Bees all the way down.

I figure with Booking.com I’m going to end up with a windowless, roach infested hotel room anyway, so I look for properties with reviews like “No windows. Lots of roaches. But a lovely breakfast.”

He mocked someone for trying because he’s WAY, WAY too smart to be fooled by effort that doesn’t IMMEDIATELY magically fix everything.

People started doing it professionally when the ad money came in. Before that people did it for the love of the content, and it was lower production quality, but better content.

Don’t worry. Those normies are about to cost us the whole open web, and there’s nothing we can do to stop them.

I am so tired of “journalism” that’s just shocked Pikachuing about crap that people already know, and HAVE already known, for YEARS.

It’s either a total waste of time, or people are so thick and oblivious that they don’t know something that’s been staring them DIRECTLY In the face for AGES, and I honestly can’t decide which explanation is more depressing.

That BIOS feature can be disabled… now. But there’s nothing keeping a manufacturer from just not providing that functionality, and requiring only signed firmware updates. Now the machine is more or less locked down.

The fact it can be disabled now is a convenience feature based on historical availability, but that’s absolutely no guarantee it will continue to be there in the future.

You say that based on 30-40 years of companies not really knowing what they were doing, but we live in a world where hardware manufacturers ABSOLUTELY know how to make nearly unhackable, locked down hardware. Smartphones are already like this - if the manufacturer decides you don’t get to install a custom OS, unless you’re lucky enough for there to be an exploit, you don’t get to. Same goes for game consoles. That knowledge can easily be applied to these to make these, if not completely unhackable, so unstable and inconvenient as to be almost the same.

We are absolutely entering this nightmare phase.

Yes, but it’s going to repeat that way FOREVER the same way the average person got slow walked hand in hand with a mobile operating system into corporate social media and app hell, taking the entire internet with them.

This, and not even ironically.

Something broken on the laptop? It’s so locked down nobody can do a damn thing about it, and even if I could I can’t spend 15 minutes of class time troubleshooting while the others are waiting, so I guess you’re just not participating today, Billy.

You can use them fine. In fact, you’ll have to on your new Android phone which has no opt out.

Call your representatives

Hire a lobbyist to donate millions of dollars to election campaigns for your representatives

“I am alarmed and scandalized that I am not getting enough of this money.”

Well considering it’s their PUBLIC BUSINESS PLAN, I don’t think you’re gonna have a hard time proving it.

Only when you’re talking to a cop.

It should be when you decide to abbreviate your currency “PHP”.

Remember the quote:

“If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.”

Well, “If MAGAs become convinced their leaders are pedophiles, they won’t abandon their leaders, they’ll abandon being anti-pedophilia.”