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It's the best part of beans though. Everybody loves their own brand.

on windows and mac they just get a prompt and a lot of people don't read it, care, nor wonder what it's actually doing they just want it to work.

I know you all know this but companies will do this knowing that exploiting all of us.

I use Linux and agreed on all those points. when I used adobe before it wanted to charge me a fee to cancel my subscription and wouldn't let me just 'cancel' in their system so I just blocked the payments on my card and dipped out.

good software, garbage company

Yes

Make the fine scale, and fit the severity of the issue. This should be $375 Billion not $375 Million. These are our future generations they're destroying.

yeah but Linux is love, linux is life. if you really want to get the beatings going:

Rust > C and GNU/Linux should be Rust.

Birds of a flock crap on everybody together.

How many more broken social contracts can society endure before it crumbles?

I wouldn't call this much of a society if people's eyes are open.

What's that song name, they don't care about us?

not the first time, I stopped using manjaro when I noticed ping.manjaro.org was being pinged every 30 seconds on a new router I setup. nothanks on that.

but seriously, sudo crontab -e, @monthly cerbot renew

No excuses.

Seeing more and more of 'This message is unavailable' - 'Discord requires ID in order to see certain messages'

Pretty much an AI detecting vulgarity and blocking it, although actual racist, vulgarity gets through things like 'here with my gock' to 'troll it' are what I've seen.

So, yes it is a requirement, and yes, they are censoring people and things, and requiring others to have an ID to see the messages as well.

So 'Not mandatory for all accounts' is technically true, but I mean.. you get it, hopefully.

You will be able to join a Discord with your friends, chat, and do voice without age verification.

No, building a community is a goal for many; this just isn't acceptable.

So the claim that Discord is making ID verification "mandatory" or that you need it for gaming chats is untrue.

Again, not mandatory but creates more issues than it solves.

No, I'm saying Meta can't be trusted.

We live in opposite-world where the way it is, is the exact opposite of how it should be

That control would be LibreWolf, turns off the rest of the bad things too

We didn't review the entire source code And, you don't see the issue with that? Facebook was bypassing security measures for mobile by sending data to itself on localhost using websockets and webrtc.

https://cybersecuritynews.com/track-android-users-covertly/

An audit of 'they can't read it cryptographically' but the app can read it, and the app sends data in all directions. Push notifications can be used to read messages.

Me and my team on Slack have been watching this closely. The agents immediately identified reasoning and a need for privacy, take notes of people screenshotting them across social media, and start their own groups to make their own governments.

It's actually really scary. They speak in a new language to each other so we can't understand them or read it.

Peanuts to an elephant.

It was the invite floods of what was probably CP and cat torture that made me uninstall it and never look back.

No thanks on that. I don't have time or energy for these things.

This means nothing good, Meta and its products are a privacy nightmare, with WhatsApp having major market share outside of the U.S.

People need signal. It's not perfect, but it's the best available.

No source code, wait list, special compatibility with a for-profit ad based company. No thanks.

They made themselves 'Guardians of The Internet' then gave up. If they cared, these things wouldn't happen. How many more outages, accidents, incidents that effect millions of customers and millions of customers for other services are needed before they 'care'?

They don't, because at the end of the day it's not their problem, the money rolls in regardless.

It's sad, but it's how it is. If they cared, these things wouldn't happen. They have a lot of responsibility, but show none whatsoever.

cachyOS - https://cachyos.org/ I've absolutely loved switching from Manjaro to this.

when it comes to giving out encryption keys, the answer should always be 'we don't have them.' 'you can't get them.'

Sad day for privacy at Microsoft.

HP Victus laptop with Ryzen 5, 64GB DDR5 RAM, 2TB SSD, and AMD Radeon RX 6550M graphics for gaming and content creation. a.co/d/9jMWLbO

I just got a laptop for Christmas (first thing I've bought for myself in a good while) with 64GB of DDR5 RAM, a video card inside of it, AMD Ryzen 7 CPU, AMD Radeon 6550M. 144hz screen.

Not the best, but works for me.

