Sadly, it’s about the only thing you can do to fight an idiotic crusade against you and our totally legal way of life. Infuriating this is necessary, but I’m glad they’re taking up the cause and representing a group who needs representation.

I’m sure they wish that too, instead they have people like you just throwing your own BS around a thread where they’re trying to ask for honest suggestions. Sucks.

He says he has Ubuntu installed and is loving it, and just asking if there’s any other things to round out a tablet experience.

You: ☝️ “why don’t you completely change the thing that is working for you, and even though you didn’t ask, do what I’m suggesting you do because I like it, and it works for my mommy who just uses the web browser. Also, if anyone disagrees with me for evangelizing and giving unsolicited advice, I’m going to call them a prick and argue with them because I’m just special” ☝️ 😤

Friend, you’re so up your own ass, you didn’t even read OP’s post. He wasn’t asking for your ill informed recommendation for a distro…

Why don’t you read it again?

Button is there for a reason. If you’re just interjecting with nonsense, it should be downvoted.

I downvoted because your comment had nothing to with the context of this thread or my comment, and just served to be an “AKSHUALLY ☝️” moment for yourself.

For someone who just does web browsing, sure. That is not the question or ask of this post. Read my comment again.

Y’all need to really stop recommending immutable distros to people who aren’t even familiar or know what their regular setup will be. Like this poster who even said they are still going to have to work out Windows alternatives.

Imagine that: some scammy motivational speakers who have been peddling a bunch of feel-good bullshit for decades didn’t know how to fix a company that was hemorrhaging money with warm thoughts and regards.

I would have taken that bet.

AGAIN.

This is not “phoning home” as claimed. It is not a SECURITY RISK as claimed. It is a privacy want/complaint/nag at the very VERY least. THIS IS ALSO NOT A PRIVACY FOCUSED PROJECT.

Y’all need to get better hobbies, seriously.

I’m laughing my ass off that you even try to source Nate Silver. Member when he was right those two times a long ass time ago? 🙄

You checked his accuracy rate, friend? It’s not good. He makes prediction models, buddy. Well, then after they aren’t very good, he writes a ton about how they were actually great and everyone misunderstood what the data REALLY was saying.

Yeah, that’s why all these college campuses have had protests. They don’t care.

As literally every single outlet has already pointed out, plenty of other candidates have had the same issue, and come right back from it. Y’all need to chill out.

Friend, please listen to reason.

The “code” you linked to is not functional code of any sort. Not to be nitpicky, it’s just an HTML image tag, so its Markup at best. All you did was stop the loading of an SVG image. The fact that they source it from their own domain tells you everything: they have a script that runs to check the current number of stars, then generates this image that reflects that. SVG is an image format. It’s really standard.

All your other points you’re making because you do not have much experience in the software realm, which I’m not saying to be dismissive or anything at all, I’m simply illustrating that all the points you’re questioning or mentioning are 100% standard.

• you don’t make a fork for three lines of code and ask others to “check it out”. If anything, just point out the issue and post a diff or a script to fix it. Simple.
• They have a pro version, and are using images they generate in a template viewed by users to promote its popularity and try to sell pro. They’re running a business out of this. Not every FOSS project is non-profit, and these people are simply trying to sell a product AS WELL as keep it open source for others to enjoy, like yourself. Feel lucky to have the privilege they are letting you use it for free.
• The term “phoning home” as you’re trying to use it, is wrong. You’re implying that it is functionally doing something unexpected. It is not. It is sourcing an image in HTML. The suspicious type of phoning home is code that executes locally and pulls down other functional bits of code that alter the way the software APPEARS to be used. It’s a way of obfuscating something shady, like a virus, or malware. This is not that kind of code.
• If your concern is simply that the code you’ve run is sourcing an image from somewhere, I can only imagine how upset you’ll be to learn that software repos of this size are pulling things from dozens, if not hundreds of places. This project pulls from rubygems, yarnpkgs, and the dreaded example.com.
• Lastly, the reason that team responded to you in that manner was more that they were taken aback. Like “WTF is this person talking about? I don’t get it.” Realize that they were nice enough to respond, where most project maintainers would just ignore or close the issue.

Also, you might want to freak out about the social badges being sourced in this as well. This isn’t a “privacy first” project or anything. They aren’t doing anytweird, you’re just misunderstanding some things.

Lol. There is no time. Replacing an incumbent at the last minute is a death sentence for a political campaign. It would be the most foolish option. Even if Biden came out and said he’s stepping back and letting Kamala Harris take the spot, you’d be fighting an uphill battle for people who haven’t been paying attention to her work as VP, which the uninformed thinks does nothing.

That’s not even taking into account all the sexist and racist shitheads who have been doing all the fear mongering and hand-wringing about the prospect of Harris becoming president by simply being VP. We have a bunch of really shitty people in this country…

Yes, exactly.

Not only is it insanely power hungry and will drive up electric bill, it’s storage and memory limited, and worst of all, 32-bit.

You wouldn’t be able to run much as far as modern software goes on it, and even then, not for long. You probably won’t even find a working distribution because of the age of the hardware, and the fact that large swaths of 32-bit drivers have been removed from the kernel over the years.

Just chalk it up to being E-Waste, and take it to someplace that will properly recycle it.

New voters who never cared about politics previously, and may have just started paying attention when they to college and realized everyone there does. There’s a precedent for that being the case at least heh

Okay, well they were very clear about it, and they have a pro version, so aren’t removing the customizations that exist.

Secondly, that isn’t a “phone home” bit that you hacked around, it’s literally a header that loads a GitHub badge, and that’s it. It’s part of a lot of open source projects.

Blocking the DNS of the GitHub host it’s calling back to is sufficient enough for everyone if this is a concern (it’s of no security concern, freal), and you don’t need a fork for this to be fixed. Maintaining a fork is an insane amount of work, and trusting someone who is maintaining a forked repo is WAYYYYYY more risky than just using the official repo, which has thousands of stars, and multitudes of users poking through it’s code.

I for one would never touch your forked repo without doing a full diff, and I’m not going to worry about doing that every time a release is missed by you, or a fix isn’t upstreamed…yada yada. I would just use the official repo, and block the offending GitHub domain if I found it offensive, which I don’t.

Know what I mean?

Borden answered the question, but not to any specifics of note. Trump straight made up some idiotic bullshit and said "When I was President, we had ‘the H2O’ ".

I’m sure that will be a new T-shirt for his idiotic followers.

It’s still very subjective to who is making the main CPU, but yeah. It’s meant for low power applications.