It’s banned in a lot of European countries AFAIK.

Should be banned in every country with decent public education. Unless you have a formal education background you have no business formally educating anyone. Everyone has stories of things their parents taught them that turned out to be total bullshit and they only found out because they went to actual school.

Do you have links to studies? Genuinely curious. I’ve mainly heard the justification for permanent DST in Canada is that we’re far enough north that we’d benefit from extra sun in the evenings during winter.

Better than it going dark before 5PM.

Mom told me to pause it /s

Isn’t “globalists” an antisemitic dog whistle for Jews?

If so, then no. Leftists don’t hate Jews.

Dragostea Din Tei (“Numa Numa”) is unironically one of my favourite songs. It wouldn’t have blown up as a meme if it didn’t go so hard.

Pepas by Farruko is another bop.

What a terribly designed project if even compilation requires sudo. These “sandwich” maintainers don’t know what they’re doing.

As an immigrant who had to learn English (and a very small amount of French) and also programming languages, programming languages are much, much easier. You don’t have to deal with tenses or conjugation, you don’t have to learn pronounciation rules because most things you express in programming is not directly pronouncable, there isn’t a million weird syntax and spelling exceptions that you just have to memorize, and you don’t have this disparity between formal and casual language. Learning technical or literary writing is even more complex.

Computer science as a whole is in my opinion more like learning a language. Once you know the fundamental concepts of computation, different programming languages are more like dialects than full languages.

ChrisFix said once (in the first Mustang video at 7:40) that you try old gasoline in your lawnmower. If the lawnmower works, you can probably use it in a car.

Seeing a massive cumulonimbus cloud structure from a plane. The diagrams in university don’t do it justice.

Yes and no, sometimes one after the other. Climate change is more about the climate destabilizing and becoming more erratic as opposed to moving in any particular direction.

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As a cis man, I think very lowly of men-only groups. Usually (from my admittedly limited experience) if a group goes out of their way to identify as “men-only,” the people there tend to be the kind of men who are very misogynistic and generally insufferable to be around, even for other men. Any group genuinely focused on the hobby or culture they claim to identify with wouldn’t really care about your gender.

Women-only groups though, I tend to sympathize with and respect a lot more, and IMO they are the symptom of the West being a heavily male dominated society rather than an innate desire among women to be exclusionary. If the world didn’t revolve around men and had genuine gender equality, there probably wouldn’t be a need for many women only groups either, but that’s unfortunately not the world we live in.

I can’t really speak on trans/nonbinary exclusion though because I have no personal experience being on the business end of it. I try to only participate in groups where they don’t care about your gender to begin with.

“Made with ingedients you can pronounce”

If you took the time to expand your vocabulary you wouldn’t need to pay a premium.

Get yourself to a safe place they can’t access and from there call security to remove them from the hospital?

No, I complain about Google and Apple being proprietary. That alone is a deal breaker for me so I really don’t give a shit about them not having file management or whatever other old school feature. And if a sufficiently rigorous security model must take away old school file management in favour of a more restrictive system, so be it, as long as it’s open source and publicly auditable.

If you’re relying on a proprietary operating system, literally none of that matters because your root of trust is inherently untrustworthy. The operating system itself can (and have been shown again and again and again to do) include malware that can never be removed and you can never be sure it doesn’t.

Updates alone have no way to happen solely on the local machine.

No, but it wouldn’t need to cost the original vendor that much backend resources either if they’re willing to relinquish control of it. There’s a reason most Linux distros would rather you use the torrent than their hosted images, and package managers allow you to add any mirror you want and for anyone to spin up a mirror. Something like IPFS (or BitTorrent) would be a great fit for software updates, because it doesn’t matter where the file comes from, as long as it’s the same file.

Updates are expensive for the vendor because they insist on their servers being the only place you can get them from.

Image/video/audio processing that requires more compute than you can reasonably except from average consumer hardware.

I’d be more accepting of this if it wasn’t for the fact that they increasingly don’t even let you try to run it on your own hardware. Taking an hour or even overnight to process a video might not be ideal, but there are still countless use cases where that’s acceptable and worth the security of not sending your data to the cloud.

Antivirus and other forms of security which require near real-time fingerprinting and/or new definitions.

Antivirus is an antipattern and the need for it is usually a symptom of the OS architecture/permission control model being hopelessly vulnrable. An ideal system would be zero trust and some random piece of code wouldn’t be able to do anything truly harmful to begin with. You can still social engineer the user into giving a malicious program trust, but you can social engineer them into whitelisting it in their antivirus too.

Licensing/certificate servers

Certificates don’t need that much backend resources and can be decentralized in the same way as updates, taking load off the original vendor.

Licensing is a circular argument. I’m paying for you to maintain the system that determines if I paid or not?

Servers which receive and process telemetry data

Yeah that’s not a “feature” most people appreciate. At best they accept it as inevetable because they can’t turn it off.

Also, if a company tries using that as justification for their subscription model, they can go fuck themselves.

Resources for submitting/processing/securing legal/government forms/documents

If it has to do with the legal system or government, then it should be covered by the ultimate subscription model: taxes. I shouldn’t have to cover a company’s costs of filing things with the government when I already pay the government.

Some services, like social media, require backend resources and there’s no way around it.

Others, dare I say most, are backend by the company’s choice and usually to the detriment of the user.

Some require backend resources purely for DRM and so that they can pull the plug on it whenever they please and screw over everyone who paid for it. Like most single player games these days. Or as a means of holding your in game items hostage to get more money out of you (Pokemon Home comes to mind).

Oh no, your cloud account got banned because you commented killing Palestinian children is bad on a social media platform they also own. Now all your data is gone.

Oh no, your cloud account got banned because that hello world binary you just shared with your friend got flagged as a virus. Now all your data is gone.

Oh no, your cloud account got banned because you were using adblock on their paid streaming service. Now all your data is gone.

Oh no, your cloud account got banned because you were sharing your password with your friend so they can use your paid streaming account. Now all your data is gone.

Oh no, you uploaded media files that you bought but they got replaced with DRM versions.

Oh no, they’re suddenly not letting you log in until you upload your ID and a 3D scan of your head. Now all your data is held hostage.

Oh no, they accidentally deleted the production database and the recent data you absolutely can’t afford to lose wasn’t in the backup.

Oh no, you got phished and they changed your password from under you. Now all your data is theirs.

Oh no, they suffered a data breach. Now all your data is on the dark web.

Oh no, they’re developing the next generation AI. Now all your data is being used to help companies replace workers and the right prompt might just give some rando fragments of your personal information.

A smartphone is a handheld computer. Why should it be restricted to what software the company arbitrarily decides should be allowed to run on it?

Also suggests she’s a technically minded person who likes to know how things work and is not satisfied with a black box. Jailbreaking uncovers the complex machine a smartphone truly is, something that Apple tries very hard to hide behind its patronizingly simple interface.