My work gave me a choice of a chromebook or a windows laptop when I started since the company uses the Google stack for everything.
I asked if I could get a high end chromebook and it was approved. Its easy to install linux apps in the dev container and they run seamlessly with the the chrome apps on the desktop and the window manager has multiple desktops (which is how I like to do things). Since I have to use Gmail and Google Docs for work anyway, the chromebook is really not bad and much better than having to use Windows.
I’m sure it works great but it’s like curing a toothache by breaking another one out on the other side of your mouth. My problem with windows isn’t how difficult to use it is, it’s how restricted and how connected it must be. I don’t have full control of the system and I’m required to have external accounts for it to work. Same with chrome.
My data is mine, I don’t want it accessed, owned and controlled by a faceless internet corporation.
So, professionally I do not care what system I am expected to use, they are all functional. If the person signing my paycheck is comfortable with it, so be it (in fact, I’m a big proponent of externalizing risk in a corporate setting). Personally though, I’ll keep up my greybeard routine :).
Image refuses to load over my VPN. Well played, consider me thoroughly annoyed.
Then your VPN provider is blocking catbox. You should switch to a different VPN.
Catbox doesn’t even work for me via Tor. Should I switch to a different, less censory Tor?
P.S. Residential ips are the most valuable for VPN users, and if residential providers block Catbox, then the value of using a residential VPN obviously wins over Catbox.
Considering chromeOS “freedom” is wild.
Stallman: Android-shmadroid. That’s why I always insist on “GNU/Linux” name, not just Linux.
Given Ubuntu is testing replacing the GNU coreuitils with uutils, we might have to start unironically calling it systemd/Linux.
I prefer the “shit” term regarding Ubuntu :)
I use shit/Linux btw
Nice attempt, actually. I am immune to such things, but it definitely should work on younger people.
wouldnt that term also include android?
I believe we should find some more rude term for Android.
Given Ubuntu is testing replacing the GNU coreuitils with uutils, we might have to start unironically calling it systemd/Linux.
The differentiator is glibc. That’s what defines binary compatibility. Ubuntu still used glibc, Android uses Bionic.
It’s funny how my opinion of this really is:
Linux > Only using a smartphone (GrapheneOS) > Only using a smartphone (LineageOS) > Only using a smartphone (ARM Linux) > Literally not having a computer at all > Returning to the woods and living completely off-grid for the rest of my sorry days > Screaming into the void hoping it claims me > Chromebook > Mac > Windows
I just did Linux/Chromebook(derogatory)/Mac/Windows but it really didn’t capture my disdain for the last 3 enough
Returning to the woods and living completely off-grid for the rest of my sorry days Screaming into the void hoping it claims me
To be fair, these are great options…
The Void already has claims to all of us. The Void actually enjoys and needs the screaming, so it’ll be patient and wait until your warranty runs out; when your particular version stops getting patches and reaches EOL.
When that happens, it’ll welcome you, and you’ll get sent to /dev/random instead of the recycle bin or the trash can.
Note: You’ll have to wait for enough entropy in order to get to your next destination. How long that takes depends on how many people are screaming into the void at that time 🤷
I’d swap the chromebook and mac at the end there. The ewaste that is a chromebook is at best a glorified netbook, the macs at least have some decent hardware options that can be leveraged.
To be fair, part of this is my own experience. I’ve owned a Chromebook (still have it… Somewhere?), and know how it works. I’ve never once touched a Mac xD
my list is:
linux>windows>Screaming into the void hoping it claims me>>>Android(one of the better ROMs)>Android(one of the worse ROMs)>IOS>“Smart” TVs
I have to admit, this bugs me a little.
There is only one piece of software named Linux and that’s the kernel. Android is as much a legitimate distribution of Linux as is Alpine Linux.
Still enjoying the lenovo chromebook I got running Fedora, with 0 problems
I use fydeOS btw.
Thankfully chromebooks are not a thing where I live.
(Gigantic megacorp titan dumps billions into forcing a cheap thing on mass culture for further control of everything, selling at a massive loss to artificially inflate adoption rates)
“Wow! So many people use this thing now that an ultramegasupercorp did it to exploit countless masses of normies before their competition did! How did that happen!? I guess this must be the winning ‘linux’ of the future!”
No wonder it annoys Linux evangelists: We just want a world where we use computers, not the other way around.
The android model is the windows model
gottem
I love David Gerard
