Because its a covering instead of saying underhanded or sneaky or tricking users.

“I didn’t steal, I was just quietly sneaking money from their wallet!”

Maybe that used to be the case but the USA does it different

Insane that that seems to be an impossible bar this decade

I don’t have faith in them anymore. Many people don’t. It’s shameful that they don’t allow a more progressive and less troubled segment of the population gain traction. The fact that the DNC allows the name to be as slandered and unpopular as it has become without changing anything at this point signifies that they will ‘maintain course regardless of the weather’, and maybe it will work, but perhaps it will just result in ‘politics as usual returning’ where trump’s ilk just continues to run circles around them in the media.

True points, but it says something dire that he’s as bad as he is and yet still permitted/successful in his actions.

Well now it just seems like you want him to be a better fascist. Do you lust for blood?

Not true, he’s in league with them since his actions and implemented policies have killed 1M+ citizens as well as all of the other deaths caused by the started & allowed wars he’s overseen

In America money is literally lifeblood: even the homeless still have jobs, but are too poor to afford housing/safety/medical care

They all have a mental disorder of some kind, like narcissism or psychopathy, or similar behavior-driving things going on; they compulsively act the way they do, and they find themselves coming out ahead or winning due to factors being skewed in their favor (born wealthy) or because their environment supports it (if an oil baron is willing to kill like a gangster and it scares business people into working with them, they get contracts/rewards). The same things that give them ‘success’ in the world is also ruinous to their lives/the lives of people exposed to them

“Like what you see? Wanna see me without the shirt? click here!” (Insert crazy long link here after the ai gen preview has already taken up all the available space)

Yes, until they lock down the software by pushing out the smaller people via certification requirements, specific signing methods, and branded closed-source apps while gating the open source repositories however they can try.

I’m not saying all this to deter adoption btw, this is just how it seems to go: the public puts work into something to make it good it gets co-opted by corps and they enshittify whilst marketing it to the world, so everyone gets in with 1 idea and it changes to the same old mess.

And what do you do for nazis?

They don’t have to if the transmission lines are owned by frontier/Verizon/comcast

The same way they got their shitty software into everything: deals with producers. Your mom/aunt isn’t going to build her own pc/phone, theyre going to buy what they can at the store, which would be something sold by dell or HP or whomever, who cut a deal to discount some price by including McAfee or printer-easy-setup-utilities that advertise new ink or printers.

Having the time to dick around and get a linux distro up to my current speed with windows. Or someone else making a distro that mirrors windows 10 capabilities, and utilities (even mundane things like control panel and it’s branches to other settings) and verbose explanations of functionality in the onboard help docs or subtext of options. Or an onboard llm asshole like clippy that can be conversed with om how to accomplish something the linux way.

I think what the linux community misses or forgets is that windows became popular partly because it held people’s hands so much. If linux users want to see the year of linux come to fruition they need to make the distros walk people through a task instead of pointing at the wall and saying “up”.

Conversely I think the linux world says they want everyone to use it but I wonder if they actually want that: everyone using linux means the computing and advertising world pivots and makes linux equivalents of everything, including all the gate keeping, scummy business, malware/adware/tracking…

Wow I love this argument, you’re bang on 😆

I don’t understand what you’re saying here, can you expand on those points?

People will do it when there isn’t an alternative: if the cost of hardware stays high forever, and that requires configuration and upkeep (solid source of stable power aka a house or building access) then people without those things will find it more convenient to log into and use their phone/tablet as a terminal for a desktop as a service…

Look at gamedate.org, or for immediate context search it on YouTube, you may be able to implement a copycat tool with more general lists of common events than the games list the site uses.

How much worse could it be without any change in course? The military will be on the streets one way or another, either sooner @ the behest of state government or later as trump orders more door-to-door visits, except with murder as the goal instead of detainment to the camps?