I tried slackwear in '94. Getting it running was no big deal, but I had zero experience and documentation / help guides were thin. Installing applications or getting peripherals to work was prohibitively difficult without having a pretty decent amount of knowledge about it.

My high school had a rather large dose/novell Network but there was no internet yet. BBS’s were a thing and you could get a lot of installers and information from them. But they were all running in dos for the most part

My college had a VAX, it was more or less there just to get email and power a metric ass load of terminals in the library for research purposes. They really tried to keep you out of the CLI, everything was menued. I figured out that you could go for it to a South African University about seven times in a row and it would explode and give you a telnet session, but even then I wasn’t really working with an OS shell. The school had a computer lab. It was all Windows 3 and Novell, No internet for the longest time.

My ISP had options to dial up into a terminal session. My home dial up line was awful. Trying to FTP over PPP was a fool’s errand. I started getting used to connecting to my ISP and FTPing files down to their local node on with their T1 and then switching over to z modem to download the files to my house with the ability to auto restart on failure.

I didn’t try to run a Linux based OS again until Gnome came out.

I’ve been Linux in the desktop for years. You really don’t have any choice other than to be a little bit flexible.

More times than not it turns out to be a plugin that screws over the site. Here’s my general path:

Won’t load in Firefox? Disable privacy badger and ublock origin

Still won’t load? Try it in a private window with no extensions loaded

Still won’t load? Move over to brave.

Still won’t work? Disable Shields

Still won’t work? Straight to a vanilla copy of edge, (a vanilla copy of Vivaldi would also be reasonable)

Just last night I ran into a problem with my ADP work portal. Things worked fine for ages, All of a sudden my password wouldn’t work. I went into private mode My password now works but loading the actual page netted me a blank page

I opened it up in brave and it just worked outright.

Two separate unrelated people.

Both in their twenties

Invites them into second/third base consensual relations and then it turns into rough sex.

I think that it’s an absolutely reasonable assumption that he is into younger women and doesn’t stop after he gets the green light.

But the article is light on details, and he at least deserves to have his say in court over it.

They’re only allowed to have 7.62 cm, so from a legal standpoint it’s almost twice the legal limit.

If the law doesn’t make sense you don’t challenge it by breaking it.

The police don’t carry guns there so yeah they’re concerned.

Running around twirling a clearly illegal item in public is pretty good logical grounds for police intervention. If the law says 3 in when do you actually stop them is it 4, 10, 12? If he was just transporting it from one house to another they might have let it go. But he’s walking around fidgeting twirling it in the open. I suspect he was performing twirls and dagger tricks. So the general public is probably also a little concerned. If he’s walking around his neighborhood twirling it around all the time it might even been a neighbor that called the police on it.

The fine is reasonable, getting locked up for 4 months is probably a bit much.

True, I’d still give them partial credit for the dumb statement.

Law says you can’t carry a knife bigger than 3 in. He carries a knife twice that size.

Does he carry concealed in his pocket?

No, He’s walking around carrying it openly pretending he’s a blade master, oh sorry that’s he claims it’s a fidget toy.

4 months in jail seems a bit excessive, but when the law says don’t carry a weapon and you carry a weapon…

Maybe we could find a 50 yo with Bernie’s values and he could be on their cabinet. Idgaf about vibes, but maybe we could put someone in that’s not on deaths door?

No choice. If only one side is violent, the other side will lose. It’s a slippery slope, but play even or lose.

My thoughts exactly.

Also nothing is stopping someone from forking an open browser and throwing money/bodies at keeping it up.

It’s be a shame to lose free updates, but certainly not undoable.

Biden can do whatever he wants now right?

Approaching 50, use SUS regularly, skibidi usage is dropping off, I’m aware of rizz but don’t really use it.

That may be a better way to weed boomers from Gen X. Especially SUS, among us had a very wide appeal to multiple age ranges.

Yeah, I mean if we’re going to the store you might as well get a cart full right?

Price wise, that’s a lot less than I expected

No, I’d have accepted too expensive as an answer. They were ready to die on the hill that no one could possibly create a new browser from specs.

It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out. I’ve had more than a handful of people bitching at me that it’s impossible to make a new, open web browser in this day.

You’re right, better to pick some battles and live another day to do something good.

The IA needs to lay low a bit before we loose them. There’s plenty of stuff out there they can archive that we need that won’t piss off copyright.

We need an ipfs or torrent library that’s out of easy reach of the courts.

I think bi-partisan challenging of opinion pieces containing verifiable falsehoods is a pretty healthy idea for the public.

In theory, it works that way.

In practice, we’ve never openly stopped anyone with those systems.

When it comes time for them to justify the invasion of privacy, they don’t have any school shooters stopped, and they don’t have any Unabombers stopped. They don’t have any cases of stolen kids stopped. They’d be shouting all that from the rooftops to expand and extend that funding.

If they have actually stopped anyone, it’s at super-secret spy game levels. The guys you’re expecting them to stop aren’t even a concern for them. Worse yet, they may actually be rooting for them.

I totally get the intent of this message, but it’s so beautifully reads both ways.