Thanks. It seems to me that the Bible thumping crowd would see it was Trump is the one being attacked and the remainder of the passage would be against his enemies, rather than the intended implication that Trump is the enemy.

Fast food workers generally get minimum wage at least, so tipping shouldn’t be required or expected there. It’s mostly servers at restaurants as far as I know.

When I know that the workers are paid less than minimum, I’m pretty much always tipping unless you’re grossly negligent or you are actively mean. You can have a bad disposition, that’s fine. Everyone has bad days, I’ll still tip as long as you’re not directing your unhappiness at me. I just got here, I’m not the thing you’re mad at, so please don’t treat me like I am.

If tipping goes away tomorrow, I’ll be happy. Not just for my pocket book and the pain and frustration I feel staring at menus trying to up all the prices by 15-20% so I know what I’ll actually be paying, but for the workers actually making a decent wage.

We also need to address minimum wage issues, but that’s another matter entirely and affects a much larger group of people.

I get you. I mostly didn’t either, I’m also an “elder” millennial. I grew up in a relatively small city. The city water from the garden hose was fine, for the most part. I don’t remember any specific instance where I drank it though.

That’s an issue specific to this statement from OP. I was trying to speak more generally, but setting that aside, I think the garden hose thing was a boomer/post boomer thing more than Gen X/millennial. … Back then, from what I understand, it wasn’t uncommon to send the kids outside to play and lock them out there… Probably so the parents can go fuck or at least get a moment of peace and quiet from their fuck trophies.

I don’t really know, since I wasn’t alive then, and I don’t know that I care enough to look into it any more than I already have.

Sadly, I’ve had enough experience with phone systems that I do.

Sounds to me like this was a phone number, specifically: 3 6316

But at a time when phone systems were not all interconnected. So you had to be in the “Belmont” area phone system in order to call it.

I don’t. No. Future generations can, will, and bluntly, should, have it easier. Often it’s not, because the challenges change, they don’t go away, which is the great tragedy of it all.

Yeah. Have all the hate you want for it. When you realize that shit you had to go through as a kid, nobody else will ever have to experience… You’ll be the same.

Fact is, younger generations have different challenges than older generations.

When I was growing up, there were no cellphones and caller ID wasn’t really a thing either. That’s how old I am. We had to look up numbers in a book and call people’s houses blindly, then ask if the person we were looking to speak with was even there. Now, anyone can chat, text, directly call (no party lines), or otherwise connect with almost anyone and everyone at any time for any reason. I’m not saying that’s entirely a benefit, because it’s not, there’s definite downsides to that as well, but the challenge was different.

You’ll never experience having to do what I did, just to speak to and plan to meet up with your friends. That part will be easier.

What you don’t know now, that you will realize later is that these memes are a way for the older generations to cope with the fact that we are indeed, getting older. It’s a form of nostalgia, to remind us of the activities of our youth and the things we had no other option than to do, that younger people may never have to do.

IMO, it’s not intended to be tribalism, it’s intended to invoke a sense of community and nostalgia in those that experienced it. I’m sorry that you feel like you’re being attacked or left out or segregated by tribalism because of our incessant need to have some measure of solace in our rapidly deteriorating bodies by having a moment of nostalgia in the form of a funny, ha ha, meme.

Forgive my ignorance, in this context, who is “he”?

Like, what kind of person is being discussed in this passage?

Mostly just curious. But not curious enough to tarnish my Google search history by looking it up.

If I were to do something so ridiculous for a full year for the full amount, I wouldn’t be doing it for me. There’s no way I would be able to spend 10Bn in my lifetime on things for me and my immediate family. I don’t think that’s even possible unless we were literally flushing money down the toilet, burning it, or throwing pallets of $100s from a plane while flying over a populated area.

I would use the 10Bn to create things like scholarship funds for colleges, where the only requirement is that you can prove you don’t come from money (and can afford whatever education you want without help).

I would also be donating large amounts to charities and good causes, especially FOSS and things like the Internet archive.

Above and beyond that, I’d likely use my newfound wealth to create a company that builds open source or modular hardware for things currently dominated by big tech. Like mobile phones, specifically Android phones, and supporting companies doing similar work like framework.

I would only take enough to pay off my house, all debts, and for a savings/income fund so that I can live comfortably for the rest of my life without needing to work, both for myself, my spouse, and some members of my immediate family.

While in the box, I would let me ADHD brain wander endlessly and entertain itself, until it gets bored or tired, then sleep and repeat that 365 times.

I’m with you. A day or two at most is all I would need to be set for life for anything I would ever want.

I like fancy tech, so I might stick around for a second or third day because fancy tech isn’t cheap.

People in my field refer to it as “backing up the money dump truck to (vendor) HQ” … Just to give some context.

Fair enough.

Maybe. In my experience business isn’t that patient.

A TPM is otherwise a good thing. It can extend cryptographic capabilities and the overall security stance of the system.

