Did... You just call my teenager a bitch?

I mean, I do that, too at times, but still......

They don't if you're constantly taking them off to put stuff inside them between the phone and the black.

She refuses to carry a purse or even a wallet and just shoves her ID and her teen-limited cashapp card in. And sometimes even spare cash if she has any.

If I can't own it, I'm not buying it.

So if you use a *buntu based distro, but prefer kde, why not KDE neon?

My kid does.

And I wish she wouldn't. To clarify, we've bought her cases and she destroys the case in days.

She's more careful with her bare phone than she is with it in a case.

I use a case to add magsafe to my android phone, because I like the magnetic holder/charger idea ,na swish all phones had it built in.

I have a cheap, clear magsafe case for my Pixel 9.

I also have a screen protector, and when I have the phone out of the case, it feels weird in my hand when I brush the edge of the screen protector.

The Golden Child.

I I I I I want the knife...

Please...

As someone who used to download C64 games in the 1980s, from a BBS, trust me. Pirating existed decades before BitTorrent.

Decades.

Don't forget to include the hacked controller firmware that reports the drive size as triple what it actually is.

Then that's changed since the last time I toyed with the idea. Which, granted, was probably 20 years ago...

There. Was that at hard?

It's apparently easier than you not being a jackass, at least.

The big issue is that your network provider is also the physical provider, and there's no real competition as a result.

When most people got their Internet service over telephone lines, your ISP didn't need to also own the telephone lines, they just needed some telephone numbers.

When the telcos themselves got into the business of providing internet access, they pushed out the competition.

The 1996 Telecommunications Act, written by a Republican Congress, and signed into law by a Democratic president (Clinton) is largely responsible for the current state of affairs.

The "Information Superhighway" is a toll road, built by taxes, but owned by private corporations.

What's crazy is that the government paid these corporations to build this infrastructure.

When your government pays, say, a road building company to build roads, one doesn't then grant the ownership of those roads to that company.

But that is EXACTLY what we did with our communications infrastructure.