Lemmy is also being manipulated, but here it’s primarily through users. It’s a problem you’ll have on any social media, particularly if fully anonymous.

4chan is social media.

I’m waiting for the Ikea Timmerflotte. Any day now…

They may confiscate your phone and record all data on it.

If it’s a fresh wipe with a good passcode, and you keep it on airplane mode, you’re probably fine.

Why do you need an ID? Leave it in your car if you’re driving.

I don’t think there’s a single state that requires you to actually carry documentation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_and_identify_statutes

These are the states that require you to at least verbally state your name, and only if the officer has reasonable suspicion that you have or will commit a crime.

They can ask your name. You may not have to answer.

Research your state’s law on this before you go. It’s in the link.

Relatively easy, but expensive, problem to solve. We have all the salt water you need. Build nuclear plants and desalinate.

Stop allowing them to use the Colorado River.

Ublock Origin + Firefox

YouTube started detecting and complaining about that yesterday (for me).

Well, yes, but also.

Reminds me of the old mp3 player days before the iPod came in and dominated that market.

I’d recommend wiping your phone before going. And some of our busiest airports have gotten more dangerous lately.

Other than that, you’ll be fine.

Firefox. Because using even a slightly sketchy browser for shit like banking logins is insane.

Yeah, that’s a terrible idea.

Everyone who disagrees with you is a bot

I mean that’s unironically the problem. When there absolutely are bots out here, how do you tell?

Back then it was just old people trying to groom 16 year olds. Now it’s a nation’s intelligence apparatus turning our citizens against each other and convincing them to destroy our country.

I wholeheartedly believe they’re here, too. Their primary function here is to discourage the left from voting, primarily by focusing on the (very real) failures of the Democrats while the other party is extremely literally the Nazi party.

with whatever’s left

Heh, several of your bullets can eat that full amount.

This will get deleted because you’re on the .ml instance. Comments here will be carefully pruned to enforce a narrative.

Yeah, there’s a reason for that. One has motives outside of the current situation.

it was easier to reinstall than it was to figure out how I broke it in some new novel way.

I came to the same conclusion. But I couldn’t get it to reinstall. It kept wanting to use the old partition. (2001, maybe Ubuntu?)

So I knew how to solve that. If the linux installation is wiped, then it’ll surely allow me to reinstall fresh. So,

rm -rf /

Begins deleting files…

“Wait, my Windows partition is under that, isn’t it.” Ctrl+C frantically, it won’t stop. Pull the plug.

I did get my files back. Just, you know, without file paths or file names. Do you know how many DLLs and worthless text files there are, by the way?

At the time, everything HTTP was supposed to be public.

Before or after they fire 90% of their staff?