Man, if “Microsoft is actively trying to take control of my hardware and prevent me from deciding how it is used” and “Linux has a learning curve and lacks market dominance to get hardware manufacturers to play with them sometimes” seem like equivalent circumstances to you,

And here I thought we weren’t going to Strawman each other.

there is no number of iterations to this back and forth that are going to arrive at any common ground between you and I. I can only say good day to you.

Here, we are in perfect agreement. I’m not looking to be converted to the cause. I may be a friend to it and support it, but I’m not dying on that hill.

Keep fighting the good fight, though.

I’m not trying to strawman you here, so lets revisit these to make sure we understand what each other is saying.

Your statement suggest that if Windows is “trying to work against you” then Linux is “trying to work for you”.

That’s literally not what I said, nor what I implied. If you want to interpret it that way it’s your choice, but I’m not going to defend a statement I didn’t make and didn’t try to make.

I don’t understand why you’d bring up “trying to work against you” if you weren’t implying that Linux was the opposite. I suggested you were implying it was the opposite, and you’re communicating now that is not what you mean. I don’t think you’re suggesting that Linux “is trying to work against you”. So if its not a positive, and not a negative, you’re suggesting what…neutral? As in, “Linux is neither trying to work against you nor is trying to help you”. I suppose I can agree with that, but I’m not sure how that supports your argument.

What am I missing you are trying to communicate with your statement?

You don’t escape that problem entirely in Linux, it just takes different forms. Proprietary vendor Linux hardware drivers would be a perfect example.

I feel like you aren’t distinguishing between “problem exists” and “problem exists because the makers of my OS want it to exist.”

You’re right, I’m not distinguishing between them because as an end user the reason is irrelevant. I’m left with the same result, with the same choices about how to solve it for myself. I’m not trying to save the world. I’m trying to get my computing done.

So why hack Windows to make it do what you want? I literally said this was NOT the question.

My apologies for the paraprhasing of your position of my position.

Lets look at your exact question:

“why keep supporting a company that requires you to undo so much of the product just to maintain control and privacy with your own hardware, and which actively seeks to sabotage attempts to do so.”

My answer: Because I’m not trying to save the world. I’m trying to get my computing done. If a hack to the existing product can do that faster than changing the world, then the hack is the better choice FOR ME. If its a social/religious movement for you, feel free to spread the “good word”. I won’t stop you, but I’m not interested in joining your evangelistic endeavor.

It’s because Linux isn’t actually trying to work against you, even if it may feel that way to a noobie at first.

Your statement suggest that if Windows is “trying to work against you” then Linux is “trying to work for you”. I don’t believe that is the case either. Linux works for itself, and if what you want can be done with Linux, great! If you have the skills to alter Linux to do what you want, also great! If you have neither of those, then you’ll be left without a specific solution. Linux is great, but trying to pitch it as purely altruistic and supportive isn’t accurate and could lead those trying it to abandon it early because their own experience doesn’t meet this implicit expectation.

The question isn’t “why take the time to hack windows” it’s “why keep supporting a company that requires you to undo so much of the product just to maintain control and privacy with your own hardware, and which actively seeks to sabotage attempts to do so.”

You don’t escape that problem entirely in Linux, it just takes different forms. Proprietary vendor Linux hardware drivers would be a perfect example.

So why hack Windows to make it do what you want? Because that was one of the basic tenets underlying Linux. There is no perfect operating system, just different tradeoffs. If one OS meets most of your needs for a specific task, and you have a way to hack it to fix the rest, thats the better solution rather than trying to reinvent the wheel. Departing from this idea moves the definition of computing from a tool to a religion/social movement. That’s fine for some, but not my calling.

I know you’re mixing in joking with your response, but can I point out the irony that a Linux advocate is telling me essentially “don’t try to hack a solution, just give it up entirely and adopt a completely different product”. That is the opposite of the Linux mindset I’m familiar with.

Dokoupil just made himself look clueless.

Dokoupil made himself look worse than clueless. He made himself look like a racist.

I just watched the interview, and you can too at this link right here.

Dokoupil was a major asshole as an interviewer. Dokoupil was inserting language as though they were Mr. Coates arguments. Dokoupil was engaging in classic strawman attacks on national TV.

I’ve watched CBS news on and off for years and Dokoupil has been on many of those pieces. Prior to this I thought him competent. I now have zero respect for Dokoupil as a journalist. He allowed his personal feelings and biases to overrule his journalist integrity. He should be ashamed of himself.

