xia

joined 9 months ago
[–] xia@links.hackliberty.org 2 points 8 months ago

No dub? Disappointed again! Must... resist... urge... to learn japanese...

[–] xia@links.hackliberty.org 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But... but... muh play protect! :)

[–] xia@links.hackliberty.org 1 points 9 months ago

One could argue that they do "try to stop you"... technically... by disabling the execute bit on software update tools (like apt & deb)... but I see that more as a gentle reminder and acknowledgement of your ownership of the machine, as they could have easy just not had those tools present at all.

[–] xia@links.hackliberty.org 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The ability to financially support those one would leech off of (both bandwidth & sourcing)... Nothing mandatory, but perhaps being able to post a bounty for particular hard-to-find material, or for someone to seed a dead torrent.

[–] xia@links.hackliberty.org 3 points 9 months ago

I get the "feeling" of a mandela effect far more frequently than i can solidly know for sure. I guess my first experience was decades ago as a child. I recall staring at a Bernstein bears book, and being oddly transfixed by tye fact that the spelling of the title did not match that of the authors name, literally inches apart on the same page. Later i experienced a schrodenbug or two (which i think is the same phenomenon), and one really solid social ME were a church ceased to exist (or got merged into a neighboring church). After the first few, now I fully admit I am WAY too quick to believe odd circumstance is a ME, and usually find myself reluctantly disproving that to myself with notebook/journal entries... only to later wonder how they might change too.

[–] xia@links.hackliberty.org 5 points 9 months ago

If I had to guess... until the revolution.

[–] xia@links.hackliberty.org 3 points 9 months ago

That's literally what they do, just "paced". See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_bond

[–] xia@links.hackliberty.org 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Disappointed... I was thinking i would see a swarm of stranger's chasing my cursor with their own. :)