Because there’s fewer foreign bots trying to make you hate everyone in your country, and fewer social media engagement bots trying to make sure you stay online arguing with someone.

Why not? They were fixing Windows XP remote-execution exploits all the way up to 2017. For free, for anyone to download.

And that stuff is only used to take down children’s hospitals, they don’t waste 0-day exploits on some rando’s home PC.

Linux isn’t hard anymore because I have ChatGPT to come up with all the command lines for me. And they work 60% of the time!

Challenge: Fight for working class rights without becoming contrarian (impossible)

Reddit shadowbans all new accounts. So new users have no idea why nobody replies to them for the first 3 months.

I used to make shunt resistors out of a pencil and a piece of paper. Rub pencil all over paper, cut strips to size of required resistance.

EDIT: I mean megaohm resistors not shunt resistors. 20MOhm for DIY theramin.

AI is great for when you’re typing out 30 slight variations of the same thing, and you can just be like “see what I’m doing here? Do it for the other 30 variables” and it does it just fine.

Most of the drugs they ban like cannabis are because of a UN convention that, under US pressure, forced them to, in the 1960’s and 1970’s.

Oh yeah, this one time, I did heroin. Then I checked out some memes. Then I looked at a naked lady on the internet. All the same thing really.

Wow there are way fewer “so what it’s the same as your smartphone” and “everyone does it, google, apple, it’s no big deal” comments on Lemmy.