They’re open about it [1, 2, 3]. Even praise it as “the next big thing”, and use stuff you smear into your face as example.

It’s kinda funny once you accept our twisted dystopia.

The hell is wrong with people. It can’t even be art by the very definition of art. It’s literally just lifeless pixel mush done by nobody, showing nothing, meaning nothing.

Most aren’t allowed to choose… they’re just made to “look just like daddy down there”. Especially US culture is so fucked up in this regard.

(millenia old rituals might be bad as well)

No, I don’t think so. US americans got widely manipulated into believing early foreskin amputation is cleaner, “better” and perhaps even more natural by a homophobe rich guy (Kellogg - yes, that one) who saw it as a way to prevent children from masturbating. Sometimes it goes so far they even find normal penisses disgusting or something not normal, which this comic is portraying. By now they managed to build a whole industry around it, with baby foreskins being an ingredient for - and that’s also no joke - skincare products. And of course the high need and therefore sales of Viagra are also attached to it. So this perverted culture gets reinforced by multiple economical incentives by now.

And if you think that’s utterly fucked up… well yeah, it is. Way, WAY more than a bad joke about someone who wishes to date someone with the same religion and is a dick about it.

So no difference to right now?

In which way does it differ from Yunohost?

US citizen detected.

Where did you hear that nonsense?

That’s a weird mispronounciation of “Pizza”.

I’d love to see a comparison with PHA, the only true bioplastic available for 3D printing right now (as far as I know). Sounds really promising!

The code is immaculate. Its fully tested as well. No one has looked at the code, they’ve just complained.

Even if that’s correct it isn’t even the main reason why people are pissed about the use of AI. No matter if the code is “perfect” or not, it was created primarily using inherently immoral and outright dangerous tools.

Yunohost.

Didn’t say “ethical billionaire” anywhere, that’s a nonsensical word combination. Just wanted to point out there are differences in what should be done with an Elon Musk, Peter Thiel or Rupert Murdoch (who use their power, time and wealth to make the whole damn world a worse place for everyone for their own gain) compared to a Gabe Newell or George Soros.

Because

• Forbes doesn’t even list everyone
• There are rare cases of absurdly rich who don’t deserve harsh punishment (but deserve their fortune to be taken away and fairly distributed, of course)
• Taking info from a private company to do so would be… questionable.

Probably to collect all that it can to sell the data. Or they fucked up the feature and it triggers a connection attempt each second or sth.

No one is forcing anyone to use it, so use it or ignore it.

That’s a little bit naive to say in todays’ IT landscape. Everyone who wishes to keep their privacy and personal safety - which quite frankly should be everyone - only has the option to run some Linux or BSD for their personal computing.

It will always need more effort on the part of the user to get going with it

That’s not true, thanks to hardware vendors as well as lots and lots of work of many people. The culture is still a problem though, as it effectively gatekeeps certain settings like Bootloader (“no normal user should ever have to change those”) or Service Management (“No normal user is supposed to touch those anyway”) behind an enormous skill level most people should not have to reach instead of a GUI people can navigate and understand. Not to mention that many seriously treat CLI commands as universal, something that repeatedly breaks systems of users who’re then rightfully pissed off.

there is no end game with Linux - no inherent need to be used and loved by everyone.

Again, if there were accessible alternatives that respect and protect the user that would be true, however there are not. The “endgame” (bad word for it) should be to finally reach accessibility-parity with Windows so everyone can actually use it.

I get what you want to say, but the circumstances we’re in don’t support your opinion on these things. Arguing like this perpetuates the more often than not rather unwelcoming (as in elitist) nature in the community.

Don’t forget accessibility. Proper GUIs are accessible, they convey function and meaning through form. People constantly forget that.

The only family of distros I knew that could do all those things was OpenSuse thanks to YaST. Unfortunately they just sunset that tool without installing the new alternative “Cockpit” by default now, sooo… yeah. A lot of the things you mentioned can be done via GUI like account management, software and such, but by far not everything. The only distro which got most of those covered I can think of would be Linux Mint, there the CLI can be treated as more of a fallback solution or for those who want to use it.

“The biggest problem of Linux is its culture” immediately confirmed.

• The terminal isn’t the quickest for everyone. It’s merely the one with the most concise input pattern
• “copy and paste it into a terminal” literally means “trust me blindly” when said to anyone but Linux enthusiasts or professionals. Which can have disastruous consequences if the command is old, for the wrong system, malformed or something else.
• the reason it’s difficult to bot use the terminal is due to a lack of configuration GUIs, or lack of mention that they exist. The amount of times people get told to manipulate their /etc/fstab instead of using the safe and very well accessible GUIs most DEs provide is flabbergastingly high.

The original reply was mostly correct. The problem is the culture. Too many Linux fans and devs either don’t understand or don’t give a shit about accessibility, and when criticized for that immediately build the impenetrable wall of “it’s free so eat what we give you or screw off”.

That’s just hot glue. My desire to snooze is stronger, use superglue next time.