implying Google has customer service

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.

Kinda hoping to stretch it until tablet style foldables get reasonably reliable and affordable

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

Galaxy note 9. It’s the peak smartphone, no holepunch nonsense, every useful feature, still plenty fast. The only drawbacks are that the battery is starting to wear out, which is fixable with a bit of fuss, and the screen has a little bit of keyboard burn in, only visible on all black screens.

If a corporation puts their crimes inside a computer, they can get away with it for years before anybody figures out how to do anything about it.

Really the whole Trashfuture extended universe is fantastic

There are only two types of software: Free and nonFree

Trashfuture is the best tech podcast

Hell yeah we can even put the bicycles on the trains

The path forward is trains.

Good

People who want to do phrenology now tend to hide it in an “AI algorithm”

Yes they are

XP released in 2001, only stopped getting support in 2014, and got an emergency security patch as recently as 2019. Expecting computers to last more than 3 years isn’t new.

I predict that so many people will run 10 past EOL that Microsoft will be forced to extend it like they did for XP and 7.

ACAB

“It’s great right up until it breaks.” is a perfect summary

I get the same warning popup behavior closing the tab with the mouse or with ctrl-w