It’s true. There’s a whole chunk of mainstream users that won’t think twice about it. I don’t blame them though. Most people aren’t educated on the negatives and our government and tech oligarchs aren’t about to teach them. I work in tech and am terminally online, so I’m acutely aware of this stuff.

YouTube is the only one left for me as well and I’ve been considering Nebula myself. One thing I do try to avoid though is all of the rage bait stuff. I actively filter it out and focus only on videos that teach me things. So a lot of science, food, carpentry, and other crafty kind of channels and videos. Oh, and a lot of animal ones.

Every single one of those websites is not crucial to existence even remotely. Let’s all collectively show them they don’t matter anymore.

I don’t even want to visit the US and I live here.

Maybe I oversold it but I definitely noticed a difference in both performance and battery life. Windows has no profile for handheld devices and assumes they’re a laptop. With SteamOS it seems to have better battery management, with the added bonus of not being spyware vibe-coded garbage. My wife encountered a handful of “yep that’s Windows for you” type issues and now those are reduced to zero.

I recently dumped W11 off my wife’s ROG Ally handheld and replaced it with SteamOS. It’s a day and night difference in performance. ASUS is absolutely fucking themselves by shipping it with this vibe-coded trash OS. W11 is total dog shit. The only good thing it does is drive a lot of people into the arms of Linux.

Texas is really striving to make itself as unappealing as humanly possible. The cameras will magically have a feature that ignores any crime by Ken Paxton.

There is so much far better content out there to absorb other than Harry Potter. I can go without and be perfectly fine. I think we already have some of the books and DVDs from ages ago. So if my wife or I suddenly have the desire to revisit, we’re not consuming anything HBO or anyone else can even remotely trace.

This could be shortened to

US being left behind

This country doesn’t give a shit about doing anything good or right.

It’s not a bad plan at all and I touch more grass with every new thing that enshittifies.

Anyone have recommended alternatives?

And Axon already has a long history of supplying cameras to police, so this is going to lead to an even worse enemy holding the mass surveillance reigns.

One of the things I recently said to friends was:

At the end of all of this, every corporation is going to become either a surveillance company, or a military tech one.

I hate that this keeps turning out to be accurate.

I see Denuvo in a game, I don’t buy or even pirate said game.

You can still debloat it and put it on its own vlan. Gotta make sacrifices sometimes.

This feels like when you’re telling a story or a joke and someone swoops in from the sidelines to steal the punchline. Only like 100x worse.

I don’t know much about this user but saw the other comment and now yours. Gonna go out on a limb and say this guy isn’t an upstanding citizen lol.

1. Why the FUCK are they arbitrarily handing their mailing list away without consent?
2. Hunter Biden lol jfc
3. Fuck crypto

That’s wild. I guess I need to do a review of my setup…

Hey, good catch. I didn’t think of that.