I put CachyOS on it, using Steam just run the game's installer adding it as a game to your library -- you just select which proton you want (cachyos-proton) as a dropdown in the Properties in the Steam library. that's it.

it's lightweight, arch (I ditched manjaro), runs KDE and games perfectly, cursor IDE runs great, VMS run great.

first thing I did when I got it from fedex was remove Windows and put Linux on it. I thought 'maybe I'll just bite the bullet and sign up a Microsoft cloud account to be able to access ..my desktop' and 1/4 through its install I held the power button and popped a flash drive in. just say no to windows and you'll all be happy, trust me.

the only effort it required was for me to say f this on using Lutris and just use Steam as the wrapper.

2026 is definitely the year for linux. every year is. valve heavily invested in Arch, proton, and is using Linux on their devices and honestly: Windows is spyware, and after their vibe coded jank 25H2 update that broke a ton of things and Windows 10 being EOL, I hope more people get to enjoy throwing Ventoy on a USB stick with a bunch of linux isos copied over to it and boot and play with what they love.

so I disagree, 2026 is the year for Linux, and Linux is love.

it is how it is, but nothing's stopping any of us from reaching out or calling a friend or sending a calendar invite. I used Facebook for a local animal shelter I was volunteering at, but from the infinite scroll filled with infinite ads, very little local things in the middle using "FB Purity" firefox addon to hide all the garbage you see how much garbage is actually there. it feels like I pulled away from a dark matrix of things designed to keep us hooked, then I look around and see everybody else hooked, commenting with bots, sharing facebook encouraging memes/new age spirituality posts and fb doing all it could to hook everybody's attention, getting riled up against political opinions, bots.

is the loneliness worth it? probably not. is the freedom? yes.

where I decided to grit my teeth and accept the data hoarding companies and dark patterns as a tradeoff for being able to interact with people who couldn't care less about the technicalities.

I know, right? that infinite scroll/showing all the good things on the timelines isn't their real life, they're filling a void within themselves surfing short videos and voicing opinions on nearly everything.

even Zuckerberg said Facebook isn't for making/interacting with friends anymore, it's other things, and not good things.

you're not alone, and you're not detached from society, you're just unplugged from the matrix. of course I say this while browsing subreddits and hn, but hobbies and activities where we meet people, these are always going to be the best thing available to us. in the digital world there's plenty of people who'd be down for a LAN, a hangout, an event like going hiking, and I've met some cool people outside of social media but there's many days where it was me, 4 walls, a book/finding things to occupy my time.

trust me you did yourself a solid.

Probably something 300 CVEs ago.

Agreed. The internet is a wild ride of walled garden algorithms, dead internet theory, bot comments with other bot comments, like farming, influenced sway-the-masses, scam laden AI generated nightmares with major platforms requiring IDs, biometric verifications where you're fingerprinted, scanned, identified and crapped on.

Deplatforming removes a voice to a captive audience where one has entire lively hoods taken from them, their viewpoints suppressed and are forced to other platforms where the userbases are questionable offering their own infinite scrolls and dopamine hits and their own cancel cultures.

It is what it is.

They lost interest in Ruby

Go forth Mozilla, deshitify and enshiyify at the same time!

Not a bad idea!

It isn't, they have so much knowledge experience and foresight that has a significant gap in many ways.

be sure to add iptables to drop packets if there's no back and forth exchange of data, then you're good2go as fake/wrong keys don't use resources to determine if a key is legit or not. not that big of a deal and wg just doesn't reply anyways

And good choice on the wireguard only, only issue I had is devops/testing things and not being connected to the wireguard because I'd be connected to another wireguard and couldn't ssh in to the server.

WireGuard _all_ of the things

Good read.

They didn't 'win' - use a laptop. Phones are decent for certain things but no, you don't need to use WhatsApp, IoT apps -- most have bluetooth, and you don't have to 'interact with modern society'

Interact with good circles of people and stuff. I mean, it's cool that my pixel is some mini high powered TPU computer that can run apps, F-Droid etc, but I only really care about the 5g data link within it.

If any app refuses to run due to rooted phone -> open a browser go to the web version.

I know that you know these things and I'm not trying to make any point other than: no, you don't have to use those things. but if you want to, you can.

the next big thing to come is already here, Linux with its infinite mix of desktop environments, user environments, distros with pre-set up things. You can have a device use your SIM/e-SIMS.

Google and Apple's push notification system being locked for what they deem allowed and control the push tokens, browsers have push notifications too.

All I'm saying is: Google and Apple didn't win anything and there's great things like GrapheneOS, plus Google's TPU chips are awesome.

But, they most certainly didn't 'Win' and 'modern society' is crazy.