Fair cop. Keep a weather eye out for better alternatives for the blockers, but as noted the full fat gOS play store and google services are pretty good, and the bootloader gets re-locked, might be worth trying it for a weekend to see how close you get, many people have good experiences, but it’s all down to cases.

It’s a pixel, you’re in c/Privacy for whatever reason, have you considered just putting GrapheneOS on it? All those annoyances go bye bye, you can have a full fat google alternate user and an approximately private main user…

I selfhost it on my laptop, pretty easy, and I always have it just the way I want it. Still pushing shit uphill with the AI crap, but better than any one search engine (it amalgamates many). Relevant to OP I have a large block list enabled, but it’s very much a moving target.

Subset of the right to be left the fuck alone if a human desires it.

Last I heard, there was a community effort designing an 8xPCIe4 (yes, that’s a thing) Occulink adaptor, love to hear if anyone’s got any info on it.

That said, M2 <-> Occulink adaptors abound, so, with some pretty trivial hacking this could support 2xeGPUs!

What is the Matrix?

A viral advertising campaign in 1999…

I was going to skip this response because it’s controversial and scientifically uncertain (as a scientist in a previous incarnation, but seem to have reasonable evidence, look at it yourself), but screw it, I feel your pain, downvote me. Given preamble…

It seems likely that soft foods in the developmental stage of the jaw cause the orthodontic issues common to current first world countries. It may be possible to remedy this with straight up chewing gum at around age 8, but preferably use actual whole food that requires chewing, basically jaw development, and hence teeth positioning requires work. Wish I knew it earlier…

Highest suicide rate of the professions, as I heard (happy to be corrected)

wut? I VPN all the time (for niche stuff Lemmy’s not there yet with).

I’m on bazzite with a GTX980, and it’s been working flawlessly, so it’s not age. I assume you did

ujust sunshine-setup

but it’s worth checking.

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Thanks, got a new term today.

You’re no fun, orange turnip was merely an example of a bad actor getting control (going Reagan would be confusingly amusing) and it’s not about anyone in particular, more so the entire worlds’ dirty laundry out to dry

And everyone thinks about real time implications, what about historical ? Seems pretty likely that the NSA has been storing an appreciable fraction of the internet for a long damn while. Come Q-Day that all gets opened and searchable. What would Trump do ?

Someone just removed many lifetimes of CO2 emissions with a couple of lines of code.

Shame that usage will just expand to fill the gap. Thanks late stage capitalism. Degrowth.

woof

Wow, valid issue.

Spitballing, potentially a secure app could run memory only, blah, blah, blah. Nope, you’ve given M$ your screen FFS, it’s all over. If you care, move elsewhere, tell your friends…

As you point out, codes are an option, but it’s not a slippery slope, it’s a waterslide.

Not wrong.

My favourite encapsulism of Daoism is…(paraphrased, possibly a profound joke)

A Buddhist will go with the flow down a river, as will a Taoist, but the Taoist will paddle at the right time to choose (something).

Doo Eeeet, Doo EEeet Now!!!

Seriously though, I vote VM under linux. Spin it up for whatever you need, use it less and less, no regrets…

I feel the pain.