Why not start today, man? It’s good to practice.

It’s like governments representing succeeding states of long dead countries that were in a war centuries or millennia ago coming together to shake hands and take pictures.

His crypto scheme was already raising eyebrows. When OpenAI board attempted a coup and he clawed back to his seat, it seemed like he had gained complete control over the place.

Opening the command prompt in windows is considered ‘hacking’ these days. Using Ubuntu is a big leap.

It will major corporate and legislative backing to even attempt one. For many end users the desktop pc, if they ever have one, is yet another techie stuff they don’t want to bother themselves with. You don’t simply get them to install a new program, let alone an entirely new operating system. Some do make the leap, however.

Cries in corporate systems, balls deep in Microsoft ecosystem.

All my personal devices are running Linux however.

It’s both a generational shift and education issue.

I grew up remembering the early days of going online. The only pc at home was shared by family, so I knew early on that covering my tracks (erasing browser history) was important. When Chrome came out and incognito mode became a thing, I instinctively knew that it was just a shortcut for a separate browser profile that does not share the main profiles cookies and history, that it didn’t store activities on the local device. I knew that internet providers could still know what I acceded, and so on.

I can’t ask for the same kind of awareness for people that grew up with smartphones, proprietary walled gardens and apps with most of the complexities hidden beneath pretty UI.

It’s even worse when it comes to the general population - this isn’t the 90s where college students and tech minded people made up the internet users, this isn’t the early 2000s where people still had to use a desktop PC to access the web, with its components more or less open to tinker.

I’m sure corporations like this would give you free Internet if they could collect and sell all your data.

Already a thing. I see them advertised everywhere for prepaid plans and people go ‘omg Facebook/Whatsapp/Instagram/TikTok for free!!1!’.

Out of the loop for this one. Is Affinity a software for graphics editing, which was regarded as an alternative to Adobe, but it now acquired by a big corp?

Whatever your thoughts on cryptocurrency might be, this is borderline gambling addiction.

Some sort of reputation system with incentives to avoid low effort posts or spam perhaps?

Haven’t used an apple device personally. I remember struggling when I was trying to copy a file from a friends iphone. Everything was so different.

Speaking of email, spam becomes an inevitable problem. Anyone in theory can spin up a federated bot instance to spam the hell out of everyone.

I get depressed whenever I read about those salaries. I get paid the bare minimum to pay the bills. I will never have the life those people have - not that I care about luxury, but simply not having to worry about basic necessities.

Some still cling on their old XP laptops.

Courage. You need to put courage to charge extra few grands somewhere to complete the apple experience.

Just how many are there for micro blogging? I saw pleroma and akkoma too.

That’s how registrars start cranking up the renewal price for .social domains.

It really grinds my gears. Why does my bank insist on installing an app to approve transactions, and why does that app have a huge background video playing every time i open it? It really should consist of an MFA code generator.

And text only browsers too.