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by ta9000 8mo ago
Yeah that’s me, I’m funded by the anti-GDPR lobby. Still waiting on my check.
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by ta9000 8mo ago
The groupthink on hacker news is exhausting. If you think aligning with China will be any better, please do so faster.
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by ta9000 8mo ago
You should look up what the Japanese did to the Chinese.
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by ta9000 8mo ago
It’s definitely made browsing the open web a worse experience. There should be global opt in/out.
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by ta9000 8mo ago
> Instead these are just numbers in a statistic and opportunities for leverage in geopolitics instead of real lives with as much depth and meaning as your own. I didn’t vote for this, it’s not about me, I have no control over this. I liv
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by ta9000 8mo ago
US AID was always about soft power. No reason Europe or China can’t step up and fill that demand.
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by ta9000 8mo ago
Too fucking late, eat shit Discord. We’re all moving to E2E encrypted platforms.
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by ta9000 8mo ago
Savings rates are higher in developing economies because there are fewer social safety nets.
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by ta9000 8mo ago
They’re too busy berating the US.
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by ta9000 8mo ago
I still don’t get why people are still on Meta platforms. Shut down your accounts and switch to alternatives. Meta/Zuckerberg are disgusting.
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by ta9000 8mo ago
Military and defense contractors are two separate things. Both are jobs programs, the latter for upper middle class white people in flyover states.
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by ta9000 8mo ago
As an American, if an outcome of the Trump administration is even a slight deterioration of the US military industrial complex, I don’t think I’ll mind that. I’d rather spend that money on the poor and the young.
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by ta9000 8mo ago
That’s still discrimination.
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by ta9000 8mo ago
Save us, China.
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by ta9000 8mo ago
The fact people don’t see the chilling effect this will have on privacy is beyond me.
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by ta9000 8mo ago
That’s insane. Discord should just ban UK users instead of forcing this garbage on all of us.
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by ta9000 8mo ago
It doesn’t help that the Switch 2 library is woefully inadequate.
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by ta9000 8mo ago
I’ll look into Cachy. Bazzite I’m not going to touch because it seems politically toxic.
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by ta9000 8mo ago
So what’s your alternative?
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by ta9000 8mo ago
The latest version (with support through 2029) was released last month. It installed and runs flawlessly. https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_zena_whatsnew.php
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by ta9000 8mo ago
Yeah, sorry, I’m a normal person I guess.
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by ta9000 8mo ago
The stability is why I prefer Linux Mint for gaming. Everything just works, even on my modern hardware. dismalaf: I definitely don’t care about gestures on my desktop computer.
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by ta9000 8mo ago
I’d recommend trying Linux Mint with Steam.
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by ta9000 8mo ago
I’ve already tested the cancel button. Can confirm it works.
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Dutch unicorn Bird exits Netherlands, cuts 120 jobs, cites regulation(dutchnews.nl)
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London Fintech Unicorn Zepz laid off 20% of staff(cnbc.com)
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Covid, War, Red Sea: 80% of Europe's Supply Chain Rocked by Crisis (2025)(modaes.com)
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by ta9000 8mo ago
What’s great about Al Lowe is that he’s great at sleazy humor but as far as I can tell not at all sleazy himself.
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by ta9000 8mo ago
Bill Gates seems like a total scumbag (cheater, hangs out with pedophiles), so it tracks.
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by ta9000 8mo ago
Guess that will be a SpaceX problem soon enough. What a mess.

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