Cloudflare doesnt want an open web, wtf… More ridiculous fake posturing from big tech.

Or just ctrl-z to get out of it and “fg” to get back. :)

Nicely done. Im always too scared to break my machine by messing with grub. :)

There are entire sites dedicated to explaining why they dont like it, like https://nosystemd.org/

But yeah, basically its been replacing more and more separate tools with its own solution, in order to have better integration and one common pane of glass, so to speak. But it also means that it becomes a major target for exploits and bugs.

Yeah I think sales people are so trained into being sales people that they dont actually know how to talk like a human being anymore.

Seriously, there is something about those guys. They just cant talk normally. Not everyone. I have met some of them that just talk normally. and are aware of their products pros and cons in relation to what you need. Those are useful.

On the other hands, nerds can have their own little annoying habits too. Sometimes they have no social skills at all and act like machines.

Heh, true. But even systemd is a choice, kind of. Even though it brings the number of distributions to maybe just a few.

I wanted to try these ones at some point, seems nice:

https://artixlinux.org/

https://voidlinux.org/

Sure. But you probably know that big tech companies like Microsoft and Google spies on their users using the operating system, and makes changes to those said operating systems in order to collect as much private data as possible.

Its a very big difference compared to using Linux. Sure, most of it is American companies. But you have a lot of choice in the Linux world. Its not the same. I think you know this? Otherwise you have a lot of good things to find out about. :)

Im not buying anything with ads. If I have to buy a new flat screen tv, im making sure it can be used without the internet, and any ads can be removed through network ad blocking or other tricks.

Its never enough ads until every surface has an ad on it. Fuck the entire ad business. Making the world ugly.

He is some influencer, dont you wanna be influenced by the video people?

Seriously though, Linux doesnt need this guy to speak for it. Its an amazing system. This guy just wants YouTube views. Whatever. :)

Without Linux, I cant imagine using a computer. Its like asking a big American corporation to allow me to log in, knowing its tracking everything i do. THAT is the insanity of using windows mate.

I did this in 2012 or something. Welcome!

This is actually because of Trump. If the man would have some kind of common sense and not ruin decades of cooperation…

I will stop using it of course. There is a price to pay for not being affected by this. Its not going to be free.

Ah you meant like that…

Yeah, the power these companies have over our lives is very disturbing. They have positioned themselves as something most academic people really need, at least linkedin has.

Then I will just update my profile to a link my own cv page.

Absolutely never using any service that requires this. I dont even have any account on those platforms and I never will.

Meh. These stats are so flawed. Its like 5 servers having most of the users.

Its like pretending we have this amazing distributed network when its actually extreamly centralized.

But im happy Lemmy is growing, its good.

Yeah. But its nice to have this platform. Its existence shows that people dont need big tech platforms to find eachother and communicate. Its not perfect but its a stepping stone and an inspiration for others. :)

I guess I need to check it out again. If that is true, its amazing.

I dont know. Not sure what can be improved, because that site keeps sending the majority of users to the large instances. Its against everything the fediverse was supposed to be. Decentralized. Not 5 instances having all users.

But whatever. Im happy on my smaller instance. :)

Unhealthy because there is no feeling of hope? I’m OK with that actually. Life is still alright. But I don’t think we actually can change anything important.

Yes, there are ebbs and flows. Sometimes bad people are in charge, sometimes good. And sure, sometimes some very charismatic person is also a good one, and manages to make things a bit better.

But the overall trend is not towards humanity being free of debt slavery, or wars, or greed and power.