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But what if I’m a bladeless fan?

I don't like Flatpak, so that makes it an easy choice for me. Flatpak apps never quite integrate properly I like having Flatpaks as a fallback option, but if something is available in the arch repos, aur or chaotic-aur, I'll always go there first

That’s exactly why I used them! I’m running a rolling distro on my main desktop, when I first moved over to linux (a couple of years ago now), I kept breaking things without having the knowledge to fix them. And then I discovered snapshots! The one thing I would say to be aware of, is to make sure you have a bootloader hook as well, that will let you actually boot in to the previous snapshots from the boot menu. I use CachyOS and it has this stuff as out of the box options during the installer.

I like not using government and mega-corporation mandated systems designed for privacy invasion and control of what people can access.

I could care less about apps, because I can just avoid them. My concern is the OS level stuff, and currently, all of the legislation is around requirements that the OS itself capture birthdate data. The moment that becomes mandatory at the OS level, is the moment I drop whatever it is that is forcing that issue. Systemd was the first to pre-emptively comply with facilitating the change at scale, so chances are, they will keep doing the same going forward.

The only shift now is Microsoft shitting the bed so hard that people don’t want to deal with them.

That’s a pretty important difference…

It's all down to the way the brain works. Our brains use up something like 20% of our calories when standing still doing nothing. Grass does not supply the amount of calories and micronutrients needed to keep the human brain running, simply because it is low on both of those things. Grass eaters have multiple stomachs, slow digestion and graze pretty much the whole time they're awake, and because their brains use a lot less energy than human brains, the balance works out.

I don’t think I’m following. If this allows you to access fediverse communities through a 3rd party usenet reader, what part does piefed 1.7 play in the picture?

I saw the writing on the wall, but I believed that something would happen for us to change course before we got there. The reality check is that not only did we not change course, but we accelerated towards it

The rise of fascism

I grew up in Australia. My cultural heritage (3 to 4 generations back) is mostly Irish and English. It’s safe to say I don’t particularly relate to either of then, until I did my family tree, I couldn’t have told you which sides of my family come from which part of the UK. And that leaves Australia. But I don’t particularly feel drawn to an Australian identity either, because mainstream Australian culture mostly feels like a generic “Western” culture, with the edges rubbed off. I’m also well aware that the country as it stands today was founded on invasion and genocide, and to this day, is unable to let go of the racism that lead to those events. So yeah, I’m Australian, but I don’t feel emotionally attached to that identity.

You know, I kinda don’t give a shit if I upset someone who thinks some people don’t deserve the same basic rights they have…

Most instances have rules against bigotry and exclusionary behaviour, which rules out a lot of “statements” from one side…

Your question basically amounts to “Why are people being excluded for holding exclusionary beliefs?”

It’s chromium based now, and as bad as firefox’s direction is, I don’t really want to hand google based engines an even bigger portion of the internet.

Transformers (the original G1 animated one). Robocop The Never Ending Story The Dark Crystal

I think its a big positive That’s an ironic position to hold given your username…