You won’t see anyone admit it on this site, but the 2A keeps villages safe in the USA.

And yes, country folks can defeat the US army. It happened in Vietnam and the Middle East, it can happen at home.

Not really, but I haven’t used Microsoft in years.

Yes this is tough.

We use Google Workspace. I use Proton at home.

It really is.

I’ve been a Unix maximalist since I can remember, but I’ve never convinced my peers to follow.

Since windows 11 has dropped, every single one of them now has a Linux machine for one purpose or another. Some are now considering a complete purge of MS products, as I have.

It’s happening.

Bingo

Are being used to spy on you

A literal corpo!!! In the flesh! With human rights!

Damnit what have we become?!?!?

Reddit is such a tucking corpo

100%.

If my home rig started doing the stuff they’re doing, you bet I’d be in trouble. It ain’t fair.

We could go back and forth all day on this, but just watch out for the government trying to claim “you need an ID for this because the anonymous people online can hurt you”.

They’ll find a way to justify it, by some string of twisted logic that makes it equivalent to killing someone in an accident. It’ll probably be about protecting the kids, it’s always about protecting the kids.

Oh well, I think we’re on the same side here. I joined the EFF!

Part of me agrees and the other part thinks it’s going to go the way of the automobile.

Everyone needs a license, issued from big brother, to use the public service.

Or else!