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That's not at all what I am doing, or what scientists and engineers do. We are all trained to think about ethics and seek ethical approval because even if knowledge itself is morally neutral the methods to obtain that knowledge can be truly unhinged.

Scientific facts are not a cultural facet. A device built using scientific knowledge is also a product of the culture that built it. Technology stands between objective science and subjective needs and culture. Technology generally serves some form of purpose.

Here is an example: Heavier than air flight is a possibility because of the laws of physics. A Boeing 737 is a specific product of both those laws of physics and of USA culture. It's purpose is to get people and things to places, and to make Boeing the company money.

LLMs can be used for good and ill. People have argued they use too much energy for what they do. I would say that depends on where you get your energy from. Ultimately though it doesn't use as much as people driving cars or mining bitcoin or eating meat. You should be going after those first if you want to persecute people for using energy.

I don't use or particularly believe in secure boot.

I have a fully encrypted root partition, with automatic unlocking using the TPM. Wasn't even that hard to setup either. Bazzite makes it fairly easy to enroll a secure boot key if you really want that, as do some other distros. Nothing you are describing is that difficult.

A lot of systems use AppArmour instead of SELinux, as this is easier to work with while still providing enhanced security.

What are you talking about? Windows isn't very secure to begin with. Bazzite in particular is one of the more secure Linux desktop distros as it's immutable and comes with SELinux enabled by default. It's secure enough to actually cause me problems lol.

It's not just that though is it? It's a slower SoC, less RAM, possibly less storage, lower screen resolution, and I would be spending money to get it after just upgrading my phone a few months ago. So a downgrade in every other category while paying for it. On top of that losing banking apps and breaking the warranty. In what world does that make sense?

It's something I could consider when looking for a new phone, but not right now. The fact you have to buy a new phone just to get a different ROM is absurd. In the PC world you can just install any different OS you pretty much fancy, with relatively few hardware issues in the way (such as Nvidia).

What I am saying is that if Illustrator breaks on Windows, you might have to reinstall Windows. If it breaks on Linux, you just reinstall in a new wine prefix, or restore from a backup or snapshot. The rest of the system remains unaffected. Does that make sense?

Honestly that would make me want to run them in wine more. Wine environments can be controlled a lot easier than a Windows install can be.

Technology is a product of science. The facts science seeks to uncover are fundamental universal truths that aren't subject to human folly. Only how we use that knowledge is subject to human folly. I don't think open source or open weights models are a bad usage of that knowledge. Some of the things corporations do are bad or exploitative uses of that knowledge.

You mean like 50%? Or do you only mean desktop users? Which would be 4%.

• Well Raytracing doesn't work in Cyberpunk 2077. Besides that, some other games also have terrible performance. Even Minecraft, that's running natively. Constant stutters with low GPU utilization.

I suspect you have GPU driver issues. What distro and graphics card are you running? Have you installed GPU drivers if your on Nvidia.

• Logitech keyboard works but I cannot configure it because the software is not supported on Linux

You just install solaar instead of the official software, one and done. Have you even tried?

• Xbox controller does not connect with the dongle unless I install the xone drivers

So install it then.

Sure you can fix any of these problems above like running Windows software with Wine or installing the appropriet drivers. But I don't want to do that if I can just use Windows with no extra work.

None of this is extra work compared to working around Microsoft and Windows trying to push their garbage. Two Windows 11 systems breaking is what led to me switching back to Linux for the last time. Having to reinstall because of Windows issues is a lot more effort than installing a couple things.

I've never owned an iPhone, so that comparison isn't needed.

That's completely false

They are gaming and content creation specific distros designed to work out of the box for those use cases. Lots of patches and stuff to improve performance and compatibility for gaming. Some hardware compatibility stuff is added too, such as bazzite having different images for laptops.

I am sure it's great, but I don't want to spend that much on a phone. Honestly I think I will just keep my current phone for a couple more years, then buy something.

Also I don't really want to lose access to my banking apps.

That would be a hilariously bad downgrade. I could probably afford to replace mine with a Google Pixel 6, but that would still be a significant downgrade (90Hz screen). After having two phones at 120Hz, I won't go lower.

Ray tracing works on Linux just fine. I don't know what your talking about. I have software to control the lights on my Asus laptop keyboard if needed, my other keyboard is not addressable RGB anyway. I've seen Linux work with controllers too. Maybe not Xbox specifically, though I think there is a way to do that too.

Edit: Logitech keyboards have support: https://pwr-solaar.github.io/Solaar/

There are projects for supporting the Xbox controllers too: https://github.com/medusalix/xone

It's not like it's difficult to switch these days. Try something like Bazzite or Nobara and gaming should work out of the box.

Getting rid of Google would require switching phone for me as there isn't a google free ROM for the Redmi K50 Pro.

You can run adobe products on Linux with Wine.

Where are Nazis in government in the US or EU? Even Donald Trump isn't a card carrying Nazi, even though he isn't a good person or politician. He also isn't in office, and that's the closest to an actual Nazi I can think of in either place.

Anyway, someone made space for you and then you decided to call them a doltish sod. After calling yourself awesome no less. The truth is you're not "awesome" if you are going to behave like this. There is something wrong with you.

Having to deal with a drug dealer that wants to also sell you actually addictive drugs is the gateway.

Marijuana is addictive though. Maybe not as addictive as some other things, but pretending it's completely non addictive is disingenuous and misleading. It's more addictive than say LSD or psilocybin for example.

That isn't to say it should remain illegal though. Legalisation has positive benefits even for harder, more addictive substances than marijuana. See the history of alcohol prohibition for example, or the disaster that is the war on drugs.