Headline should be, “European Commission demands their cut of the action.” 🫴

Thank you for the implementation advice, that was my next question.

I have an old drive I installed Win 10 on a few years ago. It was a fresh build, so it would have been the only drive in the machine when I installed it. The software I need is already installed there and in a working state.

I also have a new machine with a new drive. I installed Mint on the new drive while it was the only drive in the new machine.

My plan is to move the Win 10 drive from the old machine to the new one. In the BIOS, I would set the Linux drive as the default boot option. When I need Windows, I would boot into BIOS and select the Windows drive as a one-time boot option.

Am I on the right track?

In a perfect world, the corporation is worse because the government is regulated by the constitution and represents the will of the people.

In the world we live in, it’s a distinction without a difference. Snowden showed us all how the US government spies on us. Currently, tech companies do the spying because 1) they’re better at it and 2) it’s technically not illegal because the 4th ammendment only binds the government, not citizens.

Oh, what about the ones with gangsta Bugs Bunny / SpongeBob / Tweety Bird. Memba?

Company-issued slop muzzles

Good.

Nice rage bait

It’s not a problem. “Ghost gun” refers to any gun without a serial number, whether it was manufactured without one or simply scratched off. Even under that exceedingly broad definition, these unserialized firearms represent less than 0.1% of all guns in existence.

3D printers aren’t the only way to make a gun. Traditional tooling also works.

Manufacturing guns for personal use is completely legal in most US jurisdictions.

It’s already illegal to manufacture and distribute or sell guns without a license.

“Ghost guns” are a boogeyman invented to sell more surveillance.

Gosh, if only it were illegal to manufacture and sell weapons without a license, then we wouldn’t need all this.

Sloppy investigative work, really. Did they ever even stop to consider the possibility that the trailer simply just did that?

EMPTY FRIDGE DETECTED.

PLEASE INSERT VERIFICATION CAN.

Wanting to do something to the maximum possible extent without being [thing] automatically makes you that thing.

Agreed. To expand on that, I have zero sympathy for anyone who complains about the worldwide rise of fascism while still participating in corporate-owned social media or shopping at Amazon/Temu as anything other than a last resort for essential items.

Like, who do they think is funding all these fascists and where exactly do they think all the money comes from?

Corpos gonna corpo. Anyone who’s seen how meta operates could have and should have expected this. Plus, these are a luxury. Nobody “needs” these to live.

Meta is shitty for doing this but I’m still having a really hard time feeling bad for any of the buyers.

It’s not even that sophisticated. A hearing aid works by directly stimulating the small bones in the ear. This is just a pair of earbuds with audio passthrough and a volume knob

So, even more extra steps for even less functionality, got it.

It only saves your sanity if you have a full AMD build. Otherwise, you better be an IT pro or have the time and inclination to do a lot of learning. Nvidia drivers are notoriously problematic with Linux

My prediction is: There will be a settlement. Neither party will admit wrongdoing. The settlement money will go to the lawyers. The corporations’ right to manipulate the market will be enshrined.