At work they don’t let us install ublock or FF so I’m stuck with stock Chrome and stock Microsoft Chrome 🙁

don’t forget archive.org!

Or you could edit cookies with devtools.

It’ll anger Redditors but they’ll gladly hand over their money

No, but to learn bring computing to 2024 and to pad my github I’m currently working on a modern replacement written in React that can also use Electron on the desktop. It’s pretty light at around 150mb. I don’t have plans to natively port it to Linux, but it’ll work in Windows Linux and MacOS with a little tweaking.

I do have plans to release the Docker image I’ve used for testing later this year along with a Snap and Flatpak so I guess it will natively work on Ubuntu.

Oh, and longterm goals are to have an Android and iPhone port. I have an ad provider set up so I can offer the mobile apps for free (gotta hustle) but I’ll have a patreon and kofi set up by then for donations and a mostly ad-free version that aggregates usage info of your device and apps but doesn’t give away any personally-identifiable details if you opt-out.

I do almost nightly coding streams on Twitch and Youtube but I blur out the code itself because I don’t want anyone borrowing my idea and implementation.

You can find me on Insta, TikTok, Facebook and I’ll have links to my X (formally known as Twitter), Telegram, Discord, Riot, and Mastodon accts. I also have curated some playlists on Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, and Amazon Music that include some chillwave tracks as well as some binaural beats, white noise, pink noise, and brown noise (to name a few).

I also have an affiliate link for a microdose provider that gives me a cut everytime you make a purchase which helps me out.

The whole point is to make everyone stupid, uneducated and reliant on big tech.

Why learn to drive when Apple and Google will drive you around?

Why learn to write if you can have Microsoft, Google, and Apple write for you?

Why learn to read if Microsoft, Google, and Apple will read for you and tell you what things say?

Why learn to paint, draw, sculpt, sing, or play an instrument if Google, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft can make art for you based on a suggestion?

Why think for yourself when Facebook, Google, and Apple can tell you what you’re thinking or what to think?

Don’t be alone with your thoughts. Your thoughts are subversive and dangerous. Just relax and don’t make a scene. Go with the flow. Do what you’re told. It’s presumptuous to believe you know better than a finely collated corporate collection of knowledge taken from millenia of those smarter than you, don’t you think?

Relax, everything will be ok. Your AI therapist is here and knows exactly what’s wrong. You worry too much. Everything is under control and is the way it should be.

Smile more, you’re so pretty/handsome when you smile.

The line is drawn where these companies don’t make money

Google: “We mean it this time, guys.”

Fantastic! I love music and am currently training an AI of myself to determine whether or not I would like certain music, movies, tv shows, video games, business ideas, technolory, porn and art. In order to train my personal AI properly I need a copy of everything every human being and corporation has ever created so I can personally assess it.

This is great news for everyone!

I’m still waiting - mouth wide open, head and hands towards heaven (where it comes from), for the trickle of capitalism to run down my face and enter my mouth.

If you watch these companies they all want to be tech giants when they have no reason to do so. They hire tech execs from the giants thinking they’ll make some great business hybrid withithe help of the tech execs,but you know what? Sometimes a brick is just a brick.

Two things happen, the tech execs lead them on a wild goose chase since they have no idea how to function in a different industry and people get fired, or the CEO is scared and ignores the suggestions to follow the same thing every other company does and people get fired

Right to the pockets of the least useful in the company - the executives.

On its head, specifically?

WHAT ABOUT THE CLINTONS?!?!

I don’t know enough about Windows 10/11, but aren’t they supposed to boot into a menu thet allows you to pick the last known good configuration before it evens boots to the gui?

Head over and shoot fascists. What else is there?

Standing up for your rights isn’t convenient, but it has to be done. Those that engineer this shit know that and make it as convoluted they can for this exact reason.

Always be on guard against those who would make you give up your rights voluntarily while giving up none of their own.

The difference is that if someone decides to freeze your cashless bank account they can by a mouse click and you’re destitute. Whereas if that happens in a cash-based society they have to come and get it from you.

Get a conservative business-focused person into the government and watch them give infinite money to business in the form of subsidies, bailouts, and tax breaks.

A cashless society is so stupid beyond words. In order to create one you must also create a full surveillance society to protect it, and even that would be ineffective to stop it from being hacked.