As someone who’s had their closest family member eat their own gun, good choice.

Your loved ones thank you for it.

Looks its not my fault you neither want to be cute nor whimsical, lol.

If I had a use for it I’d try to get one color matched to some good nail polish, maybe print out a custom case to match it with my portable meshcore node too.

What are you talking about that thing looks adorable?

Would look cute dangling from a bag/purse or something.

Honestly my big hangup is trying to justify a dedicated player when a decent DAC can be had for as cheap as like $50

For some it is. For others it being able to remove barriers and obstacles to create a new website you’ve been wanting to.

You’ve used it once 2+ years ago and wrote it off completely. Do you also still do your laundry with a wasboard and clothesline?

Okay but one of those is an artform and the other is physical labor.

Programming doesn’t really equate to physical labor like that.

I go out to my car to hit the pen, thank you very much.

Who the fuck rips a weed pen in the middle of a working office building?

Like there’s not giving a shit about my company, then there’s not giving a shit about the people around me, or if nothing else, not giving a shit about making rent next month.

Do you just spend your time making up ridiculous scenarios to get pissed about? Or is it only when you get to make it an appeal to authority?

o7

I write powershell based .MSI wrappers for a company that’s actively building the apacolypse.

Working slower is arguably taking the moral high-ground.

Nah the malicious compliance mostly just pisses off my boss, and no ones ever complained about me hitting the pen on the clock.

You don’t have to be “professional” to not be insufferable.

The only good use of “professionalism” as a concept is to get bigots and sex-pests fired.

Do you not remember the exits and landmarks you pass by?

Kinda seems like a you problem.

Not to say generative AI isn’t trash, just don’t slander my GNSS units like that.

AMD has an equivalent called PSP.

As far as I know framework only has open source embedded controller hardware NOT EUFI.

Either way there isn’t a way to neutralize/disable Intel ME on those machines.

Lmk when they’re corebooted.

Otherwise I’ll stick with system76 or starlabs.

I’ve seen some online powered by ardupilot/inav controllers.

Disposable virtual machines.

Whonix generates a new one at boot by default.

I guess but having DRM free installers does more for ownership than a proprietary (currently) impossible to duplicate disc.

I don’t think physical media is the end-all to physical ownership is all I’m getting at.

Even if you keep your machine offline, many discs have required updates included.

Any one of them could brick your console.

If its not running freedom respecting software and standard hardware, you probably didn’t own it anyways. (Unless you airgap everything and risk assess all new software with a test machine, like the feds.)

Yeah the supreme court is getting ready to fucking undo assault rifle bans next year, this shit ain’t lasting.

JESSIE WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

YOU MOVED THE GOALPOST BY TALKING ABOUT MAC, AFTER I TOLD YOU PROTON FIXES THE WINDOWS DEPENDENCY!?!?

Where’s the feral passion in getting off Microsoft’s tit?

- CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com, 2026

^Those are your words, that’s the goalpost I was responding to. Its been stuck in concrete the entire time.

How delusional are you, you think the answer to fixing this was moving from Steve Ballmers nipple over to Tim Cooks? Obviously the answer is a free, community made OS anyone can install.

Not another fucking corporation.

You can move the goalposts with your words, but I can’t afford to follow with my wallet, and I don’t want to move backwards anyway.

What the fuck does your wallet have to do with this, Linux is free as in freedom and beer.

Also the idea that moving from Mac to Linux is backwards just because your computer doesn’t handhold you is a joke. Convenience over function isn’t an upgrade, its a crutch.