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Edit: turns out it's case sensitive.

Sounds about right:

roughly “anti-imperialist realist” with Indian/Global South anchoring and paleoconservative/libertarian-adjacent distrust of state-corporate surveillance power.

That's a tad selective.

You do know that there are at least two more delusional cults in that general area. Neither of which acknowledge the bible.

> Receiving updates should be predictable and easy to plan around, so we’re giving you more control.

I can't remember when Update became so intrusive and aggressive - Vista? - but it was the top annoyance for me personally.

Positive reinforcement from Hollywood movies and TV shows.

Maybe 50 years ago Dirty Harry was an exaggeration but now you have several generations of wannabe cops, cops and their bosses who grew up watching those stereotypes.

Whose plan?

A rigged RFP, and some very happy lobbyists, chortling into their single malt all the way to the bank.

LinkedIn did me a favour and locked me out of my account.

Beats.

But my favourite hack was a Sennheiser model which had foam inserts to dampen the sound. 555 - foam = 595

He's in good company.

MI6 head is Blaise Metreweli whose grandfather was Constantine Dobrowolski, the Nazis' chief informant in Chernihiv, Ukraine.

I used to but driver support for wireless devices was so inconsistent I had to move to Linux.

That's unintentionally hilarious -- some of us remember 15-20 years ago when flaky support for wireless devices was the biggest reason people would decide Linux wasn't ready for desktop yet and avoid switching from Windows to Linux. (Well, Windows to dual-boot -- Windows users were never fully willing to let go of the video games angle at the time.)

It is hilarious. When I installed SLS 1.0 I had to assemble the machine to match the drivers available. 92 or 93. I vaguely remember I needed a SCSI hard disk.

Remember that most machines back then were Ethernet, not WiFi.

First wifi device I used was a PCMCIA card from Lucent, claimed 2mbps speeds. Still have it somewhere. I don't think I ever got Linux or BSD to work.

> Remember that most machines back then were Ethernet, not WiFi.

Not "most" -- all.

802.11 networking was standardised in 1997.

The first versions to really see significant mass adoption were 802.11b and then 802.11a in 1999.

https://hewlettpackard.github.io/wireless-tools/Linux.Wirele...

Linux had better WiFi 20 years ago than FreeBSD has today.

I still prefer FreeBSD.

installed it on my n100 last night. it didn't detect my USB mouse.