You say that like they ever do things the right way, even a fair chunk of the proposals I see for Linux take it out of the user’s hands.

I already nuked my hard drive and went to Debian when Microslop kept trying to force me to “update” my local account and turned their creepy AI stuff back on again and again no matter how many times I dug in with PowerShell to shut it off.

We’re going to be running a fork not licensed for use in the US or Europe soon enough, or bowing to surveillance and de-anonymization. Or maybe go back to legacy systems, like dumping systemd and wayland for init and x11, just to have things actually work for us again rather than embrace the ever-present creep of the “Framework of Fuckery” ™ that is being pushed by the corpo scum and their pet “Representatives.”

The rules have always been for us, not for them.

The police are enforcers for the elites, they don’t stop crime, they extract fines from people and provide a deterrent to anyone standing up for themselves.

A lot of places are making incomplete web versions, or outright cutting access outside of the app, they all want that sweet sweet spyware in your pocket.

Except it’s more ZuckID, since Meta was behind the “grassroots” campaigns and wrote the script “representatives” are using globally.

Maybe get some Decks back in, first…

True, when they had humans working for them it wasn’t so bad, there was variance in how they responded to the company position and they could think rather than follow a checklist.

The models were made to be run locally on your own data, let the corpos in and they’ll find a way to destroy the world, screw the people, and add eshitification to literally everything.

Tuta is much better than proton, but I’m finding Germany to be more than a bit sus lately, too.

I need to find a provider in Iceland or something, where there’s still a bit of respect for actual people.

Sadly the Sailfish phones tend to be very outdated on their Android compatibility, and with the new Verified Device API from Google even Graphene is having issues and the only two Play Store apps I still used have quit working on Lineage.

They have already had people on them for not stopping scam ads, they get paid by their customers so they don;t care how many of their products are harmed.

And yet the pipeline works because it’s an “inside” thing, the more people who see and recognize the dog whistles the less likely it is to spread with people remaining unaware that is is.

The thing is you could still load an AZW file on it…

But they stopped letting you load content over USB last year.

See, incest is what they hit on Steam, too.

I don’t get it, despite finding this to be pretty disgusting myself, with all the horrible things happening they focus on fantasy while pretending reality is not so much more vile.

The “indoctrination” is just another Satanic Panic, the dumbest things you have ever heard being repeated enough by “trusted” sources it becomes fact to them.

It’s Meta and Xitter now, though, not James Dobson on AM radio.

Sadly accurate, but it has been wilful ignorance, now it is enforced by what the machines think we want to see.

I think it is worse now, than before, it was a lot easier to pick up that “other” newspaper than it is to break out of your algorithm.

Would be nice, I think I might be able to flee there, having Iceland be the best bet isn’t so good with how expensive it is and how little opportunity is there.

I am a firm believer in “There is no better disinfectant than sunlight.”

I want to see the most vile aspects of people, I want it to be on full display so we know who they are, and we can counter them directly.

I think the algorithm has done a MASSIVE amount of damage by cordoning things off and creating little pockets of filth festering in darkness out of view until it overflows and spills out on us all.

Honestly, I prefer someone else’s untrustworthy.

I don’t trust China at all, but I trust them over the US, if only because they have no stake in me as a foreigner.

Watching all the new laws spew out in Europe I don’t trust them, either.

I’m down to Romania and Iceland, now.

Been dumping German stuff like a plague lately, and already pulled all data out of Canada.

I have one thing in Amsterdam, but their laws have been getting worse and worse, and they’re… Nine, I think it is, eyes which is bad for trusting them with your data. Even Switzerland is getting sus af.

I don’t think they believe him so much as they believe the propaganda about any competition to him.

It’s been “Elect this shitty person because they are not that shittier person!” on both sides my whole life, and without ranked choice voting being national people will always pick the one their echo chamber calls a savior from the “other” they’ve been filled with fear over ignoring any decent option.