It makes more sense in a world without artificial lights everywhere, now it’s just holdover and tradition.

Cool let’s do it

Flock will contract with whomever they can, via the police directly, HOAs, local farms that abutt roads, or cities and towns via politicians.

Now go ahead and give me my next snark and find my typos for me Manualcorrect ;)

Politicians aren’t part of the loop - flock gives the cameras and puts them up for free to the police directly, no votes or input from anyone needed.

Same track, slower train

Because its a covering instead of saying underhanded or sneaky or tricking users.

“I didn’t steal, I was just quietly sneaking money from their wallet!”

Maybe that used to be the case but the USA does it different

Insane that that seems to be an impossible bar this decade

They all have a mental disorder of some kind, like narcissism or psychopathy, or similar behavior-driving things going on; they compulsively act the way they do, and they find themselves coming out ahead or winning due to factors being skewed in their favor (born wealthy) or because their environment supports it (if an oil baron is willing to kill like a gangster and it scares business people into working with them, they get contracts/rewards). The same things that give them ‘success’ in the world is also ruinous to their lives/the lives of people exposed to them

Yes, until they lock down the software by pushing out the smaller people via certification requirements, specific signing methods, and branded closed-source apps while gating the open source repositories however they can try.

I’m not saying all this to deter adoption btw, this is just how it seems to go: the public puts work into something to make it good it gets co-opted by corps and they enshittify whilst marketing it to the world, so everyone gets in with 1 idea and it changes to the same old mess.

The same way they got their shitty software into everything: deals with producers. Your mom/aunt isn’t going to build her own pc/phone, theyre going to buy what they can at the store, which would be something sold by dell or HP or whomever, who cut a deal to discount some price by including McAfee or printer-easy-setup-utilities that advertise new ink or printers.

Having the time to dick around and get a linux distro up to my current speed with windows. Or someone else making a distro that mirrors windows 10 capabilities, and utilities (even mundane things like control panel and it’s branches to other settings) and verbose explanations of functionality in the onboard help docs or subtext of options. Or an onboard llm asshole like clippy that can be conversed with om how to accomplish something the linux way.

I think what the linux community misses or forgets is that windows became popular partly because it held people’s hands so much. If linux users want to see the year of linux come to fruition they need to make the distros walk people through a task instead of pointing at the wall and saying “up”.

Conversely I think the linux world says they want everyone to use it but I wonder if they actually want that: everyone using linux means the computing and advertising world pivots and makes linux equivalents of everything, including all the gate keeping, scummy business, malware/adware/tracking…

Wow I love this argument, you’re bang on 😆

Look at gamedate.org, or for immediate context search it on YouTube, you may be able to implement a copycat tool with more general lists of common events than the games list the site uses.

The point is that it wouldn’t matter because the issues could be solved before the court cases matter. He was the one everyone was told would be able to fix things “because he’s been in politics longer than most people have been alive, he knows all the levers to pull to get results”.

He should have been able to recognize and ignore the asymmetric shit going on just as trump does, and actually work to reset things. Instead he sat around and did fuck all that will last longer than his lifetime.

Joe “nothing will fundamentally change” biden