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Searches of cellphones, laptops by U.S. customs up more than 32% so far this year (www.cbc.ca)
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[–] 8 points 1 day ago (1 child)

land of the 'free'

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    • [–] 8 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Like I'd want to visit that shitty place. No thank you.

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    • [–] [S] 12 points 1 day ago

    Creepers wanna search our graphene phones, yuck.

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    [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    There is a really easy way to avoid this.

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    [–] 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    So I have a 1 in 3 chance that they are going to find out I use Hanna Montanna OS if I cross the board! /s

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    It's not 32% get searched, it increased by 32%. It's still not common.

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    • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (7 children)

    Install HaikuOS and watch them struggle to search it 🙂

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  • [–] 12 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    Many years ago when CA was doing more of these bc of some border tiff, they tried to search my laptop running OpenStep/linux

    OpenStep basically does nothing without a middle-click. It was pretty funny.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Install any flavour of Linux, FreeBSD, BSD, Unix, or hell DOS (all cli) and watch them struggle. You can show them how you are a savage and use vi for word processing, or more civilized and use nano. There are web browsers you can launch to search the web and if you want you can (re)install a GUI when you are past the point of being checked out if you so choose.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    or more civilized and use nano

    How DARE you, sir?? vi or death. Those are the choices.

    (Jk, I don't hold it against anyone to use nano)

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