Please remember things like this when you say “hate speech isn’t free speech”. I wouldn’t put it past the Republicans to claim that pro-LGBT+ or pro-choice is hate speech against Christians.

STOP USING JAVACRIPT

Everyone I know uses signal, even our neighborhood group messaging is a signal group.

Then again my neighbors are all reasonable people.

Actual health insurance is literally illegal in the USA. It’s all some sort of partially pre-paid health subscription crap that you get punished for not buying. Every time the government steps in the help they make it worse, even as far back as WW2 with “salary caps” leading to extra non-monetary incentives, like medical insurance, company car, etc. Then the government gives business tax breaks to provide insurance making it more expensive for an individual to buy so now your health is tied to your work. Then they help by… etc. etc. etc.

Depends on what age you could as “child”. But yeah.

DO NOT START DRINKING

Thanks, Ian, for this wonderful gift. RIP

chill, bro

Debian. It’s FOSS.

I can have a 100% FOSS system. Everything else includes non-free stuff by default.

A billionaire will implode going to look for it.

How? I don’t see what could find dns-over-https in the middle of other https traffic?

As as US idiot,

Checks out.

PiHole with upstream dns-over-tls or dns-over-https.

Anybody who wants to can get around DNS blocks. Sure it’ll stop Aunt Sally, but anyone who cares will get around it. It’s a really dumb way of doing things.

I dunno, the CIA and NSA are both shady as fuck too.

Fuck all 'em TLAs.

Another reason the feds ensure inflation, it makes their workforce cheaper.

Fallout reference

But then again I’ve heard there’s monopolies for that in the USA, instead of actual competition.

Government granted monopolies. It’s the worst. City / county/ state signs deal with ISP X and give them exclusive rights. Then for some reason they don’t spend a lot of time updating anything because they have no competition because of the fucking morons in the government.

I use NFS with caches (cachefilesd) on a local SSD. Works great.

Also if the wildfires that started naturally were allowed to burn (if not threatening the public) then we don’t get that huge build up of dead wood getting dryer and dryer leading to a super scorcher that nothing can stop.

because a bit faster short term

Waaaaaaay more than “a bit”. Like “imperceptible render time” vs 2s for firefox. That adds up a lot.

is worth sacrificing you freedom long term?

What freedom did I lose? I used chromium mostly.

Firefox has performance now, where it did’t in the past. So I don’t use chrome now.

See, I use the best tool for the job I can find, and that changes over time. For a while the was Chrome.