Anytime someone anywhere on the political spectrum uses the word “woke” without also defining what the fuck it’s supposed to mean I just cannot take them seriously.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/39828-i-ve-come-up-with-a-set-of-rules-that-describe

S-tier satire of the conservative “Trekkie” (please Gene, I hope you’re being satirical). Real comments like that always make me think of Douglass Adams’ “rules” on growing old:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

Anytime someone says Star Trek’s progressivism was never “hamfisted” I usually just point them to the after school special that is Let that be your Last Battlefield:

OK I can get into this.

That’s great, Etsy has allowed their marketplace to become overrun with slop, it’s nice to see the handmade stuff still around and getting love.

The only thing that the report sees for certain in the current situation is a quick division into winners and losers in the AI race. Big players who are able to absorb the costs will emerge as victors.

Victors in what? LLMs cost orders of magnitude more to operate than they generate in revenue and that looks unlikely to change anytime soon as costs keep going up.

First of all, install this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bypass_Paywalls_Clean and never have to worry about a paywall ever again.

But also it’s odd because The Verge doesn’t do paywalls to my knowledge and when I tested the link in another browser I didn’t see a paywall either…

May the 22nd be with you

I got the lifetime plan on Black Friday back when it was $0.00 I’m really glad I did that now

Finally, we’ve invented a machine that saves mankind from the drudgery of getting to know other people!

“I want a way to record the young ladies at the gym without Meta knowing about it”

I’ve also used duck.com’s free email masks with great success

Not quite what OP is talking about but useful in most cases

Yeah this is it. I like snaps just fine but I also like Flatpaks and well, everyone else is using Flatpaks.

Here’s the fan film this documentary is about. I tend to enjoy watching many of the fan films that aren’t just 90% weird CGI but this one somehow avoided my radar completely.

Lower Decks translates to the medium of comics well, “Warp Your Own Way” was phenomenal. Looking forward to this!

A VPN actually hides your IP from the webpage.

“Enthusiasts”

Some good answers here but if you’re ever in doubt about what is isn’t canon- Memory-Alpha is your friend.

Hah! I definitely didn’t mean any shade at Zorin! I used it for a while too. I ultimately moved to Fedora Kinoite and now Bazzite for the exact reasons you described, the immutability makes it even harder to break than Zorin.

It’s great we have so many good options these days.

On one hand I think that Linux would benefit from KDE being better than windows and GNOME being better than MacOS and that we shouldn’t get distracted by new shiny toys like Cinnamon and Cosmic.

…and yet on the other hand… they are pretty cool…