What are you executing from torrents? For music/movies/etc it should just be video files, nothing to execute.

The real world benefit is that scrolling is smooth, not choppy.

how do you pronounce man/men/woman/women? man and men might be confusable but woman and women are very different pronunciations

And yet, in my area the only alternative to Uber is Lyft. A taxi won’t even show up if you call dispatch.

New laptops don’t have optical drives. I don’t think there’s a single manufacturer that still has them.

Hell, most new computer cases (much to my chagrin) don’t even have 5 1/4" bays.

I think webrings are bigger than ever right now, they’re in a pretty massive renaissance

If we have an AI that’s equivalent to humanity in capability of learning and creative output/transformation, it would be immoral to just use it as a tool. At least that’s how I see it.

Meanwhile the teacher was thinking, “interesting tactic you’ve got there, admiring your art in the middle of a test”

I think AAC is the only major music codec that’s still patent encumbered though

And? Why does that matter?

Is nicotine not a drug?

Nicotine is no better of a drug than many others you probably wouldn’t want kids taking. Just because it’s a vape doesn’t mean it’s not incredibly addictive.

I don’t think he’s much of an Amiga guy, he’s a C64 guy. The words in an Amiga CPU have a few too many bits for the 8 Bit Guy :P

It’s from Supernatural, commonly used for breaking news on Tumblr as an inside joke

Officially sanctioned by Microsoft!

I use LibreJS with few exceptions. If I need to use a site that requires non-free JavaScript, I’ll use a private browsing window or (preferably) Tor Browser.

Sadly yep. Micro Center is just about the only PC component supplier I’ll buy from nowadays, but I have to drive like 4 hours to get to my nearest one

Can’t get me this time! Between last time and this time, I successfully removed Windows from all PCs in my life.

They also don’t need a warrant to browse data that companies just give them freely. The government can often easily get your data without a warrant if it’s stored by a megacorporation.

If it ain’t on F-Droid, chances are I ain’t usin’ it.

I think there are a grand total of 4 non-free apps installed on my phone right now. 2 are for smart home crap I don’t want to live without right now, and 2 are Google services I haven’t pried myself away from yet.