FAFO. If you don’t want to control your computer then you wont have control over your computer.

You know what doesn’t have onedrive? Every other OS.

They come with W11 but I wouldn’t say users are forced to use it. My first boot is always into the Debian netinstaller.

The TPM2 requirement is purely to drum up sales for hardware vendors and ensure that they keep bundling Windows with their machines.

The shitty ones do this. Or you get stuck behind cNAT.

You think business wont just pick up and move to a part of the world with less regulation?

Criminals? What about politicians, advertisers and law enforcement?

Why? We are, and have always been, an economic appendage to the USA.

People already, incorrectly, assume that VPN == Safety thanks to a ridiculous volume of advertising, no need to make that worse.

A VPN only hides your traffic from the people running the equipment between you and the VPN. If your VPN provider is evil, or just lazy, it’s the same as not using one at all.

Other than USB killers a flash drives are no more dangerous than a CD. No OS autoruns any more and you can always inspect a file before opening it. Better to teach kids to think before they open any file from a source they don’t trust rather than to just avoid one type of media.

I was never excited for Carney

Politicians gonna politician. They will all will be in favour of this kind of citizen tracking because it makes enforcing policy easier, doesn’t matter if it is Liberal, Conservative, or NDP.

“Ban Website” sounds good in the news but those words together barely even parse to an idea.

A website is just a bunch of files hosted on a computer, put them behind some kind of access control and the outside world can’t even know that they exist. Unless ISPs decide to block all inbound traffic to subscribers you can always just apt install apache2.

Looks like it’s time for a more self hosted and distributed web.

Anyone with a few braincells working knows that it is all bullshit this crusade against porn “for the kids” .

Normies think “for the kids” is a 100% reasonable excuse to restrict freedoms and install authoritarian policy. That’s why it works.

I know it’s bullshit, you know it’s bullshit. Go convince someone who doesn’t understand that it is bullshit.

Making shareholders happy by increasing profits and padding the CEO’s ego Theft and corruption certainly is.

If they could use use regex they wouldn’t be using an LLM.

There is no reason to be expanding oil exploitation as a fuel source. Whether you think it’s ‘woke’ or not, electricity is the only sustainable way to power industry, transportation and residential loads (with the exception of some chemical gotchas, blast furnaces use coke because it is a reducing agent and can convert rust into iron). And with a shift to electricity for energy all of our remaining petroleum needs (plastics, chemical precursors, etc) are more than met with existing mining operations.

Not to mention extracting, separating and refining oil sand is one of the dirtiest processes out there. Oil sand is nearly solid and needs to be steamed to get the sand out, then the oil/water mixture has to be separated leaving an absolute fuck ton of contaminated water.

At this stage pipelines are just another way to line the pockets of Canada’s politicians and foreign business owners by selling the future of the country.

And the whole thing where they are trying to dial back rights for everyone but rich white men.

I have a single W10 machine left and that’s only for VR, everything else is Debian and I couldn’t be happier. It only does what I tell it to, updates never break stuff, the Debian repository has literally everything I need.

The 20min a week I spend on W11 PCs at work has only cemented in my mind how much I do not want to deal with that shit.

I have an android phone and hate every second of it. Next time I get a new phone it’s getting GraphineOS on day one.