What did clicking on the cloudflare button actually do? As far as I know just clicking on a link shouldn’t give you malware.

Clicking on things that look legit is a critical part of interaction with computers. Programs should not be installed unintentionally, so first and foremost Office Macros should not be enabled by default (and eventually Microsoft did disable them).

Recently I think the main avenue for malware is to send a PDF with a fake popup for an update, that links to a phishing site and prompts you to download an exe with malware. That kind of thing is a harder issue to solve, but at the very least an OS should probably not let that program update your BIOS.

It’ll have a devastating effect for people who work in the industries.

Those of us who don’t play AAA games or watch Warner Bros or Paramount movies don’t really have much to lose here. Worst case scenario there are always Nigerian and Uzbek movies.

He said that Republicans were more responsive on privacy than the Democrats, there’s nothing weird about that. Though it is pretty clear that the Republicans were responsive for all the wrong reasons.

Ah, I’m on KDE though.

I use KDE and it keeps asking me for a password to mount one of my partitions. I tried to edit it using nano but couldn’t find any documentation about how etc/fstab even works so I was hoping for a way to do it with the CLI.

It’s okay, I’m Australian, my government’s got me covered.

I wish there was a graphical or CLI option to add a Linux drive to etc/fstab.

Oh, looking it up they do come to about the same weight in the end (information that was very difficult to source BTW). Guess that eliminates much of the entire point of this. All I would need is 80km of range at most so I’m put off by all these cars offering 500km that I don’t want or need.

I guess an old EV is probably the better option. With the added advantage that I’ll probably get physical controls instead of a damn touch-screen.

Battery fires get more news coverage not because their more common, but because they are so catastrophic when they do happen. As for comparisons to gasoline, I’d be leaving the tank empty so that’s not a concern for me.

I would prefer not to use waste rubber and money thicker tyres carrying around a huge battery I don’t need. Worst case I can use those same tires on a car with a lighter battery.

Good point about regenerative braking, I forgot about that.

I’ve been hoping to get a PHEV because I don’t want some 300km-range battery (nor the resulting fire risk, tyre wear, or brake wear), but there aren’t any really cheap plug in hybrids. I’m probably gonna be stuck getting a used EV with an oversized battery when my sister’s old car dies.

I’d write a list of future events and share it everywhere I can, editorializing of course to make sure them coming to volition validates my political views, and then use the eventual fame to shape the world in my image.

Ignoring that path, and with no political sway of my own …

I’ve got nothing. I’d be like 5 years old and Australian. And overall Australia’s doing pretty fine. If there’s one issue I’d focus on it’s digital privacy and my biggest adversary there would be Google. IDK, there’s not really one domino I can affect to change things. Maybe warn about 9/11 and the subprime mortgage crisis but I’m pretty sure other people already did both of those to no avail. Plus I’d be 2 or so years old at the time of 9/11 so that’d probably not go well.

Finally, something decent to come out of the surveillance state.

I tried that, Windows FOR SOME FUCKING REASON keeps opening new holes in the firewall anyway.

I don’t even know what it does.

Why do people use PopOS? I genuinely don’t get it.

Fedora Kinoite is, probably, the best recommendation.

I’m not really interested in maximum privacy, at least right now. I’m slowly moving there though.

Debian is a stable server distro, but in the desktop space users expect everything to just work and while Fedora is usually backwards compatible, Debian isn’t always forwards compatible.

As for security updates, IDK.

I’m operating mostly of second-hand information I vaguely remember, I’m not an expert on these things so I’m not really the person to be discussing this with. There’s surely a reason Linus uses Fedora over Debian though.

I don’t see many ads, and the ads I do see are never food items. I think this canned rambutan was the first food ad I’ve seen in years.

I can’t even fathom this being a coincidence.