Yliaster

Well I’m glad you can say that.

In my experience there are people who defend both China and “DPRK” as a communist paragon with reasoning that is although extensive dodges any real criticism of China (from either an external standpoint, or from within a communist pov).

It was my impression that such “tankies” are the primary base of communists (or common enough for it to be a problem), which pushed me away from it.

In practice, it isn’t, usually. None of the communist states extant today or historically had a decentralized system without hierarchies.

We’re talking anarchism, not communism

Israel’s flag.

Noooo “calling it “authoritarian” is meaningless”!!!

Stop “phrasemongering”, it’s “not fascism” when China pulls its shit! China also not guilty of Uyghur genocide, that’s western propaganda you racist!

Smh. Tankie propaganda was making me mad, I’m actually glad I got banned off their subs for adamantly refusing to accept their lines of reasoning for their blatant, apologetic, wholly uncritical acceptance of china.

He’s a molester, what makes you think this would be an issue for him?

Wasn’t rhetorical, was intended to ask for your reasoning in more specific terms.

Allow me to rephrase.

Do you think it is likely for voting to create a difference?

There is nothing constitutional about the US and how it operates anymore.

Do politicians still have your faith?

Using an OS shouldn’t be a skill curve. Windows isn’t.

The last few times I used Ubuntu I had to use the terminal or I couldn’t get apps I needed (the store didn’t have them).

Set-ups and installations were not as simple as you’ve described here.

and uh “scam sites” are a non-issue unless you’re a boomer

I have touched the registry like once, and that was just to disable windows updates. It’s not something I do.

The thing is that Linux is literally designed for coders in mind, it surely comes off that way. I’m not comfortable having to type these weird long-winded commands to do everything.

It was never the case with windows, it’s incredibly intuitive and linear. The amount of time taken to do anything on windows is practically always much lesser on windows compared to Linux necessarily.

Best example is setup installation files. One tap, everything is installed automatically. Not the case with Linux.

I don’t want to use the fucking terminal for every little damn thing.

Linux is not intuitive for people coming from other platforms at all. Using the computer for basic purposes such as downloading files, apps, and games should not feel like a skill curve.

Yes there’s stores in-built but that doesn’t have the majority of stuff I get, it’s often random websites online with .exe files and such.

Despite the BS microslop does, it’s just a lot easier and comfortable to use, more than Linux could ever be.

Goodbye!

Not all GPT users are American/residing in America

Even foss is under attack. Linux (amongst other OS) are being forced to comply with integrating OS-level age verification checks, which means invading privacy and contributing to mass surveillance.

People have been arrested for developing end-to-end encryption too.

Microslop.

Why is curbing use unideal?

Further, self-control and attention span are not measures of intelligence.

You can be restrained and/or have a long attention span and still not be intelligent.

My primary concern was that last bit you wrote: e2ee doesn’t necessarily guarantee anything; corporate overlords like Meta has abused it and iirc the British government is starting to fuck with e2ee too.

Does e2ee even mean anything anymore?