What’s unfortunate is a significant number of people don’t like hearing this and instead choose to project onto other countries. Most of our governments aren’t our friends, regardless if you’re American or not.

What’s the point of switching to Linux if everything just works out of the box!

Yeah, I’ve been like that too recently. I prefer my not-so-problematic Debian setup nowadays, and I couldn’t even bring myself to rice it.

Realities like this one are forcing entire nations to move to FOSS, more accountable systems, etc., which is a good thing for many of us, but bad for those who are in jurisdictions that they just can’t get enough of Microsoft et al.

A far journey ahead but at least we’re getting there!

I do this with my hair. They all look so stunned when they see me with a new haircut. Wears off after a few weeks though.

The pronunciation is very fancy. Fitting!

It’s a skill issue by the 2nd or 3rd generation you live through, honestly.

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Had a similar conversation over in Mastodon recently and yeah, this is a very fair point. The indiscriminate scanning and publication of copyrighted books shouldn’t have happened in the first place, especially when there are existing ecosystems for ethical lending/leasing/borrowing of books already in place, which benefit and are working with authors/publishers already.

The amount of money billionaires spend on political campaigns should be proportional to the amount of votes their bets lose to their opponents.

PACs included 👍

I give you that lol