I’ve already said this somewhere else, but I also want to avoid American products, as an American. Corporate America is responsible for basically all this bs imo

I care because it’s dumb and petty, and I refuse to let dumb petty things get an easy pass.

China isn’t going to come get me because Trump and his cronies don’t like my lifestyle

The way to go about this is to just download Linux Mint and begin using it. No additional overthinking is necessary. You’ll be able to get Steam working pretty easy, if that’s your thing. Internet bowsers and a word processor are already installed and working out of the box.

Would love to ditch Paramount + so I can watch high-res Stsr Trek on my Linux computer, but my skills pillaging on the high seas aren’t what they used to be v.v

Excited to see if he pardons Hezbollah

Does it feel good knowing that you and millions of others abstained, and we ended up with Trump as a result? Good job.

Absolutely disgusting

Just here trying to create an emotional and practical safe zone for myself, family, and my friends, and fuck the rest of 'em

Didn’t verify, but someone said it was only reversed in like one out of the five proposed states. Figures

The people that have been put in charge have literally said that things are going to get worse and more expensive. Why not believe them?

No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

It’s more the fan in the compressor/condenser in the back, hah. I just said vent because it was simpler for a title.

Wat

At some point, there was this shift where the technology was no longer being designed to benefit the user, but to benefit the creator. The problem is that the creators are now trillion-dollar multi-national organizations who also lobby against my wellbeing and safety in areas of rulemaking and regulation. So now I am fine foregoing the “technology” whenever I can.

Grow up

Yeah, I thought Google was so cool around 2004. Now I can’t wait for them to become irrelevant. I need to stop using “googling” as a verb…

Forgotten benefits of gasoline: you can fix it yourself and you’re not locked into a shiny new consumerist downward spiral that demands you buy a new vehicle every ten years when the car can’t go 200 miles in a single charge anymore? And the next guy who gets the battery powered vehicle is just worse off than you were, as the poorer along us suffer even worse condition vehicles and the risk of massive expenses in the way of new battery failure. Why is nobody concerned with the fact that batteries are going to lock us into excess and unavoidable consumerism as they degrade? Engines -might- fail, but batteries -will- fail.

List one battery powered device that isn’t basically disposable.

The other guy is being dumb. He’s trying to tell people what they do and don’t need, and that’s not going to work; especially when you are considering people who are stuck on ICE cars for the exact reasons you’re saying.

I love my ICE vehicle, but I’ve said many times that I’d consider a battery powered vehicle when I can get 500+ mile range. The last thing I’m going to do is allow myself be inconvenienced by something I don’t care about, and this is the story here. I’m passionate about my WRX, but I could never be passionate about a battery and electric motors. When I switch, it’ll only be because the benefit is incredible and undeniable. People will simply not convince me that a 300 mile range in optimal conditions is going to suit me, because things never play out like the paper specs say.

If YouTube were an independent company, I would be much happier to pay like I do for Spotify and even (borderline) Paramount Plus. I have no problem paying artists for their time, and I have spent thousands and thousands on commissions and merchandise from independent people and art businesses. Google already has enough money. I would rather save my money for small(er) companies who actually need it.

If people stopped supporting these ultra-consolidated megacorporations, we might have a healthier economy and better worker’s rights overall. But what do I know lol