Kinda muddy on the idea behind the showers. I read somewhere that they weren’t really about killing the occupant, but it was suggested that it might be a reference to the furnaces used in the Nazi death camps in WW2 and the eugenics associated with the Nazis.

One of the first things that gets turned off.

Ad tracking of any kind.

AI of any kind.

Notifications for almost everything.

Any other metrics or telemetry that can be disabled without impacting functionality.

Thou shalt buy a smart tv or other device that we can pull metrics from and force advertising to.

Absolutely. And that also applies to some immigrants from harsh dictatorships. I worked with a pro-trump Russian. He liked trump specifically because he wanted someone to “crack skulls” and all that. (This was during the BLM protests.) He wanted the police state to shut up everything inconvenient to his way of thought.

Numerous reasons.

Lots of people don’t want anyone to disturb the system…”upend the apple cart” as it were. A known, even if shitty, is still better than the unknown. Like people pining for lives under the rule of some harsh autocrat. Even if your neighbor disappeared one night thanks to the State Police, it was better than worrying about the less-harsh policing that lets kids get away with graffiti-ing everything or the petty theft you’re always hearing about.

Also, if they come for the rich people, they’ll come for you. If they tax the rich, they’ll tax you. If you support the rich, people will remember that, and they’ll come for you.

Maybe a little of the “I could be rich someday” idea too, so they support obscene wealth with the idea they could somehow also be rich no matter how minuscule the chance. The irony being the wealthy are the ones supporting barriers preventing you from even achieving financial security, forget ever being wealthy.

The OP made a distinction between wealth and power. Your question salad conflating the two, even if wealth does grant power, is muddying the original question with “What is the definition of ‘is’?” It isn’t meaningful.

CEO: has lunch and answers a phone call. “I’m working!” Writes a proposal from a yacht “I’m working!” Goes golfing with industry buddies. “I’m working!” Paid tens of millions not including stock options. Spends time in the c-suite. Actually is working. Writes a letter about his cubicle slaves who are chained to their cubicle at work, their phone at home, unable to actually use PTO due to fear of negative performance reviews, working 50+ hours on the clock and uncounted hours off the clock “You need to work more!!” With their pay and benefits constantly under assault by managers.

Oh look, another plain-speaking “smart” republican that needs interpretation and rationalization to tell us who he really is and what he really means.

Sure man. Canned speeches vs real time. Not even in the same league as Obama. Dude got the job because of the family name and thought it would be an easy ride until reality hit him right in thr nose. Then he got all fundy and stubborn. Know who else graduated from prestigious schools and is president? Yeah, bet you can guess.

Well there you have it. It’s not the dev’s fault, it’s the AI’s fault. Just like they’d throw any other employee under the bus, even if it’s one they created.

I print spells in landscape. Only two lines.

Yeah, that’s probably it. Just them spamming different numeric IP addresses to see if any get a hit.

I have 7 devices running various distros right now. 4 Pi’s, 2 PCs and a laptop.

#1 reason linux isn’t my daily desktop. Want to install [thing]. Thing doesn’t work. Doesn’t (build, install, configure, make, whatever). “MAKE” not installed. What? Install MAKE. Still doesn’t work. Wrong permissions. Doesn’t offer error messages so you know why it doesn’t work. Missing dependency. Install dependency. Still doesn’t work. No documentation other than forums full of other users with the same problem and the solutions are: 5 different ways to do the same thing that don’t apply to your distro or version which has changed 5 major versions since the answer was valid. Gave up and installed a different distro. A long set of instructions that, even when followed precisely, only works 20% of the time. Don’t use SUDO to install? but SUDO is the only way it works! Software has no GUI, command line only. Doesn’t work on your distro even though documentation says it does. Even if it’s available in a package manager in the distro you have doesn’t mean it will work. Spend hours chasing down ways to make it work and finally give up.

I love linux and the ability to get under the hood and do whatever I want with it. When it works. But it ABSOLUTELY is not for everyone.

4080 still very pricey nearing $2k and the 5-series is even worse. 3080’s are in the $500+ range, so that’s decent.

And you’ll pay him to do it.

That is some flawed logic my friend. Linux is for everyone that doesn’t need those exceptions, of which there are many, therefore it isn’t for everyone. However, you can use linux the rest of the time.

I have a DDNS setup. Pretty random site name. Nonetheless, it’s been found and constantly probed. Lots of stuff from Russia, China, a few countries in Africa, and India. A smattering of others, but those are the constant IPs that are probing or attempting logins.

Man I’m so tired of these skyrocketing prices over everything. Memory, GPUs, car parts, groceries, insurance… fuck. Eating us alive.

Haven’t done that yet. However, remembering that I had a specific thing I need to another thing with, I just don’t know where I put it even though I have a pretty good idea where it might be. Proceed to start digging through things to find it, and while doing so, find various other items (oh, that’s where this is, I’ll have to remember this!) and then find the thing I was looking for and it’s not what I needed. Dammit.

And I’ll remember that I found the other things; I only retain the knowledge I found stuff, but I can’t remember what it was I found!

I think the biggest complaint was trying to shove cortana and the 11 upgrade in everyone’s faces constantly. Once you use whatever fix you choose to remove or silence them, Win10 is fine - as long as you avoid installing other M$ services, but those aren’t 10’s fault. And disabling the few annoyances 10 has are paltry compared to what M$ is trying to force users into accepting in 11.

“I’m gonna take you all down with me!”

Then I’ll ask for a sweet socialist bailout while the rest of you enjoy rugged capitalism.