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  • GUI and CLI are tools, both with separate advantages and disadvantages.

    CLI let's you chain different commands easily to create functionality that originally wasn't there. It's really flexible, but it's also very non-obvious. Even after more than a decade of Linux usage, I still find new commands I have never heard of that do exactly what I wanted to do for a while.

    GUI is great for visual stuff (nobody in their right mind would do video/audio/image editing on CLI). It's also very obvious/explorable, so you tend to find functionality much quicker. That makes it great for any tools that you don't use on a daily basis. And GUIs can utilise the bandwidth of human visual input much better, which makes them better whenever large amounts of data are presented.

    Neither CLI nor GUI are better, they just have different use cases where they are better.

    And it annoys me a lot that people don't get that.

    When you say "X is better than Y", you always need to state for what it is better.

  • Please read your own statistics. The first graph you showed forgot to add gun suicides to the gun violence number. And removing ~2% of deaths just by changing some simple laws is huge. It would be better than completely curing AIDS.

    Regarding your second screenshot: The guy before was talking about how the USA is the most dangerous western country. So you post a screenshot which puts the USA behind some non-western country.

    If you look at the fitting article on Wikipedia

    You see that the USA is currently on place 9, behind only South/Middle American and Carribian countries.

    The next kinda western country is Serbia on place 22.

  • So, I am a man. I do identify as a man. What does that have to do with anything?

    I hate idiots who need dangerous toys to feel manly, because they have nothing else that would make them a man.

    If a gun is the only thing that makes you a man, then you are no man, but just a little boy who never grew up.

    Tag along, kiddo. Maybe one day you'll understand what a man is.

  • I did post an exact description a bit higher above, but you focussed on the one detail that really doesn't matter in this equation (ARM vs x86, even though it's exactly the same in that regard, and there are also x86 Android devices) and neither read nor understood the rest of my answer.

    And you used that missing knowledge on your side to invalidate my answer without even understanding what it was about.

    And you could, very big revelation, also just google before posting nonsense.

    u/EatYouWell responded exactly the right way.

  • Have you heard of Android running on x86?

    I had an x86 Android tablet and that was exactly as locked-down as an ARM Android device.

    But anyhow: I can lock down a x86 laptop or PC the way I was describing within a very short time.

    So again:

    • Put a password on the BIOS
    • Set Secure Boot on
    • Wipe all Secure Boot keys and put your own in there
    • Encrypt the disk so that you can't just plop the drive into another PC and modify its content
    • Set the root user to "Can only login with private key" and don't give the key to the customers
    • Remove all users from sudoers
    • Use chown root:root and chmod 700 on anything you don't want the user to touch

    And if a company was doing this to their products (e.g. the Steam Deck), they'd replace the first 3 steps with a custom BIOS which just doesn't let you change anything in regards to Secure Boot and Secure Boot keys. That way, removing the BIOS battery won't help.

    There are countless embedded devices using an x86 PC at their core, where they did exactly that. (E.g. ATMs or medical devices)

    Also Chromebooks are exactly that.

    And the Playstation 5 does the same thing, only it's based on FreeBSD.

  • The thing is, what use case can benefit from a blockchain?

    Scamming, gambling, crime and speculation benefited from the lack of regulation, but barely cared about the underlying concept of a bitcoin.

    But for anything real, much better solutions have existed for decades or centuries.

    Blockchain is a solution without a problem and has been that for 25 years now.

    If you have a solution that hasn't found a problem in 25 years, chances are that there will never be an actual problem that solution would solve.

    So the killer apps of blockchain remain scamming, gambling, speculation and crime. Until there are more stringent regulations, then they'll go back to Western Union and Paysafe cards.

  • Tieing down a Linux installation is actually pretty easy.

    • Lock the BIOS down so that it can only boot a Valve-signed OS
    • Remove root access on the OS
    • chown root:root on anything you don't want the users to touch

    It's pretty much the same as Android device vendors are doing.

  • Happy to help!

    Btw, check out Netguard (either the F-Droid version or the one from Github, since these two versions allow system-wide adblocking).

    And Newpipe.

    If you don't know these apps yet, they will change how you use your Android device.

  • No. You know your argument is not appropriate. I don't need to tell you that.

    You argueing that way, because you want your guns and have to find a moral excuse so that it doesn't look like your only argument is "Boom Boom Manly Man Boom".

    You are argueing in bad faith, so no need to engage in that argumentation.

  • Your actions do nothing. You complain on the internet about some guy that said something you don't like. Nobody from FSF is gonna read it. And neither will Stallman or anyone that matters.

    I don't see you boycotting software related to FSF. And even if you do, it doesn't even matter, since the overwhelming majority of FOSS users never donate any money at all.

    You are no customer of the FSF, you just enjoy their stuff for free.

    So your actions amount to angry screaming into a box.

  • Apparently, Stallman is a net positive for them, so they keep him.

    Doesn't mean that they in any way endorse pedophilia.

    And the freedom of association also doesn't mean that a bunch of enraged people online have the freedom to decide whom they associate with.

    And apparently, in the USA there is a whole party devoted to child marriage and other ways to have sex with minors. That might be the better point to start, because they actually have a say regarding laws on that matter.