You don’t typically pay to run Linux distros. They’re open-source. I can’t imagine they’d be subject to this.

Apparently there’s a way to install Win11 and bypass all these requirements.

https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/bypass-windows-11-tpm-requirement

https://youtu.be/tx5TaozMXMQ

Can’t beat them for games that require low latency input though. Just playing retro games on them is worth owning one.

Go to a family member’s house and try to show them something on YT.

Cringe in horror at the experience.

Who on earth is gonna shoot a starling for food?

Have you seen starlings? They can fit in the palm of your hand.

Some shit is just straight up poison though.

You hate to say it because you know this is a ridiculous take. There’s no fucking way that the parents are “more at fault” for their son’s death than the company whose product encouraged him to hide his feelings from his parents and coached him on how to commit suicide.

Read the lawsuit filing. https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Raine-v-OpenAI-Complaint-8-26-25.pdf

*I have excellent parents and even they were not privy to the depths of my emotions as a kid. * You are actively choosing to ignore the realities of childhood as well as parenthood to play some shitty devil’s advocate online.

I love how on the internet all it takes for someone to call someone a shit parent is a mild difference of opinion.

It’s just 0 -> 100 at the drop of a hat. Its fucking hilarious to me.

I saw last year’s North American eclipse in the path of totality. I know what you mean. It is very strange.

I’d chalk that up to the assumption that a cloud has partially or fully obscured the sun. If clouds weren’t a thing, we’d be much more sensitive to light changes as they wouldn’t be a part of our outdoor experience.

I’m not checking to see if the sun is still there every time the ambient light outside dims, y’know what I mean?

Do we need to start review bombing sites that are doing this similar to how review bombs happen on Steam?

https://grapheneos.org/

Make your next phone a Pixel and load GrapheneOS onto it. Problem solved.

Wine is a translation layer, not an emulator so you’ll likely appear in the Linux users list.

There’s plenty of fiction written on this premise. It only makes sense that an LLM will write something similar to what it’s already ingested.

The stone age = any time before 2005 apparently 🙄

You can use the Aurora store for apps. You can also use Google Play for apps if you’re not super privacy minded. The beauty of GrapheneOS is that it doesn’t have to be a locked down security privacy-minded OS if you don’t want it to be. It can be just as functional as anything else with very few exceptions.

It just gives you the option to pursue security and privacy if you want.

I haven’t had issues with my banking app either but I don’t use the NFC wallet functionality and never have. I prefer to just tap my physical card.

It’s like everyone is eating the same meal, even though there’s other restaurants everywhere.

So fucking apt. Thanks for framing this the way you did. Really clears up my thoughts on how to discuss this with others.

Running GrapheneOS on a Pixel is incredibly easy. You don’t need to be technical at all to get it set up. The instructions and the process are simple. Get on it!

Developers all love to preen about code. They worry LLMs lower the “ceiling” for quality. Maybe. But they also raise the “floor”.

And this is how the human element of this industry dies. This dev is the last of a dying breed, the senior dev. He’s also loading more bullets into the gun that’s pointed at the heart of the role that got him to where he is in the first place.

You don’t get to become a junior dev if that role is occupied by AI and you don’t get to ever ascend to senior dev unless you start as a junior dev.

For as analytical this person seems to be, he has a massive blindspot related to the path he himself treaded to get where he is. He’s pulling the ladder up behind him and condemning the people on the path behind to finding another way or giving up entirely.

AI is brain rot. It’s actively and aggressively atrophying humanity’s ability to reason and problem solve.