These tools aren’t going anywhere.

Make your peace.

how many ways can you really communicate with a cell tower?

Analog encoding assigns each device in a cell its own frequency range.

Time-domain multiplexing assigns each device a fraction of a second to transmit.

Quadrature phase-shift keying alters the timing of a signal to convey data.

Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing has each device transmit the same signal over P out of Q bands, such that each device’s signal can be reconstructed by knowing which bands it transmitted on.

There’s a fucking reason your phone is faster now than in 2010.

How cell phones work is ridiculously complicated. Going from analog, to time-domain shenanigans, to binary wizard math, is why you can watch 720p video and whine that it’s not 1080p.

Copyright is about copying. When someone sells you a product, and you buy it, then you own it. No license is involved. Under the first sale doctrine, no license can be involved - a book can’t have an insert with a EULA. They can print it… but it doesn’t matter. You bought that slip of paper, too.

If you stubbornly believe there’s some instant contract required to look at the logo on a candy wrapper, why are you tutting at people for calling that intolerable nonsense, instead of demanding a change to that intolerable nonsense?

Two crimes, then.

No. I own that copy. It’s not a license to anything. I own it. It’s mine. That’s what the money was for.

Don’t play corporate word games with concepts as basic as having things.

I own every book on my shelf. That copy is not the same as copyright. Grow up.

Books can’t say “by buying this book, nuh uh, you secretly agreed to blah blah blah.”

That shit got thrown out a century ago. Fuck off making excuses for corporate bastards in a new medium.

You own things you buy.

This is theft.

Anyone rolling their eyes and performing apologism can fuck off.

So… rebranding APUs.

You don’t.

But when you eventually reinstall, because Ubuntu crossed the line, Mint is just Ubuntu without the bullshit.

Previously? Some schmuck changing all the windows to be left-handed, immediately before a long-term-support feature freeze.

Zero percent surprised by many other comments throwing shade at Ubuntu.

Just use Mint.

Just ban it.

Do not stress over some corporation’s ability to harass and degrade you. Acknowledge a business model is shit - and say, fuck that. If they want better profit margins, spend less money, sell more copies.

He puts up with some weird nonsense.

“We have those?”

Oh sure, Google only fucks with how texting works, whether my car GPS cooperates, what the entire UI looks like…

I know this specific abuse was not Google’s fault specifically. But it’s the same god damn thing. Nobody asked me if I wanted that. They just shoved it onto the machine I paid to own and pay to use, like it’s not mine enough to deserve respect, let alone control.

It’s Metro’s fault.

I fucking hate that three separate skeezebag companies have free reign to insert software on my extremely personal wireless pocket computer.

The latest Google update will make your phone more secure if you don’t touch it…

Fuck entirely off. The last time my phone surprised me with an update, it was ads on my goddamn lock screen.

[sad barhah]

“The strongest protections in the Act have been designed for children,” an explainer says. “Platforms will be required to prevent children from accessing harmful and age-inappropriate content.”

Fuck them kids. Monitor your children’s internet access if you don’t want them seeing weird shit. Same as unsupervised access to television, books, magazines-- anything. The world is not for children.

Since the dev team is A Guy, hopefully he chooses to hand off to someone in a slightly less stupid country. Short as that list has become.