BaumGeist

They tried to destroy linux and free/libre software, and when that didn't work, they started cornering the market and pushing for a move from "Free" to "Open Source." They also support SaaS model, and have made it next to impossible to get a new computer without their mediocre OS. On top of that, their OS is full of spyware, and is starting to become adware too.

But that all pales in comparison to the fact that you do not own your own OS: you can run Microsoft's OS, but you can't modify it or share it.

Oh, and this falls more in the realm of personal preference, but the deliberate lack of customizability is a real pain in the ass.

4/10 OS, only slightly better at disguising its capitalist greed than Apple.

He's outspoken and the youtube algo seems to be pushing his content to everyone now. He used to be focused on Right To Repair, but has since branched out to privacy and FOSS

He's not particularly "bro"-y, but with the direction his rhetoric is headed, I wouldn't be surprised if we see him making guest appearances in the conspiracy corner of the grift-o-sphere

references sexual assault when talking about the behavior of software vendors with their customers

Yeah, that kinda pushed me away too. I get it, it's an apt comparison for people who feel entitled to completely invade your privacy and do whatever they want inside your home, and it grabs the attention of the people who have just accepted no privacy as the norm... But it still makes me really uncomfortable

ZPAQ is for cool people with massive space savings

z is for gzip archives only.

tar xf for eXtract the File

That screenshot shows the dnf clean working as intended

does a dnf update still not work?

sudo dnf clean all

And… why not? OpenVPN is 10 times worse

Classic tech holy wars rhetoric: "someone dared speak ill of the One True Software, time to talk smack about the competition"

Sometime people have problems when they're learning new software, sometimes people prefer software solutions that aren't what you picked. Live and let live.

Good lawd, these are the basic tenants of networking. I’m so sad people are unfamiliar.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

I'll give you the most extreme solutions I can think of, and let you decide how much of each you want to enact.

First and foremost: use a secure and privacy friendly OS—Qubes on a burner pc or GrapheneOS on a burner phone—with secure and privacy-friendly networking—use DNS-over-HTTPS, or self-host as much of the infrastructure as you can, consider a VPN, keep the device on an isolated VLAN—use a secure/private web browser like LibreWolf.

General rules of online interaction apply for maintaining privacy within the servers: e.g. don't talk specifics about your location, your age, your physical appearance, your childhood, your employer, etc.

As with most modern apps, the web app is necessarily less intrusive than the installable binary. Use the web app when you can, and limit your usage to only when you can use the web app on a computer and network you own—privacy enforcing habits are more important than all the software stopgaps in the world.

If you absolutely must use a binary, consider breaking Discord's TOS and using a modified front-end: I know some people who use Aliucord for Android, and I just this moment learned about GoofCord for desktop

don't install/run any software without verifying the integrity of the developers/distributors and binaries yourself, or building from source and verifying the code

It's better to have Discord stealing your browsing data to sell you shit than have some random github malware rootkitting your phone.

Re the comic: great art! Can't wait to read more. I'm already curious about these characters and their setting.

Re the topic: I have to agree with Benno Rice here. While systemd is far from perfect, there is a lot that it got right, and there are a lot of reasons it became the most widely adopted init system—no, it's not because the project owner is well-connected, that's for Apple and M$. We should learn from that, instead of outright dismissing the users that have reasons for wanting/using it.

More generally, this falls under the "should the tech adapt to the user or the user adapt to the tech?" debate. Systemd chose to aim for broadly applicable while still being easy to use for beginners who just want to "set it and forget it" (the tech adapted to the user). Meanwhile, savvy users have figured out exactly how they want their init configured, and the bare minimum they need to do so, so they're willing to learn a different system (the users adapting to tech).

I'm not even close to saying systemd is The Best™, nor even that it's good. But it is good at what it wants to be, and it satisfies the overwhelming majority of gnunix users. Instead of writing them off as misguided followers of evil, maybe we should listen to their needs and try to find a way to tailor an init system to them.

Spoiler: we don't do that because they want something that takes care of everything systemd does, that's as widely supported, and that requires minimal setup and maintenance. They want systemd.

I never said there was a right choice, and I do not like people putting words in my mouth only to attack a strawman.

That’s something fascists do, and I refuse to converse further with someone who supports genocide.

I never said there was a right choice, and I do not like people putting words in my mouth only to attack a strawman.

That's something fascists do, and I refuse to converse further with someone who supports genocide.