Go slowly and use plenty of lube, right?

Damn, maybe I should give Arch a try…

I am not interested in being preached at unless you have a workable alternative and a good reason why should I switch over.

No OS level adware. Next question.

Good idea, lets give even more leeway to giant corporations and allow them to break standards, surely this will not set up a dangerous precedent.

Big company violates copyright law, kernel devteam catches heat.

What else is new.

Man I loved this game when I was a kid, it’s a Boulder Dash clone with faster gameplay and powerups.

Currently playing a Traveller campaign, I imagined the comms to be more like old school flip phones. This design seems a bit impractical.

Freedom in the future will require us to have the capacity to monitor our devices and set meaningful policy on them, to examine and terminate the processes that run on them, to maintain them as honest servants to our will, and not as traitors and spies working for criminals, thugs, and control freaks.

This is the crux of the entire article and the entire debate. If we don’t control our devices, then the devices will be used to control us.

If I understood the funny words magic man correctly, he is complaining that flatpaks don’t come from a single trusted source and may become a vector for malware, unlike official distro repositories. Still, that was a very technobabble way of saying it.

I too starter with mail-in DVDs and dial-up, but for Debian. Opening the package manager and trying all those cool programs was the bomb.

External harddrive, drag&drop.

I’ve recently decided to gauge the trustworthiness of businesses based on their website cookie policy. Here, we have the “accept user preferences” greyed out, and the “accept all cookies” presented as an active button, even though both buttons can be clicked. I’ve yet to interact with your site and business, and you’re already trying to pull a fast one on me.

Archive.org, they have a huge selection of books and other forms of media, and they really need donations.

Given Musk’s track record with sexual harassment, it is for the better.

Two or three hours of skibidi toilet mashups

I hate the fact that I know exactly what you’re talking about.

Devaluing the platform before the IPO sends a clear message to Reddit and other, similar corporations that the data on the site belongs to users, and not the site. If the userbase quietly leaves, then Reddit’s behaviour will be SOP for many sites, because it woul show you can take a steaming shit onto your userbase and come away Scott clean.