It comes from my first principle of opposing theocracy and legally enforced misogyny. Same reason I also hope for the fall of the house of Saud (ok they’re a religious absolute monarchy). But it really solidified when I got to know a refugee from Iran.

I want the regime to fall, but not for us to bomb it

It annoys me to no end that they can’t be updated on linux

Except the real issue is that it’s his perceived sovereignty (I actually kinda think the Falklands are rightfully Britain’s, but I also don’t care that much)

“I heard you loud and clear when you chanted ‘No! Blood for oil!’ and have committed to finally trading blood for oil unlike Bush”

Yeah. I don’t care if you like your gas stove, I understand that I’m controversial in preferring electric, but the health data is increasingly clear, you are taking health risks when you use one. You should be free to make that choice, but the gas industry is actively propagandizing this unhealthy choice.

Fine, then he’s too creepy to run Pennsylvania, and I assure you that is not a cool and normal place, despite what the Sheetz would have you believe

Because if my operating system is going to break in stupid ways I want it to be my fault or at the very least something I could fix if I knew shit about fuck. Seeing as I don’t know that the main perk is Linux keeps getting better as windows keeps getting worse.

Yeah. After a period of unemployment and having used windows 10 at my previous job I came home after using 11 and told my wife “damn bitch you live like this?” about it

sigh I’m fucking sick of this stupid ass warmongering

Oh it doesn’t have a political bias? That’s miraculous in a world in which various forms of scientific consensus don’t meet that bar

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Oh shit that first link is exactly something I’ve wanted for years. I’ve been linuxing from gui for a while and would like to know more, especially as I fuck around with my home server

It’s only a smart move if you assume nobody will ever call your bluff. Meanwhile my VPN sees I haven’t renewed yet and it’s about to end and they offer me a deal so good I just do a quick check they’re still good enough then accept it. I’m not loyal loyal, but I’ve been a subscriber since the pandemic and I will be for another 2 years at least.

For comparison, I prioritize internet as local carriers > spectrumcast > seriously consider larping as amish > AT&T. AT&T will just offer new customers limited wifi data at low speeds for more money than spectrum and get shocked you won’t switch. Meanwhile spectrum makes me and my wife have to swap who’s name the account is for every year or two to keep the good deal, except when they just sign a deal with the landlord for a mandatory fixed price as a part of my building/complex’s rent. Local carriers offer reasonable prices where I don’t feel the need to keep chasing introductory deals.

It’s Ubuntu based, but it’s doing a lot of what Ubuntu is for. If canonical is happy with that that’s awesome, but I would suspect that they want these people going to Ubuntu itself. Ubuntu remains recommended against by a lot of people.

I wish it was spelling reform. I’ve been wanting that reform for over a decade

I like the þ but not the long s. Þ is actually useful when it clicks. Long s is just an “what if we had another letter for s thst looks like l and does nothing different or more efficient”

I’m definitely getting into self hosting because of the DIY thing. The rise of modern smart homes has led to homeaasistant being a great diy project for those inclined towards fucking around with their home and those who’d rather not have corpo scum surveil them because of it

Listen I’ve got garuda (the only thing I touch if I can help it), windows 11 (idk why but it hasn’t been able to update in a long time, so it’s basically useless), windows 10 on hdd (actually might be 8), and a 10 year old copy of Ubuntu on an hdd as my boot options because I just copied my college hdds when I upgraded them a few years ago.

9.5 years is pretty good if you think of it as tech, but the problem is that smart home products are often home appliances. Some are even home fixtures. So yeah people feel cheated when something like a light switch gets dropped from service or demands a subscription