Quick sidebar, I’m just some random dude reading this thread but thanks for introducing me to Dadvocate. She rules, she’s now my “Pedro Pascal,” goals if you will, gives me hope lmao.

SO CAN WE NOW ADMIT SELLING DATA IS BAD?

Not me!

It was me before I switched. When I made the plunge I took the effort to learn the basics, and within a week I was pretty comfortable (but still needed a cheat sheet for stuff like ffmpeg).

Ehhhh no.

I can get behind “ban spying on me.”

I can even get behind “ban social media, especially the kind that makes you sell yourself, though pseudononymous link aggregators are less the issue.”

But “no more torrenting at work, no more reading digitally while pooping, no more encrypted chats, now have to carry a book, a camera, an mp3 player, my GBC, and a dumb phone, just to make up for the phone?”

No.

If they added yandex they can be GAYFAM.

+666 upvotes

Can’t upvote this now.

They’re basically just poo-pooing the ideas of privacy and security, no more than “the government and corporations need access to everything you do because someone somewhere is doing bad things.”

It’s the same idea as “encryption bad because terrorists,” and “gun company bad because murders,” some people blame the people doing the bad thing, and some people blame the tool used or who created it.

If you’re looking to have an argument about regulations, I believe you’ll find I’m a poor choice. I support more relaxed regulations on the guns themselves than you likely do, much less regulating things that can be used to make guns. Suppressors should be seen as safety equipment rather than locked behind an antiquated tax, SBR/SBS should be removed from that same tax system not because of safety but simply because the NFA was bad and pointless from the start, people between the age of 18 and 21 still deserve their rights (OR we need to raise the age of legal adulthood to 21, including military service and trying people as an adult, but the mix-matched mess is nonsense), there’s more but that’s enough controversial opinions on regulation to make my point:

Tl;dr I don’t support regulation of much, including any of that stuff you said. Fact still remains that printing a chairmanwon g19 is very, very possible. I won’t even bring up how much easier it is than learning how to use a lathe nor how much cheaper it is to buy an ender3 than a CNC mill.

Depends. He used a printed glock, not an FGC2.0. The FGC uses parts like you describe but printed glocks just take glock parts.

That said, it’s still fairly trivial to acquire those glock parts anonymously.

Ngl I was hoping for The Glong lmao, close though!

Yeah, cute things like an unregistered glock 19 lower printed at a 45 degree angle out of pla+ you can attach to a trigger and rails via pins, rails that themselves connect to a glock 19 upper?

Hmmm…

Tbftbf, that’s not the correct way to do anything, you should always research before big purchases (like a laptop) or big changes (like an OS), even completely divorced from computing (like buying an anything).

We need to bring back the concept of the “informed decision.”

Can I hazard a guess?

Did you complain that linux needs to ditch the CLI to become more usable, to which people responded “actually I like the CLI and it’s necessary to keep for these 14 reasons even if you never had to use it due to gui, and help will always be offered through the CLI commands because it’s easier to offer a simple one liner that fixes the issue instead of walking you through 15 screenshots of some arcane GUI program they may never even have used?”

Gotta be honest, people can be dicks for sure, but usually when I see it, it’s because instead of learning the operating system that exists they demand the entire FOSS community bend to their specific need instead of them learning anything. It’s the digital version of moving to CA from Texas because of their shitty laws and then trying to make CA’s laws match the ones you’re used to, that you just left, because they sucked. Sometimes the answer is to learn the new thing instead of reshape it into the old, and that’s ok! Frankly when I switched I saw it as an exciting learning opportunity (even if it was kinda frustrating sometimes, so was biology class and that was fun too!)

I may be wrong about it in this case, but I would def be interested in what was said preceding them being dicks to you (which I totally believe they were dicks, I’m just curious if it was completely unwarranted, or if it was in response to the usual unreasonable demand.)

You’re not you when you’re Hungary, have a Snickers.

Well tbf, they did keep moving them on me and hiding them from me.

Wouldn’t be surprised if they moved them again…behind an AI wall that can interact with them but you can’t without using that AI. Also they’ll continue to reset them whenever they feel like it, if they even successfully get changed by the AI, if the AI doesn’t say “I can’t let you do that Dave” when you try and disable telemetry.

And qubes/whonix.

Huh, TIL, at one point it probably was.

But at one point people liked Kanye West, too, and then shit happened. Times have changed lol.

Tbf, sometimes I’m right there with em, I’m not above drunk ordering some dominos, or on the rare occasion I go to a mall I may hit the Sbarro (but the fake Chinese food wins every time, let’s be real), but it’s literally the same thing just more fresh and made to better specs! It’s not even “real tacos V taco bell,” it’s such a close approximation of the “real” thing but lacking soul, whereas taco bell is so far from real tacos that it’d be more understandable to prefer the fake version. Like even Olive Garden V real italian I get, because it’s americanized enough, but Sbarro is not far enough removed from real pizza as to necessitate this phenomenon.

I could understand getting Sbarro in Chicago, for those averse to deep dish, because it’s a whole different style. I could understand some Chicago chain in NYC, for those who want deep dish. I could even understand Jets “detroit” style, because that’s different too, but Sbarro in NYC is literally just “worse and more expensive version of the same thing you could have got in 20 different shops on your way here.”

But fake NY pizza in NY? Just go to literally any local. It’s not like a Sbarro in Kandahar, that I’d get, but this still makes no sense.

There’s a fucking Sbarro in NYC? Why?