Yeah. Trump has said that we’re taking in too many undesirables from other countries, and he’s bad for that.

And by the way? This is Trump’s point of view, and it’s hilarious to see it not called fascism just because it’s a person from another country.

Maybe that I went into a blue collar profession, but that I make such obscene money doing it.

You’re right, and the majority is wrong. Enjoy the next election. Don’t change a thing, you’re perfect how you are.

There you go not listening again, even to the point of saying what people are experiencing isn’t happening.

So let’s say it’s not happening. Why do so many people feel that way?

With all due respect, I live in the Midwest and run with some rather blue-collar people in a completely blue, large city.

Everyone feels as though the Democrats have stopped listening to them and have been yelling at them for the last 10 years.

And just the mere fact that you are probably going to have the knee jerk reaction and call me an ignorant bigot is part of the problem.

The Care Bear Stare got him.

I’d rather miss some content (or rewind if possible) than hear an ad.

Wow, dude. Get back to your echo chamber. You’re brittle and shrill outside of it.

Well, my ISP doesn’t need to know anything about my posts. And the fediverse doesn’t need to know who I am beyond “growingentropy,” so…

Did you just do the “if you don’t have anything to hide, what’s the big deal” move?

I want privacy. That’s all.

No idea. I installed a VPN on my router to get privacy. That’s all I ask.

I have a router with a VPN. I’m not disabling that just to post on lemmy.world.

I got off lemmy.world because they block VPN connections. Not happening, under any circumstances. I don’t trust anyone that much.

I don’t miss anything from Reddit, I’m just sad that some of the homogeneity of thought came over here to Lemmy.

The last paragraph is vital. Grab a flatpak of any software you need to be more up to date. Flatpaks running on Debian are amazing. Current software running on a stable base.

I have no formal tech background, but I’m pretty damn good with it. And I like Arch and Debian with XFCE.

That’s the least of your worries. Once it reboots, its proprietary spyware…errr…AI…will resume taking screenshots of everything you do.

Yes, absolutely. But I also wouldn’t want to. GUI tools have their issues sometimes. The command line is basically raw compute power.

I can’t wait for some new bargain Linux machines.