I have a copy of Mein Kampf. When i was twelve i wanted to learn how my enemies think. (Un)fortunately it’s such bad prose that i never made more than a few pages in. -Doesn’t really matter though. I learned more about my enemy by consumimg large amount of media from a wide variety of sources since then. Mein enemy is not that complex.

-Seperately, I’m sure I have at least one bible still lying around that was given to me even though im pretty strongly an atheist/anti-deist

i have an actively hostile relationship with ads but i don’t see a reason to try and justify it. Ads are bad. -pretty simple.

Yep. The only time it ever feels like a legit issue is while driving, but nobody is supposed to be on their phone while driving in the first place, biometrics or not. It takes almost no time to pull over if absolutely necessary.

that’s precisely why i never stopped using a password to access my phone.

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over the years i’ve had trouble with the various app stores like Discover and Pop!_Shop which for me led to the use of the terminal. other than that there is the occasional permissions issue that may have a graphical solution but i’ve always used chown on the command line.

A straight-up execution. He was held down on the ground by multiple agents while another agent repeatedly shot him at point-blank before other agents also joined in the shooting.

wdym? facebook automatically showed us it used facial recognition at least as far back as 2007 by asking us to click boxes on faces and subsequently asking us to label them… We really did all of the heavy lifting for them. -I got out while i could in ~2018

I was waiting for this news story, so thanks!

I don’t have a fix per se but you might want to see if your Magic SysRq button works to force a reboot using Alt + SysRq + ‘b’. It’s surprisingly effective remaining useful during a lot of major glitches except during a full-on Kernel Panic.

“Ultimately, arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say”

I’m not asian but that bsounds like a lot of what i’ve heard called Asian Guilt. I’ve heard American Asians get a lot of flak for not measuring up to the likes of Jonny Kim. --personally, i’m finding it easier to deal with familial disappointment while living an ethical life as oppose to living an unethical life while still dealing with familial disappointment because i’m not gonna measure up to someone elses standards. Anyways, be good to yourself, there’s no guarantee anyone else will. Have you gone for a walk lately?

Do you think your Taiwanese background plays into that kind of thinking?

use cherenkov radiation to power photovoltaic array.

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I’ve effectively excised fb from my life and i’m becomming kinda proud since so many people still struggle with that one.

Everything you said except for the last paragraph. We did fine for close to a century without traffic cams when it was up to a cop to catch a violator in the act. now it’s surveillance cameras and A.I. that’s automated the task and I consider akin to the police cheating at their jobs, yet somehow we still justify their ever-increasing budgets. -How does that not end up as a totalitarian police-state?

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I was always raised not to share personal information with complete strangers on the web. I overlooked that rule for a time, but between that and the revelations by Snowden and then Cambridge Analytica I’ve gradually taken increasing steps towards a more privacy-oriented internet experience. I do take some pride in my tech knowledge but when I have to resolve an issue with a family members’ device I have to mentally switch gears because they are set up for a completely different kind of experience.

and how does the distribution of gun-ownership fall between these two groups of people?