Cyberwolf

Epstein truly was the octopus with tentacles up the entire world-elites’ asses, wasn’t he?

I would like to personally thank Windows for introducing the century of the Linux desktop to me and my family’s life.

It is so tragic how misinformation spreads.

A single init system (of the multiple that exist) enabled the option for an age check to be implemented to said init system, which is then still left at the discretion of each individual distro to either enable or keep disabled. So far only corporate distros seem interested, or at least ambivalent, in enabling said feature. Most other distros don’t have it enabled nor are planning to, and US law cannot touch them since many distros are HQ’ed out of the US.

Despite this, we are already seeing comments such as this one. Very sad.

Is this “quality” with us in the room right now? I’m pretty sure all quality windows had died with windows 7.

It’s hilarious that the issues people think Linux has, like for example the disk deleting itself, are exactly what happens on Windows lol.

Lenovo does not have a reputation of placing root kits in their Linux installs so there you go.

How can you trust other laptop manufacturers aren’t doing the same if we’re going with unfounded assumptions?

Most Linux images offer checksums to verify integrity.

There’s this thing called uninstalling the factory OS and reinstalling with a clean image. If you go a step further you can even get rid of Windows altogether and install Linux.

Don’t forget the most important prerequisite: be a psychopath. Something something 12-15% of the world’s top CEOs are clinically psychopaths, so this is the world we get.

Cool, you know who doesn’t have this issue? People who uninstalled the spyware called Windows from their device.

Lucky for them ethical hackers (CCC) found that and did not use the data.

In other words “ethical hackers” wasted a great opportunity to give shithead politicians a taste of their own venom. Very frustrating.

Hope Valve comes up with something eventually

That could be interesting. I want to see how SteamOS goes, but the potential is grand.

In terms of the iPhone being locked down, I’m not sure what you’re looking to do but I personally managed to get ad-free Reddit, YouTube and YouTube music ad-free (+sponsorblock) just using apps from the App Store. All of them free or one-time payment of 3 euros. It was actually easier to do than with Android where I had to “sideload” stuff from GitHub since Android is owned by google and all frontends to their programs are banned.

As long as you get yourself an email that isn’t iCloud you can also take all your contacts and email with you wherever you want. Then you can install KDE Connect as you would on Android and can send files freely between you phone and Pc.

This is all to say, I don’t feel more locked down on the iPhone than on Android, which was a surprise for me.

If android goes the way it’s going, then iPhone is the obvious choice.

And this is why I get increasingly tired of the whole privacy-seeking endeavor. Jumping through hoops to get GrapheneOS+Linux working for me, with the sacrifices that come with it, only to have my government hand out my healthcare and biometric data to the US anyway. It’s all so tiresome.

Literally the story of Monopoly the board game.

Uh?

All I see is a bureaucratic nightmare. No democracy to be seen, starting from the fact all politicians in the EU are bourgeoisie.

Their servants are all unpaid interns who have a near zero chance of ever staying in Brussels. Those that don’t come from well-off families that can support them will never enter a single EU institution.

My disappointment is immesurable and my day is ruined.

People aren’t made that way, but competion incentivizes that.

Why oh why would people be against the very institutions where such behaviours are reinforced?

Do you trust them? The Curve sub is full of people complaining about fraudulent transactions. Kinda makes me afraid of unlocking my card lol.