Out of all the countries that could profit from this, Norway is the country I have the lest problems with tbh. Saudi Arabia on the other hand…

It’s really just that Linux is the only thing where it’s possible to run an envient version on modern hardware

Publishers under the impression that they somehow deserve “billion of dollars” more money than they already get for checks notes being a middleman.

See also: inverse Kramer ETF

The nightmare in question is windows. My point was that since their client isn’t distributed by a mechanism with automatic updates, they could at least have made it work, but no.

I have checked on every new update because their fuckass client apparently can’t update itself in big 2025 and instead just opens your browser to the download url because that’ll convince people that Linux is great.

Discord is distributed as a .Deb if you don’t use flatpak because they can’t be bothered to set up a repo.

The very useful thing about local file install is that unlike dpkg, apt will install dependencies automatically

I mean, signing a change.org petition has resulted in absolutely nothing, ever, so it’s not like your vote is exactly vital here

The very same prison that magically doubled in capacity to recieve these victims. Strange how that works.

Who fucking cares what the reddit mod of /r/macos thinks man…

My latest project runs on a VM I use vscode’s ssh editing feature on. I edit the only copy of the file in existence (I have made no backup and there is no version control) and then I restart the systems service.

So what if I mess it up? Big deal. The discord bot goes down for a few minutes and I fix it.

Same goes for the machine configs. Ideally the machines are stable, the critical ones get backups, and if they aren’t stable then I suppose the best way to fix it would be in prod ( my VMs run debian, they’re stable).

Literally all of these are anecdotal evidence. Youth crime is down massively since the 90’s, and beyond the very real gun violence (for which y’all have tried nothing and are all out of ideas) none of the stories you linked demonstrate or try to demonstrate a systemic problem except the systemic problem of news organisations optimizing for clicks rather than information.

Not at all reminiscent of another, also completely healthy and democratically sound country about 100 years ago

Submarines also famously don’t have windows

Yeah it does

Because this is a safe space, not connected to my real life identity.

Doesn’t this mean that the system is never up to date? If so, please don’t.

This is precisely what the “much privacy, muh data” crowd was warning us us against. I try to avoid saying I’m queer online, because there’s a very real chance my government turns fascist and asks google/facebook/whatever for a list, and they haven’t given me a reason to think they wouldn’t give that list without thinking about it twice.

Sorry, only spyware laden with ads is available currently at that price.

I mean, not necessarily your fault but at least you know someone could care to fix it, and you didn’t spend $100 for the privilege.