• stating that they own any data on the PCs and can use it (sell it) if they wish.

• Having fake performance numbers on their website

The BBC owns Doctor Who.

I don’t think that’s Guinan

No, it really isn’t much of a thing for the rest of the world. You’d never see someone from, I dunno, Poland saying they’re Irish because 23andMe says they’re 2% Irish.

Imagine moaning about Ukraine defending themselves. Sad.

Don’t try to compare an American claiming to de a different nationality just because they may have had an ancestor from XYZ to something like transphobia.

They are not the same. And rolling my eyes at the ‘plastic paddy’ crowd is not bigotry.

That is an absurd comparison to draw.

I’m aware of the history. It’s still weird. You need to understand that nowhere else does this. It’s strange.

It’s not just him. The “I’m Irish/Italian” crowd is a widely known-about American thing.

I didn’t mean to offend you. Relax. I never said all Americans do it, you don’t need to come up with some reactionary strawman just because you took my comment to heart.

I went into this video expecting it to just be “this service is poor value” or “we had an issue with customer support” but holy shit this is far worse than I expected.

This is real journalism. A lot of research and effort clearly went into this. They even hired a lawyer to go over some things with them.

This is definitely a scam from NZXT. And kudos to this channel for cancelling a $23k ad agreement with NZXT when they found out about it.

True, although that would only go as far back as parents or grandparents. And a PDF from 23andMe saying you’re 8% French certainly wouldn’t be usable grounds to claiming citizenship.

I’m aware. There’s an absolutely huge amount of Germanic-descended people, for example. That’s why I spoke of it being the ‘perceived’ default.

I’m not being hateful about it. I’m just puzzled as to why people think it makes any difference to their lives, or why they’d be disappointed in having the “wrong” ancestry.

I see a lot of Americans obsessed with it so much that it borders on being fetish-like, particularly when it comes to people claiming to be Irish or Italian, and it’s bizarre to me.

Absolutely nothing about this screams AI generated lmao

at least when I pay the hackers they give me my shit back

Firstly, that is absolutely not always the case. There’s no honour among thieves, as the proverb goes.

Secondly, hackers do a lot more than simply encrypt your data and hold it for ransom.

Americans seem get really weird with the whole ancestry thing. There appears to be a desire to look into your family history and find something “exotic”, which basically seems to mean non-English - I imagine because that’s perceived as the ‘default’ ancestry, so-to-speak.

Honestly, who the fuck cares? What difference does it make? Nationalities aren’t Skyrim races. You don’t get special abilities. It makes no difference whether your ancestors were British/Irish/Spanish/French/whatever.

E: This is obviously not intended as a hateful statement, people. You have to understand that the rest of the world doesn’t care about this, so we’re confused when we look to the US and see them take it so seriously. We’re especially puzzled when Americans say “I’m Irish” because their great great great uncle bought a pint of Guiness in the 1870s. It’s an alien concept to the rest of the planet.

Yes. And furthermore, if you’ve changed the setting in the past, this new default sort change doesn’t override it.

It’s the default for most of Lemmy too.

Dear God I hope that was an airgapped machine…

Honestly, I’m all for it.

Both the Plasma and Gnome teams have visions for how systems should be when using their DE, but sometimes existing distros don’t go along with that.

I think it’ll be interesting to see how a Plasma or Gnome distro pans out.

And if I don’t like it, there’s nothing stopping me from simply continuing to use Fedora, or running something else.

When it comes to this stuff, not really rare at all. Was one of the most ardent supporters of Ukraine not only since the recent invasion, but the 2014 one.

Repeatedly warned for decades that over-reliance on Russian gas was a major mistake.

Was seemingly the only country who gave a toss about the violence by China during the Hong Kong riots (although there is of course history between HK and UK).

Has consistently been on the side of Taiwan.

Has been extremely ready to give up territories when their population calls for it… which few other former colonial powers did.

They’re usually on the right side when it comes to this stuff. Obviously not always, nobody is. But I don’t know why you’d look at the UK continuing to support Taiwan and be shocked.