Mutual aid societies do work. AA, Smart Recovery, whatever sounds better to you. Get to a meeting and raise your hand and ask for help.

There is fuckall worth watching on Netflix anyway. You're better off bingewatching Antiques Roadshow... at least you might accidentally learn something.

There are one or two accounts on Lemmy who seem to show up in every privacy or graphene thread and shit-talk GOS.

I say if there is something wrong with GOS or the code itself, identify it and prove it. The founder may have been "problematic" or whatever, but it doesn't sound like that person is even associated with the project anymore.

I have personally daily-driven GOS for a year. It has worked well for me. I use a lot of FOSS apps. I use some traditional Play Store apps and avoid logging into Google and I manage permissions closely. I'd say GOS gives you options. Maybe some people would like other customized degoogled OS better, and that is fine. Just... for the love of all that is sacred, don't use vanilla Googled Android.

Right, they need close air support, infantry support, scouts, supply chain logistics etc. all working together to be peak effective. If you just give some dudes an Abrams and a crash course in driving it and firing the main gun, they will be better off than the same crew of randos in a technical made out of a Toyota Tacoma, but they will still be vulnerable to modern threats.

It's easy to understand why the modern drone threat is uniquely game-changing if you think of war like chess. Most advanced powers have now figured out that having a developed drone program is like giving yourself infinite pawns. You keep trading pawns for the opponents more valuable pieces. If Russia is able to spend a few thousand in drone hardware and explosives and destroy a multimillion dollar tank, they'll make that trade any day.

Jessica Huang in that show has the most off the charts RBF. It is kinda hot, to be honest.

Absolutely zero chance she wins a general. She is less popular than any executive in recent history.

Is that the most toxic instance? I got blocked or banned or whatever from hexbear for simply posting a slightly different opinion from whatever the current orthodoxy was there. Do curated echochamber communities really provide any value?

I think "extremely ethnocentric" is a more fair description/criticism of Japan. Close to 98% of their population is ethnically homogeneous, so it kinda makes sense.

It's amazing Limewire didn't destroy the entire western PC market.

Documents that are actually malicious .exes.

Hollywood movies that are actually scat/CP/gore.

Game installers that are actually viruses.

Popular bands .mp3 songs that are actually Wesley Willis.

... on second thought. the last one was OK.

I once paid for gasoline after I finished filling up, with a personal check for $18 and I remember thinking "Damn, this is expensive."

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Another option- Kindle paperwhite or even an old Gen 1 / gen 2 Kindle keyboard or other e-ink model. The old models can be battery swapped with only a guitar pick and a Philips screwdriver.

DNS ad blocker like PiHole, to block all the ads and telemetry while connected to WiFi. Keep WiFi off if not actively transferring books, as it wastes battery.

Sideload all your own books via whispernet free WiFi transfer or just plain USB.

Get free books from Gutenberg/Libgen/IRC/Usenet.

This is very workable and results in being able to read almost whatever you want for $0/year.

PointCrow can be pretty funny, so I'm sure he purposely made it as cringe as possible for engagement purposes. It's very on brand for his content.

Pixel 7 with GrapheneOS is looking like a good long term choice right now.

Most of the US gov shit is developed by contractors and administered by a combo of civilian government employees and contractors. So effectively they were already using all the industry buzzword practices and methods on any given project.

Agile is just a fancy way of saying "we don't plan things very well".

Question for Democrats-

Based on current polling there is a better than 50% chance that Donald Trump is the next president.

Why the monumental lack of foresight? Why create and expand massive federal apparatus that will likely be used and abused by your opposition, in ways you didn't intend?

Politics is the realm of unintended consequences.

Animal Well is the project that is associated with videogamedunkey. I will give it a shot for that reason.

I'm less worried about this scenario: "We are investigating one specific person whom we have probable cause to believe committed a specific crime. Oh look, he has a Gmail account. Let's subpoena his video searches with a valid warrant."

I'm extremely troubled by this scenario: "We don't like people who search for videos on guns/surfing/cats/whatever. Let's subpoena a list of those people and start investigating them on no other basis."

Allow me to point to the cognitive dissonance that should be occurring among the Gaza ceasefire types -

Examine your logic of "Government X is bad, therefore it's good when bad things happen to its civilians."

I'd suggest this way of thinking is flawed in both situations.