bilb

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[–] bilb@lem.monster 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think so. Enforcing two-factor auth to be allowed to do certain things with an account just makes sense. It's definitely not an attempt to squeeze profit out of users per se, but rather an attempt to limit liability and the risk of costly support problems caused by passwords being compromised.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you have to be logged in to view a person's feed now though.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is why I prefer using my own instance- I don't want these federation choices made for me by people like this.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A five day work week gives your employer more control over your life though. They will not give that up willingly.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 1 points 1 year ago

https://lemmyverse.net/ seems better than a community for this tee bee aych

[–] bilb@lem.monster 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This seems pretty normal honstly

[–] bilb@lem.monster 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why can't it just be "posts?"

[–] bilb@lem.monster 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have to use Windows for work, and I choose to use Linux for all of my personal devices. Windows is trying very hard to corral me into using bing, edge, cortana, etc. and gets in my way when I try to use the tools I prefer instead. It intentionally obscures what its doing with updates and security. That is unacceptable. This is my computer, not theirs.

No Linux distro that I've tried does any of that shit. They have never tried to push my behavior in one direction or another, they aren't watching everything I do to help their product teams develop an even more annoying desktop. The various Linux distros I've used have felt like nothing but a way to let me use my damn computer.

I do have a small partition with Windows on it to play the occasional game I can't run on Linux with Proton. Thanks, Valve!

[–] bilb@lem.monster 4 points 1 year ago

I see what you're saying now. Which dell laptop is it, by the way?

I suspect what people are assuming is that your laptop might have some closed source firmware or BIOS, and I assume what System76 is saying is that this won't be true on their Virgo laptop.

I'm a framework guy myself, at least so far.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Even if that's true, that's a different computer.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 4 points 1 year ago

Microsoft has committed in writing, in public, and in court to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation for 10 years on parity with Xbox. It made an agreement with Nintendo to bring Call of Duty to Switch. And it entered several agreements to for the first time bring Activision’s content to several cloud gaming services.

And what are the potential consequences of not living up to these commitments? Call me cynical, but I don't think a pinkie swear is worth much.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you use a VPN?

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