Alcohol is toxic, carcinogenic garbage and we'd be noticeably better off if everyone voluntarily stopped drinking it.

Hope this brings us one step closer to never having to hear about him again.

Meanwhile in Taiwan, the island's equivalent of the Tiananmen massacre from the KMT dictatorship (the 228 incident) has its own memorial park and museum.

No need for a self-inflicted legitimacy crisis when you respect your citizens' basic rights.

The world is a slightly better place without him in it.

If they're interested in having good-faith discussions, sure.

No. The future of tech should be about getting more capabilities out of fewer (and/or less intrusive) screens. Would love to see more advances in e-ink displays and open-source, 'ambient' voice-controlled UIs.

The tech and engineering that went into this looks really impressive. That said, as a 'vision' of the future it's 100% repugnant IMO.

At least, what I want is tech that will improve over the status quo while also getting rid of as much screen time as possible, and/or replace many existing screens (e.g. for smartphones) with less intrusive alternatives like e-ink (once we can get refresh rates higher). Can't say I'm at all interested in handing control of my consciousness over to a megacorp.

Any distro where I can easily replace the default with sway.

I've been voting with my wallet on this one for years- no headphone jack, no purchase

The only exceptions I can think of are streaming services that simply couldn't exist as standalone one-off products (Spotify, Netflix etc). But yeah, there's no logical reason something like Photoshop should ever require more than one transaction.

#1 is Guyana, for anyone curious

Don't think anything can actually replace the power and expressiveness of keyboards and text interfaces- that's always going to be the bottom layer for a productive setup (i.e., you need to actually be able to write code, write shell scripts etc to control your machine, etc).

Guess what I really want is just some kind of Unix machine that hums along 24/7 in the background, with many different paradigms for interacting with it when you don't have (or want) a standard keyboard and display. Putting a display over my face feels like a giant leap in the wrong direction

Couldn't live without white noise apps (at least when traveling). Easy Noise is solid too

I've already done the same, can recommend it

So clearly- if I go to Washington DC and start protesting in the street on behalf of these people (who I'd agree are being persecuted unjustly, despite one of them being Australian), I'll be taken away and jailed within minutes, right?

Sure, though I like the idea of more explicitly supporting instances with better quality control.

Seems like there's also no way around blocking individual users who openly support fascists.

Technically I'm not, but fair point

The vast majority of federal cases end with a plea deal. Any idea if that could include forfeiting any right to run for public office? Would be great for peace of mind if so

Last night was horrific here in NYC (still not great now). I'd invest in an air purifier right now if you don't have one already

edit: drastically worse than yesterday now.

No question, removing swappable batteries was pretty brazenly consumer-hostile.

One of the main reasons I'm 100% on board with stuff like the Pinephone, at least in theory (just wish Linux phones were actually ready to be used as phones.. maybe in another couple of years).