There have been Doom ports on Android forever, that’s not even trying. (Running it well is likely another matter entirely, however.)

They don’t care about their kids - they’re much more concerned with themselves. They don’t want to have to deal with the “humiliation” and “embarrassment” of being judged by their peers. Fucking assholes, all of 'em.

But that’s what MFA is there for, although they shouldn’t be using SMS as one of the possible factors - let alone the main one, as seems to be the case.

No, this won’t wind up being misused. Not. At. All.

🙄

Yeah, but I guess the head honchos figure that’s less of a risk than having the wrath of Trump throwing his toadies after them. They know if they lose a significant portion of their base, it’ll likely only be temporary since they have all that user history and probably still a significant enough base to attract people back once the threat has (hopefully) passed.

So, what’s your alternate username from lemmy.ml?

Notice that it happens exactly three times, i.e. “KKK”.

Probably because they’re almost always at Trump’s expense.

You didn’t like to share much, do you?

If by “directions app” you mean navigation, there are several on F-Droid. I keep seeing lots of positive talk about Organic Maps lately if you need somewhere to start.

Yeah, I suppose that’s fair to an extent. The slow burn of Faux Snuz brainwashing and anger buildup definitely contributed as you mentioned, but it is possibly unusual in that the buildup period was so long (Republicans have been working from a basic plan since the mid 70s when some strategist of theirs came to the realization that abortion would be an extremely effective wedge issue) before it reached its peak without anything happening to break that spell.

I’m not really a history buff, so I don’t have a lot to compare to off the top of my head. My argument was based more upon what I know of human psychology - a subject of much more interest to me personally, but which doesn’t have nearly the same amount of documented historical details with which to compare.

Honestly, though, the only thing I think is different today is our level of knowledge and understanding. Data warehousing, statistical analysis, psychological profiling, etc., etc. are all new additions to the dynamic that I strongly suspect have made successful manipulations possible at such as massive scale.

People themselves are still the same as they’ve basically always been - some good, some not, some smart, etc. It’s just now we have the ability to give those in power much more certainly with regards to methods of achieving their goals. Since those who actually desire to be in positions of power are almost invariably the types who shouldn’t have it, the end result is sadly predictably ugly.

I tend to doubt it’s as different as you think. IMHO, the majority of people want good, but are clueless as to what exactly that looks like when it comes to more complex topics like managing the wide variety of people that make up a society. Understanding that usually requires a LOT more time and effort into reasoning things out than they’re willing/able to put in, anyway.

They therefore pick someone to trust who seems (read: cons them into believing) like they know “the truth” to do all their thinking for them. Those arrogant enough to portray themselves as such are almost always malignant personality types interested primarily in manipulating others to do their bidding in order to benefit themselves. They “know” everything, and either are exceedingly unlikely to admit to human failings such as not knowing something, or always have a ready excuse that puts blame upon their enemies for their failings.

They divide people up & pit them against one another to distract, ensure loyalty, and keep control.

Any of this sound familiar? It’s a pattern repeated among humans throughout history.

Evil always gets ahead because it’s willing to do anything to “win.” Good? Not so much. (Well actual good, anyway - not that fake shit that does things claiming their “Good Book” backs them up on it, for example.)

The only reason Good gets control every so often is because Evil is too focused on “winning” & ultimately inadvertently destroys its own foundations in order to do so. Once it figures out how to avoid that, we’re really screwed.

The closest example of that I can think of is China’s current leader. I’ll grant many will somewhat rightly claim he’s done a lot of good over there, but he’s definitely accomplished a fair bit of it through some significant evils.

Still too modern. Try NetBSD.

I’m gonna assume that’s a hacked copy, bc a 40yo copy-protected floppy disc still fully containing its original contents would be even more impressive.

I don’t see what any of that has to do with my issues regarding the new model. Yeah, I’m interested in their OS and the hardware switches for better privacy control, but I’m not hardcore enough that I’ll ignore my other hardware preferences in order to have them.

I’m just not anywhere near important enough a person to need more protection than I already achieve via the official privacy options combined with a VPN blocking most of the more obnoxious stuff. The additional privacy they’re offering is “nice to have” for me, not a “must have.”

That’s why you’re supposed to carry protection with you at all times.

26.52TB in NAND?!? Did i win the lottery?!?

Haven’t looked at it in ages, but last I knew the whole philosophy was to be as Windows-like as possible to make it easy for people to switch. I never went for it because they charge for more complete versions.

The only flaw is that it’s incomplete. It should say “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you if you were them.” This would require a level of empathy seemingly sorely lacking in much of society today, however.