Thank you so much for this walk through.

Well, if its that simple I won’t have to worry when I upgrade next year.

I have heard that you can’t just choose to not connect it, you actually have to route it to a dead end like a pihole. Supposedly some of these smart TVs will make you think you were allowed to bypass completely but have just connected to the nearest unsecured network.

Not an issue for people who have no neighbors, but people who live in a suburb or city?

Good to know thank you for that information.

Than what is 2G still used for?

From what I have read, I suspect that you might live in an area that took so long to get 2G that 3G essentially leapfrogged it for you. Emergency services run on 2G a lot of the time, and I don’t think any reports of 2G service being out.

My understanding is that emergency services are either 2G or a mesh infrastructure (perhaps both? I am still learning tech.

I have honestly always found their news search results useless.

I’m sorry, I didn’t realize you are living in the future where the chtistofascists are in power and have the legal impugnity to back state violence.

I thought you were just pretending to not understand the difference between ingrained power structures and random acts of non state violence committed by terrorists outside the bounds of the law.

I apologize for not assuming this was a time dysfunction. Although, if you are already there, you should feel pretty stupid for not just voting democrat.

No, you didn’t use my words against me. You used the words you wanted me to say against me. There is a difference.

If you are going to pretend that none of this progress over the last 30 years happened that is fine, but i’m not interested in trying to have a dialog with a person acting in bad faith.

No, I don’t seem to want that, you ware pretending I seem to want that because your argument only exists if you choose to believe that.

And you are sitting on the sidelines in horror telling us you won’t even vote against the anti trans agenda.

I wish everybody had your privilege.

That’s rough. I once knew a guy at work who was suffering from gambling addiction. Actually pretended $600 was stolen from him at work just so he could have a report to show his landlord or something bonkers.

I also knew a lady who had broken her arm, waited until the next day and then pretended she fell at work, got rushed to the hospital and immediately got LNI. The temp who was replacing her discovered like $50k in fraudulent checks.

Every single penny had gone to slot machines, of all things.

It has gotten better for trans people.

Even 15 years ago teenagers in the west coast of all places would be told by their loved ones that if they were trans they would be cursing themselves to a life of prostitution.

I like to think about how far the trans community has gone and I don’t want to see them go back to square one because you are having a temper tantrum.

One side is milquetoast liberals and the other is christofascists who will be gunning trans people and their allies down in the street like rabid dogs.

I’m sorry you find it such a difficult choice.

Were you only in the fight because you thought winning would be easy?

We need to not abandon vulnerable leftists just because we don’t like liberals, because the alternative you have is worse and pretending otherwise is spitting in the face of a lot of people who won’t have the luxary of taking off their denims and patches.

A large part of Alex’s and David’s relationship over the last 20 years has been 2 men very much attempting to publicly “cuck” the other intellectually.

Don’t get me wrong, they are each probably the others only true friend.

When I left tiktok, I feel like I was getting an ad every 4 or so minutes, almost all of it scammy fastbfashion brands. I think I left tik too fully at the same time as the reddit protests.

I think variety. It’s been 7 years since the show came out. I will look more into it.

As somebody whose wife just downloaded opera onto the family computer I am horrified.

She’s been complaining that the internet is slow and has blamed it on protonvon, so has resorted to turning the vpn off when using the internet or discord.

I remember after Twin Peaks season 3 came out, showtime was stating left and right how profitable the show was, and then accusations started flying that the show was so profitable because showtime was taking over the browser while people were watching and mining bitcoin in the background without telling people they were doing so.

I trust Opera about a thousand times less just because I had never hears of them until a week or two ago.