The bucket of sand is a good tip, my solution was an empty paint can filled with sand and the lid hammered back on.

This reminds me, the Korean version of this song goes so hard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD5pAHYEC6Q

Imitation truly is the sincerest form of flattery it seems.

I can feel a shit storm brewing Randy! This is going to start the Linux struggle session isn’t it?

I assume a lot of the machinery itself does run on some flavor of Linux (or maybe even some real-time operating system like VxWorks) that has been stripped down for embedded use, Windows just wouldn’t run on this kind of hardware. I imagine this desktop is (as you can kind of see in the photo) just a display that sits in an office and serves as an overview of the machines, display warnings, and all that kind of stuff. Though, since it seems to just be a website, I’m not sure why they also wouldn’t use Linux in this scenario either and set it up in a POS (point-of-sale) fashion where all it can do is display that website and nothing else. Maybe they also use them for general office work as well? Who knows.

They’re in the process of moving away from Intel/AMD chips in all government machines now that their domestic alternatives (namely LoongArch) have gotten to a state where they’re good enough for most day to day tasks. I give it some time, but I wouldn’t doubt them requiring a similar move away from these chips in extremely crucial settings like this.

Sorry to hear this. On the contrary, my Cybertruck saved me the other day by engaging automatic emergency brake when I was distracted for a moment!

Another good comment:

Tesla isn’t lining any pockets so the lobbyists are practicing some internet gorilla warfare

Gorilla warfare? Never seen that before, but I imagine it’d be pretty scary!

That leaves like what, only 1 more that can still fly?

Yep, this sort of thing happened when the New Palestine train derailment happened. For a month or so after it happened all you heard about was how another train derailed even though it’s (unfortunately) very common in the US and statistically multiple of them happen every single day. It’s not like trains just started derailing out of nowhere, it was always happening, it’s just that the media found something new that gets them clicks and keeps rolling with it.

Where will Windows users draw the red line? Please, for the love of Lenin, just install a Linux distribution. It’s not as scary as it seems, I promise. Pick something that has a large user base, things like Fedora, Linux Mint, Ubuntu, literally anything is better than Windows at this point. This is especially important if you’re doing any real life organizing that requires you to do things on your computer, don’t just hand over everything to Microsoft (who will hand over everything to any government that asks) out of convenience.

well well well…

“Homosexuality, just like heterosexuality, represents a variant of sexual behavior. Homosexual people do therefore not stand outside socialist society, and the civil rights are warranted to them exactly as to all other citizens.” ― Supreme Court of East Germany, 1987

Which you will most likely be able to disable with a policy.json just like Librewolf does with Pocket and other Mozilla services. I personally rather just build Firefox from Mozilla’s sources and use my own configuration rather than having to put trust into some third-party to do that for me. Though I understand that is definitely not everyone’s cup of tea, so I guess Librewolf is good enough for the majority of people. Though I’d be weary because a lot of the settings Librewolf enables (namely the things under privacy.resistFingerprinting) break a lot of websites which some people may not want to deal with. In that case, I’d just take Arkenfox’s configuration and remove all that stuff from it and call it a day.

Meh, it’s just Firefox with a config applied out of the box and some new branding. They don’t really patch anything of importance out of Firefox, pretty much all of their patches are just changes for their branding/styling.

You can find the config that comes out of the box here: https://codeberg.org/librewolf/settings/src/branch/master/librewolf.cfg which appears to just be https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/blob/master/user.js with a couple of extra things added like Brave’s query stripping list.

Good, the can keep it’s aging technology built on the backs of the military industrial complex, genocide, and occupation for itself while the rest of the world moves forward.

That’s only if a peer-to-peer connection can be made in the first place, which most of the time it can’t because of NAT and other things. The Element client even has a checkbox to prevent you from making peer-to-peer connections forcing you to go through your homeserver’s TURN server or Matrix’s fallback TURN server.

Edit: To clarify the warning under the “Allow fallback call assist server” saying your IP address will be shared, it means it will be shared with matrix.org, not the parties you are calling.

The real snoot drooper

Hell, even the uses Google Forms for initial on boarding where they ask you for things like your full name, phone number, e-mail address, social media handles, and all that jazz. Really big yikes moment, but I understand that hosting an open-source alternative/writing their own solution is a lot of work and they might not have the resources to pull something like that off right now, but still.