Taking a seat in a full class to fuck around on your phone could fit that bill. Someone else might have wanted to be in your seat. In this scenario, your actions in that class could have repercussions beyond just the classroom.

Yup. It was necessary because of the lawsuits from our former “neighbors” down south. We tried to stop that shit from coming up here but here we are. Get fucked America (not directed at you op, sorry)

No one said it’s not a food item, just that it doesn’t quailify as ice cream. Similary Ireland ruled against Subway calling their “bread” bread for the same reason, it doesn’t pass the standards to qualify as that specific food item.

If it helps, I had a Google Home hub and bought one for my mum to talk. She has an old laptop as well so I just got her to download Signal and now we video call over that instead. Was pretty painless actually. If you both have Macs you can get something else and use Signal with Signal on her Mac so you can change without much hassle to her.

For photos, I’ve heard good things about immich and ente.io, both are FOSS.

Yep, we’re seeing the end game of allowing monopolies to take over. It’s been a long, difficult road but my PC was the last bit I needed to say I am officially not using any product from a company who’s CEO was at Trump’s inauguration. PC and 2 laptops (Linux), current phone as well as 2 old ones (graphene os, calyx, and lineage), email, messaging, drive, social, no amazon, etc.

I just made the switch to Linux on my work PC last week. I do freelance audio work and Linux is significantly lacking when it comes to audio compared to Windows. DAWs aren’t as robust, plugins are severely lacking (can’t get any Windows ones to really work with wine) and though I’ve got things mostly figured out now, I’d say anything I do is 3 or 4 clicks to every 1 on Windows. This week has been constant maintenace, and everything takes more work. That said, fuck Microsoft.

Stablecoins like USDC are basically x coins is the cost. It’s pegged to the US dollar so 1 USDC is equal to $1 USD, always. Something like Bitcoin on the other hand, it’s better to think of it as it’s own currency. For example, right now the equivalent to $20 USD would be 0.00016962 BTC. When BTC goes up in price, $20 USD costs fewer Bitcoins (sats, which are everything passed the decimal).

The real world equivalent would be exchange rates, like between the US and Canada. Say the rate is 1.33, so that $20 USD game would cost $26.60 CAD. The rate changes to 1.35, so now it costs you $27. Next week it dips to 1.28, so now that $20 USD game costs $25.60 CAD.

You need to let go of what you can’t control, to a point. Focus an what you can do. Vote. Convince others who don’t vote to vote. Educate people when the opportunity comes up. Get active in your community. Most importantly, show love, compassion, and empathy to those around you. Don’t let right-wing rhetoric break you. Always try to be good, but never fail to be kind.

One thing you can start doing today to help curb the maga rise from the south is start transitioning off big tech. Dump social media. Get an email provider that’s ideally privacy focused (Proton, Tuta), and stop using Google. The push for privatization comes from greed, which is compounded by Capitalism. And I’ll say it once more, dump social media. It’s predatory and only exists because of engagement from its users. Social media purposefully feeds divisive, toxic, misinformed bullshit to rile you up and get you to engage. Trust me, you’ll sleep better.

Making it harder to access vaccines means more people get sick. More sick people means more people in the hospital. More people in the hospital overwhelms public health, thus “proving” public health doesn’t work and it’s time to privatize. This is all by design.

I’m in the process of switching myself. Threw Ubuntu Studio on my laptop (Samsung Galaxy Book3 Ultra) and I’m currently testing for audio and music production to see if I can make the switch on my main PC for work. I’m loving it so far, though it’s looking like a step back for audio production unfortunately. That being said, where there’s a will there’s a way!