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Open source is the very worst thing currently going on because it is so incredibly exploitative, it’s far more exploitative than any actual company is of the workers who work at the company.

Even the people who are getting paid in open source are getting massively underpaid to do it compared to how much the people who are using their code are making, it’s nothing compared to the power that is accreted by the people who have co-opted that work thanks to the open source model. And then mark zuckerberg gets to define how the internet works despite having paid for almost none of the software that his company actually needed to make that work.

It’s like feudalism or serfdom, these people did the work and got nothing for it. It’s like you took the worst aspects of capitalism for workers and the worst aspects of socialism for workers and put them together, that’s open source. You get no power and you get no money.

It’s exploitative whether the people chose to be exploited, just because someone chooses to let you exploit them does not mean that you didn’t exploit them. And for the record that’s how most exploitation works; convincing people to do something that turns out to be very bad for them and very good for you, and that’s exactly what the open source movement has turned out to be.

I really don’t see the “we post stuff on github under a gpl2 or lgpl or apache or mit license”, all that is to me now is just exploitation. You can say that there’s solutions but until someone demonstrates that those solutions work, it’s the standard “real communism has never been tried” argument. AGPL is the only thing that I’ve seen so far that’s an attempt to fix these fundamentally unfair compensation practices.

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It works similarly to tor so yes you can host stuff on it, but also just like tor, you have to trust that the nodes that get used are not all compromised.

I would still consider that a software bug on Linux’s part if it allows a USB device to bring the whole system down.

This… every time I have created a github issue, I was personally attacked by Kovid and the issue was closed immediately after their response.

He is a massive dickhole that is abusive to every single user he interacts with online.

dgVoodoo2 has worked fine for me for years for DX7 and earlier on wine. lutris already supports it natively.

Or if a VM is needed, qemu+softgpu has been much faster for me than pcem/86box.

It uses DRM/KMS to enable OpenGL (and probably Vulkan too) on the console without needing a display server like Xorg or Wayland. Or if that’s too blasphemous for you, there is a libcaca driver.

RetroArch works just fine from the command-line.

If it’s public, does that mean you can request other people’s data as well?

I see nothing wrong with it personally /shrug

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This is exactly what I do… and then never touch it again.

someone who knows everything about you can easily manipulate or even blackmail you

To that end, the ability for people to not only fabricate completely new evidence, but also manipulate existing evidence, I think deserves a lot more attention.

For example, imagine the damage someone can do simply by taking leaked corporate data and slightly messing with it. Who second-guesses the accuracy of leaked data?

the “nothing to hide” argument implies that if you want to keep certain aspects of your life private (i.e., hidden), you must have done something wrong

What has also become more sinister as of late is that the definition of “wrong” can change at the whim of whoever is running your government right now.

I try not to put much stock in black-and-white opinions because I think the answer is rarely that simple.

I wonder how they did not catch this

Because the date command fails most of its unit tests and they decided to ship it anyway. I would also argue they don’t have anywhere near enough tests in the first place.

I think you’ll have an extremely hard time finding any hardware that supports Windows but can’t run linux

My previous laptop couldn’t boot linux for like 2 years until kernel patches came out. It still to this day doesn’t support bluetooth in linux due to an unfixed/wontfix kernel bug. And the wifi only uploads at 1mbps under linux.

By incompatible I don’t mean “won’t boot at all” (even though I’ve had that multiple times, including with my Surface tablet), but it’s all the little stuff that often doesn’t have a 100% working driver (either yet or at all). Maybe you don’t experience this but there’s still lots of people that do.

Personally, every game I care to run works perfectly fine on my Steam Deck

Almost none of my TeknoParrot games work under linux, no matter what version/patch/fork of wine/lutris/proton/etc. I try. Plus there’s tons of people that still want to play those newer games with kernel-level anti-cheat, even if you don’t.

5 reasons you should not ditch Windows:

• Your hardware is incompatible or you do not want to fiddle with settings or command lines

• Your applications/games only work well on native Windows (and not wine)

• You need serious group policy support or other device/software lockdown methods

• Your company policy requires it

• Makes helping Windows users harder if you cannot walk them through the same things they are doing

Of course if any of these apply you can always dual-boot or use a VM. I’m not saying you shouldn’t use Linux at all.