O Japão tem mais de 2 mil anos, o Brasil apenas 500. Destes 500 anos, 300 foram de escravidão pelos nossos colonizadores. Acho que isso explica muita coisa; no entanto, em 200 anos livres, conseguimos nos tornar a maior economia da América Latina e uma das 10 maiores do mundo, apesar de ainda sermos um país muito desigual, com o passado refletindo em nosso futuro.
— Não concordo com a homossexualidade.
— Mas você é gay???
— Não.
— Então o que você tem a ver com a sexualidade dos outros???
— É que não é natural!!!
— Hum... Você é Biólogo???
— Não.
— Então você é Antropólogo???
— Também não!!!
— Astrólogo???
— Não!!!
— Então o que você tem a ver com a sexualidade dos outros???
— É que Jesus disse que é uma aberração!!!
— Na verdade, não disse não, nem uma única palavra a respeito!!!
— Não. Mas tá escrito na Bíblia.
— Tá sim, principalmente lá no Velho Testamento, que também proíbe comer porco e camarão, sentar em uma cadeira que foi usada por uma mulher menstruada, acender a luz no sábado. Você evita tudo isso???
— Não.
— Então o que você tem a ver com a sexualidade dos outros???
— EU NÃO GOSTO!!!
— Ah, então o problema não é a natureza das coisas, nem os astros, nem a descendência, nem a suposta "opinião" de Jesus... O problema é que você não gosta, certo???
— É!!! Não gosto!!!
— MAS ENTÃO, MEU ANJO, O QUE VOCÊ TEM A VER COM A SEXUALIDADE DOS OUTROS???
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(Já publiquei esse diálogo outras vezes aqui, mas quis publicá-lo novamente hoje).
There is an old laptop in your closet.
Gathering dust. Dead battery. Slow processor. You keep it because you feel guilty throwing it away.
That laptop can replace every cloud subscription you pay for.
- Netflix
- Google
- Dropbox
- 1Password
That is $42 a month. $504 a year. To rent things you used to own.
The old laptop in your closet could do all of it.
Now meet CasaOS.
A free and open source system that turns any old laptop, Raspberry Pi, or mini PC into your own personal cloud.
You run one command. In 30 minutes, the laptop becomes a server. You open it from your phone, your TV, your work computer, anywhere in the world.
Then you pick the apps you want from a built-in store. One click each.
- Jellyfin to replace Netflix. Stream every movie and show you own.
- Immich to replace Google Photos. Faces and search included.
- Nextcloud to replace Dropbox. Sync every file across every device.
- Vaultwarden to replace 1Password. All your passwords, your keys.
- Syncthing to keep files in sync across every device, no cloud.
- Home Assistant to control every smart device in your home.
- AdGuard to block ads on every device on your wifi.
Setting up a home server the old way took an entire weekend. Install Linux. Learn Docker. Write config files. Set up storage. Fix errors. Look up every app one by one.
CasaOS does all of that for you. No code. No config files. No Linux skills. You see icons on a screen. You click them.
34,116 stars on GitHub. Apache 2.0. Free forever.
Built by a small team starting September 2021. Runs on Raspberry Pi, Intel NUC, old laptops, and most home servers. Over 100,000 Docker apps can be installed.
A new Raspberry Pi costs $50. The old laptop in your closet costs $0. It already works. It is already in your house.
Netflix charges every month. CasaOS doesn't.
Google charges every month. CasaOS doesn't.
Dropbox charges every month. CasaOS doesn't.
1Password charges every month. CasaOS doesn't.
Here is the wild part.
The laptop you forgot about is more powerful than the web server that ran most websites in 2008.
It is sitting in a drawer. It costs you nothing. It already works.
One command. Thirty minutes. Five hundred dollars a year back in your pocket.
Your files. Your photos. Your movies. Your home.
Your closet just became a data center.
There is a GitHub repo that activates Windows for free.
It has 178,783 stars.
GitHub is owned by Microsoft.
Microsoft has not taken it down.
For six years.
The repo is called Microsoft Activation Scripts. It is run by a group called massgravel. No real names. No company. No address. Just a blog at https://t.co/AyjTLJNzFm and 7,311 followers.
It activates Windows 7, 8, 10, and 11.
It activates Office 2010 through Office 2024.
It activates Office LTSC 2024.
It activates Project and Visio.
Four different methods. One of them activates Windows permanently.
Here is what Microsoft charges for what this repo does for free.
Windows 11 Pro: 199.99 dollars.
Windows 11 Home: 139 dollars.
Office Home and Business 2024: 249.99 dollars.
Microsoft 365 Family: 129.99 dollars a year. Forever.
Microsoft 365 Personal: 99.99 dollars a year. Forever.
The repo: zero. One command. Forever.
Microsoft raised the 365 Family price from 99.99 to 129.99 dollars in 2025. They said it was for Copilot.
Microsoft raises Business prices again on July 1, 2026.
The repo went up zero dollars in 2025.
The repo will go up zero dollars in 2026.
The repo will go up zero dollars forever.
Last commit: one week ago.
License: GPL-3.0.
178,783 stars. Hosted on Microsoft. Activates Microsoft. For free.
Do not install it.
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