You are correct but every little barrier helps.

Hate to just keep throwing out links to Wikipedia but … these techniques have been used to some success in the fight against fascism before.

It is much better if Linux and systemd say “oh gosh we’re not ready to implement that for at least another 2-3 years and even then only in preliminary implementations” instead of “yes sir right away sir we have that all ready to go at a moments notice, let me put that boot of yours right down my own throat”

Hey I’m not gonna disagree. I just provided an answer to what that person meant about “glowing”.

I’ll add another link that you might want to consider though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticipatory_obedience

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/glowie

Nah, it’s Martin Shkreli

Oh well guess I’ll continue using audiobookshelf.

It’s always been wild to me how the seemingly-simplest change (“what is the name of this computer”) has so many little gotchas and quirks.

It is as long as you pay attention to who is in a group chat

Ah I am not bothered by the cryptocurrency … thing. It’s pretty well buried in the app, and doesn’t seem like anything they’re particularly trying to push. More like a failed experiment.

Why do you say signal is not the best option? My only discomfort with it is the phone number requirement (and I think they maybe relaxed that)

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