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  • They aren’t burning fossil fuels. They’re burning CHOOH2, which is the product of a genetically engineered plant.

    Everything else has already been addressed by others. It’s a dystopia. Public transit exists in universe, but it’s very dangerous (as is the rest of the city). The corporate solution is to upsell you cars.







  • BansheeOPtoLinux@lemmy.mlMoving to Arch/EndeavorOS from PopOS?
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    9 months ago

    Yeah, I was thinking about changing over, because while I like PopOS, it has some issues on my rig. It wasn’t as troublesome as Fedora, but laggy animations, Pop Shop crashing, and its very outdated version of GNOME were starting to frustrate me.

    I’m actually testing EndeavorOS in a live environment right now to get a feel for it! I’ve always been hesitant to try Arch in any form because my main Linux buddy warned me it was a quick way to ruin your system.

    I use this PC a lot, so I have no problem updating it several times a week or more. So fingers crossed I don’t screw it up lol.



  • Bansheetomemes@hexbear.netPoggerU
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    The most mask off one they had was the short they made celebrating Robert E. Lee. Unironically did the “slavery wasn’t that bad” bit in it. And there was a whole “Lee heroically killed John Brown and ended that evil abolitionist revolt”.

    Naturally this has made them DeSantis’ preferred curriculum.










  • I’m glad you like it, but I’m just going to point out that Yahoo, which the AOL privacy policy page refers to, has probably the single most invasive email policy of any major provider.

    Yahoo analyzes and stores all communications content, including email content from incoming and outgoing mail. This allows us to deliver, personalize and develop relevant features, content, advertising and Services.

    They allude to telemetry, and use additional tracking even when not signed in. I hate saying this, but even Google has a better privacy policy.

    That’s kind of the point for a lot of us who opt to pay for an email. When email is free, it’s because your data is the product.


  • I do like Tutanota’s approach to encryption, but communication outside of other Tutanota addresses is less secure than PGP. It’s just a symmetric, password-based scheme.

    Since you will probably deal with a lot of non-tuta email providers, it’s a hard sell for me. In network, though, it’s good.

    Second issue I had with it was the email client. I like my third party client and it’s built into my workflow. Tuta doesn’t support third party clients because they consider the storage of emails on your local drive a security risk. (That’s only true if your hard drive isn’t encrypted, and setting up encryption isn’t all that hard to do)



  • Yeah, his requirements for an email provider are well above what most people need.

    Email is not a secure means of communication in most cases. If the recipient isn’t encrypting, then your communications to them are vulnerable anyway. And in the vast majority of cases, they probably aren’t.

    Really, the best thing about getting a more privacy conscious provider is not giving all your data over to Google.



  • When I was a little kid, maybe 5 years old, my family lived in this old house that used to be a Civil War hospital during a few battles.

    All kinds of weird shit happened there, but one event stands out.

    I was sleeping between my parents in their bed on the second floor. I woke up. It was late and very dark.

    I looked to my right and saw the curtains blowing in. The windows were painted shut. I watched as the curtains start to slide off the wall. It looked like someone was holding them up. I shit you not. Like I could see feet just underneath the bottom.

    The curtains moved to the foot of the bed, and fell.

    I don’t remember seeing this, but my parents swear I told them that when the curtains fell, a woman with a yellow dress and no eyes had been holding them up, and that she stood at the foot of the bed for a while.

    The curtains, according to my parents, we’re in fact on the floor at the foot of the bed. I can’t vouch for that though because I was a kid and frankly, don’t remember.

    My best non-supernatural explanation is that I had sleep paralysis that night and hallucinated much of what I saw. I’ve had it chronically since, so it’s possible.

    I don’t know though. It’s one of those things I think about late at night when I have too much free time. What the fuck did I see?