For occasional programs, or things like games, I’ll agree. For most software I use, no thanks.

I’m sorry, yeah that must be awful.

It’s even worse when half the population actually endorses the behaviour.

Are there a lot of Canadians who support it then?

It’s handy sometimes, isn’t it ;-)

“I wish I wasn’t primarily bred to be food…”

I thought wine on Linux pulls in a load of 32-bit libraries so it still works on 64-bit systems.

And harder to fix vulnerabilities in a linked library, and more bloat in both storage space and memory used.

Trade-offs!

Ah, so the government is your landlord now?

It’s good, because Americans have so much trust in their government right now.

A few comments around saying, “not all landlords are bad; I’m a landlord and I’m pretty okay.” Where are the tenants saying, I’m happy to pay rent to my landlord?

I’ll be one.

I’ve never owned property. I’d like to, and I think there’s a huge evil in the scale and manner of property/land rental that goes on, and I’d much prefer an overwhelming change toward most people being able to own their home.

But not all of us are in a position to own. Nor does everyone want the responsibility and the overhead (ownership can be expensive too!). I’m glad there have been landlords from whom I can rent a place in each of the places I’ve been.

Joke’s on you; I drive with generic Ford Focus badges, rotate my number plate for each new road, and use a curated set of bumper stickers that match 67% of other road users for harder fingerprinting.

When I want to be extra sneaky I drive my car into a lorry (semi), drive the lorry onto a train, offload the car while on the train and change lines, load into a different lorry, disembark the train a short way away from the locality I want to reach, drive half way in the lorry, then get the car out for the final few miles. I call this method, “The Onion Road,” because of the layers of privacy.

If 4. is too hard (like, if you’re not cool enough), make two versions and send them out to different groups. “Secret files of Trump and Epstein; help us break the encryption!” And, “Free America Foundational Sovereign Data (Crucial For Rebuilding Society Once Trump Finishes Overturning The Corrupt Bureaucracy)”

Ah yes, I remember the German numbers.

Ein, Zwei, Drei, Vier, Wolfen