^^^ Look at this absolute asshole!, ^^^

<— also this one

And holding up an enormous sign above her head by only her middle finger and thumb.

While this argument is true, it’s full of holes.

Pissed off at Bezos betraying us all again? Consider not giving him your money and boycott Amazon.

Someone reading this message could cost them hundreds or thousands over the coming year by simply shopping elsewhere. That’s not nothing. There’s no doubt that Amazon is convenient, but it is possible to get along without them.

For Americans: in this time of rising fascism, it’s important to chip away at the pillars that are holding up the regime in the White House. This is one way to use your agency to have a measurable impact.

Exactly. It doesn’t need to be all, or even most. Just enough to make them unprofitable for long enough to where they panic. That seems a much lower bar and easier to meet.

I’d watch this, but only if there’s a laugh track.

Where is their moral outrage now?

We’ll soon be back to monks transcribing at this rate.

A bit off topic, but these are great when frozen.

Around 2021, I regularly ran into this problem with the Firefox snap. It had various runtime issues, so I preferred the traditional deb package. I’d uninstall the snap then install the deb. Then, some days later, I’d find the snap was somehow installed again. This happened a few times before I realized that the deb was just installing the snap. Imo, that’s not a good design. Debs should be debs and snaps should be snaps.

Anyhow, I use Arch now, btw. Much more consistent experience.

Very much so. It’s critical we sustain this pressure until the fascists cave. Don’t give them an inch.

Edit: 25.4 mm for our allies abroad. Thanks friends :-)

Cowards will be cowards I say, but us simpletons don’t understand the high stakes and day to day pressures of a modern multinational corporate conglomerate. They have profit margins, investor boards, and mergers to consider. Heavens! What good is free speech if they don’t make more money this quarter than they made last quarter? Please, good people of the Fediverse, won’t somebody think of the shareholders?

‘Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle.’

Nemik teaching us to chip away at the pillars which hold up fascism.

How many terrible books must I read to find the decent one? And why should I read something that nobody bothered to write? Such a senseless waste of time and resources.

In addition to cancelling, which is the MOST important thing:

What about uninstalling their apps?

App providers can see the number of installations on the different platforms (Apple, Roku, Android, etc). That count falling will further raise their disquiet. Leaving an app installed or continuing to use the service before the cancellation is processed could send an unintentional message that maybe this is all just temporary and we’ll come back in a couple of weeks after the news cycle plays out.

In 2003, it was my dream to play FF7 in Linux. In 2019, my dream came true. Thanks Proton, Codeweavers, Wine, Valve, et al for helping me finally put down Sephiroth right.

Agreed, good tools can be used badly. Over the years I’ve written Java, C++, and PHP professionally, and I’ve seen excellent and horrible impls in each. Today, I mostly use Java and this thread is reminding me that I need to learn a new for-fun language.