I have an very long blacklist of companies for this reason.

The problem with standing up for your privacy is that it massively diminishes the resources available to you. I’m down to shopping at Costco as a single adult, because I had to say fuck you to Target recently, and my local grocery store was busy doing anti-union bullshit at the same time. So I’m driving further and probably paying more in the long run.

But they aren’t principles if you don’t have to give something up to stick by them.

Why the hell do you have a Hot Topic gift card?

🥲 Memmmmmmmmmories…

Correlation does not equal causation.

You have to be a little off to WANT to interact with ChatGPT that much in the first place.

Can I just be the first in this thread to say, “LOL”.

You pretty much hit the nail on the head. These people have no identity or ability to think for themselves because they never needed either one. The church will do all your thinking for you, and anything it doesn’t cover will be handled by Fox News. Be like everyone else and fit in, otherwise… you have to start thinking for yourself. THE HORROR.

Yes, that’s why I said it wasn’t perfect. But it’s an improvement. I didn’t notice it was only for Mexico City, so thanks for catching that!

This is no surprise to me. I recently retired after 30 years of dealing with Microsoft’s bullshit. The last 2 years or so since they started focusing on Copilot and only Copilot, I’ve seen the quality of every other aspect of their company, from software releases to account management to tech support quality and response time to documentation, just fall off a fucking cliff. They were never great but it’s gotten REALLY bad lately. And I was working for a fortune 50 that spends many tens of millions of dollars with Microsoft every year. It’s been amazing to watch.

Why do people do this shit to themselves?

I swear if the Borg came down some people would be lining up to join the club.

And the block list grows.

I wonder what the psychology of posting about being downvoted is. I’m a pretty opinionated dude and get downvoted from time to time, but I just move on with my life instead of turning it into a big production or even acknowledging it, really. Not everyone’s gonna like everything you write, and it’s not like you’re going for some high score to get into social media paradise or something. Think about where you’re spending your energy man. This ain’t a good use of anyone’s time.

Dump a bowl of Lucky Charms marshmallows in there and baby, you got a stew going!

Thanks for the tip, I’ll check it out. Most of my AHK scripts are simple, not really macros, just adding toggles to keys or remapping stuff, like putting mouse buttons on a keyboard key, or remapping WASD to ESDF for games that don’t support key remapping. I messed around with some key remappers for Linux about 9 months ago but I couldn’t find anything that worked well in the game I was playing (Dyson Sphere Project). That’s almost certainly due to my ignorance. I really need to learn python.

Thanks, Debbie.

Can confirm, I’m just hitting my first year of using Tumbleweed as my main OS after giving up on Microsoft. It plays almost everything without issue. The very few things I boot into Windows for are games that I want to use Autohotkey with, old games that don’t work well with Proton, or VR.

When you switch and realize how much better it is than Windows, and you can rest easy knowing your own OS isn’t spying on you or stealing your data, it tends to make you a little bit of an evangelist.

Installing the popular Linux distros today is easier than Windows XP was, and it’s arguably easier than Windows 11. It definitely asks you less questions and doesn’t require you to change 30 different settings from the defaults.

Linux has come a long way from my first install of CentOS on a server in the mid 00’s. You had to be pretty dedicated to run linux successfully back then, but these days it’s cake.

I played this on an Amstrad PCW in the mid 80’s, in glorious green screen. Fun little puzzle game, and IIRC it will work your noggin in the later levels.

You can dial back security and privacy in LibreWolf until it matches stock Firefox if you want. Still worth switching since LibreWolf dispenses with all of Mozilla’s telemetry.

Wendy’s puts your order in a cake now?

These gimmicks are getting to be a bit much.

Let’s add Pauly Shore and call it Weezing The Beetlejuice.