If you try googling any of this, you will find a shit ton of christian cope

“Cope” is basically the foundation of most religions.

Mostly because 90% of what’s in The Bible is gobblederemoved, twisted and contorted by a wide variety of opportunistic con men over the course of thousands of years, written in such a vague way as to easily be interpreted to mean whatever they want it to mean.

Similar to the way Trump speaks in vague generalities and word salad, and people hear whatever they want to hear, which of course leads to massive problems when you’re the leader or aspiring leader of the free world.

Coming at him with a personal insult is not the way to go about this.

The correct way is to point out that most Christmas traditions are not rooted in Christianity, but in paganism.

That’s the exact opposite of what most people want from an app like this.

Please add Grayjay from FUTO.

Just disable the ads, crypto and telemetry and suddenly none of those things are a problem anymore, just like Firefox.

• You can’t actually own movies anymore unless you buy physical copies (which are subject to damage over time).
• You’re dependent on someone else’s servers to stream the movies.
• The providers can and have removed movies you’ve paid for.
• Not dependent on your internet connection, which can be unreliable for many.

Why not both?

I think in reality the Chrome web browser is a huge threat to Internet freedom and should be a top priority.

Why do people fuck up things that work?

Depends on what you mean by “work”. If by “work” you mean is enjoyable to use, I understand. If by “work” you mean sustains a business, then no.

No I’ve got an Oculus Go. And it’s got bullshit Facebook spyware on it.

Nah I’m good. Not really that cool anyway after a few hours.

Maybe one day I’ll get a Valve Index.

I have to imagine they will strip it because if they don’t, it’ll be dead to all of their users.

Will I never picked it up again to find out.

I have one. Not long after I bought it, it became a brick because it forced a software update that forced a Facebook sign in to use it.

Agreed, you get to pick between a system that empowers you to do whatever you like, or an unborkable system.

Yeah that’s not true. There is no such thing as an “unborkable” system. There are, however, systems that aren’t often borked by their developers, and systems that are easy or intuitive to fix when they do become borked, or systems that quickly ship a fix when they do become “borked” (this is Windows BTW).

The implication that any “borked” Linux install was somehow self-inflicted by the user is ridiculous.

Nope, it doesn’t.

Yep…it does.

It’s either the user, the distro, package maintainer or upstream fucking up.

Yes that’s what I’m referring to.

Remember that Android is Linux-based

People keep saying this without understanding that Android was forked with several billion dollars in funding and aimed squarely at “normal” users, and had a decade of development since then.

Most “Linux” OSes really don’t bother with this. How many times has someone sent you into the Android terminal to fix a problem? Literally never. It doesn’t even exist without connecting a PC. Because you don’t need it.

Initial setup can be hard, and then, because GNU/Linux lets you do whatever you want, It’s not hard to bork the system if you’re using commands you don’t understand.

But it borks itself. It doesn’t require my assistance.

I have to try to find the right wifi and sound drivers from the manufacturers website, and make sure you get the right driver version that works with Windows 10.

Meanwhile these drivers don’t even exist for Linux

This is always a hilarious conversation because the diehard Linux users will lie up and down about how Linux has no problems and it’s just you that’s too dumb to understand how to use it.