Pretty much for form I suppose, there are other ways to get those drivers.

I’ve been in a few online games with RU players and it struck me as so weird to be playing a game with someone from a nation we are basically at war with. Major WWI Xmas football vibes.

Pretty telling when the only way you can get your users to “upgrade” is by stealth. I wonder what the % of involuntarily upgraded win11 users is vs people who knowingly and willingly did so.

It’s called a honeypot. They even ran CP servers in the past (after taking them over from the actual admins, in order to unmask the users).

True, but that power is also diminished greatly as more and more regular users abandon the site. No eyes on the propaganda makes it worth a lot less.

Somewhat, but the way federated instances are set up, it’s not nearly as bad or easily abused. Not as if making a new Reddit account was that much of a roadblock, either. They accept 10minutemail addresses.

Canceled my sub as a means of protest. I used it for research and testing purposes and 20$ wasn’t that big of a deal. But I will not knowingly support this asshole if whatever his company produces isn’t going to benefit anyone other than him and his cronies. Voting with our wallets may be the very last vestige of freedom we have left, since money equals speech.

I hope he gets raped by an irate Roomba with a broomstick.

It’s simply ragebait. It’s a global phenomenon but I’d say Reddit embraced it as their primary feature, even more so than gd Facebook.

I’m not immune to it either, though my brand of ragebait is more in the /collapse and /antiwork spheres.

This already happened. People looking up CPR instructions because a loved one is dying, only to be met with three unskippable ads.

Goodbye Meemaw.

Sure, that’s definitely a country that needs more wishy washy magic crap on top of all their current issues.

We wouldn’t even be able to restart. All the easily available resources have been delved. Three thousand years ago people could scoop pure gold from rivers by the kilos. Today, all decent deposits lie kilometers below the surface.

But it’ll be for the best. We had our shot and blew it.

Between AI and shitcoin mining, these two “technology branches” already consume more power than all the green power added to the grid combined.

It’s why humans will always remain de facto slaves to a few masters. Anything that could potentially be advantageous to all life on Earth? Only if the ones at the top get to profit first. No profit? Enjoy scorching to death on hell-planet for the next forty years!

110K/mo was bound to attract attention. So, purely hypothetically, uhh, what would the lowest cutoff be before eyebrows start raising?

We’re slowly approaching the “FO” phase of FAFO for a lot of these companies

I already felt this way about intel when they hired fucking Will.I.Am to be spokesperson. He made more money in a month than most of their engineers in a year. That was a decade ago. It’s only been downhill since. I hope they go fully bankrupt at this point and someone worthy can take over the patents.

It also can be not installed to begin with. Fuck MS and all their bullshit. Next year, 5% of pc gamers will be on Linux and it will keep growing from there.

This is why I cashed out what little crypto I had for physical bullion (gold, silver) that I store at my own home.

Plenty of people laugh at me, but who’ll be laughing when we are all killing each other over a puddle of drinkable water or scraps of food?

Not me, either, but I might at least be able to barter for a few days before getting killed for it by some ragtag militia.

But the level of cooperation required means they have to break eee to remain in the clear. Doing that means they lose almost all reason to exist in the first place. This is a no-win scenario.

Is there a way to pre-emptively block this? Something in hosts.txt? Registry?

The very first day I see those ads in my Win10 will be the day I uninstall Win and go Linux.

Wanna bet that gigafactory somehow gets closed down or cancelled before opening? Tesla might not even survive that long.

Grabs popcorn. Two giants of global waste and deadbeat consumerism fighting to the death? I’m all for it.