Removed by mod

Lick my sack

If systems begin to drop support for the previous technology you run into incompatibility problems across the board

I’ve had Linux pop OS on a USB and ran it for about a year and a half total before switching on and off to windows. I think it’s one of the few OSes that actually work on all my devices even obscure thinkpads. I’d still use it today however -

My issues with Linux as a whole stem from absolutely trash antivirus and auditing perspective. Windows suffers this in many ways but I think they’re a live service rather than a static service. I’ll give an example, we’re getting bitlocker encryption with backup support keys etc in case a user gets locked out of a device on all devices very soon in W11h24 I believe, as a default. Pop OS comes with disk encryption but if I forgot my password or what have you, or even want to make a USB encryption key to unlock the device if I forgot it, I’d be in trouble. There’s an element of user friendliness that OSX and Windows have, that Linux just doesn’t have. I get scared running these open source applications when we’re essentially in a Cold War and I need to depend on them for my business. Especially if the apps are developed in JavaScript there’s so many dependencies I can’t verify. I can use portmaster and some log trailing to sift it but something about it feels like I am still not secure.

This is my first time hearing stakeholder primacy as a term. Can you elaborate on what the grounds you’d sue the stakeholders on? Ie what is the legal premise that you’re proposing you can hold them accountable for?

How is the west white supremecy? You sound like a racist when you say that and it hurts your credibility, especially in a larger conversation about some of the other points you mention.

Go walk into a tech building in the west in the USA and you’d find that white people are a fraction of the workers present, and even then it’s European transplants also in the office. It is unironically very diverse. Teams I worked on were not strictly white people or majority white. And taking it even further - why be racist in the first place?

They’re tasked with infinitely growing their stock price. That is a suicide job. Working big tech in the USA sucks right now because there’s no concept of just maintaining and maintaining something well, unless you’re Valve and steam

Between this and the pip install break all system packages

This has to be about the dumbest change I could possibly gather in the last 20 years of computing. I can’t even imagine breaking this many things all at once. I’m still dealing with the side effects of people’s installers from docker-compose and the pip problems - ansible will just never be the same again. Now this.

And I think these parts are fair to say but they lose me within the first few minutes by jumping to disassociated bold points like the cloud to windows being proprietary.

We need well reasoned arguments that are cohesive and the moment you lose that, you basically damage your own cause.

Again though it’s a discussion. I’m just saying that it’s disappointing and quickly frustrating that this is how things get framed: with facts and arguments that are leading. Don’t show your hand. Let people arrive at these things as a logical conclusion based on a pile of evidence.

Hey thanks for posting this. I’ve bookmarked it to watch within the hour.

I’m interested to see if these are really businesses under threat from Microsoft or if it’s businesses looking to eliminate competition from USA and push their own products. I’m not a fan of MULAFAANG pushing a monopoly but I’m also realistic that politicians will always be motivated to do what politicians do best.

EDIT: Not even that far into the video yet…So I live in the USA and I’ve visited a Microsoft campus when I was in Washington. And the premise of what is being presented is laughable. I said as a system administrator back in 2015 that going into the Microsoft cloud azure was bullshit and not a good idea, and turns out today that is still the answer. If these departments wanted to use Linux that is an internal decision not one reflective of Microsoft. LLDAP (easy managed LDAP service) exists in FOSS. So does Mailcow. Everyone loves to masterbate to how “bad these companies are”, dude you CHOSE them. There are parts of Microsoft’s footprint that are good like their ability to staff teams to work on security, keeping NPM, github, and pypi safe. But they also have a lot of malware-like components in their services/OS that collect data in the same way a virus would.

I just don’t like this premise of purchasing someone’s product and then vilifying that product as if they had no other choice. I understand that its not entirely with that intent, its more to start a conversation about it, but damn does it ring that way when I saw self hosting in 2015 & IT departments as the answer.

EDIT2: Why are talking about the cloud, then pivoting to saying that Microsoft won’t release the source code for Windows? Lol. These are two separate topics, and the author of the video didn’t attempt to pose it as one. I am disappointed by the author to present the information that is reasonable and understanding of both their own culture and display a lack of effort in their own administration to use existing FOSS products. No one has a gun to your head. I’ve migrated between 5 different clouds and solutions over the last few years for my own company’s infra.

Even if you don’t agree with any of it, thanks for posting the news. That’s interesting.

Try portmaster it’s open source. It might not be perfect in UI but I believe that’s what I used last time on Linux.

I find all this “bog down your system” answers to be a crock of shit. Go run ESET nod32 and put it in interactive mode. Yes, you’ll get a lot of prompts but damn you’ll learn so much about what’s going on in your computer and the networks it’s reaching out to. If you’re on windows run glass wire or OSX run little snitch. I used to know a Linux alternative for those but the point stands that you should have tools that you can use in a desktop setting to really understand what is running, and what it’s connecting to. You should have a program running that can check against a database of hashes of files for signature matches. It seems though like there’s not strong enough AV. And I suspect that’s on purpose so state actors can easily get into our systems in all nations.

Going to add that it seems like you could easily run an LLM bot to just do a yes no on whether a post looks like a bot.

So your solution is make Lemmy like reddit ya fuck that.

The first thing people do with free speech once they realize people have it is limit it. Mods will always come out of the wood works to ban bots its nbd.

Having my lights turn off from a voice control is really useful when I want to take a nap but I found that it was weird having all this shit tied into a strangers cloud (google, amazon, apple, whatever). If its hosted at home its usually just fine. As long as ET doesn’t phone home.

I AM TALKING IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE I AM MAD

HOW DARE THIS FREE SERVICE I USE GO DOWN HOW EVER WILL I POST MEMES FROM MY OPAL THRONE

Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

also thank you for hosting us and working on the issue!

I had reasoning for the steam deck when I wrote that but I’m struggling to recall why. There was some niche with Linux for it since it has good support for Linux applications but I can’t remember how I thought it would fit

Anyhow nook and especially kobo are solid.

Can I be ridiculous here and say that a nook e-reader or kobo e-reader, and a steamdeck would suffice?

Maybe just a kobo?

I know it’s not Linux and that’s what you asked for, but at the end of 2022 when I looked into this I had a hard time finding Linux tablet with a good UX.

I’m glad you think so. I remember Richard stallman banging on a bongo singing that charging for software is greed.

I just want people to have enough incentives for their time that things are safe and the workers paid properly. I wish more open source devs got paid.