It’s not a backup unless you can restore from it.

yt-dlp gets blocked more often than Firefox + ublock Origin for me.

What fucking “service?” Software running locally on my own computer isn’t a goddamned “service” to begin with!

Also, fuck off with your bullshit assumption of bad faith.

the software is just licensed

That is a GODDAMN LIE perpetrated by copyright cartel shysters to swindle all of us. The entire legal theory that assertion rests on is absolute nonsense: they want to pretend that you “need” to accept an “EULA” to use the software because otherwise copying it from the installation media onto your hard drive and/or into RAM would be a violation, but that is wrong because 17 U.S. Code § 117 (a) (1) carves out an explicit exception that allows it. EULAs are bunk and do not constitute a valid contact, as they not only lack ‘acceptance’ because they attempt to work on adhesion (trying to impose new terms after-the-fact when the transaction to obtain the copy has already occurred and concluded), but fail to provide any meaningful ‘consideration’ to begin with!

They can pry my hardware and software that I own from my cold, dead hands.

Ad-blocking is a property right. I have every right to control what my device does or does not display, by definition of ownership. Conversely, advertisers or other parties attempting to colonize my device by forcing it to display something against my (the owner’s) will is a hostile act that violates my rights.

I’ve been wanting to watch the Olympics, but have so far failed because my previous VPN + Canadian coverage strategy doesn’t work (CBC requires an account now) and I can’t find my TV remote to switch the input from my set-top box to the antenna.

This would be possible to DIY if ‘smart’ TVs weren’t DRM’d pieces of shit.

While we’re reporting issues, here’s two more:

• It doesn’t put the closing quotation mark on the output.
• It doesn’t use correct quotation marks for each language (in French, quotation marks «look like this», for example).

I hate to say it (bc Microsoft), but you should’ve used Bing so you’d get a Klingon translation.

My opinion (as a guy) is that tights and pantyhose ought to be for special occasions because they just aren’t durable enough for everyday use. Either wear a skirt or dress without them, or wear pants.

I want to see that and the half-width Jeep (also owned by the same museum) driving down two lanes side by side.

Al in the operating room

He accidentally the plan.

Well, yeah, that’s because all the “more” is redacted to protect the perpetrators.

I enjoy how Gentoo is listed in both chad and schizo tiers.

My typical Linux installation workflow:

1. Attempt to install Debian.
2. It doesn’t work because the kernel is too old to support my new hardware (even though it’s not always that new).
3. Rather than trying to fix it, just install Kubuntu instead.

Failing to have graphics drivers for my gaming PC with a GPU I bought the day it launched is one thing, but Debian also failed to have WiFi drivers for the cheap N100 NUCs I bought for my kids the other day – with wifi hardware that’d been out for multiple years at this point – and that’s just ridiculous.

Kubuntu annoys me with Snaps, but it also Just Works in a way Debian unfortunately doesn’t.

WTF you talking about? If anything, aquiline noses are associated with Romans, not Jews.

The fuck it isn’t! There are way too many shitty people in this world who use tone policing and shaming to win arguments they rightfully ought to lose.

I’d prefer a forthright jerk to a polite sociopath any day.

In factual reality, you own every bit of hardware the thing comes with and every capability of it. Anybody who tells you otherwise is a goddamn liar and a thief!

End. Of.

Edit: I downvoted you because of the “technically they haven’t paid for the feature yet” part, not the “it’s cheaper to manufacture without having a second line” part. Make no mistake: everyone who buys the vehicle pays for the feature. Some are getting swindled into paying for it twice.