You from the guv'mint, kid? You has to tell me if you is.
haverholm
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It's fairly dire to assume that people in this community will read this comic and go "Oh snap! Why didn't I think about this before?"
As I just posted in another comment, my read on the comic is that the person we see in the last panel is intentionally depicted as psychotic, and not an aspirational figure... but yeah. Don't blow up people to prove a point about infrastructure.
I think you're the only one taking the comic this literally?
The top two panels do have some !fuckcars energy, but the lower half about the bombing is about a delusional and/or haunted guy who is spurred on by a ghostly woman. Not exactly a call to action against private motorists.
That is true, definitely not an OS exclusive problem!
That's the go-getter attitude any paramilitary organisation appreciates!
Fresh out of pamphlets, sorry.
Ri-i-ight. Now tell us about the significance of his knit sweater.
Not fake, just ~4 years old spoilers. Also, there's a twist after that.
Bearded guy here; we never tire of that kind of comment. Please, keep it coming.
I agree that the tone of their articles helps push the quality above some other tech blogs. At the very least they're sincere!
Windows is no longer an option for me either — I had made a conscious effort to use FLOSS apps even before switching, so there wasn't much holding me back. And, as you say, once I'd started modifying system settings to disable Microsoft telemetry, I was already at Linux tinkerer levels...
Technologies like Electron make it easier for app availability: Controversial opinion but True
I do agree, but currently Electron is great for apps the way Flash was considered great for the web. It solves one problem, but creates a bunch more.
In itself, Electron is pretty bloated*, but I don't dare check how many versions I have installed because different apps have stuck with older ones. I'd really like to see a less resource consuming, backward compatible alternative to Electron.
* From my thrifty perspective of keeping older hardware alive with Linux, that is. On your high grade, best-of-class gaming rig, mileage will definitely vary.
That's certainly true of Doctorow — I've had to mute him on several platforms because he types out so damn much.
I mean that as a backhanded compliment, of course! There is always a good point to his writings, I just personally have other things to do than keep up with every post he publishes...
Sometimes though, you have to sit up in your chair. Like when he coined the phrase "enshittification", and here again.
Rejecting metrics and self quantification resonates deep with me. Blog stats, clicks and upvotes and likes and reposts... those aren't valuable parameters for me to gauge my online life (such as it is).
Glad to see this so thoroughly and well put, and to a rapt audience that will hopefully follow suit and adopt the same notion.