I just found out that the proxy on Firefox is part of how they make money. They collect information on you through your use of the proxy and sell you down the river. I wonder if there's any way to use your computer without giving up your personal data.

But wait, there is! Switch your desktop to Linux and get rid of Bill Gates and Google and Microsoft and everybody else that's desperately trying to get every last detail of your personal life in a database.

Fuck those people.

Linux for Privacy and Freedom

I never saw this shit before. We either need to police this up or commit and put a swastika in Trump's eye. Which is it going to be?

Bill Gates gets paid over and over by you every time you boot up and allow Microsoft to record everything you do. Nothing is confidential as long as you allow him to watch you over your shoulder.

Your banking data, everything you buy and sell, everything you look at, every like on Reddit is archived and may be used against you later if that comes to pass.

Fortunately, there is an alternative. Download Mint Linux 20.1 and load it on a USB stick, the directions are out there. I downloaded it months ago but never booted up the memory stick because I thought it was going to be a pain in the ass to get it to work.

Surprise surprise! It found almost all the hardware in my new laptop and got everything working in no time and with almost no help from me.

Now Bill Gates isn't spying on me! I'm not giving him any more money!

Pedes, I know it's hard to want to dump Microsoft, it's familiar and easy. But... Bill Gates slides his dick up your ass every time you power one of your computers with his operating system on it. It's licensed, he didn't even sell it to you, and you have to agree to new invasive terms and conditions every time.

He's selling your shit down the river, and you're still giving it to him.

Dump Microsoft right now and download Mint Linux 20.1, you can burn it to a thumb drive and install in probably an hour or two. I couldn't believe how fast it set up on my new laptop, I never knew it could be this easy. I'm on Firefox Linux right now and it's not any different from what I'm used to.

It's easy, it's free, and Fuck Bill Gates.

The people responsible for this travesty are the Mayors, the Governors, and the members of the Legislature who came up with this shit. When it's time to make people's crimes visible by lifting them above the heads of the crowd, these are the people whose crimes need to be attended to.

Today, opening up an excel spreadsheet, I had to agree to a privacy notice that more of my data is being collected. I read it, and they are collecting your gender now.

Goodbye Microsoft Office, hello OpenOffice.

Santa Claus is coming to town

He sees you when you're sleeping He knows when you're awake He knows when you've been bad or good So be good for goodness' sake!

OH

You better not shout You better not cry You better not pout, I'm telling you why

Santa Claus is coming To town.