Couldn’t come soon enough

Yeah but that’s the thing they’re in completely different circles. They might as well be from another planet to us lol

Yeah!

Eh, idk, but to me rogue one is still whatever honestly, that movie is peak nostalgiabait for the most part with a serviceable plot that keeps things moving like a series or short levels of Jedi Knight or something so you can keep munching popcorn, and the cinematography and setpieces are actually really good.

Sure it’s now even more fun because the characters are fleshed out in a primetime TV drama that came out years later and I do rewatch it more often because of that, but it’s like saying revenge of the sith flows well with clone wars S7, nah, not really, there’s an island of quality between the two.

Been a while since I distrohopped heh

That sucks. Maybe you just don’t need any assistance dying if you live in Slovenia lol

What even is zorin os lol I’ve never even heard of it. Normies really do surprise me often like this, like they mathematically calculate to pick the strangest least expected things through the most alien of mechanisms, it’s always fun trying to figure it out after the fact. Delightful news!

Worth every penny. Andor was peak. Ig it also explains why it felt so real compared to the weird plastic feel the SW sequels have (apart from VIII on the island) have.

Literally just a dating app without the hidden algo that keeps people onboard and no payment. It could be federated.

Well that’s not a blow to Rachel Reeves!

Technical solutions are only there if there is binding Incentive, and compliance with EU law is absolutely a binding Incentive for “rest of the world”, if they operate inside the EU, which most megacorps do.

The two aren’t in opposition, one is a pre-reqiuisite for the other. Yes having FOSS privacy tooling is good but normies won’t use it, nor is it a bad thing that besides that they actually have some rights in the matter.

You sound like you’ve never actually worked for a tech company lol, compliance is everything.

Premiere, Photoshop, Lightroom, FL Studio. They either don’t work or work terribly on Linux. That one DAW on Linux from Ableton devs that’s decent still has awful UX compared to FL and VST compatibility seemed spotty. I do use Linux daily (Debian flavor) though just not on my main PC but on my laptop, and also on the work laptop for work.

It’s more about how the people use the site, and which page and when and how, which devices, and how often etc. You would also want to track anyone before they sign in, and it’s also a way to identify issues/bugs and accessibility and identify outages/incidents and security issues without those being directly reported.

By “you win” I meant to say I’ve no idea why your local government would issue popups, which I guess means this isn’t just limited to American megacorps though, hence I retract that specific argument because of your counter example.

This whole legislation sucks for everyone involved.

No, it doesn’t, I’m still massively in support of it, what?

I absolutely stand by GDPR, even if you found one example of public entities that for some reason also use cookie popups instead of properly complying, even if they all did that, I would not for a moment wish it any other way, no public or private body of any kind has any right to any of my information for any reason without my explicit informed properly scoped consent for each given interaction.

I think the legislation is great and I would support a massive expansion of it and the US equivalent in CCPA.

For as long as data has any value, we must regulate it lest predatory orgs will abuse it and take the working class for all they’re worth straight to a surveillance state or a corporotocratic dystopia.

Well honestly then I don’t know, you win

From what I can find, they use Google Analytics to track website visits and it’s why they have cookie popups, but beyond vague statements I can’t find anything about why they want this data in the privacy policy.

My best bet would be that they can track how many (unique) people use the site and how often they use it and for what so they can ask for appropriate financing from the federal government come budget season, that’s also why the NHS uses it.

The website looks very nice so I’m fairly certain it’s made by a private third party, at least in the UK everything that can be privatised/outsourced, is, even private companies often hire some other company to make their website, so I have no proof.

Is the website outsourced to a private company?

Remember y’all - you can set up your own custom Arduino compile-build-flasu chain with the bootloader and everything on Linux without having to use their IDE or ever leaving the terminal

I have laptops from the the last two decades that still work. My X201 has been used and abused in every which way, it has problems that I gave it (BIOS), but for the most part it’s completely fine, my T440p is fine but the screen was cracked, again, by my dumbass leaving it on the floor and stepping on it, and I also replaced the keyboard with one off another model that didn’t quite fit. Still, besides all that it worked like a champ, can even put a quad core in it.

While I’m overall not impressed with my new laptop - the X1c because it’s performance is dog shit and I’ve not figured how to control the fans manually yet (thinkfan doesn’t seem to work), it’s far from the worst - my MSI GT60 2PE was such a piece of shit and definitely fits this post, so does anything labeled “Netbook” and/or anything that has an Intel Atom CPU which is truly cursed

Phones on the other hand? Imagine you want to take a screenshot of a video on a phone for future reference, but android says:

So you have to use the volume down+power like in the good old days

“There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is,” said the restaurant manager. He explained the majority of the people complaining about the artwork are against high levels of immigration and believe the artwork is an attempt to humanise small boat crossings because the people walking across the water have Christmas hats on

So these people not only think, somehow, that this slop is somehow depicting immigrants because Facebook melted their brains and they’re literally seeing red, but they also think it would be wrong to humanize refugees and that’s why it’s being torn down.

If this article is true (I don’t trust substack and the article only seems to reference itself), this not only illustrates how absolutely mentally gone the elderly are and how absolutely psycho and beyond reasoning or any type of conversation they are , but also the vast, vast rift between what IRL populations (people on Facebook groups and X) care about and what online people (Reddit, Lemmy, BlueSky, masto) care about.

(and yes let’s be honest - this is that 50+ cohort that will vote Reform even though Greens lead with literally every other age group and everyone below the age of 49 and yes the people above 50 outnumber everyone below)

Yeah, corporate regulatory capture is a plague everywhere. Capitalism, man.

Honestly sounds like a cool hobby to have. You don’t need to publish it to make it worthwhile like others have said, but that said, there’s no harm in throwing it out there somewhere on the internet.

Maybe we should even have a dedicated community for sharing these sorts of things, hobbyists and dilletantes sharing what they make and giving each other constructive feedback or just discussing it, without influencers/promoters/businesses and the lack of an online following being a requirement, and also without it being seen as advertising/promoting/shilling.

The whole thing framed as a sort of variety showcase, where sharing is a bit more personal and the person sharing can give some information about who they are and what they do and maybe make friends or meet like-minded people along the way, a community where just about anything goes from a table to a poem as long as the poster made it themselves and they aren’t promoting, and the lurkers in such a community would get a diverse feed of all sorts of things they probably never would have interacted with otherwise, with maybe even some diamonds in the rough.