Same as most people. OSs have just evolved to become systems made to serve their creators rather than their “customers”.

Windows wants to steal all your data and then use it to shove ads in your face.

Apple also constantly tries to push their own products and services through the OS, not to mention continually pushing the boundaries of irrepairability and locking you in an ecosystem. And just being extremely expensive.

Honestly don’t care what they do with their store. But it’s super fucked to exert 100% control of all software on the device.

Talking and actually sticking with those ideals are totally different things

Right, but we weren’t talking about sticking to the ideals, we were talking about the ideals themselves.

You don’t hear them talk about free speech constantly? You don’t see conservative platforms popping up every week? Truth Social anyone?

Free platforms like the Fediverse would actually suit conservative ideals of freedom quite well.

Yeah there’s nothing shipping. The ones I’ve seen were DIY.

You’re correct, I don’t see the point.

I got a new job and they gave me an outlook account. I asked copilot to look at an email and add the event details to my calendar. It couldn’t do it. 5 or 6 times I asked and it was unable. It wanted to create an ICS for me to download and import. Fuckin useless. Turned it off.

You’re just contradicting yourself again.

I don’t understand. You say you need it, and then you say you’ve never used it. How would you know? I can confirm it’s absolutely not needed. And it will only make shit harder.

There are a bunch of great build suggestions on the homepage of PCPartPicker. Really the only consideration if you want to use Linux is to go with AMD for your GPU (they’re usually a better value anyway).

I wouldn’t recommend any prebuilts, they’re usually not a good value. Plus you can learn a lot about computers if you DIY and it can be helpful to diagnose in the future.

If you choose a case without a transparent side panel and ignore RGB and glamorous components, you can get better performance.

Looks like there’s a GitHub and Mattermost

https://chat.pop-os.org/login

You should submit this in a PopOS forum.

I don’t understand what that’s supposed to mean.

And what’s being born?

I mean when the entire tech industry has front row seats at your inauguration, that’s a pretty good indicator as well.

You can but that’s REALLY not a solution. How many times/day to plan on plugging in your phone and running a couple dozen commands to update your apps?

It’s going to affect 100% of Android users because no one is going to develop apps just for the 10 people using uncertified devices.

I certainly did see them canvassing DC. I am not “giving” anything. I’m just discussing the finances of the situation.

No it “would” not be, it is. Don’t know if you’ve noticed but our gov hasn’t cared about the constitution for a long time, and no time less than today where people are being deported and imprisoned in concentration camps with no due process.

Trump has gone on record saying he does not care about the law.