Sometimes I wish someone would make a an Arch box and come back to it years later to see the updates it has missed.

But that’s assuming an Arch box would be reliable enough to stay alive that long lol.

Always heard of 20+ year old bsd and debian machines chugging along with no issue.

doesn’t pay it back

2008 financial crisis

when your puny change in mortgage loan causes upwards of a billion dollars worth of investments gambling to fall apart

Tux should have several skins that represent different distros like a red fedora for RHEL lol.

My other dumb suggestion is having nmap be a floating blue eyball

Deciding whether I want to look at a wall of C++ or a wall of Rust both with lines of code exceeding the edge of my screen.

Surprised Hawaii doesn’t just say “Ask Japan how it went”

The Fedora doc on this is a bit old but it’s still mostly the same:

Secure boot activates a lock-down mode in the Linux kernel which disables various features kernel functionality:

• Loading kernel modules that are not signed by a trusted key.
• Using kexec to load an unsigned kernel image.
• Hibernation and resume from hibernation.
• User-space access to physical memory and I/O ports.
• Module parameters that allow setting memory and I/O port addresses.
• Writing to MSRs through /dev/cpu/*/msr.
• Use of custom ACPI methods and tables.

The implementation of secure boot is still questionable to this day, but it is understandable that it doesn’t always play nice with Linux. I do believe you can use hibernate now as long as you have an encrypted swap (LUKS).

I can definitely see the pain if you happen to be a kernel dev or use linux on any SBC with IO ports you want to mess with in userspace and not make en entire overkill kernel module for.

The main thing they are trying to do is make it more difficult to find this stuff via google, which tbh is still easy without reddit.

But even Switch homebrew has been a pain. Most of it is one off software made years ago because no sane dev wanted to actually keep up with all the firmware releases and limited control of CFW. Github/Gitlab repos keep getting banned left and right for tools not even related to piracy.

3DS has full fledged apps with teams behind everything and HShop which makes it very easy for everyone. Switch still doesn’t have a definitive method of handling NSP/XCIs, and all the auto download internet repos are invite only to hide from Nintendo.

I’m really hoping someone finds some serious hardware bypass in their next console after what they did to the emulation scene. They really deserve to go through the insane R4 piracy age all over again for nuking everything online.

…it has?

I thought countries like China, Iran, India, and Pakistan ban access to social media and the greater internet because of the threat it still poses to information being shared and utilized by common citizens.

I’m fairly certain the flow information still has a net positive despite attempts to crackdown and control online interaction both from corporations and governments.

Pakistan’s PTI is still alive despite being stabbed by the military because they can effectively reach their voterbase via the internet. I don’t think anyone has actually taken a picture or video of Imran Khan ever since he was thrown in jail, yet he is as popular as ever.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/supporters-pakistans-imran-khan-call-off-protest-local-media-says-2024-11-27/

I’m surprised they’re even bothering to make a deal out of this considering putting any sort of stance against Israel would be in direct opposition to the USA, which literally every other country has refused to do out of fear or collusion.

Not to mention the ICC really only functions when someone either loses or is kicked out of their own country. People made a big deal of no one arresting Putin as if anyone was actually going to take on Russia by themselves by arresting Putin.

I remember the good ol days when black friday was actually a single day event, and cyber monday actually had real deals and not faked 30% off 60% markup.

I have to remind myself to buy things I need before November because then they bump the prices and they don’t go back down until February.

1 TB 970 Evo SSD selling for $140+ on major retailers right now, even though I bought one a while back for $40 (and even that was lucky because they inflated to $80 anyway).

Also rip Newegg

Pakistan is also king of piracy because the government already shot themselves in the foot by trying to implement this years ago in an effort to control the media.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they also know how to get around China’s firewall if needed.

Apple stuff just works

People say this and then pretend to enjoy their lives without window snapping or having a UI worse than GNOME, which I cannot understand lol.

Top film executive was probably involved with the time Youtube had a massive lawsuit for allowing people to upload 144p 15 second clips online of their favorite media.

I don’t care how much of a pirate cheapo game this is, watching Nintendo go ape over practically a knockoff someone could have made as a joke is amusing, especially with their playerbase success.

It depends. Physical borders may only photograph traffic for security purposes, no dedicated exit gate. Usually its the entry country that records your crossing, which they may or may not share with the other country.

I’m pretty sure TSA does record people exiting internationally though because people have been caught leaving after an arrest warrant has been issued, even if they made it past TSA onto the flight and into the air. TSA will know immediately if you checked in or boarded your flight.

goto post history and see that they are making posting comments/replies every 60 seconds.

even before ChatGPT, reddit was basically a practice site for bot account farming because it had basically zero restrictions and defenses against bots.

the problem is reddit is also filled with braindead karma hoarders and they also tend to act in similar ways. However they usually go for the bigger bang per buck types posts like picture bait and crossposting, and don’t interact with threads/comments as much.

71 to 6 lol

Even though these countries do run media spam operations, they usually target specific events and communities with a wide reach.

Most of the people you find here will be irl people with differing views, not paid shills to spam posts.

Also by these countries, I mean every country does this. You usually don’t see US spam because they do it against Russia and China which means their spam will be in Russian, Chinese, etc.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/

Obama and Hillary also had fun with warcrimes in Afghanistan of which they hunted Assange for 15 years for revealing to the public.

They didn’t hold back Israel because of some moral requirement, it was simply a measured option that Obama took which he believed was the most beneficial to Washington’s interests at the time. He could have easily gone the other way had there been more at stake.

If Kamala really planned to do different, she would have said it during her campaign. She didn’t and made it clear she was going to continue Biden’s policy.

She made it quite clear that she had no interest in listening to the uncommitted movement, and the conjured up argument about her needing PAC money more than votes has been proven false because she lost every single swing state.

Her campaign decided it was worth losing votes to protect Israel, and that allowing Trump to win was not a major problem

Ah yes let’s crack down on the already cracked down student protests where we already repeatedly sent riot police multiple times to beat and arrest students.

Thanks Biden

The funniest part is franks redhot ends up being better because it’s designed to be cheap and vinegary anyway lol.

Not a big fan of smokey sauces either where it feels like they just mixed in liquid smoke and some chili powder.