I like operating systems as boring as possible. Let it manage the underlying system while I focus on work. I think you just convinced me to try Arch now.

Thanks for the insight.

You’re comparing board game companies with a laptop manufacturing company, right?

A company manufacturing a laptop like the Framework laptop is not just sourcing parts and assembling them together. There’s a LOT of work put in it, way more than some board game.

Their laptop costs in the thousands, and given their (so far) niche market, I can see why it isn’t feasible for them to give away these expensive to manufacture machines to community ambassadors.

And how much do these products you’re an ambassador of cost?

And are these new start-ups, or mega-companies?

Oh.

I’m not talking about elections.

Alternative pronunciation: Shittier.

This is why the right makes fun of the left.

Though I just hope you were joking.

You’re still missing the point. I know what the tech does. But it’s opt-out without user consent, not opt-in. And there is some phoning home for it to work, isn’t there?

This is Mozilla pulling your pants down while you sleep, grabbing your balls to put the cup, pulling the pants back up, then carrying on as if nothing happened.

at it’s weakest.

at its* weakest.

“They are already kicking you in the balls, so why not let Mozilla kick you too?”

The problem for me is not that they implemented this. The problem is that they TURNED IT ON without my consent!

They are “constitutional republics.”

But I know. No True Scotsman stuff.

My fellow internaut, I am keenly afraid I will have to disagree. Some of us old folks were raised by less than stellar parents that whacked our knuckles whenever they detected a minimum deviation of perfect grammar.

The wake of the ordeal stuck with us forever.

Ok, more seriously: you type how you type, and as long as you are not trying to impose your own rules on others, you should be fine.

having said that i despise the total lack of punctuation drives me really really nuts why cant you use at least commas periods and question marks you fucks

I wish this were true, but not really. I’ve seen 40+ year olds doing exactly this. Why, you may ask? They grew up with Nokia phones.

Exactly! I have a friend who said a similar thing to his daughter, who came to him crying because her friends said she was not American enough because she wasn’t white. My friend said “you’re top of the class, excellent at sports, well spoken, well educated and very friendly and polite. They try to attack you for the sake of doing it, they try to find something bad about you, and they get nothing. So what do they resort to? Skin color!” (and yeah, I know this is about language, but it’s pretty much in line with your comment.)

What gets me is when they complain about Spanish, a European language. Where does English come from, you may ask? Oh right! Europe!

So they’re proud of speaking a language that’s not even 'Merican. Learn Navajo, Comanche, or any of the several native American languages, then we’ll talk.

Fucking GBoard, man!

I won’t say how, but YouTube has more than one video showing how it’s done

You just said how.

(And I’m kidding!!!)

you’re grasp of reality is slipping

your* grasp of reality is slipping