I did that. Since I had everything backed up to my nextcloud, I just pulled the Debian USB out of my backpack and razed what was left. Rebuilt on the rubble.

The Linux kernel is a few hundred million lines of code, probably. It does need to slowly be moved into a memory safe language.

I don’t know. Having a family member with dual citizenship gives me a good comparison between the US and the UK. Both of our governments are getting very Orwellian.

I hope I am wrong, but we’re now essentially being run by an unelected oligarch. Authoritarian regimes like the US will see it and demand the same for here.

My government is now basically a fascist regime. Musk is going to see this and demand that Apple do the same.

Go to an electronics recycling center and get a retired thinkpad (or 5). Once they’re decommissioned by corporations, they wipe the drive and send them off to be recycled.

What’s a good VPN service? Is Proton still good?

Last I heard, torrents would leak your actual IP. Has that been fixed?

Apple is a US based company. For them to just roll over sets a bad precedent, especially for our fascists who are now running the show here.

What’s to stop the US government from going after the same services here? What’s about Tor or VPN services?

The authoritarians will smell blood in the water after this. Since the big player just gave up, who will stand in their way?

I’m not a liberal. I just call the rot where I see it, and suggest it be cut out. Where’s Mario’s brother when you need him?

Unfortunately. I’d love nothing more than to be able to move my family out of the US.

Powhatan should have 💀 them as they came ashore. That’s one thing I would fix with a time machine.

I second this ~a 13th great grandchild of Powhatan.

Republicans do, but they blame them on the wrong foreigners. The foreigners causing most of the problems are Musk, Murdoch, Ramaswami, and a few others.

No, the only thing I wish would center around the US is an asteroid. I absolutely hate it here, but I don’t have the means to leave.

One of my in-laws has dual England/US citizenship. They divide their time between the two countries. It directly effects them.

It affects certain people from America. I have a relative who is directly affected by this.

Not if they are in the UK? Idk, that’s probably a weird edge case, but unless we’re all free, nobody is.

The UK is part of 5 Eyes. They swap info on citizens among members. No warrants, no constitutional protections. All they have to do is ask MI5 for info on Americans with dual citizenship.