Editing to add: If you want to see a good journalist interview the same guest talking about the same book do so here with Jon Stewart and Mr Coates.

Yeah. Buying a 10 year old civic will always be more environmentally responsible than buying a brand new EV. For some reason all these people that super care about the environment aren’t doing that tho…

I can’t fuel the 10 year old civic from the solar panels on my roof.

Although by now I guess that’s really “10 year old Prius”

I sold my 13 year old Prius to get the EV. If I hadn’t sold the Prius then that would be one less person would could follow your advice to buy an old Prius.

What happens if you copy explorer.exe from a prior release of Windows and replace the recall-infested version?

Why are y’all so dumb?

There were truthful realities that some people didn’t like. Those realities were communicated by experts. Instead of people accepting those realities, there was an attack on experts. This happened in two ways:

• credentialed experts were discredited
• non-credentialed people claim the mantle of “expert” for themselves where they pushed whatever narrative they wanted.

Because there are now two groups calling themselves experts, and they are giving contradictory information, further loss of trust occurs. So the masses are picking and choosing which experts to listen to with whatever criteria they determine, and I’m not seeing a lot of informed decision making or critical thinking questioning sources.

Couple that with Clarke’s proclamation: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”.

So our technology has evolved to do so many amazing things, those without understanding of the technology assume it can do so much more, and don’t question things like “Dems control the weather”.

So a whole bunch of us are dumb now.

Choose dark chocolates with the lowest levels of heavy metals. CR’s tests found five chocolates—one each from Mast, Taza, and Valrhona, and two from Ghirardelli—with relatively low levels of both lead and cadmium. Eight more are lower in only lead, and 10 others in just cadmium. Only five bars—one each from Green & Black’s, Lily’s (owned by the Hershey company), and Trader Joe’s, and two from Theo—were higher for both heavy metals.

“No! … I don’t have the receipt”

This is a bad article. Its misrepresenting the paper its based on.

The study this article is based on was represented here on Lemmy 4 days ago with a much better (but still not great) article. That Lemmy conversation is : HERE

I’ll post here the important piece I posted there:

The study author’s argument isn’t against methane or even fracking per se. Its against the extra pollution from EXPORTING methane by ships.

I would paraphrase the study author’s position more clearly as: “A ship full of coal produces less pollution than a ship full of liquid methane because of all the leakage and energy needed to make that ship full of methane then back to burnable natural gas”

Putin’s pet doing his master’s bidding.

“family sized” here may refer to not how much a family can/should consume of the chocolate, but all they can afford. /s

“I will direct the lawmakers under my control as chairman of the (ruling Smer) party never to agree to Ukraine joining NATO,” he told broadcaster STVR in an interview on Sunday. “Ukraine’s accession to NATO would be a good basis for a third world war,” added Fico, who has been a vocal critic of the West’s military and financial support to Ukraine since Russia launched its all-out invasion in early 2022.

I don’t know if Fico is ignorant of history of his own nation or just doesn’t care about the hypocrisy. His argument against Ukraine joining NATO was a similar argument used by the Soviet Union as a justification for invading his own country of Slovakia (at the time part of Czechoslovakia), that being the interactions of the nation in a Third World War.

“On 20–21 August 1968, the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was jointly invaded by four Warsaw Pact countries: the Soviet Union, the Polish People’s Republic, the People’s Republic of Bulgaria, and the Hungarian People’s Republic.”

"The first such fear was that Czechoslovakia would defect from the Eastern Bloc, injuring the Soviet Union’s position in a possible Third World War with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). " source

There probably aren’t that many people using a Bugatti as a daily driver. For Cybertruck I would think there are many people using it as a daily.

She’s impressed they’re actually official discs and not burned copies, but she’s also questioning why you’re so rich you have all these originals but can’t afford to dress yourself except as a homeless person.

I don’t understand how Hungary and Slovakia can continue to vote to weaken Ukraine while also depending on Ukraine to transport Russian gas to Hungary and Slovakia.

I don’t think insurance companies care of the trucks are dangerous per se. They care if they are expensive to repair, or prone to accidents which could attach liability to the policy holder and thereby the insurance company.

Class action lawsuits are gonna be a mother fucker

Part of the purchase agreement of a Tesla agreeing to binding arbitration. This means no class action suit. You can opt out of this within the first 30 days, but you have to send a letter requesting it.

How many Tesla owners do you think do that?