I don’t like imgur but I also would feel about punishing them for making the better of two choices.

There’s a real effort in some EU countries to fund FOSS projects to get out from under US dominated tech.

I’m hearing a lot of things that are true but I’m getting confused as to why they were said. Like what does the Rwandan genocide have to do with the post other than the almost unnerving lack of firearms involved? Ik you aren’t the one who brought it up but just had to ask.

Now imagine if someone came in there with a gun. That would change things. In which direction, I couldn’t say.

Normal part of democracy sighted GUNSHOTS

When a mommy and daddy love each other very much-

My first Linux PC was a steam deck. The next year I got a laptop for school and thought I might as well install Ubuntu to learn a thing or two. The next year I broke my Ubuntu install and decided to graduate to Arch just because I had the opportunity. That year was 2024 and after November 5th I decided that technofascists and proprietary software could fuck right off because that was one thing about life that I could control at that point. I stopped using windows entirely a few months later.

The payment is you gotta buy a new one

The comment seems to directly correlate being “run by a jew” as a reason the corp would be loyal towards Israel, when quite a few jews know exactly what’s happening there and know it’s fucking terrible. The fact that the CEO is rich and managed to succeed in the corporate tech world is more evidence of inclination for bias for western-aligned genocides, much much more than them being Jewish.

Endhittification is often the result of an established centralized platform that got that way via giving unfairly good deals because they had a lot of investment becoming suddenly greedy and controlling to make that money back. Matrix, meanwhile, is just a protocol. It quite literally cannot be enshittified unless the protocol is updated to do something a certain way that benefits the developers over the users, because a user can simply switch providers. Even though the org that develops it is also a provider and I hear they’re going freemium, that is a service that costs money to render. I’m not surprised they need more money to offer hosting and maintain the software behind it. Unless the protocol is being modified in a way that hinders or scams us or steals our data, saying matrix is enshittifying is like saying email or HTTP is enshittifying.

Sound has always worked for me UNLESS I’m using with some niche desktop.

Oh wow I had no idea, thank you for informing me. I believe you with no proof.

Edit: I made this comment with the belief that by “it” they meant “a free internet”

That sounds like the conclusion I’m coming to. I just asked on the off-chance that someone says “well there’s this and this is how everyone does it” but it seems like that’s not the case.

Are you just trying to live the worst life possible while technically doing nothing wrong?

At this point, it’s not even a matter of practicality, it’s one of morality IMO. You shouldn’t be giving spyware control over your machine and making the world just that much more controlled by billionaires. Most people don’t even think about it, which makes it a gray area, but you? You’ve considered this issue at length, apparently. That’s a stupid and awful thing for someone who’s given thought to which OS they should use to do.

Ykw, you’re right. I made a mistake.

It’s not really anything that great. It started that scummy toys-to-life trend of the 2010s. It ended before I was in high school. But damn I loved it as a kid.

Oh also the bee movie. And skylanders. I remember being a kid playing skylanders and that was all I knew him as. I had no idea what I was getting into when I started watching family guy and began hearing one of my favorite childhood video game characters say some really weird shit

If you can do a Kronk impression, you are also doing a Joe Swanson impression. I’m sorry to tell you this but the vast majority of people might be hearing a family guy character when you do it

Wikipedia is basically a charity that gives people free knowledge. No one profits off of it. What you describe is called civil society, where interest groups attempt to convince the government to take certain actions, and (only without profit motive, in my opinion) it’s one of a few indicators of democracy.