I expect this was in the terms of service, though

While I expect the same, there’s also just a reasonablility standard. If Meta and Google updated their TOS to say that users agreed to become human chattle slaves to mine cobalt and forfeit their rights, no court (…right, SCOTUS?..right?) would uphold that. A TOS is a contract, but it’s mostly for the protection of companies from liability. Takign active steps to brick someone’s device over the device not connecting to it’s C2 server (the company had zero evidence this was done intentionally and a router firewall misconfiguration could just have easily done the same thing), is IMO something that should result in a lawsuit.

How should I feel when reddit starts deleting and shadowbanning my alt accounts?

Well, I’ve only seen KDE on TW, so maybe it was just the default theme color scheme that gave me NT flashbacks. Though I did actually mean that as a compliment. Maybe I also don’t remember NT well enough.

IMO “Smart” refers to the lawyers that got paid to write a 900-page TOS that lets a company do whatever they want.

To be fair, telling people to scan QR codes with their phones is a huge phishing vector. I’ve seen a few places with new stickers over the first one, which is very easy to do. Is it an updated menu? Or a scam page for a session stealer?

The fact that this isn’t considered outright fraud is disturbing. This person OWNS the device, yes? They’re not leasing it.

FFS, this should be illegal.

This 100%. Also cross-reference IP addresses associated with the fridge’s IP to get Google/Meta advertising IDs on the whole family.

There’s a non-zero chance that when Grandma comes over, she gets ads just for her as long as she’s there.

The phrase comes from a shitpile book with the title: Liberalism is a Mental Disorder by some guy trying to eclipse Rush Limbaugh in 2005.

It’s not just a thing they say - these people genuinely believe that compassion is a mental illness.

Fedora gnome is so good it makes Linux boring

Is this a workflow thing? I was looking at Fedora last week and I’m interested to hear what you like about it.

I’m on Cinnamon and made everything look like OSX, but it seemed like gnome would have a learning curve. And as much as KDE looks like Windows NT, something a touch more modern does seem nice.

Literally describes my last couple weeks distro hopping

I’ve literally never had a problem with this…that I know about.

What are you all turning off?

Also might be interesting - Trolley Man can grant 1 wish, but the wisher definitely dies. No workarounds, no tricksy moves, 100% guarantee of being dead in the ground. The wish just takes an entire human’s life-force energy.

Technically not the only answer. If you’ve never had botflies and carried water from the well in a bucket, then you’re not living.

Dick Dale era surf guitar (someone else mentioned this as well, adding the best artist name). Dick Dale also did a cover of Claude Debussy’s “The Aquarium” which is the sound track for Space Mountain at Disneyland/World. So either or both, and there might be other covers of “The Aquarium” out there if the original isn’t too slow.

Going more ocean-themed…

Aquabats or Tsunami Bomb for some early 2000s punk/ska that isn’t ocean-themed but the bands are kinda.

Tide is High - Blondie

Scuba Diver - King Kong (it’s a weird song, but hypnotic)

Where is My Mind - Pixies (about fish, but close enough)

Beyond the Sea by Bobby Darin

Maybe more sailing themed, but that’s close, right?

Brandy by Looking Glass

My Heart Will Go On - there’s a Dragonforce metal cover of this if you’ve been traumatized by the pennywhistle.

Come Sail Away - Styx

Rock Lobster!

I feel like reddit is accidentally trying to speedrun dead internet theory.

I stopped using it when their quality contributor score shadowbanned me because I don’t post enough in the right subs.

My partner stopped using it for the same reason - account used every couple days for comments also shadowbanned out of no where.

Starting a new account means grinding for a month or two in subs that force you to spam each other with up votes before you can ever do anything other than post and ask the mods to approve your post manually.

…are you serious? I know this is Linux Memes, but have you ever used Windows 11? MS has been ruining their own products for years. 1/3 of their janky code is LLMs constantly causing problems.

MAGA posters on Twitter in a nutshell

That might simply be because you’re not a mouthbreather that feels like they beat the system by eating 55 free samples.

Came here to say the same thing.

How about I feign surprise? Does that work, EU?