Damn near every business uses VPN technology. They literally cannot exist in the modern world without it. It would be incredibly expensive and impractical to do without.

That is certainly true. But my point still stands. Never give one party all the power.

If only I could start my own business….

I shall pay my debt in crusty socks.

USB mass storage mode. Some Android phones can’t do it anymore. I always thought the ability to select a dock image your phone would offer up to a of to boot off of was the coolest feature one of the things that made this iPhone user envious but it’s becoming less common for such a feature to still work in Android.

Exactly. The best they could hope to do would be to create an exemption for businesses in which case I open my own fapping business.

If they outlaw VPNs then all internet-connected businesses will flee and everyone will just move to the dark net. Then you’ve got a whole other problem.

These ancient tyrants are in over their heads.

It absolutely is. Even if it’s going from one super villain to another, even if that’s still not a great outcome, it’s better than letting ONE corporation have all the power.

Your data is valuable. Let them fight over it.

That’s what this is going to become. And that’s another point to this. They can just go after people using the dark net claim it was for kiddie porn even if it wasn’t. the masses will just believe them.

Hospitals would likely be fine with it. The health insurance industry would not though and would pressure the hospital to cut you off. It’s illegal. But they would do it anyway. You would need serious fuck you money to change this. And even then, probably a lot of Luigis too.

It’s possible I’m wrong about this. I’m just worried. I can’t see anything good coming from tying into the US government in any way right now.

They can redefine why that membership means at any time.

“If we can just get rid of all the humans, I’ll have a machine that prints me free money!”

This is all that the AI push is about. It really is that stupid. Nobody is going to ever pay for AI if they aren’t employed anymore.

Oracle?! You have money and power and everyone hanging on you and you chose ORACLE?!

How can anyone take this seriously?!

Look at an old colorful iMac running an early version of Mac OS X. The decisions made in its appearance were unnecessary but pleasant. The aqua interface was functional but pretty. It played with textures in fun ways that weren’t distracting, like pinstriping in menus that matched the machine itself, shiny jelly buttons and icons that looked more alive and interesting. While it can be said that they leaned in too heavily to this sometimes (brushed metal and stitched leather were…a lot) the overall experience was engaging. People were trying new things and there was variety, even from a company demanding a uniform market like Apple.

Now look where we are in 2025. We have Liquid Glass, which is just loud and in my way, inefficient and less functional. We have AI everywhere which does everything we could already do but without any accountability or responsibility so there’s no consequences when it fucks up like if a human did. We have companies competing against eachother to see who can most effectively suck the life out of their customers rather than who can make the most appealing product the get customer buy in.

Nobody cares about the consumer anymore. It’s all just a big money laundering operation for shareholders. Business majors ruined the world.

It doesn’t help that the prices charged by providers are never what they expect to actually be paid BY INSURANCE COMPANIES if you are paying yourself, oh boy, you gotta pay the entire thing but and insurance company only has to pay the “allowed amount”. So providers have to pretend there is a discount for members of insurance companies by creating an imaginary price for the uninsured to compare it to.

Healthcare is all Kohls pricing.

Printer? What?

Google has too much power and control. Even if I don’t have power and control of all my data, someone else having that power instead of Google is still preferable to leaving it all in their hands.

Break it up into many small pieces that do not like eachother.

The Internet archive is important and Trump now has control over it.

There. I simplified it for you.

Put an airtag on the collar. Done.