When you’re suffering from imposter syndrome or you’re wondering if you can challenge yourself to do stuff at the highest levels, remember that John Roberts is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

He’s the “smart” conservative and he’s dumber than a box of shit.

Good post. Thanks for doing that.

The ones selling health insurance are awful too. No dude I don’t want your trash ass probably fake insurance coverage that you’re trying to sell me from a spoofed number.

For years, I had an unstable unraid server. I was fixing it every couple of days after a lockup. I had decided that unraid sucked. When it was up for a week I celebrated. Every one of my dockers was a suspect. I learned to hate all of them.

Then I shitcanned the next cloud docker.

Been up for months without a hiccup.

people need to stop downvoting stuff like this. why you shooting the messenger

Imagine calling Nikki Haley’s week “a bad week”.

fuck off andrew you dirtbag

Edit: I didn’t see the OP editorializing, just the linked story. I thought even the mention of the article was enough for downvotes, which sucks.

Op’s editorial was shit and the downvotes are deserved. Carry on.

What the other dude said, but the level of sophistication was miles beyond what you typically see from even nation states. The takeaway is you cannot defend yourself from a nation that wants your information.

The Economist: never quite right but never in doubt.

More Texans voted for Joe Biden in the last election than any other state except California.

More Texans voted for Joe Biden in the last election than New Yorkers.

Just sayin. There’s a whole lot of people down there fighting and just because the state government is full of soulless shitbags doesn’t mean we should discount the people doing work there.

All the browsers were complete shit though. That was iterative but it felt huge.

Imma let y’all finish but the Palm Pre was the GOAT

So is this just some AI generated crap or what

This is a really boring direction of conversation. It’s boring to talk about the false equivalency regarding a decade old OS that the OS maker themselves don’t support vs Linux today. It’s boring to debate the finer points of continuing support in games. It’s boring to talk about Epic outsourcing work to Proton.

But I really hope you find someone that finds it interesting. Good luck.

Sure. But in the context of Epic claiming that Google is a bad guy for telling Epic to pound sand, Epic telling video game owners who have owned a game for years to get fucked is a bad look.

I was a heavy Rocket League player on Windows and I quit when Epic told Linux users to get bent and I won’t use their game store. Epic knew it would piss off a small but vocal minority and they considered it a cost of doing business. Good luck to em.

Fuck em

That’s a very fair question. I think that from the perspective of a power user (which let’s be honest, giving a shit about this makes one a power user), the difference is sorta bullshit. In Googles case they make it hard but in Apple’s case it’s not allowed at all, so how is Apple better? If Fdroid exists for Android, then choice exists and so Apple is at least as shitty, if not more so.

You’re not wrong.

From the court’s perspective, Apple is the honest party. Apple users are never given the illusion of choice. By contrast, Google sells the illusion of choice while actively working against choice and abuses its market position to do so.

And that’s how we get here.

They bought Rocket League and discontinued the Linux version for seemingly no reason. It was a dick move for sure.

The case established that Google acted intentionally to prevent apps, hardware manufacturers, and basically their entire sphere of influence from using other app stores and services.

So no, they are in fact making massive efforts to stop you from using alternative apps and stores.

Same with their search.

Google is a bad guy, buddy. Time to internalize that.

You love him when he’s your snake, but there’s always a chance he’ll bite you.

I like Gavin Newsom. I’m not here to throw shade.

Providing the licenses was easy. He was the mayor of San Fran and had the vision enough to know it was a long game winner. That should not take away from what he did. He did it when he did it and he deserves credit.

But this dude was also married to Kim Guilfoyle. He’s a climber and always has been. That’s not really a knock per se, but boy his political cutout sure looks like what Bill Clinton looked like way back when.

He’s a sharp dude. He’s also a dirty bastard that will be unpredictable.

No one has reminded me more of Bill Clinton than Gavin Newsom.

I do. I’m an old progressive and he’s been the most progressive president in my lifetime outside of Carter, and honestly he’s probably been more progressive than Carter.

I don’t get the ambivalence about Biden at all from anyone who’s not a hard core Republican.

My first union had that reputation. I became a steward and was known as a reformer. Honestly, they weren’t particularly corrupt or self dealing, they were just really bad at messaging for the employees. Over time, it just became “common knowledge” that the leadership was secretive and self dealing.

I don’t mean that to say that yours wasn’t self dealing. Those existed and continue to exist. But I have also never been in a union where the labor body was involved and took it seriously and also had those kinds of problems. If there’s one takeaway I learned from unions, it’s that we get the union we deserve. When we’re in it and active as a body, those were always the best unions. When we have an apathetic labor body, we have an apathetic union.

There will always be factions like every other human activity. People will often be tribal to the detriment of the whole. But at the same time, in my experience, those most against “unions” were almost always the people least involved or not involved at all.