Investors are like parasitic leeches to any business model. As soon as you add them, the business has to grow in order to satisfy the leeches who provide no benefit to the model other than to be attached to it. If you ignore the leech, they’ll drain all your lifeforce, so you’re only option is to satisfy them and feed them. Unfortunately, they are also ravenous creatures who are never satisfied. If you feed them a little, they’ll want more next time in an endless cycle.

Once you are infected by investors … eventually they will destroy whatever you created.

BSOD

Bombed Spiral Of Death

lol … I never noticed … just like the 12 year old who installed Limewire on the family computer

Just don’t let the 12 year old install LimeWire onto that thing

Are they building an army with troops, tanks, aircraft and naval ships? Are they going to physically and violently take over the social internet?

Humanity did fine for thousands of years without these dumb apps … I think we’d be fine without them

Beautiful work … I wish my school had done that when I was a kid.

The great thing about it is that now you are helping to generate a new crop of kids who will learn how to use Linux. Sure, they will try to do stupid things on it like install games or figure out how to bypass things or install or uninstall … the great thing about that is that they will learn how to use the system in order to try to break it. It’s the same way I learned how to use Linux and probably the same way you learned how to use it.

You’ve advanced the computer department for those kids more than you know.

That’s one of the great things about switching to Linux … it forces you to learn something new and for kids that is a very good thing.

All those kids in the school that OP described were getting stagnant in a settled environment of living in Windows … now that they have Linux in front of them, they will go on to learn how to subvert the system under Linux. It’s not a bad thing in my opinion, it will create a whole crop of kids who now know how to fool around with Windows AND Linux.

I wish someone would have introduced me to Linux when I was kid.

Instead of mass migration, they should just institute small changes to small sections or areas or groups … just slowly erode the windows userbase over a period of about four or five or even ten years. Once it reaches a critical mass at some point … then you can just cut the cord altogether and change over everything and everyone.

If they are honest about what they are suggesting … the first step would be to be explicitly clear about who THEY are and WHO they represent.

I really don’t care that much about the technical side of things because I’m not that technically knowledgeable. However, I am more apt to trust the judgment or recommendations of prominent people in the industry (that are not corporately attached or controlled) … I would also trust public institutions or journalists or academics with a track record of social advocacy and wanting to represent people instead of corporations or businesses. I would also trust politicians or political advocates that mostly represent people and public institutions.

I really don’t put my faith in any one person no matter who they claim to be to just say they want to build something meaningful and give me no information on their background, who they worked for, who they represent or what kind of people or organizations they associate with. There have been far too many ‘good natured’ technocrats and technology people from the past decade or two who claim to say that they want to change the world for the better and then end up wanting to burn it all down for a profit.

Depending on who the group is … it is good to first do a thorough check on who the group is … it can just as likely be a group of scam artists that are riding on some nationalism band wagon happening around the world these days.

Might as well rewrite history and say that in the 1940s, America fought Central European powers with alternative government systems

So … what is the leading alternative browser then?

One of the reasons Firefox became so popular was that it was an alternative.

Now that they’re drifting towards something we don’t like … what is the new alternative?

No … the US empire will expand and grow more wealthy … the only issue is the US empire has nothing to do with the US people, it has everything to do with US corporations and wealthy owners.

The fun part is that the same thing is happening with the Russians … their empire has nothing to do with their people and everything to do with their corporations and wealthy owners.

This all has nothing to do with people … it has everything to do with money.

If you want to use language like that … you aren’t a news site … you are a propaganda arm of corporate America who is more beholden to owners and investors than in giving straight forward news to the common people.

Lol … turns out OP is an old party friend of Kim

I will forever associate the first initial pre release beta whatever you want to call it GIMP 3.0 to the second time Turnip was elected.

The day of that announcement was the first day that GIMP 3.0 was mentioned for release

From one point of view, I don’t think the US will ever want to take over Canada. They own us already and our resources, our corporations and businesses and I don’t think they want to the expense of running our country. They have our money and resources, it would just cost them more to run manage us.

From another point of view, if they do want to take us over with military force and occupy us … that is even more expensive and difficult to implement and manage. How much do you think it would cost to have thousands of troops, officials and military run around Canada to keep us ‘under control’.

It’s a business decision and our Canadian leadership being such whores to money, it’s just cheaper to keep us under a leash and keep us at arms length, while doing whatever they want with us anyway.

Just use Deepseek for US government data … what could go wrong?

The solution =

• give vague answers
• back track on everything you said in a few days or weeks
• keep fighting
• tell everyone you won

Watch as everyone shakes their hands, dance around, call you stupid and basically get mad and distracted while you go off and raid the government coffers for you and your friends.