My nickname in high school was “big chopstick”

What is this “soap water” you speak of? Is it a new magick spell?

Yeah, when Discord first became popular, the whole “server” terminology was massively confusing to me.

Nothing can be done. Change it!

And LineageOS. Might just be a part of AOSP now.

Which “once in a lifetime” market crash is your favorite so far?

What is this “reading comprehension” thing? Is that like when you copy and paste something into ChatGPT?

I can use dd after running “lsdvd” on CSS protected DVDs.

I have no idea why it works.

Copays and deductibles

Yes

Privacytools.io actively promotes VPN services that advertise heavilly on YouTube, and have no good track record, like NordVPN (which is at the top of their list of VPNs), which leads me to believe that they are paid by NordVPN to promote their service.

Mullvad (the most trustworthy VPN IMO in terms of track record) is at the bottom of their list.

At the top of their main website, they also have Incogni as a recommendation with what looks to be a referral link. They also have a referral link for Startmail, Internxt (whatever that is), and probably others as well.

On their front page: “Sponsors can be exempted from the criteria.”

Anyone trying to recommend privacy services who also accept sponsorships are not trustworthy.

Also, on their crypto page, they recommend both AgoraDesk and LocalMonero, both of which shut down last year, which leads me to believe that some of their information is also out of date.

When I look at PrivacyGuides, I see none of these issues, so I recommend PrivacyGuides over ptio. In fact, on their VPN page, not only do they recommend relatively trustworthy VPNs, but they also have a big red warning about VPN usage and what to expect in terms of privacy that ptio does not have.

Don’t feed the troll; it’s not worth it.

Always has been unless you count modding to remove this kind of shitty DRM.

Nintendo was the company to popularize DRM in home consoles with the US release of the NES. The Famicom had no DRM even though it was identical hardware otherwise (well, that, the RF modulator, and the PCB layout).

You can fix that with a mod that disables Nanite.

Marx and Engels were both rich.

microG is an open source, reverse engineered replacement for Google Play Services on Android. It still connects to Google servers, though.

GrapheneOS doesn’t use it because they came up with an effective Sandboxing solution, and microG requires spoofing the signature to make applications believe that the service was signed by Google, which introduces a potential attack vector.

No, but viral infections spread most effectively from human to human, and Native Americans (with some exceptions) did not form large cities.

Stuff like STDs probably existed, for instance, and those are viral infections for the most part, but STDs do not spread nearly as well as something like smallpox does.

The big difference here is that smallpox can be transmitted through airbourne droplets from coughing or sneezing, or through physical contact. I am not saying it was intentional by the Europeans (I couldn’t find much evidence for the smallpox blankets existing), but it was very effective in eradicating the Native American population.

I was specifically referring to the smallpox, actually. Native Americans did not have viral infections, so they did not know how to fight it. I believe the Azteks came up with antibiotics at this point already, as bacterial disease was common.

Also the Trail of Tears, but that was later.

Have you tried white/pink/brown noise?

Don’t forget the suffering and genocide of the Native American population as well.

But yeah. Black people basically invented American culture as a whole. Hell, other than electronic music, I can’t think of any music genre in the past 150 years that black people did not create.