ITT: folks who think Linux is too complicated or whatever, but are perfectly willing to jump through endless hoops to work around some of Windows’ deliberate hostility.

The Stockholm syndrome is real.

One man’s “battery drain” is another man’s “built-in UPS.”

https://www.eff.org/issues/eff-europe

For the umpteen-thousandth time, Stallman was right, LOL.

No, I’ve got that. Piped links give me a choice of LibreTube or Firefox, while YouTube links give me a choice of those two plus NewPipe and YouTube ReVanced.

Nah, on mobile more of my alternative YouTube frontend apps recognize plain YouTube links than recognize piped.video ones.

The commenter overstated the situation

Yeah, by a whole fucking lot.

So did the people making the initial accusations, which twisted RMS’s words past the breaking point of credibility.

For the record — since almost nobody seems to have bothered to read what he actually said, instead preferring to blindly believe the character assassins’ secondhand interpretation — the only thing RMS did “wrong” was failing to conform to the societal assumption that the teenager involved had zero agency just because she was young and should instead be treated exactly the same as if she were a small child. He didn’t even claim she did have agency; he just refused to discount the possibility out of hand.

In other words, he got cancelled for being too respectful and feminist toward her (along with using careful logic and not jumping to conclusions unsupported by facts just because the topic was taboo).

I mean, this is a guy who was inventing neopronouns before it was cool. He’s literally the most egalitarian-minded person I can think of, and is about as far from a male chauvinist as you can get!

Frankly, the whole situation reeks of wanting to weaken the Free Software Foundation and bend it towards corporate interests by discrediting the most prominent copyleft and users’ rights hard-liner. But I can’t prove that, so I’ll stop short of actually claiming it.

(I also won’t claim that the speed at which people were willing to believe the accusations at face value was due to their latent ableism and lack of understanding towards autistic people. Although RMS certainly acts autistic IMO, to my knowledge he’s never claimed to have been diagnosed with that condition.)

So what “other option” do I have to stop my kid’s ClassDojo app from badgering me to “upgrade” to “plus?”

Keep in mind that it’s the public school system that chose to use ClassDojo, not me.

And that’s only one out of about half a dozen shitty third-party services with shitty ToSs that the school system has tried to push on me in the last week!

It’s called a baseball bat.

No he didn’t. Why are you libeling him?

Free Software is the only solution to this in the long run.

Just FYI, [email protected] (note the “-ed” instead of “-ing”) is far bigger than any of the communities shown in those search results.

Nah, it’s completely inaccurate because the “twit” is missing!

And if you want it to be online, you can just share your .kdbx file between your computers using Syncthing or whatever.

That’s why F-Droid is the safest Android app repository. If I’m not mistaken, every app they offer is rebuilt from the public source code by the repo package maintainer.

Here’s hoping Sync and Boost lead the way

Or better yet, let’s hope Free Software apps lead the way and ditch the proprietary ones.