Marxine @ Marxine @lemmy.world

Communist, parent, techie and artist hobbyist. Learning Rust and tired of f

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Yup, capitalism pushes them to try to own/incorporate everything that can either be a threat or a resource for the business.

It's really not primed for development. I'd use Arch, Fedora, openSUSE or Debian for that.

I imagine him being annoyed at most, but only switching if something break. He's way more focused on pragmatism than ethics (not implying he doesn't think about the ethics standpoint)

What Mint install did you have that had that many issues? Installing apps has been easy for a long time already, just open the app store and pick what you need. Updates is the same thing: app store > update. Whenever something breaks for some reason, there are auto-created rollbacks on the boot menu. My partner is far from being a techie and they managed every daily operation without needing help from my part.

I think we had vastly different experiences, probably because of hardware or release differences, but I never saw the kind of issues you're commenting :/

Being opt-out instead of opt-in is icky. I don't have much faith in RedHat related projects after the recent debacles (RHEL trying to kill off Alma and Rocky and Fedora's project manager being fired with no replacement).

As a Fedora user, I'm really tired of being disappointed. Gonna wait for my vacation to switch to Debian.

Same here, it's also really snappy for me.

I've never used it with a Nvidia card, was speaking mostly about mine and my family's experience. I don't currently know the state of Nvidia support on Mint at this moment, whether with the proprietary or open source drivers, so can't give you any info on that.

About being foolproof, it's about being easy to use without having many footguns, not about being bug free.

This is the best analogy I've seen for Arch.

Major versions are not required to go up to the last decimal number before upgrading. And yes, 3.8 will be succeeded directly by 4.0

As much as I dislike porn (exploitation industry etc) this is a good take.

With all due respect, you (and your account) sound too much like astroturf material. The primary business of Meta is influencing public opinion, and that's the biggest danger it poses to any group.

If you'd like to invite the company that has collaborated with Rohingya's genocide, feel free to do so. I'd never be able to do so and sleep well at night.

I won't further engage past this comment our of respect for my own time and for your ability to comprehend my points.

The apps for the fediverse aren't responsible for federating with Meta, the instances (servers) are.

If my instance (lemmy.world) federates with Meta, I need only to switch servers (say, to lemmy.ml or lemm.ee), not stop using the current app I use (mostly Jerboa, but also Thunder and LiftOff).

ActivityPub won't ever "truly" die, it might lose the chance of becoming "the salvation from mega corporations running the internet" though. We'll always have the possibility of running small-ish, tight-knit instances.

But agreed, fuck Zuckerberg and his cronies.

I disagree with your threat assessment, but thanks for that link, it was indeed a good read.

Which corroborates Eugen either being really damn naive or a paid shill.

But it can be a replacement with original content. Even if they have the same topics, it's beneficial to let each community grow their own culture.

Images we can feel. It hurts to look, ffs

As much as I'd love to see billionaires dragging each other through the mud and kicking each other's heads, I'm not that optimistic.

That's why the best option is to lock them in a room and forget the keys.

They've probably served as "consultants" at the bare minimum though

Metz's biggest business has been the manipulation of public opinion for years now. Their entry in the Fediverse is just their latest attempt at keep doing it. Privacy invasion and targeted ads are just tools that enable it for the former, and finance it for the later.