Learning is difficult but I have to believe it is still part of the solution.

It’s not always obvious or easy to make what non-techies will find easy. Changes could unintentionally make the experience worse for long-time users.

I know people don’t want to hear it but can we expect non-techies to meet techies half way by leveling their tech skill tree a bit?

Techy people are a lot more likely to jump through hoops because that knowledge/experience makes it easier for them, they understand it’s worthwhile or because it’s fun. If software can be made easier for non-techy people and there’s no downsides then of course that aught to be done.

Was it more than a printer (that’s what I read about)?

Mafia boss found not guilty. Made an offfer the individual couldn’t refuse, finds judge.

BLTG - bisexual language translation group

I have not seen the acronym written as GLBT in quite a long time.

Like a dedicated ’Controversy’ section on Wikipedia but for the modern consumer/end user protection. This gonna’ be good.

I’ve only heard he streams the entirety other people’s work for a living, what are the journalists saying?

I was unaware of that phrase/book, you’re probably right.

I remember hearing about DRM on trains from a Louis Rossmann right to repair video (turns out he was talking about them).

“Delay, deflect, derail” needs it’s own wikipedia page (like Embrace, extend, and extinguish).

The government is supposed to be representing voters’ best interests and have a monopoly on force to enforce rules. We can’t trust anyone to decide for us what speech we can listen to. A government should have no say on restricting speech (sadly, even if that speech does cause harm to people in our LGBT family).

A business should not have power comparable to a government. You probably have to interact with the government to some degree, you shouldn’t have to interact with a specific business at all.

The voting system used is important. “Pick the one you want, most votes wins” sounds perfectly usable but it trends towards two main parties. There is undue pressure on the voter to choose the main party they dislike the least so avoid the main party they dislike the most. It gets worse the deeper we look at the “winner take all” (first past the post) voting system (used in the USA, UK).

I don’t know what an effective protest would look like but that’s probably the better option. People tend to get insulted or bored if you try to explain how their vote doesn’t really matter.

I didn’t mean to imply this has really happened, just the idea is old.

An oldie, but goldie.

“Sorry I can’t come to work, still gay”

People are free to out themselves as ignorant on Meta. Technology is getting crazy.

I don’t want Digital Restrictions Management in my cables.

Sometimes people exaggerate and if you point out what they said is inaccurate then they get mad you’re not addressing their main point.