I believe that’s due to whatever ad services the creators use

It’s based on IP, so if you use a VPN when you download episodes the commercials will be based on where your server is located

Mmmm, Nutella

In much of the US, they’re a native species that’s getting wiped out by invasive Asian Lady Beetles. They fill a similar niche, but birds don’t like to eat them due to them having smelly secretions as a defense mechanism, unlike native ladybugs

They intentionally expose themselves to water and air pollution to make themselves more toxic to eat

big ole snitties

When the comment is funnier than the post

Still, what’s wrong with ChromeOS? Did I miss something important? Beyond Google dropping ‘don’t be evil’ obviously.

A quick look through some of the privacy communities will give you an overall vibe on what Google is doing. But overall, they’re getting monopolistic.

They’re requiring all android developers register their identities with them or they’ll be blocked on all Google’d android versions (which almost all Android phones ship with). They’re also datamining everyone more and more each year, just like Facebook.

And they’re using their influence over Chromium to force adblock blockers into every Chromium browser. And the only non-Chromium browsers are Firefox and its derivatives

And by far the worst one, they bought out ReCaptcha and they just rolled out an update that requires verification with a device that has either iOS or stock android. It doesn’t support deGoogle’d android like GrapheneOS or LineageOS, and it doesn’t support desktop. So now any website you visit that uses the new version of ReCaptcha requires you to verify your identity with a phone, even if you’re accessing the website on desktop. This is so they can link all your systems to your identity

If you value your privacy, you should work to get your digital footprint off Google’s software as much as possible

Also, don’t forget there’s Chrome OS

No, please forget Chrome OS. Also, I’d hesitate to call it “Linux” at this point

This just like how companies use Pinkertons to suppression unionization at double the cost it would be to just pay their employees a fair wage

we consider human babies adorable

Tbf, there’s a lot of people that don’t find babies cute

Yes

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But plenty aren’t!

Just a pet peeve of myself and probably plenty of other Linux users/fans. This phrasing makes it sound like there’s way more incompatible games than there are.

https://www.protondb.com/

Out of the top 1000 games on Steam only 21 don’t work on Linux. I personally wouldn’t call that “plenty”. And for most of those games, the devs actively chose to make the game incompatible with Linux and Proton.

I get that the games you want to play aren’t compatible, and that makes you not willing to use Linux. That’s good and valid, and I have nothing against that. It’s just annoying when people (usually accidentally) exaggerate game compatibility issues on Linux.

There’s something to be said about the fact that I’m not super comfortable with doing everything with commands and am used to GUIs

I’d like to add that this is somewhat outdated information. While there are some distros where you still need the CLI a lot (mainly server distros), many of the mainstream distros have enough GUI support that 99% of users don’t need to touch the CLI. I switched to Nobara a few weeks ago and I haven’t needed to use the CLI yet.

It’s not the world’s smoothest transition.

Another thing to note is that the transition doesn’t have to be a hard break. Many people dip their toes into Linux by dual booting. That being said, there’s some pitfalls, namely not keeping Windows and Linux on the same drive, since Windows has a habit of deleting the bootloaders of other OS’s during updates.

But, as I said earlier, it’s fine if you want to stay on Windows. I just want to clarify some misunderstandings you seem to have about Linux

Reddit is now popping up banners that take up literally half the page if you’re browsing a thread. Half of the value of Reddit is that you can find answers to a lot of questions on there via Googling, and they’re now killing that

Does he also think number generators are the words of God and is working to build his own OS from scratch?

Don’t forget XMPP

As someone who uses Excel on a daily basis: Excel is a bloated, unstable, bug-ridden pile of crap

the palantir nazi

Peter Theil?

Skywind is getting close to release. Skyblivion too

“Please drink another Mountain Dew® verification can”