I give up. This year ain’t Linux for me. There are too many problems, such as AppImages not consistently launching and not telling me why. I decided to RUFUS up a Windows 11, and will be using ShutUp10 to fix up privacy concerns.

It sucks, but the frustrations with ZorinOS piled up. Hopefully Linux will be good enough for a power-casual in three or four years, but for now, it isn’t fitting what I want nor need.

When installing Snap apps, how the heck do I find the working directory? I got DevilutionX installed, but can’t figure out where my .mpq files are supposed to go.

This has been my biggest pain point in this latest attempt to escape Microsoft’s grasp. The GUI just doesn’t tell me where things end up, and search with Dolphin hasn’t helped. 🫤

At this point, selecting random people off the street would result in a healthier democracy. Politicians have room to be dumb and evil, because they inherited money and social connections. A rando would have to be actually skilled if they want to obtain such things.

Hold on to your britches, the economy is going down like a rollercoaster. After the SpaceX and other AI company IPOs, odds are that a bubble much larger than the Dotcom iteration will explode.

I could do with less interesting times.

Britain should just follow Doggerland’s example. Aside from spotted dick, nothing of value would be lost.

/s.

Wish I could talk bullshit and be paid for it…

Yup. Went there to get some new glasses a couple days back, had to figure out my smartphone’s camera feature on the spot. An old lady also had to be taught by someone how to do the QR thing.

I don’t like it. The haves and have nots of the world will be determined by smartphone status.

At Costco, you can’t get in line at the optical center. unless you use a phone camera to shoot the QR camera. I hate that: for most of my life, I was phoneless, and now I am obligated to pay for a service and device that I don’t care for.

Hopefully, I will someday be able to buy a Linux smartphone that is truly controlled by me.

If you are on iPhone, you can use Kagi’s Orion - it is based on Webkit, which is what Safari uses. I have uBlock Origin installed on that browser.

“Dronizard, use your kamikaze attack!” - Team Epstein member, Kegsbreath.

Considering the FIFA peace prize, I suspect that Omar is lucky to not attend the shit show. If I wanted to look like an evil overlord, this is the kind of imagery I would use.

Chinese emperors often consumed mercury in pursuit of eternity. Zuck and friends want to print themselves onto silicon. Coincidence?

Kinda reminds me of a course that I took from Google, regarding IT. To earn my certification, I had to complete assorted challenges…but the assignments had broken links, or not compatible with my browser (Firefox). Sure, I am supposedly certified, but I was doing weird workarounds to earn it, which sometimes allowed me to skip parts of the online testing.

It is stupid, and I refuse to believe that I am actually qualified to be “Google IT Support”.

I think a way forward is to make the government handle the hiring process. The companies put a fee into escrow, which is paid to the government if no hires are completed or retained.

The government interviews potential hires, anonymizes and DEIs, retains resumes and information from job seekers, creates the infrastructure for reviews to be left by people for a company’s work conditions, and so forth. If a pattern of false jobs emerges, the government can prevent the company from issuing further offers for 3 or 4 months, with a heightened penalty for the escrow thereafter. If people are consistently hired and retained, the escrow penalty is reduced.

Corporations shouldn’t be responsible for hiring, because they are strongly incentivized to do bullshit.

Feudalism v3.0, the fences to keep humans as livestock are going up. Can’t leave town without corporate’s permission.

Hopefully, Mexico will actually achieve the American Dream, rather than being dragged into a nightmare by their capitalists.

Proton has started advertising on leftist channels within the last month or two, which doesn’t make Proton leftist. IMO, what it really means is that there is greater distrust between political views - we got rightwing crazies wanting to ICE people, and so naturally their minority opposition wants more privacy. In turn, the crazies also need to cover their own ass, so they use VPNs to hide their search results of [insert local school, minority, or individual here] from potential leaking to government.

Point being, such fear and hatred is a good opportunity for arms to be supplied to every side. Those arms, in this case, being encrypted privacy. Proton is being pragmatic.

Israel is an enemy, and many congress critters are in bed with them. Be they red or blue, those people are traitors.