How are there so many stupid people here already?

If you’ve got something you’re that worried about keeping private, go home, and break everything with a computer chip, a radio/network. Because if it’s not listening now, it’s only an update away.

Rupert Murdoch has entered the chat.

Assuming it’s not cached and sent next time it talks, of course.

Only their word until someone does it with a sniffer. E: I suppose, or looks the source but someone answered better now.

Note: Unlike other browsers that rely on cloud services, Firefox keeps your data safe on your device. There’s no privacy risk of sending text to third parties for analysis because translation happens on your device, not externally.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/website-translation

Hopefully the people elon’s persuading to do this work are better aligned.

It really depends on what kind of applications you’re talking about. There are still a number of things it can’t run (or well, probably without a lot of meddling around to get there) in the professional space, like CAD. Hopefully this will change over time.

For a lot of these products there are free alternatives available, but they often don’t cut the mustard and/or aren’t worth retraining for.

Another thing you should consider before choosing Linux is hardware support. This is often lacking in Linux. For example, your fancy tablet might work fine as a tablet, but if you want to configure anything about it you might need windows depending on the device.

The good news is, you can try it without worrying about harming your windows install by doing it say on a usb stick or hdd. It’ll only cost you time and effort.

Community support is a thing, it’s not the lack of support that’s to blame here - have you ever used Microsoft support? Linux support is much more accessible even.

A lot of the blame here, is Microsoft’s clever marketing campaign providing windows to educational institutions - with support - for far below cost, in the early days when pc adoption was on the rise.

Distribution saturation is a barrier to entry and focused support, and it is sometimes more complicated to install and repair. Sometimes it’s easier to repair, because windows is too busy trying to hide its internals from you.

It’s usually easier to support a remote IT-illiterate person using Linux, by comparison to windows, today.

e: I guess to be fair, if you factored in community support for windows, your options open up quite a lot. I was more thinking about my own interactions with their support. But enterprise support/problems are not the same as personal ones.

I don’t need steam to install your app on my pc, unless you choose it to be that way.

They’ve already used the name, might as well go all in at this point.

Capitalists care about their own capital, not future society generations from now.

Can’t we sensationalise the same way they would…

Capitalists care about their own capital, not their children.

Making kids dum so they don’t know they’re being exploited and can’t fight back has been going on a lot longer than either of us have been alive…

Does that mean they can’t be copyright anymore? I’ll take it.

Malware is bad. X state trying to hack me bothers me less than mY state.

Think that’s dystopian? At a local here in aus, if the self service checkouts think someone is about to walk out without paying, they lock off the entire self service area, and all the trolleys in the store freeze and refuse to move - Even if you’ve been through the manned register, and already paid for your groceries… You have to wait for them to unlock all the shit. Idk how people shop there.

Yeah so you’ll just move your battery from your i17 to your i18.

If this was an economically scalable proven thing today, phones wouldn’t be sold with batteries in 5 years.

How many of us have to spam links to piratebay in comments on website-x, to have Google delist website-x in those countries?

I thought that's more what the original comment was asking for, maybe I misinterpreted. Ps. Sorry for wasting your time explaining things I already know by not clarifying my sarcasm, but you helped someone else so it worked out alright.

It cleanly didn't block this post.