linux phones are good fun, and from what little I know nix is probably a good choice for the advanced tinkerer, though it won't be as easy to get going as pmOS or something

op6 is one of the best supported in mainline linux

I stopped watching like halfway through but I did catch a gem: one of the articles they flash onscreen as evidence or whatever was quoting a south korean hawk with some awesome logic:

Seoul has detected at least 10,000 shipping containers being sent from North Korea to Russia, which could hold as many as 4.8 million artillery shells of the likes that Putin has used in his bombardment of Ukraine

"oh my god, the bad countries, they're trading with each other"

"Terrifying, what are they sending?"

"No idea, but if we just assume every cubic centimeter of space is filled with artillery then it'd be a lot of artillery"

I mean I don't doubt they are sending weapons but the lack of any authority or evidence to speak on the subject got me laughing

Yeah this is a known issue, or at least I've seen it referenced by a dev/admin as such I think

dunno why it would only affect certain users

yeah I think that only works if you genuinely believe that the palestinians simply hate jews and will accept the same boot but worn by arab monarchist footsoldiers instead of mostly IOF goons and drones

MR CHAPO

I've got a Fidel poster that often gets this reaction lol

I do have a go-to little thought terminating explanation for it for when lib family ask (it's just the true backstory of where I got it but it's not "well fidel is a hero" either)

oh nice lmao

wow have people gotten so touchy about doorknocking that they schedule it in advance with permission now?

Not that it was all sunshine and roses pre-pandemic but dang

"I was jealous of commie blocks"

that's a new version of that, news mega made one too

it's stopped stinging by now but yeah, it did the first time

definitely wasn't the only thing that radicalized me but it was that era

yeahhh

I tend to think of it as the other way around, like using "ooh so sleek and thin" as justification for the actual reasons but its probably just self-reinforcing in both directions

I'm surprised there isn't some businesses that's all about repurposing e-waste. Just install ubuntu or something and then sell them for cheap.

there are some. Not enough, and probably way more outside the imperial core, but I've seen a few. I think it's getting better as time goes on and tech iteration slows down. 10 years ago it would've been something of a struggle to run modern web pages on a 5 year old laptop, let alone an office suite, much moreso than using a 2019/2020 laptop today.

The bigger thing now I guess is the proliferation of people not even having a computer and just using their smartphone for everything. Smartphones are treated as an absolute essential, so people just suck it up and buy a new one when they can't get any more life out of the old one, rather than adapting their usage. Mandatory app updates and built-to-fail batteries and other components just seal the deal