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Cake day: December 4th, 2024

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  • Not knowing how to install F Droid/to look for open source projects for sensitive data is not the same as voting for Trump or supporting Russia over Ukraine. The latter are taking bad information/prejudices and acting on them. The other people simply are not aware of the issue, or how serious of an issue personal privacy has become more broadly. Comparing them to MAGA and calling them stupid is not going to help them.

    I bet if I looked at your smart phone or computer I would see plenty of services you use that compromise your privacy. Should I call you an ignorant hypocrite and berate you as well?


  • Everybody’s a bad ass talking about Darwin awards when that’s something they understand, but suddenly you will expect sympathy when it’s something you don’t. Maybe try havinga little more empathy for the people of the world who are not as aware of how bad privacy has gotten. Believe it or not, we are of a minority perspective. A very small one at that.

    I’m more inclined to believe it’s partially a failure on our part to educate people, but mostly the issue is that it’s not a fair fight. You are expecting the average person to successfully overcome the resources and influence of sometimes decades old, billion dollar, multinational companies and governments. But I guess it’s a lot easier to just call everybody who doesn’t take this as seriously as we do a dumbass. Certainly allowed you to wipe your hands of it and act smug that’s for sure.














  • I want to preface this by saying I am not a fan of how .ml is run either. Tankies run rampant. Their ethical framework to me is wild.

    But:

    You don’t have to go there. They are their own instance with their own rules, just like tons of other instances with their own rules. You can’t show up and wipe your muddy shoes on their couch just because you don’t like their rules. You know what their rules are, you know you don’t agree philosophically, so don’t fucking go there. You don’t have to. You chose to go there looking for a fight, then you were shown the door, because that kind of behavior is not welcome.

    You are not entitled to their consideration, you are not entitled to their time, and you are not entitled to posting on their instance. You seem to be under the (incorrect) impression that they are accountable to you. They are not.

    TL;DR: They made their feelings clear to you with a ban, and you are now here throwing a hissy fit.

    And before you start going off about how you think I’m a tankie or whatever, I gave this exact same lecture to someone a week ago because they were mad that an instance was hostile to the concept of ownership. An instance that was specifically centered around piracy. They felt entitled to express their option there without consequences but they were not so they acted like a petulant child.

    Don’t be that user.



  • I built a PC with an AMD processor/GPU and only have bazzite installed on it, so trust me I am very well aware of it lol

    I really like how to set it and forget it steamOS is. Bazzite is very close and very impressive, but I use steamOS on my steamdeck and I just prefer it overall.

    Every time I say I want SteamOS, people come tell me to do bazzite - I know what it is, what I want is SteamOS.