What’s funny is there are many examples of this working in walking distance from New York state, for example Quebec has the SAQ and SQDC which are small specific grocery stores that are state owned and sell marijuana and alcohol related products.

Btw the weed there cannot be beat. State approved highs are the best kind

Some are fairly normal priced

Get a framework laptop next time, very repairable

Is Ariana grande a shapeshifter

Oh god is he gonna put me on a train that is purposefully designed to make me barf and die

In a revelation that has sent shockwaves through the nation, sources have confirmed that Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11th attacks, was serving as the mayor of New York City at the time of the tragedy. Eyewitness accounts suggest that bin Laden, who had been seen attending city council meetings, was allegedly using his position to orchestrate the attacks while simultaneously promoting a series of controversial urban initiatives. This unprecedented twist has left many questioning how such a figure could have risen to power in one of the world’s most prominent cities.

City officials are scrambling to address the implications of this startling news, with some calling for an immediate investigation into bin Laden’s political connections and the circumstances surrounding his election. Critics are demanding accountability, arguing that the city’s leadership failed to recognize the threat posed by bin Laden, who was reportedly seen mingling with constituents at local events. As New Yorkers grapple with the fallout from this revelation, the nation watches closely, wondering how a city once known for its liberal attitudes could have been led by a figure so deeply entwined in the very fabric of the tragedy that unfolded on that fateful day.

Sure?

I’m from the south and some weirdo I know online accused me of appropriating “black language” when I said ‘yall’

I have a framework laptop that I put together, really repairable so if something explodes the whole thing doesn’t become ewaste. But only do this if your use case requires somewhat modern hardware there’s a ton of like 10 dollar laptops on sale on ebay that are 10 years old and good for only web browsing or remote desktop and will run fine with an install of fedora atomic or whatever

And yeah just put Linux on your current laptop it’ll run like a dream. Personally Ive got like 10 laptops around my place from family that didn’t want them and they all run great with fedora atomic. I prefer fedora atomic for these because updates don’t break if I don’t mess with them for a long time

Thunder is pretty good, no ads

Original link if it doesnt load (encoding rn) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoCjUrVAFG0

https://hexbear.net/post/5259174

Ok no

Mullvad browser 💅

I daily drive it. Run it close to stock as possible, save passwords with keepassxc. Use protonvpn or mullvadvpn with it. Can easily circumvent bans on Reddit and so on. Can’t be fingerprinted. It’s in the same class as Tor browser

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For the record you don’t need a second phone to do that with GrapheneOs, each profile is basically a new phone. You can even get burner esims for it.

Install GrapheneOs on it to remove Google garbage. Plus your phone now can’t be cracked by feds.

The Pixel series with GrapheneOs is the only phone that cannot be cracked by Cellebrite which is what federal governments around the world use to break into your phone. All other suggestions are trash if you do anything that could be construed as illegal (if shit hits the fan the government will use any excuse to target you as a leftist). In fact, an empty profile on GrapheneOs on wifi is probably the most secure and user oriented way to use the internet period. Other options like Qubes require a lot of technical knowledge, GrapheneOs is very user friendly and hard to fuck up, especially if you stick to open source software.

With the proper settings, FOSS apps, and avoiding google services you can double your battery life too. My pixel 9 lasts 5 days on a single charge. About half of any phones battery is used by Google services.

My suggestions for using this phone: compartment non foss apps into a separate google services profile that closes on switch. Then install things like Tor Browser, foss messengers like element and molly, and orbot or mullvad vpn, to a secure profile with nothing else on it. Restrict mobile access on that secure profile and don’t receive sms on it. Then have a normal foss profile that you use daily. This is the most secure way to operate.

Bazzite is my jam lately. I’m a perpetual distrohopper and g@mer and bazzite may have solved it for me. It just works. Nobara and mint have broken on upgrades for me in the past and my configs would break which would require manual intervention to fix, bazzite seems to have solved this and their system is very reproducible and stable. My configs get reapplied after every update.

Still waiting to see if anything will ever break. I legit haven’t had to research a single thing since downloading it and learning how the containers for flatpak, brew, and distrobox worked.

Linux has recently reached an extreme degree of parity with windows and often runs windows apps and games better than windows does even though it’s run through a compatibility layer.

It’s also just nice to look at the logs and see no telemetry, ad spam, and junk apps. Nope it’s just the 8 things I use. Bazzite seems to have best best implementation of a gaming kernel on Linux, my performance is often better than windows and 15-20% faster than other Linux distros. Even Nvidia has a stable open source driver these days, it’s wild how far Linux has come.