I’m more than happy to buy a TV that uses post-purchase monetization, because I am never going to connect that fucker to the internet. It’s a display. I shall use it as a display. I do not care that it can replace my streaming box. I fully control my streaming box, and I will use that.

If I catch it doing any sketchy shit like trying to use unsecured/Comcast/etc WiFi to phone home, it’ll be time to pull out the screwdriver, though.

You know that “French Bulldog” is a breed of dog, and that dog breed has absolutely zero impact on where the dog owner lives, right?

Neat 📸

But seriously, US Cellular, why in the ever loving fuck should we, the public, or any court, give even the tiniest of shits? Maybe that’s just capitalism capitalism-ing. Maybe this is by design. Maybe this is good and proper. Maybe your business wasn’t good enough to survive.

:.|:;

Have you looked into health regulations and quarantine considerations? I think that may be a factor with pets, regardless of whether or both they’re technically certified as a service dog in the US. At any rate, I would categorically NOT assume that it’ll be smooth sailing when it comes to customs and immigration. That, in fact, might be part of what that expensive transport service is offering.

TL;DR: definitely look into the health/immigration/vaccination/quarantine considerations, because you might be in for an unpleasant surprise if you haven’t specifically prepared for it, as the EU is rather more bureaucratic about these things.

Jesus christ. Accelerationist technocrats are so fucking stupid, it hurts.

Debian is honestly pretty trivial to set up these days.

If you’re open to trying Fedora, I’ve been running F40KDE and Kinoite on two of my main personal laptops and I love them

Kubuntu is just an Ubuntu spin, so I’m gonna say yeah, probably. If you really like Deb flavored distros these days, just go with the OG.

I love how they quoted “famous”

What a fuckin tool, for real

Fair point.

Counterpoint: why should I be compelled to give Canonical literally anything besides using the package manager to say “I’m using your software and I want the update”? Why do we need this additional new corporate-authorized side channel? What benefit does this yield, outside the realm of profit?

If forgetting/not wanting to update puts you in this hole, like… ever, you should really give an atomic distro some serious consideration.

Duct tape and baling wire, perhaps?

In the system update dialog, you’ll see something like:

You’re not getting 53 critical security updates! Join Ubuntu Pro to keep yourself safe!

Ubuntu Pro is a subscription service.

This is seriously at the level of Norton “AntiVirus”, and it’s truly absurd and nakedly predatory.

Ubuntu is actually falling down the ad hole lately. It’s not great, even if you leave out the technical issues that the distribution leans into these day (snaps, amongst other things)

Same, but I like the small ones personally

What is it, would you say… that… you do here?

lol wait, really? Did enough people push back on the tongue-in-cheek commentary of the devs on what easy mode says about your playstyle that they’re not going to do it again? Laaaaaaame.

Good post. Just turned it off. I appreciate the heads up.

I anticipate the used value for those gens is going to drop quicker than a Mercedes CL65AMG

God I hope they crash and burn