So what if it’s encrypted SMS with new friends? Seems like supporting meta is far worse.

If they become actualy friends move them over to signal. If they wont then you don’t need to be friends with them.

Gotta make the move to a better future.

It still supports them because you still go there. I avoid it all together.

I boycott bands or vendors that use it and am pretty vocal about it.

First? Notepad

Now?

Kate

Dammit! I have to go in and out of the us and I use GrapheneOS!

Not even because of some heavy privacy from the government. I just want to be able to use F-Droid and my own apps and sandbox Google.

Why does everything nice have to get tied into bullshit like this?

Government is so removed from doing anything by and for the people that it’s just sickening. Speaking to the choir I know.

Where are you? Most people I know can’t give away DVDs or music cds. They are effectively etrash at this point.

Vinyl on the other hand, suckers born every minute.

Why would you put it on a plastic disc? It’s a file, save it to you hard drive.

You got these right, and I wrote basically similar things.

But I had to reply because if you remember all of this, you might also remember seeing how long an XP machine could last on the internet before being patched enough.

It was crazy that you HAD to upgrade it offline, because it would be owned before you could even get it patched. At the time we saw 10 to 15 minutes tops before it was infected.

In any case, yes, XP was the start of all the things we hate today. Its interesting how much more push back there was back then: anti consumer advocates, government intervention, class action lawsuits, even the EU got their own version because they got involved.

Now everything is even worse, and only the consumers seem to be the ones complaining.

No XP was where the bullshit started. I quit windows then.

2000 was the last sane (and maybe only) windows.