Locking out, clearly.

The fun trick with this is when the HoA defends themselves there’s usually a clause that allows them to charge folks within the HoA to pay for legal bills, aka you.

So you have to pay for the HoA to defend itself against you filing a lawsuit about how it is violating your laws. While also paying for your side of the lawsuit too.

(This is of course all depending on the nature of what youre filing for and specifically who it is against, but it’s just another example of why HoA’s are useless profit generation for those that run the HoA. Specially if its a mega-corp owned HoA like Sentry)

All current “working and marketable” linux phones are built on top of android currently for compatibility with that existing market, so it depends how detached from android you want to be. (To my knowledge. Id love to be proven wrong)

If completely, then no.

Better bet is an android OS that has everything ripped out of it and privacy hardened. Its the same thing the linux phone is doing but without the linux portion sitting on top.

Otherwise you can attempt to use a pure linux setup but it’s going to be rough unless youre already set on dropping creature comforts.

Yeppp. Try to go get groceries or go visit a friend or go to work without passing by one. You’ll quickly realize it becomes a game of which angle and backroads do i have to take to get there.

Modern day underground railroad type stuff but with license cameras.

https://deflock.me/

Now more than ever, and even more so tomorrow.

Love doing this with modern atlus games. Cant wait to buy the “royal golden reloaded remaster collection” edition for $20 from a used/third party retailer.

To wield or to use. Either is fine with me!

20 years will do that.

Nope!

Amusingly there is a very large overlap in the companies that want to try to force ai tech crap onto their workers, but dont limit admin controls for users.

But to be more specific, what i meant by work-controlled is that you cant just install linux on a work machine or uninstall office products for alternatives due to company licensing.

Nothing preventing you from just not using that crap though of course but at that point you know your own company limits than i would so god speed!

Last thing you’d probably want to do is be forced into sitting in a class with Mr.MiddleManager / Mr.NepotismHire to go over why these AI products are actually good for you and they arent happy you circumvented that.

Ah you are indeed correct. I’m probably thinking of classic paint, not notepad.

Either way, i have the downloader for ye old notepad and paint tucked away on and off my machine for future sake when my company middle management decides they want to try to push the new AI tools down our throats for productivity again.

Yep precisely this.

Notepad is where stuff i dont care about 5minutes from now goes to die.

Notepad++ is stuff ill probably take to my grave, or at least til next week.

For folks who cannot do this due to it being a work-controlled machine or otherwise, you can use notepad++. (Obviously id rather this be a tipping point to ditch all the junk at once, but sometimes that isnt feasible)

That said, i find i still need a throwaway notepad for fast trashy notes. In that case ive just uninstalled the new notepad and re-downloaded the legacy notepad then re-aimed “notepad.exe” to the legacy one.

There are a few guides out there, just search your standard “how to get legacy notepad”

I think there’s an angle for people who wish they could take part in the good drawing too.

It’s like that kid in school that would trace a really good drawing and then change the color a bit and say they did it themselves, but for adults. ‘Aren’t you happy i made it better?’ Just equates to me as ‘i want attention for the art too’

The sad part of course being that instead of even having the guile to pick up a utensil and trace it themselves, they just copy paste it to a program and become a middle man for downloading and uploading an image.

Setting aside the ‘soul’ of the drawing or how it appears visually, it’s just sad to watch someone make a cheap facsimile of the thing you made at the cost of a few mouse clicks and making the climate a tiny bit worse.

All that just for ‘siel’

As a treat

Rhinestone eyes in my ass

And dont forget the hip/shoulder action for a bit more oomph. For home runs.

Nothing like getting a speeding ticket for going 44mph in a 45 because you came close to breaking the law.

According to the “political” meter in this website, this article is “unfair left leaning”

Mannnnnnn, is it unfair to want people with that kind of power to treat communications with respect/thought/security? Why is this even a left/right thing at a fundamental level?

I think it comes down to what you said, but for the obscenely rich.

A pro has failed more than a beginner has tried. The obscenely rich have been told ‘yes’ more than the poor have had the opportunity to even ask questions.

You can learn this type of failed behavior just like a bad habit, and boy howdy is he the master of it.

That probably IS the “secret” software. Lol Plug a phone into your car? Insurance company gets the info one way or another.