Or a felony violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act!

It boggles my mind that so many people have so little self-respect that they put up with having an abusive relationship with their computer.

I use Linux and have done exclusively for almost a decade, dipshit. Get some reading comprehension skills.

Free Software package managers are good, because having somebody who knows what they’re doing curate the apps for you is helpful. “App stores” are evil, because you’ve replaced that expert with a salesperson with a vested interest in exploiting you.

Off the top of my head, I wouldn’t know the right domain to download CrystalDiskMark or EasyBCD, for example.

The way to find out the correct domain is to go to the Wikipedia page about the software.

But actually, the right way to do it is to install software using your Linux distro’s package manager.

Not yet, but that’s definitely the goal.

Were it not for the fact that it’s the fucking privacy-invading big tech companies doing it, I would admit that there are good use-cases for the camera:

• Reminding you of the name and possibly previous interactions with the person you’re talking to, for instance (if it only did local lookup based on consensual photos you had previously added to your address book). I’m not face-blind or anything, but my memory is bad enough that that would be helpful to me.
• Scanning, OCR-ing and making searchable any papers you’re looking at (hooking to your selfhosted Paperless-NGX).
• Displaying augmented-reality translations of street signs (which is one of the few reasonable things Google Glass actually did).

They don’t have nearly enough battery life for that.

It would also be relatively appropriate for a 3D-printed concrete house, as it would be relatively easy to design the furniture as built-ins. Kinda like this, but, ya know, automated instead of handmade.

Probably under the assumption the data was deleted.

Which is why allowing that sort of inference to be made, under any circumstances, is absolutely tyrannical.

To be fair, you probably aren’t using an 0.4*10³mm nozzle.

True, but it’s definitely part of the same drive towards automation and eliminating human workers.

The robots build the physical object; the AI controls the robots.

3D Printed Houses Are Already Failing – Megaprojects (Youtube)

Edit: TrackinDaKraken already linked the same video, but mine is better-labeled.

It is outrageous that he could be convicted on absolutely zero evidence beyond a username “match” anyway! This case had way more problems than just a damn typo!

OpenWRT is still the best shit now.

I honestly feel like the BSD license should be a better license because it gives more freedom

It does not. Saying the BSD license gives more freedom because it lets developers choose to close up the code is like saying the Confederacy gave more freedom because it let white people choose to own slaves.

Yes, it’s bad. Permissive licensing (instead of copyleft) is for cucks.

Because if literally every new car on the market is doing it, you don’t have much of a choice.

(Okay, sure, you could resolve to drive old cars forever – and that’s what I do – but let’s not pretend that’s possible for everyone. Even if people were willing and able to accept the maintenance/reliability/safety tradeoffs, which many are not, there simply aren’t enough old cars for everybody to drive one.)

They also weren’t actually anti-technology, just anti-exploitation.

(Also it’s “bad rap,” BTW.)

They make it go through an app and a cloud service on purpose these days so they have an excuse to upsell you on a subscription.