RandoCalrandian

And then we can celebrate the them at their funeral. So sad how many accidental officer firearm discharges are associated with people “making a point”.

Seriously, what part of surveillance police state do people not understand

The same is true in Linux, but it’s harder to get the joke with “OS,f,i,enter”

You mean a key combination like OS, f,i,r,e,f,down,down,enter to launch Firefox?

That exists, bud. There are even multiple ways to achieve the same command, like “OS,t,e,r,m,i,n,a,l,down,enter, ‘open Firefox’”

Don’t give them ideas, this is exactly the type of shit they want to enact

about goddamn time

Linux is perfect for teaching someone to be tech literate, which should be your ultimate goal.

Just because someone can follow a pictorial cookbook more easily is no reason to not teach them to read. Being tech literate is a little more important than people generally realize, just for having a cursory understanding of how things really work.

I recommend Ubuntu.

It’s development has been focused on teaching and enabling tech literacy across the world since its inception, and is designed to be very user friendly.

The ones that disable the downvote button definitely all share similar characteristics, for sure

The downvote is the feedback

If people are downvoting and not commenting there is probably an obvious reason why.

Usually you just said some type of heresy in that community, like going to a NASA forum and saying it’s idiotic to still be trying for manned space missions to the moon or elsewhere.

It’s so anathema to the community they don’t even want to engage in a discussion about it, they just want to say “you’re wrong/I don’t like this” and move on.

Far more civil than how religions used to deal with heretics, imo

I love those two rules, when taken together. Seems these days communities just pick one, and both are worse off for it.

Beehaw is one, I think

It is criticism, and certainly from a subjective standpoint it’s very valid criticism

But I’m free to downvote criticism I don’t like or agree with 😁just like you’re free to downvote a comment you felt was rude, in addition to pointing that out. It would also mean something different if you didnt downvote but also commented that I was being rude.

Almost like the downvote was providing useful information

See? I didn’t consider your post harmful, but I did consider it worthy of a downvote, simply due to how I felt it contributed to the discussion.

And people who don’t feel like I’m contributing meaningfully can downvote my posts. Almost as if that was the point of the button, to give an indicator of how much readers liked or disliked the content.

Negative opinions are every bit as valid as positive ones. Even more so in a culture where criticism is considered “rude” and socially suppressed.

So, what, people are only allowed to like your content? Can’t possibly be shit posts or anything like that, clearly it’s just all the downvoters who are wrong.

OR a downvote is as meaningful as an upvote, and it’s pretty childish to complain about them. (Especially considering that many instances don’t even count or display them)

And this is why having true ownership over our own devices is so important, so that they can’t force this on everyone and if they try, we just replace the root certs.

This is why “trusted computing” has been pushed for so long, to remove control from the user specifically to enable bullshit like this

Would you mind listing which ones?

I’m a pretty prolific gamer, and haven’t found one that doesn’t work just fine on my linux desktop.

You’re right, but also, in my experience by the time i’m wanting those more advanced features i’d prefer to do it in the command line anyway, and so the Right Click |> Open in Terminal solves all my issues.

Right? Even the “ick” parts of linux i’d take over osx or windows

I have never been as bothered by a catastrophic linux GUI crash that caused me to pull up a separate machine to walk me through recovering in the command line than I have been by Blue Screen’s of Death.

And it’s definitely because I know with the linux failure it was my fault, and won’t happen again if i learn what caused it and change my behavior (or the system’s behavior).

The same is very much not true with window’s BSoD, where each time i simply lose more trust in the system.

I switched my gaming pc to Linux over a year ago, never looked back and haven’t needed to

And I’ve never used a VM to game, either

I game on a linux mint desktop using proton all the time. The work they’ve done for the steam deck translates almost perfectly to every other Linux distro I’ve tried it on