I don’t remember posing for this painting…

And their CEO is pro-Trump, so def anti-Trans https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/

And most of these “left” shows are basically DNC mouthpieces who hate anyone to the left of them (looking at you Cenk)…shows how hard it is to grow an audience without being backed by --and thus narrative driven by --corporate interests.

It’s so they can track you better. If you’re in the US and using a Chromium based browser, so long as you don’t view “adult content” they usually don’t pop this up. But they can’t track in Firefox, and because of GDPR, they can’t track logged-out users in the EU, so it’s all about the money. I use Vivaldi and a VPN to watch youtube, works mostly fine.

EDIT: Well never-fucking-mind…this strategy has worked for me without fail for a lonnnnng time, and today they got me…same day the pulled uBlock origin from the Chrome store…dicks.

Off-topic, just want to say that I love that your name is cows are underrated, with a picture of a cow…way to be!

I’ve flirted with Linux off and on for 20 years, but MS forcing everyone to Win 11, stuffed with spyware, is the end of the road for me. Now on Linux full time. Linux isn’t about to take over the desktop, but I can see Windows shedding a couple million users a year as enshittification continues.

I also leaned there are still ska bands in 2025.

Proton’s CEO is pro-Trump https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/

You should check out Tuta Mail (Germany) or Zoho Mail (China, not EU but a good, non US product)

The CEO of Proton is pro-Trump.

https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/

Yeah, but she got 80 years of indoctrination and never learned how to avoid fake news on the internet because the same news channel she’s trusted for 30 years told her that OAN, Newsmax, and Dan Bongino were all trustworthy…that’s a lot of propaganda to cut through.

Also, the people protesting against Vietnam when they were 20 are in their 70s and 80s now, a lot of them are still showing up at BLM protests, abortion protests, and antifascist protests…the rich are the real enemy, they want us all blaming each other instead of them. Ok, too long a rant, so I’ll just finish with Eat the rich.

You can totally turn it off in a couple clicks or leave it on if you want it. Other tech companies take note, this is how you do it.

Honestly, I’m more surprised that the top 10% own 44% of the real estate…no wonder nobody can buy a house, a few aristocrats own half of them.

I use Waterfox as my primary and Vivaldi as my secondary browser for when a site just really wants a Chromium based browser…it’s great, Chrome minus Google, plus a few nice extras. For those old enough to remember when Opera was a popular alternative browser (before getting bought up and turned to garbage) – Vivaldi is from the guy who made Opera.

I see what you did there – using the thread about complements to complement another Lemming, good on ya!

Every Texan I know has a generator to deal with the unreliability of the grid, and there’s never been an article about someone in Iowa getting a surprise $100k electric bill…and the average wage in Texas is substantially lower than in “left wing” states like California or Washington…so not sure you’re making an apples-to-apples comparison, but time will be the judge, we can all check-in in a year and see how this plays out. Does Lemmy have a remind me! bot?

And with the entire Department of Education being on the chopping block, it is likely to get worse before it gets better.

“The inmates are running the asylum” – Richard A. Rowland, 1919

“Sounds like a good idea.” – Elon Musk, 2025

Reached for comment, Donald Trump said “see, why can’t I do that?!”

There are so many breaking points:

• With software it was moving everything to subscriptions that made me switch to Linux and LibreOffice
• With hardware it was when Apple started soldering RAM in their computers so you couldn’t replace it
• With healthcare it was having to negotiate with 11 different companies my 11 bills for a single ER visit
• With the Democrats it was the head of the DNC saying out loud that the reason for super delegates was to prevent popular grassroots candidates from winning

Capitalism doesn’t just crush you once, it finds a new way to crush you every day.

Trump’s greatest accomplishment, surpassing the DuoLingo owl in being the most annoying thing to make me want to learn Spanish. Pendejo.