He’s saying they don’t call it a “magic packet” for nothing.

Meanwhile every Windows 10 install I’ve ever had fails to go to sleep 90% of the time, and none of the powercfg commands reveal why.

Don’t they already do this in most of Europe?

Just do what we do in Canada. Send them threatening letters. It scares 90% of parents into telling their kids to knock that shit off, but they’re toothless and can’t actually do anything, and the remaining 10% still pirate away. Everyone’s happy.

uBlock Origin->gear icon (settings)->My Filters->add this line:

||googlevideo.com/videoplayback$xhr,3p,method=get,domain=www.youtube.com

I’m convinced the whole “your computer will instantly turn into a botnet that cripples children’s hospitals the moment you disable Windows Update” thing is part of Microsoft’s internet propaganda.

Like there are sysadmins for pretty big industries that schedule updates, sometimes once a month or even less frequently. Why aren’t they worried about all the 0-day remote code execution exploits that supposedly exist every single day?

Why doesn’t China, North Korea’s biggest trading partner, pressure them to be less authoritarian?

They’re definitely among the worst.

frequently stopping young people on the streets to inspect their phones and review text messages for banned language

I’m really tired of people saying “both sides are the same” when it comes to western capitalist exploitation vs eastern totalitarian authoritarianism.

It’s ironically so privileged to even make the comparison because if it were the same, you wouldn’t have been allowed to make this comment.

BBC is a pretty reputable source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNC-Lavalin_affair

In Canada we were told that putting execs in jail would “hurt jobs” and we had to pass a law that said they just get a fine instead.

The execs in question were caught selling hookers to Qaddafi’s son.

Is it just a mirrored/inverted display facing upwards under the windscreen glass?

I used to do that with my old smartphone. It had a “HUD mode” where the whole screen became mirrored, then you just slide the phone to the end of your dash, and boom you’ve got a google maps HUD.

The “english” setting does nothing.

Sweet I’m already using PostgreSQL because it’s the only thing Blynk supported!

Because there’s fewer foreign bots trying to make you hate everyone in your country, and fewer social media engagement bots trying to make sure you stay online arguing with someone.

Linux isn’t hard anymore because I have ChatGPT to come up with all the command lines for me. And they work 60% of the time!

Wow there are way fewer “so what it’s the same as your smartphone” and “everyone does it, google, apple, it’s no big deal” comments on Lemmy.