GreenShimada

joined 8 months ago
[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Libertarians hate Ubuntu?

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Really, though - it would be amazing if someone made a MAGA-themed distro just to tell people it's the "Trump47Freedom Linux, free from liberal wokeness!" and then just collected massive telemetry and had a bunch of backdoors so you can just scam them all for...

Uh.....quick, tell me how does one make a Linux distro?

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

This is the way.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Earlier today I saw a farmer driving a station wagon full of sunflowers to the market. This was basically in my rearview mirror, except the old guy's nose was red.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

I thought they started shadow banning anyone talking about Lemmy at one point?

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I did my part!

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It was the "War Department" from 1789 to 1947.

And also the Department of the Navy was its own thing for a while, as was the Department of the Army, then Air Force, before getting folded into the War Department. Harry Truman dissolved the War Department in 1947 because 1) WWII was over and so the US was not in a declared war anymore, and 2) there was a larger consolidation of war powers under the SecDef post-war.

If anything, name it the Department of Violence and Death and see how people react.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There's a reason why after WWII the Department of War was renamed Department of Defense.

We weren't at war. We're not currently at war, either. Chester's gotta ask Congress to rubber-stamp a war first.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago

I think we should be able to have a national class action against DOGE. 100% serious, all US citizens for sure, and anyone else with data in the Social Security database, should sue the individuals responsible for this.

Then we take the money and start a company that contracts out to the government to create a national digital ID system that is the most secure in the world, and allows for amazing anonymity.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

Pray for lawsuits.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

It's like Gemini is Clippy if he transcended is original form.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

This is the point, isn't it?

Lock down their own ecosystem because they're jealous of how Apple does it, so they can herd all users into their walled garden. Then close the gates behind them. There's no easy way out, you can't just wander back and forth anymore. You have to scale a wall in the dead of night and shed a tear as you look back and see everyone else having a lovely life, then set off into the dark forest of privacy on your own.

People hate friction in the first place. This is as much friction as they can realistically make on their own without triggering anti-trust cases and EU fines.

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