Benjaben

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[–] Benjaben 9 points 6 days ago (3 children)

First time I've ever seen him referenced anywhere outside where I learned of him! Best dude, what an inspiration.

[–] Benjaben 12 points 6 days ago

LOL I forgot about that, what a dork.

[–] Benjaben 2 points 1 week ago

I think Lenovos are kinda renowned as good candidates for Linux laptops, though I'm not knowledgeable enough to talk models and such. Go for it!

[–] Benjaben 3 points 1 week ago

You're great and you should feel great!

[–] Benjaben 35 points 1 week ago (3 children)

FWIW I shifted my monthly Wikipedia donation to The Internet Archive recently and recommend others do the same. Just a few bucks a month, please, it matters. Zero hate for Wikipedia, it's a critically important piece of human culture, but they're plenty good on $ and we need to be fostering backups of shared knowledge and historical records. This is important! No one will do it for us, only we who care can do it!

[–] Benjaben 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

If there's any new Lemmy users here, coming from Reddit (feel like I'm opening a seance), and if you're wondering what else you might decide to change during this era of change -

Try Linux! It's easy now, and frankly just better :)

[–] Benjaben 35 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Please don't let Musk convince you Trump is decent/better.

[–] Benjaben 7 points 1 week ago

Thanks for pointing this out, I had no idea. Removed it and left a review complaining.

[–] Benjaben 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When I think about it, I'd probably pay for a news source that aimed at giving factual, unbiased reporting (no I don't mean "equal coverage") and which deliberately dropped all deference or special respect for the ruling class. Especially if there were no "sacred cows" in general, genocide gets called genocide, none of this passive voice for police ("a man was shot during a police stop"), etc.

I'd put $20/month toward that.

[–] Benjaben 16 points 1 week ago

These are great, but let's also add and be vigilant in watching for Embrace, Extend, Extinguish type attacks! Let's always advocate against integrating with any of their services / instances.

[–] Benjaben 34 points 1 week ago

Thiel's company, Palantir, is making inroads at many fed gov agencies to manage their data. I've seen it happening myself. That's bad.

[–] Benjaben 3 points 2 weeks ago

Fair enough, I can imagine that pretty easily.

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