You can also avoid using the internet entirely. I personally reference my 30 volume encyclopedia collection rather than risk seeing an ad or an internet service being anything less than perfect.

God, shut up. There’s the “communist” dumbass instances which is just far right levels of stupid, and then literally the entire rest of this platform is just normal centrist europe views. “Leftist” is a term Americans use to describe giving immigrants healthcare and thinking homeless people should be given homes.

Same fucking way americans correct issues with SSA, DHS, and the IRS: paperwork. Come the fuck on with this slippery slope bullshit. Ever had a job? The I-9 employment authorization paperwork… just shut up

Are you stupid?

Literally everyone has been saying this the entire time.

Your brain is weirdly unhappy with the concept of other brains doing math. Nice!

The brainpower involved in mental math is just real-time factorization and otherwise general application of the rules of arithmatic. It’s no waste, it’s just a well practiced set of pathways that take annoying math and make it friendly. It takes at most 2 seconds to know if it’s time to use a calculator.

That… was the gimmick…

I’ve realized how easy it is to just actually run a network rather than half ass it with tailscale. I recommend this, it’s fun.

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MFW I forget we are talking about two random companies who provide a service that can’t be described as either of those things

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What’s Linux? Why are you making a strawman to found yoer disagreement, there is no inherent value to what you believe to be obvious.

“Linux the kernel” is a wonder of the software world. One free and open source kernel codebase to rule them all, a culture, a license that enshrines that culture. The kernel is great as it is.

“Linux the kernel packaged with software used on the desktop” is flaming garbage. That’s not to say it’s worse, modern windows is like using the lava from Chernobyl to keep warm on a brisk evening. MacOS is relatively acceptable but Apple isn’t. Open source BSD based OSes are cumbersome on the edges of general computing. Android is all but Google OS at this point. Ultimately no practical, actually useful alternatives to linux on the desktop actually exist. This does NOT mean we have to convince ourselves it is actually good.

“Linux the kernel and a server OS package” is great, can’t go wrong with this. Love it, genuinely.

“Linux for embedded devices” is a fucking travesty. Still happens.

Various opinion roundup:

• nix is the only case of anyone ever truly imagining what they could do with a Linux system

• “open source” does not provide value, the implications do, when true

• Linux is as secure as your dedication to never using software from outside the package manager is. Oh you installed discord? steam? compiled something and fetched dependencies? Those aren’t the package manager, oops! (Discord gladly downloads its own updates whether you think you’ve stopped that or not)

• Fewer viruses you’ve heard of

• Regular security updates is a low effort troll given the corporate OSes are paid to do so

That’s not really how this works