This screams of thathappened, but LOL if it actually did.

What's a "dont" and does it exist when not owned by a ghost?

I like how that adds up to 110%.

Wait, the $15 2K model you bought yesterday can be rooted? I figured anything made in the last few years would've been patched.

Can you tell me the exact model (the code on the box, like this, as explained in this XDA thread about the model I got where I experienced disappointment), and where you found the information about rooting it?

I appreciate that you're happy with yours even without rooting, but I don't think I'd be able to trust it not to enshittify in the long run on the stock firmware.

I have a couple of them that I bought shortly after the LTT video on the topic with the intention of rooting. After figuring out that I'd unfortunately got the newer hardware revision that can't be rooted, I had them just sitting in a box.

If "debloating" them without rooting and installing Lineage or whatever is "good enough," maybe I should take another look. Do you know of a good guide to follow? Is there anything special that needs to be done, such as preventing it from updating or connecting to the Internet before the factory malware is removed?

Goddamnit. I got my Boomer parents to ditch cable and get a Roku, in part, to keep them away from Fox News.

Modernism and brutalism are both solving an economic problem. It’s to make a building as “occupiable” as possible. It has no soul or defining features for someone to hate, so it appeals maximally to as many people as possible. It also saves a lot on labour, maintenance, and material costs when designing and constructing a new build.

"Tell me you don't know anything about modernism without telling me you don't know anything about modernism."

First of all, modernism was definitely not trying to blandly appeal to as many people possible. It's a reaction against traditional architecture and is therefore inherently contrarian. And especially so for brutalism (which is a subcategory of modernism rather than its own separate thing, BTW): you cannot tell me people don't hate brutalism, LOL!

Second, modernism is often more expensive than traditional styles. Many of the elements of traditional architecture became "traditional" for practical reasons: sloped roofs shed water even when they aren't perfectly constructed. Decorative moldings exist to cover up gaps and obscure corners that aren't quite square. When you get rid of that stuff, you make the building a lot harder and more expensive to construct because everything has to be perfect: your flat roof needs to be absolutely water-tight, your carpenters have to work to much tighter tolerances, you need a damn skilled plasterer to finish your drywall perfectly fair and smooth without using ceiling texture to hide the unevenness, etc.

(not sure if most of the things that you can get count as minimalist and not just extremely utilitarian)

Definitely utilitarian. Stuff that's actually minimalist requires thoughtful design and precision construction and is therefore actually pretty fucking expensive.

Maybe I'm just being overly cynical, but (based on Israel's actions afterward) it seems to me like they must've been happy to have a casus bellum as an excuse to annex Gaza and now Lebanon.

Do you genuinely think he didn't want Oct 7 to happen?