Yeah, the OEM deals in themselves are shady as fuck once you think about it for a couple seconds.

One more reason to restrict Windows to a VM and run Linux or some other *nix on the host for a baremetal OS if you want or need to run it at all.

Haven’t bothered to look, they sell it in full-sized though.

Restoring funding for public media and making it permanently untouchable by anything, meaning no rescissions packages can claw it back ever again, would be nice too.

This is going to be way more than five points but here goes:

• Restore rights that and make them ironclad and impossible to take away again in the future, basically, make the Bill of Rights really be as inalienable as it claims to be and turn it into something that no one can touch without facing harsh consequences.

• Eliminate privatized healthcare and replace it with a universal scheme.

• Eliminate Citizens United and hold corporations under the same laws as normal people and under the same penalties for breaking them as normal people, maybe then they’d actually have to stop their abusive tactics.

• Raise taxes on the rich while cutting taxes on everyone else, and cut military spending in half or deeper, and put the added funds and savings from cutting military spending towards restoring public media funding and earmarking said funding in a way that cannot be clawed back in a future rescissions package, as well as funding education, science, arts/humanities, and healthcare, and also reworking the public education system to where it’s not the joke of society anymore and it’s actually competitive with the rest of the world.

• Actually regulate AI before it destroys everything, and also count MLMs under the same definition as illegal pyramid schemes, Ponzi schemes, etc, and actually make running one a jailable offense just like those other scams.

• Eliminate privatized and especially for-profit post-secondary education, make predatory student loans patently illegal under the same scams listed above, and actually offer free post-secondary education like most of the other countries do.

• Raise federal minimum wage to where it actually catches up with living costs, and actually put stronger affordable housing programs in place than Section 8 and make them applicable to anyone who needs them.

• Make for-profit prisons illegal and reform the prison system to where it actually focuses on rehabilitation rather than punishment, which if done right will greatly reduce recidivism rates (that means no more ‘diesel therapy’ among other things), and finally…

• Actually hold anyone who tries to straight-up turn a republic into a dictatorship accountable for their actions, and also stop the manufactured ‘border crisis’ and actually allow the country to be the accepting bastion of freedom it bills itself as, basically let it do as it says on the tin, as it were, and start actually treating marginalized communities the same as everyone else, that means PoC, the LGBT community, the disabled community, and especially the AuDHD community has the same rights as everyone else as opposed to being discriminated against.

As an added bonus, outlaw mandatory online ID checks and code it into law that such things be strictly optional.

This is a hypothetical so I might as well go ham.

Bedding and sheets with fun prints

• Technically there’s no one and nothing stopping you from buying Pokemon bedding, for example.

Clothes with dinosaur/unicorn/etc designs

• Also, cute clothes have been trendy since MLP:FiM at the earliest.

Start stocking up on CDs and ripping them to FLAC yourself, and self-host those rips on an MPD server. Free streaming from a server you own and control the content on.

And also free speech, free press, rights in general… And I also can’t shake the feeling that the government shutdown was a ploy to attempt to delay or cancel both upcoming elections.

Because the vote was rigged and Elon Musk basically bought Trump the election.

His audience mostly.

I only counted Jobst for how quickly everyone turned on him after the lawsuit loss, so it’s purely for being a rapid downfall, Iiiluminaughtii is way worse.

Oh the irony… A company known for spying on its users and selling that to data brokers blocking spyware.

Recently? Either Iilluminaughtii or Karl Jobst.

Invincibility IIRC.

Really? AI companies going Herbalife now? Because this reminds me of how Herbalife fronts would typically pop up.

I mean, this is straight out of Herbalife’s playbook for luring new marks fresh off the street into their pyramid scheme, c’mon now…

I’d say audio CDs, but those have been back on the upward trend since streaming and download services started getting hostile and people started wising up to that hostility, in other words, people want to own their music again and so started buying CDs again recently vs. having a streaming or download service randomly yank content they paid for from their libraries.

I don’t have an account anymore and don’t plan on setting one back up (I killed my account before shit got really bad over there), but I still browse without an account via Redlib from time to time.

I’m sure MS didn’t think of that when abbreviating their executables as exes.

It’s optional for now except in S-mode, assuming MS isn’t legally forced to enable S-mode by default and block ‘sideloading’ of downloaded exes in Texas.

The hell with that, fuck you MS.