But I digress. I will reserve judgement for now. Time will tell either way, and I don’t think anyone will feel like gloating if they start to lock it down like you believe they will.

Oh, you’ll make it to retirement age, you just won’t be able to retire at that age, or ever.

That’s what I expect at least.

I figure that I’ll be able to retire when I have my house, and all other debts paid off in full, and I’m collecting my government pension (we have a national program here in Canada). And that assumes that the pension payments can cover my day to day and month to month expenses, which, at this point, with inflation the way it’s going, I have absolutely zero confidence that it will be enough.

So I keep working and working, and creating value for shareholders.

Wait, do you actually have retirement savings?

I’m on the leading edge of millennial and my retirement plan is to die.

You guys have retirement savings?

This is already happening, but it’s on an organisational level by policy. These policies can be applied to systems that follow trusted computing rules, which is most Windows 10 systems and pretty much all windows 11 systems. Google has laid the groundwork for this since the pixel 3 was released in 2018.

Since then, we have seen Google put the Titan security module in all phones and I’m certain Chromebooks are requiring TPM modules that serve the same function.

Apple has been doing the same since God knows when. Their systems have had unique chips that ensure that when MacOS is installed, it is only installed in Apple computers. There are ways around this, just as there are ways around the TPM requirement for Windows 11.

The trusted computing model, when fully imposed, can basically stop any applications from running that have not been given the blessing of the security team.

As far as I’m aware, the only people taking advantage of the technology are government institutions.

The fact that this can be wielded to enforce control over private individuals by our corporate masters is becoming a very real possibility, but the fact that it hasn’t happened yet, by any vendor, is, in my opinion, good evidence to say that it’s unlikely, but not impossible. Maybe that’s wishful thinking on my part.

In any case, the only truly free operating system left is GNU/Linux, with few other exceptions.

Imagine that. A tabloid news rag that used a clickbait headline? I’m shocked! SHOCKED!

… Well, not that shocked.

I’m 42 and I never understood the fascination with celebrity news.

Not when I was younger, and certainly not now.

The most I want to see about celebs is “[famous actor] known for playing [major role] died at [age] from [cause]”

Anything short of that, I just don’t have any fucks to give.

Ha. It’s the new “IDKMYBFFJILL”

Hilarious.

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This is the risk of “trusted computing” architectures. Who is governing the “trusted” part of that.

These cryptographic signatures are not as much of a death knell for Android as some would have you believe. The trick is to get a common code signing cert into your device, that is then used to sign any third party APK you want to run. You can avoid the Google tax this way. I assume that’s how most sideloading sites and apps are going to handle this.

The question is, how do you add that certificate? Is it easy and straight forward (with plenty of scary warnings), as a user? Or is it going to be a developer options deal? Or will I need root to add the cert?

I’m not sure what that answer is right now.

I just want to finish this post with a few words about trusted computing models. Plainly: Apple has been doing this for years … That’s why you download basically everything from an app store with Apple. Whether on your Mac OS device, your iPhone, iPad or whatever iDevice… Whether the devs need to sign it, or the app gets signed when it lands on the store, there’s a signature to ensure that the app hasn’t been tampered with and that Apple has given the app it’s security blessings, that it is safe to run. Microsoft and Google have both been climbing towards the same forever. Apple embedded their root of trust in their own proprietary TPM which has been included with every Mac, and iDevice for a long ass time. Google also has a TPM, the Titan security module, I believe that was introduced around pixel 3? Or 4?.. Microsoft made huge waves requiring it for Windows 11, and we all know what that discussion looks like. Apple requires a TPM (which they supply, so nobody noticed), Google has been adding a TPM and TPM functionality to their phones for years, and now Windows is the same. None of this is a bad thing. Trusted computing can eliminate much of the need for antivirus software, among other things. I digress. We’ve been going this way for a long time. Google is just more or less, doing what Apple has already done, and what Microsoft will very likely do very soon, making it a requirement. Battlefield 6 I think, was one of the first to require trusted computing on Windows and it will, for damned sure, not be the last that does. The only real hurdle here is managing what is trusted. So far, each vendor has kept the keys to their own kingdoms, but this is contrary to computing concepts. Like the Internet, it should be able to be done without needing trust from a specific provider. That’s how SSL works, that’s how the Internet works, that’s how trusted computing should work. The only thing that should be secret is the private signing keys. What Google, Apple, and Microsoft should be doing, is issuing intermediary keys that can sign code signing certs. So trusted institutions that create apps, like… Idk, valve as an example, can create a signature key for steam and sign Steam with it, so the trust goes from MS root to intermediary key for valve, to steam code signing key, and suddenly you have an app that’s trusted. Valve can then use their key to sign software on their store that may not have a coffee signing key of it’s own. This is just one example based on Windows. And above all of this, the user should be able to import a trusted code signing cert, or an intermediary cert signing cert, to their service as trusted.

Anyways, thanks for coming to my Ted talk.