Just don't post to centralised sites like Youtube and you're done. Use something like Peertube which uses P2P to distribute material, if it becomes popular your viewers will take part in distributing it so you can run a popular channel off a reasonably fast residential or VPS connection. No, you won't make money through YT ads but if your material is controversial enough to be hit by the censor it would be demonitised anyway.
> Just upgraded my Ubuntu, too
I updated a bunch of Debian installs - both virtual as well as bare metal - not that long ago. The updates took a few minutes for the download (around a gigabyte, that is for the OS and the installed application software) and maybe 10-15 minutes for the actual upgrade, depending on the platform and the number of installed packages. After that, things... just worked. Strange, this, how those ballyhooed commercial it-just-works Rube Goldberg devices need tens of gigabytes and multiple update attempts to get a basic operating system update which removes features and increases the vendor's stranglehold while you can just install something like Debian and have something which works for far less money in far less time with far fewer hassles and far more freedom. Oh well, to each his own I guess, I'll just continue doing what I've been doing since '93, having seen the Windows world go from Windows 3.x through 95, 98, ME, NT 3.1, NT 3.5, NT4.x, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8 and now 10 and the Apple world from Mac OS 7.x through 8.x, 9.x, X.lots-of-animals, X.lots-of-places, not to mention 3 and soon 4 CPU architectures - not that those had that much of an impact by the way.
Meanwhile I can still use scripts I wrote back in the day. Running binaries from that time is a no-go unless I install one of those older distributions in a VM. Still, time spent learning "Linux" was and is time well spent compared to time spent learning one of those commercial systems. Linux just... keeps better. Lasts longer. Linux is like a cockroach, when all apples have rotten and all windows been smashed there will be some Linux overlooking the rubble of those once mighty empires.
So, have fun, all you apple pickers, you windows cleaners, and know there is always a way out when the apples get too sour, the windows too opaque.
Most people living in high-crime areas do not agree with you, they'd rather see more than less police. While I do not know where you live the chance of you living in one of the "ghettoes" is rather slim, given the fact that this site is primarily targeting tech folks.
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That someone clearly did not understand it, or felt accused of something, or felt guilt.
If only there were a truly neutral, non-partisan instance which could take a fine-toothed comb over all those disputed states and do a recount out in the open - with observers from both parties, able to actually observe what is going on, without boarding up the windows so people can not see in, without sending home observers from one party while the people from the other party applaud, without 100K votes suddenly appearing on the count while there was not supposed to be any counting, without any of those things which make Trump's claims on foul play believable.
If only.
He'll be too old to run by that time, just like Biden is too old now. Ivanka might run, who knows, but I wonder whether she'll be able to get as much support as her father did. It also depends very much on how the coming 4 years will go. If Harris tries to go soft on Iran, hard on Israel, endorses more globalisation, opens the borders, give in to China... the "democrats" will be a goner just like the republicans are. This might actually be a good thing, one of the main reasons why I - as an outsider without any dogs in the fight, seeing as how I'm a Dutchman living in Sweden - wanted Trump to win is because I suspect 4 more years of Trump would do away with the solidified remains of the old party structures and people - Pelosi, I'm looking at you. Now that the "democrats" (which I place between quotes since the party is anything but democratic with the DNC forcing its candidates on the voters) seem to "win" (also between quotes because of suspicions of fraud (see Project Veritas for an example of fraudulent behaviour caught on video and even boasted about by the operatives) as well as the hair-thin margins, fraud or not) it will take even longer for that party to collapse so that something new can arise from its ashes.
Mentioning "polling" and anything related to science or accuracy is not advisable right now given the disastrous failure of just about all the polls - again. They got it wrong in 2016, they got it wrong in 2020. They get it wrong here in Sweden as well, this is not a problem which is limited to the USA. The more polarised a country or community gets, the less value polls have since people will not want to give an answer which goes against the dominant narrative for fear of repercussions. Those polls are garbage, plain and simple.
Until a real alternative appears - Wayland does not cut it - Xorg is where it's at for me, in combination with X2go (which is based on nx) for a working remote service. Even though X carries around a big load of cruft I can just ignore that load and use the parts I need.
A real alternative for Xorg has to offer at least the same advantages - including network transparency which I use every day - and has to offer a complete backward compatibility layer for the foreseeable future given the plethora of existing X11-based software.
Come on, man... what would you expect from a 'CEO' of a company with a 'cool' name ending with
Here's an easy way to remember:
If the domain ends in
just hit 'block', don't even try
Should the domain end in
just block it, you don't need it, see,
Things just work the way they're meant to do
when
> Customers who purchase the core unit, charger, and the battery will unlock the ability to make calls, send SMS, and connect to mobile data networks all while completely untethered to a power outlet! The future is now!
No they won't unless they buy the official antenna (sold separately) for the chosen band. They can either get the single-band antenna or opt for the ProTenna which offers multiple phone bands (licence fee applies, limited time offer for 2 or more bands for a reduced price, check for deals with your carrier). The Platinum ProTenna includes WiFi-support to enable you to connect to your own WiFi network (restrictions apply, Apple certified base stations only, licence fee applies).
Get a better phone, I've been charging mine close to weekly (usually every 5 days) for ages now. First with a Motorola Defy, now with a Xiaomi Redmi Note 5. The key to doing this is to dump everything off the phone you don't need, starting with Google and GSF. No Google account, no Facebook, no Shitter, no nothing. FDroid for apps, Aurora Store for those which live on the Play store, etc. Maybe you won't get to 5 days but you should be able to get 3 easily, 4 without too many problems.
Well, the way things are going in Australia it might not be the best example for your attempted pun. Arresting pregnant women for the heinous crime of planning a protest on the 'net and accosting people on lonely beaches because they're not wearing masks are not things I would have associated with Australia a few years ago.
In a few years there will be a new word added to the vocabulary: the AI witness account. Just like an eye witness it will deliver an interpretation of something it has observed, just like eye witnesses it is not all that reliable. The AI witness circumvents laws on the storage of surveillance data by interpreting it before the data is "destroyed" (i.e. put in cold storage to be used later in case needed, should the cold storage be discovered it will turn out to be "that bad contractor who had been ordered to destroy the drives but obviously has not done so").
Do I sound cynical and suspicious? Sure I do. Do I trust any official statement on the non-retention of data? Sure I don't. Neither should you, no should anyone.
> I don't understand why - tourists will continue to visit (not climb) and photograph Uluru and surroundings.
Woke posturing, collecting points for the afterlife. That is why.
I don't think a single person is in control of the DNC. More a group of people who each pull their strings, mostly to the left but not all in the same direction.
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