.

Time to fire up Protoweb!

I’ll say it

Ok, but you shouldn’t

Yeah Tesla only incidentally makes cars. Their accrual business is being a Carbon Credits dealer. Which just goes to show that the whole concept of carbon credits is nonsense. Climate change can’t be solved by market mechanisms

Nowadays we have meat five times per day.

Who the hell is eating meat 5 times a day? Jordan Peterson??

I’m looking to pirate MS flight simulator 2004 ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Thank you to the workers who actually programmed, tested, and implemented the thing*

Digital Avatars in teams arent actively destructive to the internet, the environment, and people’s grasp on reality.

I think you’re universalising a personal grievance, without fully accounting for the impacts of Metaverse bullshit, which was never practical or feasible to begin with, and the AI Apocalypse sweeping the internet

Audacious is your friend. It accepts old Winamp skins!

I’ve been rocking the Windows XP skin on Linux Mint

So I’m a relatively young and healthy person. Im lucky enough to live in a city with an extensive parks system, and go hiking very regularly.

I find that it’s fun, enjoyable and invigorating because I’m outside, and there are things to see. As a result, the fact that it’s exercise becomes secondary.

How are you excercising? Because if it’s going to a gym, or walking on a machine… Yeah I’d be miserable too.

Back in my day, we just told Cleverbot to suck our dicks

If it helps, you see, he was “in government” at the time so he had no choice but to be a shit eating sycophant who told the president whatever he thought he wanted to hear.

“Just following orders” is very famously not a defense for being complicit in a genocide

Wolf Launcher, if you don’t want to deal with the shitty stock launcher.

CloudStream is good if you watch anime.

The folks on r/piracy seem to like an app called Stremio, but I haven’t got that one set up yet.

I have a Jellyfin client.

SmartTube Next is an ad free Youtube client for the firestick.

And then I also have Kanopy and Hoopla which let me access media via my public library card.

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I adore my T-480! I put Linux Mint on it, and it does everything I need it to do, with basically no fuss, and no garbage from Microsoft or Google

Lmao what a fucking racist loser! You can’t even respond with anything meaningful

Russia isn’t even a part of this discussion. I’m honestly more offended by your opinions of teenagers.

But that aside, it’s not about “defending” these States. It’s that your tone is dripping with orientalist racism

Sees teenagers doing dumb shit, like they have since literally forever

“Is this a plot by the despotic orientals?!”

Fucking listen to yourself. I’m not on TikTok. I just don’t care for vertical short-form video as a concept. But even I can tell you that not every TikTok trend is teenagers being destructive idiots.

How can they be tankies AND give a shit about what the Pope says?

There are Catholic Communists. The world does not conform to your perception of drama on a tiny collection of web forums.