Google is trying to kill custom ROMs too. Also I thought the majority of modern phones aren’t bootloader unlockable.

How easy is it to convert an Android app to a Linux mobile app of you’re the developer? If it’s written in JVM languages it shouldn’t be that hard right?

Thank you!

You’re lucky. I normally would disagree with ignorance being bliss, but as someone who’s seen his stuff and probably gotten angry enough to kill my own brain cells, be glad.

No one has mentioned Gitea yet, is there a reason? Genuinely asking.

Fast food has been hit hard by the enshitification. More expensive and doesn’t even taste good anymore because they use even shittier ingredients than they used to. The only reason people still bother is typically lack of time to cook.

You can make most fast food items at home if you have the time. It will be cheaper and taste better.

Don’t forget the bison skull mountain in the US. They exterminated the bison population for no other reason than to starve the Indigenous peoples into submission.

“If your hunter gatherer lifestyle is so great why are you starving after we deliberately starved you?”

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Wouldn’t self hosting a VPN make you even more identifiable though? Now instead of an generic ISP IP address that changes every few months all your traffic is from a single static IP from a single cloud instance. Not to mention you’re now trading your ISP seeing everything to your VPS provider seeing everything (and not just the internet traffic, everything in your server including the keys used for the VPN transport). And if at any point the packets exiting your VPS ends up back on your own ISP’s network, they now know it’s you who generated them because no one else ever connects to that server. I feel like a public VPN service would have slightly more anonymity simply because you’re not the only source of traffic.

I mean, if you’re using Facebook as your VPN provider I don’t know what to tell you.

Don’t👏 call👏 your👏 vaccine👏 Sputnik👏 unless👏 I’m👏 getting👏 satellites👏 directly👏 into👏 my👏 blood👏 stream

Good thing no one gave a shit because no one asked for those.

This is only a problem if the datacenters are not powered by renewables. Nearly all renewables are the result of solar energy, AKA photons, AKA heat that is hitting the Earth regardless of what we do with it. Solar panels are obvious, but even for wind, it’s the result of the sun heating different regions of the atmosphere at different rates, converting thermal energy from the sun to kinetic energy in the air. A wind turbine converts some of this kinetic energy to electrical energy (which slows the air down ever so slightly), which is dissipated as heat mostly in the data center. The thing is, if the wind turbine didn’t exist, whatever kinetic energy that would have been captured would directly be dissipated as heat anyway in the form of friction in the air. Renewables only move solar heat around, and doesn’t generate heat of its own. Even with geothermal energy, where in theory you’re bringing heat that was trapped in the Earth to the surface, the geothermal sources we can practically take advantage of are already so close to the surface they would have been released through simple conduction anyway.

It is only when you burn fossil fuels that you’re actively generating heat that would otherwise have stayed as chemical energy. But even the heat from this not the actual concern, it’s the byproducts it generates that cause solar energy that would have been released into space to be trapped in the atmosphere. The heat generated isn’t even a rounding error compared to retaining even 1% more solar energy in the air. Same for nuclear where you’re reducing the overall binding energy inside atom cores and the reduction in energy is equal to the heat generated.

We all deserve to live in a dictatorship of the proletariat.

Why put them in the ocean when you can just put them on the coast and pipe ocean water through the heat exchanger? That way you can actually access the servers without a ship with a giant crane (powered by fossil fuels) hauling them back up.

Also gonna guess the maintenance intervals are atrocious with all the salt corrosion. Why not a river or lake where the water doesn’t actively hate the thought of metals existing and you don’t have microscopic creatures that will attach to literally any surface and create a calcified dome for itself plugging up the places water is supposed to flow through?

I was baffled by the Microsoft “sea cooled datacenter” and I’m still baffled now. Like surely there are better ways to do it.

Also the arctic isn’t that cold for most of the year anymore.

I mean, the arctic had summers even before the whole climate thing, now they’re on track to being all summer all the time.

Come on, this isn’t China or North Korea. They’re not work camps, that’s commie shit. They’re 🦅🦅🦅 PATRIOTIC FREEDOM FACTORIES 🦅🦅🦅

Can someone enlighten me why anyone would run a 32bit OS on a 64bit processor? Especially when a 64bit OS can run 32bit programs. Is there some niche software people have to use that doesn’t run on a 64bit OS (but somehow doesn’t have a problem with the underlying silicon being 64bit)?

I would like to submit, for the question in the post, “thinking opposing the literal extermination of an entire country means uncritically supporting every single policy of the country’s government”

Can’t be gay when you’re blown to pieces by Israeli missiles can you?

League of Nations was more effective and that’s not a complement of the League of Nations

Ancient Egypt was ancient before it ended. The time when Cleopatra ruled is about as close to today as it was to the first pyramids.