RalfWausE

Leaving the really ancient machines aside - for most tasks you really don’t need the newest tech. At home i am running a Core2Quad system with 8 GB DDR2 RAM and its absolutely fine under Linux or other free OSes. Webbrowsing even with a ton of tabs open is no problem, many games from the repositories are still running absolutely fine and for office stuff this system would still be overkill. Hell, would i switch out the old Nvidia GPU for something remotely newer even current versions of Blender would just work.

I think this is what they really want. Perhaps it will come with the introduction of Windows 12, of course all for your “safety”. But luckily there is still a giant supply of old(er) computers out there that will happily run under Linux / BSD.

The SS did, in its early days, surely have high standards regarding fanaticism and race purity but later on lowered their expectations dramatically… if not on paper then at least in practice. Those people in my family were not bad people, at least later in life I would categorize then as good men, but opportunism led them join horrible institutions.

The same justification was made by my grandfather for joining the SA and for another two members of my extended family for joining the SS. Honestly, that is exactly what they said when I confronted them as old men.

What do you want to do against this? Not use the browser? Well… fine, I guess.

Let me rephrase it: ‘Shit even the most brainwashed nutjob instinctively ruled out’

Yeah, but giving a glorified markov chain generator the ability to hallucinate that you wanted to ‘sudo rm -rf /’ while utterly violating your privacy and perhaps uploading nasty photos of you without consent wasn’t possible yet. I mean… sure, it would have been entirely possible to script something like that together with about 1/1000 of the energy cost, but nobody was stupid enough to think it would be a good idea.

Do yourself a favor and try Vivaldi, while yes, it uses Chromium under the hood, it at least is made by some of the original Opera creators