I don’t understand what you’re arguing. You’re saying it is lower than 90%? How much lower are you thinking? What specifically is the percentage number in your mind where linux becomes “more viable”? And does it not matter whether it is just a bigger number than before?

Showing my age here, but my similar story was in #warezart on ethernet (IRC). We had a pretty tight group of regulars. I spent nearly every day there for over 5 years starting in 1995.

It was unusual then that we were from all over. We had a mod in New Zealand, some euros, a bunch of americans from all over and a handful of canadians. But hanging out like we were in each other’s living rooms.

A bunch of us actually met up in person at the Siggraph trade show once and even made matching tshirts. lol.

except for that one guy and his son

Or be even more productive and go…

“STAND UP AND GET OFF THE FUCKIN RAIL AND GO LIVE YOUR LIFE!!!”

or the carrier fuck me over?

If you’re going to get that kind of phone then you gotta pay for it outright and buy the service separately. Most all the good ones are of the prepaid model. Just buy a month at a time starting with the cheapest option and if it doesn’t work well enough to your liking, try another. So I guess my point is that the above isn’t really a serious concern. At any rate, it is completely separate from the phone.

Frankly… I find that meme to be pretty tame. And funny how the article says it is like “Nazi propaganda”. I feel like they’re not giving our great American anti-Nazi propaganda enough respect. Like the WW2 era Bugs Bunny cartoons with super ugly neanderthal looking German soldiers and a squeaky voiced hyperventilating little Hitler with a Napoleon complex.

Maybe the Dutch are a nicer people and have higher standards.

I think it is more of a last 15 years kinda thing. It was obvious this would happen when Europe and the United Nations started funneling all the refugees into Europe and they weren’t really making an effort to culturally assimilate them. It always looked like they were being used like the jews were prior to ww2.

For sure. I recall installing an open source mahjong from the android google store when I bought my first ever android device about a decade ago. Instantly took over my tablet and kept throwing ads at me. And it got into the root and wouldn’t go away when doing a reinstall. Fortunately it was a super cheap tablet that I only got to toy around with. But I have had no interest in ever getting another android device since then.

Yep. People have a bad habit of sticking to their habits beyond the point of usefulness. Myself included.

lol… I get that ;]

I’d probably stick with it as well. My current view is that VPN mostly just provides a cover for general piracy. If “they” wanted to devote the effort they could figure out who I was. But I am sure a lot of vpns serve as honey pots and you wouldn’t want to blow your cover just for someone downloading a movie they never would have paid for anyway. They got the signature thing, but if I was doing something serious then that is going to be quite different than my general use signature and match every other user of Tails or whatever. The signature thing really sucks, but we do have control over what signatures we leave where and via vpns and tor those different “personas” don’t need to be connected by singular ip address.

Or at least that is my present opinion. If anyone here has a good argument against it, I’d like to hear it.

Yep. Learning anything new or even just changing habits takes effort, time and mostly a sense of responsibility for yourself. A lot of the non-mainstream things we do in pursuit of privacy really aren’t much more complicated than their mainstream counterparts.

Thanks for rubbing it in… and failing to mention what service you use.

It can, but it isn’t likely as specific as an ip is.

My view is that security/privacy is a sliding rule and that every little effort helps.

It isn’t just Mullvad. I’m sure it is also AirVPN and I presume that it includes all of the popular ones. I doubt port forwarding has anything to do with it.

It was worth skimming through it for me…

I think they would argue that it would be the perceived security that rust has. But I agree with your point and wonder if it will really deliver on those goals.

Didn’t know its been a whole decade.

After Greenland? ;]

Think they’re trying to put a wrench in the gears like Bolton did last time in Venezuela? I don’t buy the excuse that he is just stupid. The dude, and people like him, are neocons. They do and say things in order to fuck progress up and then pretend it wasn’t their fault and they are just stupid idiots saying things in public that anyone with half a brain would know better than to say.

Intended or not, keeping the US government over extended and wasting time and effort works to the advantage of their “globalist” agenda.

btw… I am referring to the mention of Cuba in case it wasn’t obvious.

I agree that much of the noise is intentionally created by Trump, but a lot of it is also neocons trying to act stupid.

Now that I think about it… Since when did Trump care about Venezuela or Cuba? Seems uncharacteristic that they’re going to straight to military and CIA methods for Venezuela, without any discussion at all. Not like the methods used with the Ukraine or Palestine issues… If this was just a ploy to keep those parts of the government distracted, then I’d believe that.

I look forward to having some clarity of hind sight in a couple years.

The history of Microsoft creating backdoors in windows predates XP. While Windows XP is most certainly not as evil as Win10, it certainly never meant “freedom”. Nor did 95, NT or even 3.1. Other than the backdoors, windows has always been closed source. Nothing free about it.

The fact that the youtube person assumed the opposite strongly affects her credibility. Windows backdoors have been a common topic since the 90’s.

I largely agree with stupid_asshole69’s comment, but I will add that just using a common commercial printer and using cash is still an option.