thank you OP. ffs, open source. we get it. next.
What is an “online persona”? Stop trying to turn my tech support forum into Facebook!
The way you represent yourself online 😐
Your persona is your personal “brand,” your representation of yourself within The Spectacle.
The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.
-Guy Debord
Debord was right on, but I doubt even he predicted us mediating our own images, becoming increasingly directly part of The Spectacle.
Full Disclosure: My real name is not Snot Flickerman.
It’s like a fursona but boring and for normies.
I do and Im tired of pretending I dont
I use Arch btw
Oh my gosh, tell me more.
…just kidding.
Hey! Have you heard of this OS called Linux? It’s like windows apart from that it’s nothing like windows, it’s free and never ever hard to use at all!
Can’t tell if GIF that’s not moving or meme without text.
Thanks, I hate it
The cursor is causing me mental anguish.
Adversiment
Okay that is a real low for the Lemmy community 😁
Are we looking at the same image?
I’m in this and I don’t like it. Reported.
Nuh uh
Let me save you. I also use hyprland btw
Hah, I am too busy with exams to try hyprland but I am gonna try it soon. And btw the comment is fuckin joke man, chill out people.
Sorry non sorry for trying to advertice ways to avoid ending up in a digital dystopia.
Constantly trying to get programs to work correctly is my version of a digital dystopia.
Hmmm may have ur IQ checked
maybe* your*
Do it yourself > Do all while watched
I could not care less what metrics valve, Microsoft, n and Nvidia are collecting on my games.
You are just projecting values.
Ah look at this genius…he has nothing to hide.
Ahh poor baby encountered someone who doesn’t hold the have values, I Guess you are just going to call me dum dum. USO smart!
ill rate this larp of a insane person 6/7
Your downvotes say you hit a nerve with the Linux people even though they can’t argue against your point without straight-up lying.
Okay, buddy.
That’s a bold stance on this site!
(One that I fully agree with)
Hey the Linux community is active so they show up on All. Same thing with video game communities, it’s a reflection of the interests of those who populate Lemmy. I don’t care for either but we gotta start someplace. IMO it’s largely due to the concept of the fediverse and instances and not simply an app you sign up to. FWIW, I barely get it. Folks here seem to be a tech savvy bunch
They accost posts en mass that have nothing to do with Linux CONSTANTLY. It’s actually really, really obnoxious, and it’s absolutely chasing people away from this platform.
I think it’s mostly because the people who use linux are the people who are interested in free and open source software, which Lemmy also is.
This place in a nutshell 😄
Okay that is not going to stop me lol. 🤣
Even our ads are unpaid and FOSS
*shrugs
Especially in regards to Linux, which with many of the most vocal adherents doing so because they reject corporate control over their lives and want to see the rest of the world do so as well. It is very much a political issue to them, and so it’s not surprising that you see it crop up just as much as politically oriented posts, because the Linux-posting is essentially the same thing. It’s “politics” for the nerd-set. Same with piracy. Some people involved with these have deep anti-corporate and anti-capitalist philosophical roots for their reasons behind why they live like that, and they’re often not afraid to “preach” it to others.
So yeah, shitposts sadly aren’t going to stop it anytime soon.
It’s “politics” for the nerd-set.
Frankly, freedom of computation (basically, property rights as applied to electronics) is politics for everyone; it’s just that normies don’t understand how important it is.
You know, it’s kind of interesting, because I kind of wonder, and I’m sure someone could educate me to, the differences between philosophical outlooks that drive these different ideals.
If you were like, a windows or mac purist, you’d maybe just be gunning for as much mass adoption as possible, meaning that you have as much interoperability, or, accessibility, as possible, and maybe you’re just biting the bullet in terms of like, corporate shenanigans and control. Basically you’d just be like, admitting defeat, to some extent, it’d be a compromise ideology. It’s sort of like the same ideology that pushes one big centralized set of servers for everything, compared to everyone running their own little instances. Sure, you’re getting a lack of security, lack of flexibility, and thus, potentially, the functionality of the app ends up sucking depending on what you’re doing, yadda yadda. But in return, you get mass adoption. This is kinda flip-flopped with like, Linux purism, right? And then the natural use cases and market adoption for it tends to just be the more niche uses, that demand such flexibility.
So, which is more important for free access. Actual legal freedom, which even works itself into the structure of the app itself, right, or just, straight mercenary mass adoption, under any means necessary? I dunno.
On one hand, within the current structure of the economy and political landscape, globally, it’s kind of impossible to achieve mass adoption with Linux, and I think mass adoption of it is almost kind of antithetical to the anarchism of the project itself, as is mass adoption of most anarchist political projects. It’s just kind of impossible to win in a head-to-head competition with larger corporations, or with more short-term gains focused ideologies.
I’m still just running windows 10 LTSC with MAS, and it works fine for me, so that’s obviously where my ideological line is kind of threaded, just having everybody have the best free version of windows, maybe with some sort of increased privacy modifications to cut down on telemetry and shit like that, but I kinda doubt people could actually do that without destroying the usability of the system like all of those tend to do, or else someone would’ve probably done it by now.
It’s also much more practical to use as a dev
Also as a non dev.
Yes, but using it for development is what gets many people into it including me
Not trying to stop anything, just wanna poke fun
cannot open file fun
sudo touch grass nerd
swab148 is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
Liking an OS isn’t a personality trait, but evangelizing for Free and Open Source Software which generally has no budget for advertising is a noble cause.
Bro we get it
Except when it’s every other comment. That’s just obsession.
Is it the same Person every time though?
I mean if you come into a community which has a leaning it is just a natural consequence to get confronted with that leaning more then somewhere else, isn’t it?
Like going into a Bible circle and saying that every other comment is about god which borders on obsession. I mean yes maybe but it is not surprising.
Maybe the good people on Lemmy are already quite familiar with Free and Open Source Software though …
I mean… you choose to read posts and comments here. You can choose to stop reading comments about Linux.
The problem is that I don’t know whether or not it’s gonna be worthwhile until I read the comment, and by that point, it’s already too late, because I’ve already read it.
I was just gonna say … how the hell are you supposed to know the comment/post topic before you read it?
This isn’t on Linuxmemes, it is on shitposts.
So even if I wanted to block all Linux stuff, I would still get bombarded.
Yes, yes we are. Most of us love Linux, but we’re not in love with Linux…
I really hope the fanboys can understand. We just… We don’t see it the way you do. Sorry.
