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Using Microsoft Windows or any of its derivatives is endorsement of that software. Every user of Windows is a sucker. OP’s post is not the end nor the start.

Get real, the audience of Windows is an audience of self-enabling victims.

“But I have to use it for work!!! I have to make money!”

You are still a sucker and perpetuating this broken system. If that makes you angry, it should, the artifice of respectable neo-liberal society was stripped from you.

No , you just gave up. Stop lying to yourself. You hide behind muh affordability because that’s the convenient excuse to use to not think about this.

The status quo will benefit you for giving up entirely and disparaging those who advocate for freedom.

“Teenage me” sounds like a mask off moment for you being a bitter out of touch person. You endorse the status quo and hide it under emotional rants of being more mature than the rest of us.

“Nothing is pure… Rant about corpo crap”

I’m only commenting to this because I don’t want younger folks or to be caught up in your self hate spiral.

Its GNU/Linux because clowns like you exist and won’t shut up. People deserve better, they don’t deserve someone like you frothing at the mouth at the fact that you don’t believe a better world is possible.

You’re incredibly lucky that a majority of “Linux”/tech communities tolerate you.

But you enable MS’s bad behavior. They know you all have no backbone.

There’s no strawmanning, just the consequences of endorsing abusive behavior done by parasites.

Have fun with your digital Stockholm syndrome and corpo mindshare.

Man, people like you are why we have to call it GNU/Linux. You have no core principles.

sigh in librewolf and ungoogled chromium

I don’t disagree with the points brought up specifically in the video about poor management internals at Mozilla corp, but this video doesn’t even scratch a major part of why FF is supported which is because Firefox will always be libre software unlike Chromium and Chrome which get hit with anti-features regularly that has to be patched out (never mind manifestv3 and web environment integrity).

Vivaldi has proprietary components that the developers will not disclose due to chronic fears of “corporate espionage”

Thus Vivaldi cannot be planted in a build farm nor be compiled yourself, so you have to take their precompiled binary and deal with it.

Stop being scared and use Librewolf and keep ungoogled chromium in the back for compatibility (and terrible nonfree “webapps”).

Nonfree browsers are a waste of everyones time.

The CCP [Communist Chinese Party] hackers utilized a vulnerability in the Microsoft software, and this was not due to ‘user error,’” Bacon wrote.

Who names their child Bacon? Also this article gets the name wrong, It’s the Communist Party of China (CPC) not the “Communist Chinese Party” or whatever sinophobic nonsense he’s telling his base. I think this is less about the actual vulnerability and more about “evil communists” living in this guy’s head rent free that contribute to a very patriotic victim complex.

This and the gamers nexus exposé really do add up when looked at together. Linus deserves all the horrible things coming to him.

It’s news like this that makes me feel better about libre software.

The other side is depraved.

Searxng, Whoogle, Librex, Mullvad Leta (accessible with a Mullvad subscription)

I also use brave search with many of its SaaS features turned off (AI summary, discussions) because Brave has a independent index thats useful to consult. The previous ones I mentioned are proxies to already established indices.

Great observation! I’m glad you feel better now.

I don’t use “google search” because it is nonfree software; linux was not started by the GNU project members. However, GNU does have a linux, it’s called Linux-libre.

GNU is the operating system in its entirety. GNU/Linux is the name used to best describe the exact operating system by giving principal credit to the Linux foundation. The GNU part is to highlight the fact that it is a libre operating system first and foremost.

Perhaps I need to reread the essays again, but the main takeaway is that what’s at stake here isn’t credit but the political legacy of software freedom. Something that is made obvious by your last remark.

Thanks, I hate it. SaaS products need to be cut away from schools not brought into them. This goes for all Edtech products not just this one.

GNU has both Hurd and Linux, very powerful indeed!

What? GNU has a kernel, it’s called Linux!

And hardware can’t talk to it. Has it ever occurred to you that there’s more at stake here? That companies feel the need to lock away hardware in order to drive their profit line.

At least GNU has something interesting to say about computer science. And for what it’s worth, it’s telling to know that you woild rather disparage GNU rather than the purposeful decisions made by executives and manufactuers to render both hardware and software undocumented and subjugating.

But no! That’s “unfixable” and we need to learn how to “deal with it.” God forbid anyone makes a ruckus about it. Freedom for me but not for thee in this fast paced economy.

You picked the status quo and are now complaining that people reject the status quo.

The shortest proper name is GNU.

Inb4 Alpine, which is just called “Linux” internally.

People use terrible words in CS and engineering in general. Doesn’t mean we don’t challenge them.

Posteo or Runbox are good libre options. You have to rent however

There’s Betterbird and Icedove.