> By this definition, making anything that CAN be used for surveillance is normalizing surveillance.
What a dumb argument. So cameras I use to take pictures of flowers normalize surveillance? Stop defending the Church of Apple - you sound like a brainwashed cult member.
Yay, a blank dark page. Thank you, page author, for contributing to making the Internet an inaccessible shithole and requiring Javascript to read simple text.
$500 for a crappy netbook with 1080 resolution? What year is this? Go on Swappa and find yourself a used computer for less money and more power, install Linux yourself.
Classic EFF, having gone completely downhill and capitulated after Snowden, writes another idiotic article about police "noooo ... can't do that!" in spite of overwhelming evidence they can and do. But it's cool because EFF wrote an article saying they can't! They're the good guys!
I love how #2 is, Linux will "Fight Toxic Waste" because presumably you don't have to buy a "new" computer. It's always hilarious to see individuals trying to make a stand against "bad" environment policies by acting as atomized parts of a whole.
Corebooted Thinkpads are the gold standard. Don't listen to this article - it's utter nonsense - the author even recommend Libreboot which is effectively abandonware barely maintained by one unstable individual.
Stopped reading at "Macbook is ... as trustworthy as the Libreboot ThinkPad". Anyone who trusts closed source, proprietary, for-profit platforms from PRISM partners doesn't know what they're talking about.
We are building systems for turn-key tyranny. Stop using closed source, proprietary, for-profit technology which only oppresses us and builds a hellish future for our children to experience. Avoid rotten Apple.
This is how you know you need a vacation from computers - when you write an article literally fetishizing sounds they once made. The whole piece is symptomatic of a fried brain. To the author: go outside for a long walk and shut your devices off.
More baseless gender-bating nonsense. Nothing to do with technology or "hacker" news. Just some useless trivia editorialized to paint the "MEN BAD" narrative. Can't believe how the quality of front-page stories has deteriorated over the years on HN.
Imagine telling a frugivorous ape (which is what humans literally are) that fruit are to be enjoyed sparingly when our physiology and biochemistry has evolved over millions of years to eat exactly that. Then we wonder why there is all this sickness and disease.
What a dumb argument. So cameras I use to take pictures of flowers normalize surveillance? Stop defending the Church of Apple - you sound like a brainwashed cult member.