Not in Trump’s America.

It’s very easy:

• Get yourself a DangerousThings xEM implant: it’s a glass implant with a T5577 chip inside, which is reprogrammable to be compatible with most 125kHz RFID chips out there (in fact, it’s probably what’s in your cat)
• Get a Proxmark3 RDV4
• Scan your cat’s FDX-B chip’s ID
• Get the chip implanted by a body modification shop (DangerousThings has a list of approved partners who can perform the implantation). It’s a 10-second affair with a big needle. No biggie.
• After a few days to 2 weeks, when the swelling has subsided and your chip registers with a solid signal on the Proxmark3, reprogram your chip as a FDX-B chip with your cat’s ID.

Next up: ICE builds a concentration camp in the middle of a Hawaiian volcano with FEMA money, call it Lava Alcatraz, and the orange utan fly in and get filmed by the sycophantic White House press corp mocking the upcoming detainees.

I use CalyxOS too. But Google doesn’t like it and they’ve taken steps to stop us.
So, enjoy the freedom while you can: the big G is coming for it.

Criminals do that.

I doubt it’s true because it conveniently and easily show up on social media at exactly the right moment. In other words, it has fake written all over it. But the MAGAts have no critical thinking abilities so they’ll fall for it in a New York minute. I can’t wait!

I doubt any of this is true, but I’m stocking up on popcorn to watch the MAGA halfwits lose their simple minds over this. The spectacle will be riveting!

I would say Trump. The problem is, ridiculous come from the Latin for laughable, and fascism is no laughing matter.

Next in line would be Dubya. He was a bit less fascist - although Gitmo detainees probably beg to disagree - but more amusing.

So I vote for Dubya, despite the fascism.

One major issue is dGPU performance (this is also relevant for WoA).

That’s true. But that’s more a usability issue than an architecture incompatibility issue.

My compute module is a RK3588, which in the ARM world is considered high end, and it only compares favorably with an entry-level laptop of 5 years ago performance-wise - CPU or GPU. So with respect to price/performance, it’s not there yet. But… well, it works as well as an entry-level laptop of 5 years ago, which is good enough for my meager needs.

If you need performance, you’re limited to x86 because there is nothing equivalent in the ARM world yet. But that’s not because the ecosystem isn’t supported.

Note that the keyword here is yet: as more people buy ARM stuff, more powerful and cheaper ARM stuff will appear on the market. Chicken and egg.

lot of closed source software that cannot run natively on WoA

That’s why I said “at least in Linux”. And you’re right, I probably should have added “for open-source software”.

I haven’t used Windows since 95, and I haven’t used proprietary software for quite a number of years either, because the open-source offering is now good enough that I can credibly do all my computing without anything else. And so for my type of use, there is no significant hurdle running on ARM compared to x86.

But don’t think I’m in an ultra-minority: more and more people only use open-source software nowadays, and they’re not even power users anymore. It’s that good now. So I didn’t feel like mentioning it, because while it’s not quite mainstream yet, it’s common enough.

Using an architecture other than x86 also simply isn’t an option for a lot of people, ruling out POWER9 and ARM hardware entirely.

I call bullshit on this.

My daily driver is an MNT Reform, which is an ARM machine, and I have no trouble finding software. All the stuff I need has been packaged for aarch64 / arm64. At this point, thanks to the popularity of the Raspberry Pi, ARM is pretty much as mainstream as x86 these day.

The only piece of software I couldn’t find pre-built for ARM was an older version of Blender that could use my less-than-current-OpenGL GPU. Other than that, it’s all there and ready to use as quickly and as easily as on x86.

I was the first to be surprised by this, but it’s true: if you run an ARM laptop, you really won’t miss out on anything. At least in Linux.

Gerrymandering is nothing new.

What will set Trump apart is that I’m pretty sure he’ll deploy his ICE private paramilitary in blue states to discourage the “wrong” people from going out to vote, or deploy the military over some made-up emergency or other to cancel the elections altogether.

Why do you think ICE just got $45bn? Yes, that’s BILLIONS. Hell of a budget increase for a mere immigration enforcement agency isn’t it?

What do you think the LA rehearsal was for?

There won’t be fair mid-term elections. Mark my words.

We know Trump had exceptionally close ties to Epstein, no amount of gaslighting is going to swing that many people to forget that.

You’re deluded.

The MAGA morons who voted him into office knew he was buddy-buddy with the dead pedo before the election. And they knew their racehorse is a convicted sexual predator. Yet the MAGA morons voted for him. Why would they turn on him now?

The MAGA morons are morons. Their outrage won’t survive the weekend. And then they’ll get worked up against whatever their cult leader tells them to get worked up against.

MAGA people have zero principles, otherwise they wouldn’t be MAGA.

The danger with this is, Trump may well pull some truly inhumane and unconstitutional stunt to deflect attention away from his friendship with the dead pedo…

Wait until you get older and one day you’ll realize the kids are looking at you funny when you talk. Then you’ll realize you naturally talk “oldtimey” and your youth is gone.

Enjoy not being an old fart while you can and don’t wish to become one ahead of time. Trust me on that one, it’s not groovy.

it is still running android underneath

Oh really? I wasn’t aware. That’s a bit of a letdown: I wanted to ditch Android altogether.

Then again, I suppose if the camera works, it must have something to do with running atop a working Android system.

I’ll look into all this. Thanks for the heads up!

uBlock Origin in expert mode, Librewolf’s Resist Fingerprinting and Libredirect ensure that Google knows as little about me as possible - be it on DDG or anywhere else.

Fuck Google - if this clarification was needed.

Oh and yeah, fuck Google. Because it bears repeating.

At the end of the day, it’s the Heritage Foundation. They’re the ones pulling the strings of all those retarded MAGA puppets.

I’m not so sure, see. And the reason is: if people who are traditionally willing to accept low wages don’t apply for jobs at Amazon fulfillment centers for fear of being kidnapped by the GestapoICE, then Bezos will have to start attracting people who aren’t quite content with minimum wage.

Not to mention, if Bezos’ slave wage shops start being known as ICE hunting grounds, even the latter might want to give working there a pass altogether.

On the plus side - if there ever was a plus side to anything Trump does - this might drive up wages for the remaining employees, and/or to attract fresh new recruits to fill up the missing roles.