I already moved to Linux, and I’m not going back.

It all really depends. If you’re worried about corporate control of everything, we are actually in a really good place, and the future is looking up. Linux is easier to use than ever, and open source adoption is increasing. EU countries are in the midst of weening themselves off of closed-source software from US tech giants like Microsoft. Additionally, self-hosted software is mature enough now to provide genuine alternatives to paid close-source services (Jellyfin instead of streaming, Immich instead of Google Photos, etc).

While I hate AI for a multitude of reasons, users are starting to push back on it, and the eventual bursting of the related financial bubble may take care of the problem for us. Companies will start listening to users again and de-shittify their products when they start losing enough money.

I think the major thing that has changed, and which may be affecting you, is the overall attitude toward the Internet, big tech companies, and technology in general has changed. As a millennial who lived through the rise of home Internet and online communities, I used to have a ton of optimism toward the Internet and big tech companies like Google (remember “Don’t be evil”?). There was so much promise and opportunity in the Internet and most people thought that it was changing society for the better. In hindsight, we were we wrong. Big tech companies became just as evil and greedy as big companies in other industries. They used their power and influence to corrupt and enshittify the Internet and related tech for their own ends. And don’t get me started on social media.

The good news is that there are still pockets of light on the Internet, populated by tech-savvy users, who tend to be on the higher end of the intelligence scale. It’s why I’m on Lemmy and not X or Facebook. My advice to you is to spend your time on the Internet in places that enrich you, especially smaller communities and forums. As for your meat-space friends and relatives, become a tech-evangelist and show them that there are open-source and self-hosted alternatives to the enshittified products offered by big tech companies. We have more choice now than ever.

Bill Gates is a pedo who spent a ton of time with Epstein, which is likely why his wife divorced him.

Musk didn’t create Tesla. He bought it, and is currently running it into the ground. Employees have compared him to a pidgeon who flies in, shits on everything, and then leaves again. If anything, Tesla’s relative success is in spite of Musk, not because of him. Tesla is already starting to lose value due to Musk’s antics and the fact that all other manufacturers are making electric cars now, too.

Warren Buffet may be one of the better billionaires, but that’s not saying much. He still invests in fossil fuel companies and could give away more of his wealth to charity. And then there’s the underlying problem with an economic system that steals living wages from employees to enrich investors like Buffet, but that’s a story for another time.

He used droids on his uncle’s farm. I’m guessing they use a similar language.

Creepio.

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IMO, no one should be playing games with kernel level anticheat. There is no way I would let any big gaming company have that level of control over my PC. It’s a security nightmare.

You have every right to express your feelings. If she is unable or unwilling to accept that, then you two need to go to couples counseling. If she doesn’t want to do that, then it’s time to consider divorce. Life is too short to spend it with someone who doesn’t appreciate you. It’s one thing to weather foul moods from time to time, but it’s another thing to be disrespected and emotionally abused. I don’t care how bad menopause is. It simply isn’t acceptable to abuse your loved ones. She needs to recognize this and do every thing in her power to correct this behavior, including finding a good OBGYN and getting the necessary hormone treatments.

Both. The people who promote Rust can be very annoying. They trumpet Rust’s memory safety while turning a blind eye to any problems with the language, let alone the effort required to rewrite a large system and all the bugs such a rewrite will introduce.

The images are from Slay the Princess. Highly recommended.

How do you get membership to a private tracker when they are always invite only?