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If Linux was dominant it wouldn’t be Linux. There would be more pressure to monetize and there would always be someone willing to sell out for that money. You can see this even in the Linux community today. I’m sorry I had to be so negative about it though, it sounds nice.

This is a very Desktop/workstation-centric view of the situation and you're completely neglecting 3/4ths of the story. Linux is already hilariously dominant on the on-prem server and Cloud side of things. Like, it's not even close. Pretty much any website you visit, the odds are overwhelming that it's running Linux. Even Microsoft runs most of the underlying infrastructure for Azure and Github on Linux. Android is the #1 mobile phone platform in the world, which runs on, you guessed it, Linux.

And it's already monetized to the gills. Red Hat has multi-billion earnings per quarter, every quarter, and Canonical is almost certainly going to IPO this year.

It's already dominant in pretty much every space it touches and it has been for a very long time. Desktop/workstation is pretty much the singular exception to that.

When you see "Account created: 1997".

"These are the sacred scrolls of the ancient ones."

I have boots older than some people that are posting on Lemmy today...

Now that societal failsafe is gone. Now people just aren’t challenged for holding the wrong opinion.

I agree with everything you said except for this. Opinions are never wrong since they're subjective, they're just fucking stupid.

The only answer is Ublock Origin.

Aside from that, you can do adblocking for your entire network and everything on it via Pi-hole. It requires no modification for the devices on your network and will work for literally any device connected to it.

If you combine those two, the odds of seeing any ad anywhere isn't zero, but it is close enough to zero to effectively be zero.

Fwiw, Linus made a post today and said they've already arranged to compensate billet for the prototype.

That has very strong "I'm sorry that I got caught" energy.

It's a motivational button.

The only Chromium-based browser worth a damn is Vivaldi.

It's privacy-focused and made by the same people who originally made Opera before it got sold off and turned into malware.

Because Firefox honestly used to be shit, especially in the early Phoenix/Firebird days, but now it isn't anymore, and they just haven't bothered to check it out again. The "killing all the existing extensions" thing really didn't help matters either.

Lmfao. Bro edge is chromium my guy. You just switched from one skin to another is all. It's all the same under the hood🤣

They are definitely not all the same, and Vivaldi is a fantastic example of that. Just because it's Chromium-based doesn't mean it's chock full of bullshit and a Chrome reskin, it just means that it most likely is. Vivaldi definitely isn't.

How can you possibly forget the mid-video ad read that is actually a part of the video, thus unblockable?

Changing request headers is a trivial thing.

They created Back Orifice which was a great parody of MS's Back Office.

Man, I had a lot of fun with that and Sub7 back in the day.

I mean, hypothetically speaking depending on statute of limitations.

This is the first lesson you have to learn as a Linux enthusiast, NEVER run commands you don't know from the internet

"Nah, just curl this random web address and pipe it over to a sudo bash shell, everything will be fine!"

I hate how this is becoming the official install method for more and more shit. It's like dude, really? You may as well stick your dick in a garbage disposal, both of those actions are equally safe.

You're dreaming if you think I'm not going to wget it and read it to see what it does first.

I’m forced to use either Chrome or Edge for my work computer and it drives me crazy.

I've been a Sysadmin for a ~decade. I can state with 100% certainty that the reason behind that decision is that you can very easily configure Group Policy to control the behavior and visibility/availability of features in Chrome and Edge. Firefox didn't have that until just a couple of years ago, and it wasn't great when it first became available. And to be honest, it's still not fully baked, but it's at least usable now from an administrative perspective.

Maybe bring it up to your IT department and include this link in the email/ticket.

I wonder when there will be a Windows client for KDE Connect.

Wonder no more.

Is OpenVPN not just SSL traffic?

It's not, it's an IPSec VPN by default which runs over UDP. You can run it via TCP and it operates over the same port as HTTPS (443), but it's not the same protocol and can be differentiated that way.

A way around this would be to run an SSLVPN with a landing page where you log in instead of using an IPSec VPN or a dedicated SSLVPN client.

Another way around it would be to create a reverse SSH tunnel on a VM/VPC in another country/state and send all your traffic through that.

But where's the fun in that? Then you don't get new hardware.

I'll migrate my /home back to my root drive and use the spare drive to experiment with.

Or just leave it where it is and mount it there too ¯(ツ)/¯

Hearing a song that you've downloaded playing on the radio, surprised it didn't skip in that one spot

To this day my brain still jams in neutral when I don't hear a skip at the end of Guerilla Radio the last time Zach says "now"

I mean that is the problem of too many people being on that one instance.

From what I understand, capacity isn't the issue, it's that they're being repeatedly DDoS'ed