Linux is not 100% there for me to really use. It never really was. I've sometimes tried to go through a folder of all of the setup files for programs and utilities I commonly use on Windows. I just know for a fact that while Linux has open source counterparts to some of them, they don't for all of them. Even if Linux did, it always feels like I have to take an extra step or two, to run it as opposed to on Windows by simply clicking it to run.
Then it's a matter of driver support as well.
Then it's the relentless browbeating from Linux fanboys that just turn me off from considering going full Linux. I keep envisioning this scenario where someone is calling tech support for like an audio issue and the support guy is going "I see, well...all you have to do is...GO LINUX!" he shouts in the ear piece at the caller. He would repeat "GO LINUX!" over and over until the caller hangs up, while he's still on the line, drooling over himself as he mumbles "Linux...." while imagining the Tux penguin, Torvalds and other open source figures. Eyes glossed over.
That's the kind of fanboyism I can't stand with Linux.
He ruined it for everyone. If he fucking cared about his platform like ridding it from child pedos, drug trafficking groups and vice versa. He could've still retained what was already going. But because that he didn't, this is the course we're on.
I go by some of the ancient rules of the internet:
Using your real name in any form be it in an e-mail or screen name is just dumb in practice. If it is used for personal use like you're sharing it to insurance companies, your banking info. That's one thing. Nobody online needs to know your real name at all unless you've got friends trustworthy enough that you've gained online that you want them to know.
Otherwise besides those exceptions, you don't do it.
Don't share pictures and especially nudes because you'll never ever know who has seen them, saved them and shared them to others. Nobody will ever admit to you about doing either of those things.
Have multiple e-mail addresses for different purposes and from different providers. I have 3 of them going. One is social. One is private/personal. One is just plainly for ban-evading that alternates from time to time or I just use that as a spam dumper or registering to places for other means.
I think the causes are right. The execution is just very poor. I don't understand what blocking traffic has to do with it, I don't understand what throwing paint around has to do with it.
Honestly, I think protests should be a matter of information vs information and using the right information to combat the lies and deceit projected by those they're against.
You lose traction of your cause if all that you're doing is trying to be the biggest intolerant prick.
I didn't like the Black Lives Matter movement, because their ranks contained people that destroyed streets and they seemed to just budge right in on everything.
I didn't like the Stop Oil movement, because all that they did were examples of what I brought up about blocking traffic and throwing paint.
In a Trump-lead administration and Ajit Pai heading FCC, this totally would've been passed by now. I don't like how this is on the table at all and how the decision could go either way. But I'll take that trade off than it for it to be guaranteed.
But, one bill (PERA) is from a Republican. The other bill (PREVAIL) is from a Democrat. So, this is a bipartisan effort to fuck over everyone here.
The Dark Web is full of honey pots set by the FBI. Chances are, you're never going to find an actual hitman for hire without it being a sting operation.
Why would I take the time and energy out of my day to jump through hoops to prove my case. At the very likely chance that someone like you will refute it anyways and waive it off like you did with my comment?
What about them? Pffft...dude, they'd rather make fun of lolcows all day and pretend that they're still in their edgy teenage years where worshiping Hitler and dropping the N word was the coolest thing to do to them.
Yeah I mean, it would really be nice right now to have some body around that can contend and combat the legions of crazy QAnon/MAGA people online. But I guess that really isn't in their interest.
It took SOPA/PIPA to get them to act for a while. I don't know, they run off of arbitrary rules only they themselves know to keep the mystique up. It's like when we needed them the most - they're sometimes there. When we kinda sorta don't need/want them, they just show up randomly.
I think the dawning of the Chromebooks was really a huge sign. Sure you could install Linux on some of the early models. But then Google just caught on to this and decided to take even that away. So now you had all of these Chromebooks that can only ever run ChromeOS and whatever Google approved that could run on them. You just can't do jackshit with them because they were also online-only.
And those were pushed onto everyone, particularly schools.
It's always been "Uhhh let's have people make Firefox accounts, yeah!" When, in this day and age, the last thing people need is yet another account to keep track of.
"Lets get into AI, yeah!" Said no one ever.
Like, is it too much to fucking ask for a simple, privacy-centric, security (not overreaching), performance priority browser?
I mean look around how many forks of Firefox that there are out there, having to do the legwork because Firefox isn't that much of the shit it thinks it is.
I think their direction has gone astray mixed with losing general interest mixed with aging mixed with getting caught. I think Anonymous now has just turned into a parody of itself thanks for 4chan (yeah I know it was born there) who turned it into a symbol of just shitposting trolling than doing the right things.
They used to have been prominent during the days when SOPA and PIPA had been brought up. Since then, activity has dwindled.
How defeatist of you, Mozilla. Whatever happened to your pride? Oh, it went a long time ago when you make a big deal about going 3.0 and how you claimed to have improved Firefox's performance. Been a long time, but Firefox remains ever more the same as it did way back then, just cluttered with more features that weighs it's performance.
Linux for laptops. Windows for desktops.
Linux is not 100% there for me to really use. It never really was. I've sometimes tried to go through a folder of all of the setup files for programs and utilities I commonly use on Windows. I just know for a fact that while Linux has open source counterparts to some of them, they don't for all of them. Even if Linux did, it always feels like I have to take an extra step or two, to run it as opposed to on Windows by simply clicking it to run.
Then it's a matter of driver support as well.
Then it's the relentless browbeating from Linux fanboys that just turn me off from considering going full Linux. I keep envisioning this scenario where someone is calling tech support for like an audio issue and the support guy is going "I see, well...all you have to do is...GO LINUX!" he shouts in the ear piece at the caller. He would repeat "GO LINUX!" over and over until the caller hangs up, while he's still on the line, drooling over himself as he mumbles "Linux...." while imagining the Tux penguin, Torvalds and other open source figures. Eyes glossed over.
That's the kind of fanboyism I can't stand with Linux.