Most sites can tell if you’re using a VPN. It depends on the site, but this can cause sites to treat your visit as suspicious and throw up their defenses. This includes use of CAPTCHA. Some sites (e.g. Reddit) don’t work at all if your traffic exits from a known VPN.

“Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time” - Saint IGNUcius

THERE’S MORE?

It fosters collaboration

Username does not check out

don’t have time

TF are they doing, then?!

I run top

It’s a gnu+Linux OS with a default desktop environment. It’s intended to be installed on bare metal where it’s accessed directly by the user.

It’s not for server use. (At least not primarily or by default.)

So I’m not sure where you’re getting the idea that it’s not desktop Linux.

And for everything else, there’s Mastercard®️

Anyone else still just using a poop knife in 2026?

Slot machines would like a word

Then turn the button into some kind of cookie-clicker type game, because it will be being used a lot!

Your examples are false equivalences from where I stand. Slavery, capitalism…these are human systems. Of course the people inside have their own goals and desires. Much of agriculture is wontonly bleak, but not by definition. People still exist without slavery, it is not the same for a meat chicken. They really shouldn’t exist, and ideally they wouldn’t, but they’re not going away anytime soon.

The “natural life” of all animals bred for meat ends with their slaughter, by definition. Otherwise they wouldn’t exist? Their purpose is not to die of old age, that itself would be a horribly cruel existence past the point when slaughter would normally occur.

None of these creatures exist in nature. If they’re going to exist at all, why not give the best life and fulfillment of purpose if you can?

No one really knows. Only a few brave souls have tried, all of whom succumbed to madness shortly thereafter.

In theory I could do my job from a good screen, because everything is either in a browser or a remote server somewhere. Anything would run better than the POS surface laptop they issued, and I’d surely be more productive and efficient if I purpose-built a workstation with open-source, tailored to what I do.

It will never happen at my company though.

So Apple?

Yeah you gotta at least have some socks as a base layer

No sales job ever paid per time spent on phone

Having participated in the marketplace for a while, I am positive this is not true. Have you ever met a sales guy? They love executing on nonsensical strategies.

There’s a lot of dumb money still out there. The term “dumb money” doesn’t do it justice. We should call it “braindead money” instead.