Wow, dude. Get back to your echo chamber. You’re brittle and shrill outside of it.

Well, my ISP doesn’t need to know anything about my posts. And the fediverse doesn’t need to know who I am beyond “growingentropy,” so…

Did you just do the “if you don’t have anything to hide, what’s the big deal” move?

I want privacy. That’s all.

No idea. I installed a VPN on my router to get privacy. That’s all I ask.

I have a router with a VPN. I’m not disabling that just to post on lemmy.world.

I got off lemmy.world because they block VPN connections. Not happening, under any circumstances. I don’t trust anyone that much.

The last paragraph is vital. Grab a flatpak of any software you need to be more up to date. Flatpaks running on Debian are amazing. Current software running on a stable base.

I have yet to meet the random animal that I dislike more than the average human.

I have no formal tech background, but I’m pretty damn good with it. And I like Arch and Debian with XFCE.

The racists are going to be the vast minority of Ye’s audience. Statistically negligible. Some people are just surface-level low-intelligence beatheads who like the music.

R. Kelly had to go to jail to get people to stop listening to his music, and I don’t recall people advocating for pedophilia on his behalf.

Oh no. This whole thing quickly turned into yet another opinionated divisive fedposting shithole.

I don’t think real conversations of the type you would respectfully have in person exist on the Internet anymore.

I thought maybe this place would be a little smarter than that, but it kind of sucks now.

They do both. ;)

To the tech ghetto you go.

Mouse utopia is here.

That’s the least of your worries. Once it reboots, its proprietary spyware…errr…AI…will resume taking screenshots of everything you do.

Yes, absolutely. But I also wouldn’t want to. GUI tools have their issues sometimes. The command line is basically raw compute power.

I can’t wait for some new bargain Linux machines.

My coworker does graphic design, and he paid $8k for his Mac laptop.

I honestly don’t know if there’s anything I could order in a Windows/Linux laptop that would add up to $8k.

I get great performance out of my $90 eBay laptop running Debian, by the way.

Buying a Mac didn’t help.

I was team VLC for certain things it could do, and then I found that MPV could do all those things and more. Crazy how versatile it is.