“Don’t breathe this!”

Fuck Marcus Licinius Crassus.

Better yet, why don’t they just write the shit competently and correctly the first time?

And don’t tell me it’s too hard; that’s the way real software engineering used to be done when stuff shipped on physical media and couldn’t be patched, and still is done for stuff that actually matters (avionics, etc.). They just want to pretend PC-level half-assery is acceptable because it’s cheaper.

didn’t get a chance to buy the 5800X3D before they stopped making them.

Neither did I, hence the 5700x3d instead.

(Also, one step down from the top is always a much better value anyway, which is why I was upgrading from a 1700x, not an 1800x. It was under $150!)

Still, your chip is faster than mine for everything except gaming, and not that much worse even for it. In your position, I wouldn’t bother upgrading to anything short of a 12- or 16-core chip. And Hell, even then I might’ve gone for a 5950x instead of spending several hundred more dollars on a new motherboard and RAM to jump to AM5.

WTF you mean, “aging?” I only upgraded to a 5700x3d less than a year ago!

Part of the problem is that Free Software doesn’t have a marketing department. For example, go to a Home Depot or whatever and go look at all the “smart home” stuff. Zero – literally zero! – of the products being sold will list compatibility with Home Assistant (including the ones that actually can be made to work with it), even though that’s the only non-exploitative smart home system.

So how are these people supposed to learn, unless they’re nerds who proactively seek the info out (which the vast majority people are not and never will be)?

It’s a goddamn clusterfucktastrophe.

Q: literally WTF am I supposed to do in this situation?

A:

Dungeon Master (the person running the pen & paper roleplaying game)

Yet more for the mountainous pile of proof proprietary software cannot be trusted and is therefore fundamentally not fit for purpose.

Same here; IIRC it was about the time M$ started backporting “telemetry” to Windows 7 that I switched and never looked back.

Haven’t felt the need for a Windows VM, either.

There’s no such thing as a technological solution to a legal problem.

More like $1.2 billion spent on falsely equating “communism” with everything even slightly left of hunting the poor for sport.

Exactly: they’re not even fighting for the stores; they’re fighting for the suburban parking lot.

Me waiting for Emily to start a Linux channel

Oh, that was real? I saw the title on a video in my feed and assumed it was some kind of clickbait.

Because people who make websites want to get paid for them, payment is based on showing ads, ad companies want to maximize tracking via javascript, and if the only javascript is for ad bullshit it’s easy to block it so they force the content to load via javascript too.

It’s systemically fucked up in a way that goes beyond just the technology itself.

WTF is a “privacy-focused code editor?” They’re just glorified text editors! They run locally! They don’t connect to the Internet at all! How would they be anything other than “privacy-focused” by default? Why is this even a question?!

I fucking hate this timeline.

Anyway, to answer your question: emacs, obviously. Or vim if you’re evil, I suppose. Or just whatever the Hell you want, because if your editor even has “terms of service” or a “privacy policy” of any kind something has already gone horribly wrong.

I don’t know how people can build these tools with a clear conscience.

Have you seen the job market for programmers lately? It feels like it’s almost all for AI slop, abusive rentier middleman business models that add no real value, defense war contractors, or all of the above at once.

That’s not to say that it’s acceptable for people to work those jobs with a clear conscience; it’s to say that for a bunch of people the only ethical options would be to remain unemployed or leave the industry.

Unlocking the phone voids the warranty?

No, it doesn’t. Motorola apparently claims it does, but they’re lying. The Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act requires them to honor the warranty no matter how you modify your property unless they can prove your modification caused the fault you’re trying to claim the warranty for. They don’t just get to presume it because you flashed the firmware.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahqu1nd3Zu8