You do not need fancy schools to learn new things.

The one exception to that as I pointed out in my comment, are fields which are subject to regulations and actually do need formal training and licensing, like, as I also pointed out, you’re not getting a CDL through a free course if you want to get into driving semis, for example.

I’m siding with a lot of the other commenters on here, there’s more ways to learn stuff than going back to school; even cheap or in some cases free classes both online and in person are a thing for instance.

The one exception to that claim is anything that’s regulated in some way/needs a license, eg. driving a semi (need a CDL for that), going into the HVAC business (need a license to handle refrigerants), etc, those you need to go to school for, but things which aren’t subject to government regulations on some level can be learned with a free or cheap course.

Time to move to Codeberg or Forgejo, or self-host a bare git repo.

Great, now can they repurpose the nameplate on this, and take the Lightning name back to its roots as a sport truck?

Ford killing the Lightning EV, just opened up a golden opportunity for themselves to take what is otherwise a kinda underground spec option, and promote it to an official trim package by repurposing the Lightning nameplate for that.

Honestly, from curiosity and messing around with stuff, playing with Crunchbang on an old Win9x PC. (this was eons ago as Crunchbang wasn’t BunsenLabs yet at the time)

Yes, really, the last time I actively ran Windows for any reasonable length of time was with Win9x, specifically 98se.

I messed around with Win10 LTSB for a bit on a laptop (this was in 2016, so when Win10 was still new and LTSC was still called LTSB), but eventually went back to running Linux, and given Windows’ current trash-fire state, I’m not touching it on my hardware outside of a VM ideally, or a dedicated burner box if a baremetal install is ever needed for anything.

So even the enthusiasts would rather, or are probably going to be forced to, give up their custom-built PCs, which they can do whatever they want with and run whatever OS and software they want on, for locked-down black boxes they don’t even own anymore, even possibly to the degree where they can’t even install their own OS anymore, so no more Linux or BSD outside of some niche hardware? That sucks.

How soon before modular PCs are killed outright and the only desktops you can buy are mini PCs with no expansion or upgradability at all?

Assuming those alternatives also aren’t either sued into oblivion or just outright blocked at the ISP level.

how would repealing Section 230 affect the fediverse specifically?

• It would destroy it. And ATproto. And decentralized platforms in general. And open-source software and hardware in general as I could imagine MS getting the green light to destroy Linux because they deem it to be a threat due to repealing Sec. 230.

Goodbye decentralized and open platforms, and goodbye open-source software and hardware.

Repealing Section 230 will end the very existence of ActivityPub/the Fediverse, ATproto/Bsky, and even software like Linux because it goes against Big Tech’s wishes for world domination.

I hope everyone likes being roped into Big Tech’s silos before getting eventually disappeared.

Anyone who has an old car still has gotta feel some level of vindication right now as new cars for all price brackets are screwed right now on multiple levels.

This was in high school, but the way universities are going in the US right now, I’m feeling kinda vindicated in opting not to go to university.

I’m targeting them specifically because although Nintendo says they’re portable and will last, what if Nintendo decides to revoke all those download keys when they sunset the Switch 2 instead of allowing them to be redeemed on the Switch 3, if there even will be a Switch 3 and the entire gaming industry doesn’t collapse before such a console has a chance to even go into conception?

You’ll have larger amounts of now-useless plastic littering landfills than with the optical discs that are glorified license keys on the PS and Xbox consoles.

And given they’re trying to kill Section 230 and censor the web in general, it’s only a matter of time before this applies to citizens as a condition of living here.

I’ve never personally dealt with them and don’t ever intend to get a Switch 2 so I probably won’t deal with them, although I can imagine them being catastrophic when Nintendo eventually sunsets the console in question, but Switch 2 Game-Key Cards.

My PC in terms of being able to swap everything out, at least while parts are still available, I won’t be surprised if the RAM shortage was an attempt to try to kill parts sales for PCs at some point.

This is something that Robots of all movies tried to warn everyone about 20 years ago, specifically with (spoilers for a freakin’ 20-year-old movie that no one cares about) Ratchet killing spare parts in order to push his expensive upgrade packages. That sound familiar to what’s going on IRL right now?

I don’t have a Tiktok and never will have a Tiktok; if I ever want to make Tiktok-like content, I’d rather use Loops to do that.

Also, what’s stopping this ‘five years of social media posts’ requirement from extending to include citizens too?

PeerSuite doesn’t require an account and optionally lets you save chat logs in an encrypted file.

That’s actually already a thing potentially, TV and even appliance makers have been fielding using meshnet tech to spy on users regardless of if they’re connected to the web or not for a while now.