anonamouse

well this one’s a bummer. here’s your upvote.

There are many of us that skip the local OS and go straight to our own source, but there are also many that use the local OS for apps or whatever. Those are the people I’m talking about. They’re the ones getting fucked.

If for some reason someone turns on the wifi on my LG tv (I have teenagers and their friends), I have the device itself blacklisted from the network.

But that’s not a reasonable level of granularity for a typical user. We need privacy protection laws to end this sort of behavior from manufacturers.

Projectors have the exact same problems. Their OSs are awful with ads, too.

Replaced the last Windows computer in the house with CachyOS this morning. Fuck off Microsoft.

Broke out the GameCube. SSX3 and Double Dash.

Eternal Darkness for Gamecube.

How old is he?

Just wanted to comment in support of the original answer. The person is exactly right.

If audiobooks ever become a thing for the kid, nothing beats Anonamouse.

My kid played it in 3rd or 4th grade and didn’t know the game had a “continue” after you lost all your lives. They would restart the whole thing every time. They were like three quarters through the game on one run when I realized and told them.

Every house has a legendary game. This one is ours.

I’m a long time Eclipse player and the commitment for a game like this always looked crazy, so I’m excited to play it this way.

When POE2 came out, I played it for a couple hours, hated it, and went back to Diablo 4. I saw it at PAX a week ago and thought I’d give it a try again since I quit D4 and was jonesing for that fix. It’s doing pretty well so far. I’m in Act 3.

When I was renting (most of my life), I would find an apartment that was close to my job. I hated commuting with a furious passion.

I know someone that works there. After a few glasses of wine they get real honest about how it’s an insane asylum in there.

You can also just add their list to ublock and it works great. No need to install from a Russian source.

Fire Emblem: Three Houses. My kid and I assigned video games to each other for the summer and that’s what I got assigned. They’re playing Persona 5 Golden.

Not a patient game anytime soon, but they loved the original Fantasy Life and we’ve been playing and loving the new one too.

i think your edginess is really cool

If one had a fetish for masochistic torture of nuance, then yea, you hit the nail on the head.

I think it’s important to remember that Biden was, perhaps more than any president in my lifetime (and I’m an old man), an institutionalist. He was a senator for just about forever, then the VP for 8 years. He was 78 years old when he became president. He is an old school liberal Catholic, a very nearly extinct person in the Catholic and Christian spheres.

I think he saw his presidency as a repudiation of right wing reactionary politics. His election, in his mind, was in large part a call to what he saw as the original intent and purpose of the executive branch. To put it plainly, he saw himself as elected because America rejected the politicization of government under Trump. Included under that umbrella of beliefs about the purpose of the executive was the unalienable requirement that the executive not direct the FBI to investigate the opposing political party. Remember, Joe Biden was a senator when Nixon resigned. He was there when Nixon was using the executive branch to attack Democrats.

Biden appointed Garland to the DOJ. Garland’s record was perfectly fine and appeared well suited to the role, but his biggest strengths (in Biden’s mind) was his nonpartisanship and his conservative view of government. By conservative I mean staying within the lines of what the DOJ should be doing, a cautious view of the use of DOJ power. Again, this was done in reaction to Trump and his… let’s call it “expansive” view of government power. In Biden’s mind, he was righting the ship.

And Garland was exactly as advertised, to a maddening degree. He was cautious to the point of being timid. He refused to throw the weight of the DOJ into investigations with political implications without reaching an imaginary bar of fairness that just isn’t realistic. You saw it in the Jan 6th investigations. You saw it in the Kushner deals (and all of the Trump family deals which are obviously dirty). You saw it in Garland’s unwillingness to take on wildly politicized federal prosecutor offices because doing so would be political interference (in his mind). You saw it when Robert Hur took unprofessionalism and partisanship to the absolute extreme when attacking Biden under the guise of a special counsel appointment and Garland did nothing because instiutionalism in his mind meant not interfering with the process.

And you saw it in the Epstein case.

Garland did everything by the book to an absurd degree that ended up paralyzing justice. Biden didn’t touch Garland or any of it because he believes doing so was itself an injustice, even if Garland was wrong to handle it the way he did. In Biden’s mind, the president should not have the power to demand the DOJ take action in a specific case like the Epstein case, especially if there’s political implications.