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The actual news is *very bad* for their side right now.

You might just do it now. You can probably be ok for a few weeks.

Do it! Just choose the most normie distro you can find (probably something like Mint or Ubuntu) and free yourself!

Maybe so, but there’s no profit motive for tech companies to aid users with piracy. There is one to continue providing general computing to users. So if we were able to win in the former, the latter should be a cake walk.

Well…I dunno. I don’t think you’re crazy or anything, I’m sure there are some who absolutely do want to do that. But they’ve been trying to get rid of digital piracy for thirty years and haven’t made any headway, so I’m dubious about how well that would work.

You mean, like…rounding up every computer and burning them? I really don’t know what you mean by this.

including Linux How would they enforce that on an open-source platform?

I’ve always said I’ll listen to music more when I get through my podcast backlog and audiobook backlog. Neither of those seem particularly…imminent, lol.

Well, I stand corrected. Even less reason to not switch to Graphene.

Interesting. Thanks for letting me know. I think of myself as a data hog also, but only on my computer; I’m mostly a minimalist on my phone.

I can’t accept the fact that there is no external sd card support. OK, this is going to sound dismissive, and I really don’t mean it to be. But why? For data transfer, you can still use the USB port (I do it all the time). Other than that, there’s more than enough storage available onboard for any reasonable amount of usage. I don’t even really keep anything critical on my device at all, so what there is is kind of overkill already. I just don’t understand the need for an SD card with storage being as plentiful now as it is. I want to understand.

You can’t do mobile deposit, but surely you can still just use the bank’s website.

Chesterton’s Fence, but for things you don’t understand.

If it's altering snapshots, it's not a reliable archive. Simple as that.

If this is something you’re actually going through, OP, you should know that (1) the trimesters can all feel dramatically different, sometimes even turning on a dime, and (2) it’s definitely always ok to call up your OB anytime if something feels wrong.

It’s been a fun journey. And he’s on the Fediverse! @TechConnectify@mas.to (not tagging him directly because I feel like he probably gets that enough)

Alec has been on a multi-year quest to get an incandescent color profile from LED Christmas lights. I haven’t watched this episode, but he usually does a pretty good job of recapping at the start of every episode. It’s always super entertaining, in my opinion.

I already talked you through it in the linked comment, and honestly if you don’t get it I don’t think I can make it any simpler. In any case, I’m not taking homework from you. I know how I arrived at this conclusion, and you’re free to believe me or not. Have a good night.

But how does including sources make that world? How does it move from point A to point B? I addressed that very objection at the beginning of the conversation. You haven’t thought of that at all. You’re applying reasoning to positions you hold, not reasoning to reach positions. That’s particularly hilarious since the comment I’m talking about was from fifteen hours ago. I’ve been thinking about media literacy for decades at this point. I’m not naive enough to be certain that this is some foolproof magic bullet, but I think it’ll work, and it’s definitely not going to hurt public discourse.

You’re contending that sharing sources online won’t accomplish anything because people are resistant to changing their opinions. Yes, that’s currently true; and while I see a benefit in the current world to sharing sources, why not also imagine a world in which it actually does change opinions? There’s no physiological or psychological law that makes opinion change impossible. People can change because people do change, so why don’t we do what we can to make that more common?

People behave like this now for a lot of complicated reasons. For one, changing opinions hurts us (physiologically), so our brain tries to prevent it; that’s something that can be eased with exposure. Also, rich people and foreign interests have a vested interest in keeping people susceptible to misinformation, and greater media literacy is really the only tactic that can combat it. But more importantly, the world we live in now isn’t the only world we ever have to live in. It’s going to change one way or another; why not take steps to make it change into something more like what we want to live in?

No, I’m absolutely not saying that. I’m saying we should normalize having sources and not just blindly repeating a thing we heard.

You’re talking about a current reality. I’m talking about normalizing a different future.

No. I’m not running on a fantasy. I’m trying to bring into existence a world that doesn’t yet exist. I know that people aren’t rational, but if my mind can be changed by facts, they have to have some value.

Yeah, definitely. But: It’s a lot easier to answer the disinformation if you know where it’s coming from. Part of the thing that makes my head spin about the GOP news cycle is how even I (a chronically-online, fairly well-informed person) will have absolutely no idea where some people come up with the nonsense they come up with. Is it from their own mind? Is there some fringe community on Facebook doling out steaming dog piles of AI-generated anti-vax nonsense? Is it a legitimate outlet, and they’re just massively misunderstanding it? Knowing where it comes from can really help in combating it; even if you can’t stop the current fake news, you might be able to head the next one off before it takes root. Sometimes just the process of needing to find a source can make people look twice. It works for me, even: if I want to write something I’m pretty sure about, and then go looking for a source, sometimes I’ll find out that that source isn’t reliable, or that it was retracted. Sometimes I’ll even find out that what I remembered was true, but it’s way better or worse. I become more media literate sourcing my facts.

And he represents just one of hundreds of deadly misinformation campaigns in the last thirty years alone.