They’ve certainly “taken back control” from those pesky EU privacy regulations.

I really hope they’ll stop it. They’ve strangled Cuba for long enough and it’s only hurting the people there, not the regime.

Also Cuba has done nothing bad to the US in the last decades. The missile crisis was 61 years ago FFS.

I’m sure his son has vetted it first!

Wayland, GNOME, systemd and snaps seem to be the unholy quadfecta of obsessive hate in Linux land these days. People seem to practically set their own personal identity against their feelings on these technology stacks. If you don’t like them, just don’t use them…

I agree, but the problem and the reason for my resentment is that some of these are forced on us. Gnome even introduced some dependencies on systemd. Poettering was even quoted as saying that was a good thing because it forced people to adopt systemd quicker. Of course he is a pretty blunt person which doesn’t help liking the stuff he makes. But the backing of IBM/RedHat allows him to get his stuff adopted. For me he is definitely one of the reasons I don’t want systemd.

Snapd can’t be ignored in modern Ubuntu because even an apt-get forces a snap install for some packages. This is the problem for me. I have to keep finding ever more obscure distros to avoid the things I don’t like (and in the end I moved to FreeBSD). Even Arch the most configurable distro of all (you can choose pretty much everything from network stack, partition format, etc) forces you to use systemd now.

This is what powers my anger towards them. And Mac I hate because I feel a bit betrayed by Apple, first making a powerful Unix-like OS with decent GUI which I liked, and them making it more and more mainstream and locked-down like their iOS toys, removing power features and locking many features into their walled iCloud garden. Also reducing options to upgrade Macs, introducing terrible keyboards etc. I used them for years but in the end was forced to leave the platform. It’s a bit like an ex-smoker hating smokers I guess because it reminds them of the misery they dealt with :)

About Wayland: We are constantly bombarded with propaganda that X11 is deprecated and end of life. Even by its maintainers (RedHat as wayland maintainer chose to take over X11 maintenance so they could let it die more easily). This is what I hate. I’m perfectly happy if I can keep using X11. But this is constantly cast into doubt by all this skullduggery. Luckily FreeBSD is much less prone to chasing the new feature on the block than Linux is though.

Where my hate comes from is being forced to adopt something I don’t want to (or people trying to do so). If they would have just made things optional, I would have had zero problems with it. This is why I don’t hate GNOME, I don’t like it at all but it’s fine because whatever distro I choose I can always choose not to use it. I don’t really hate Windows either, in fact I even use it for gaming. But what does make me hate something is having something good and then being forced to see it change into something worse. It’s reactive to this behaviour.

I apologize , that didn’t come across as intended. I didn’t mean to imply that it’s a matter of wanting at all.

I just argued against the narrative that somehow trans people are forcing cis people to become trans. Obviously they don’t ‘want’ that because they are in the right body for them. This is where all the “Don’t say gay” idiocy comes from. Because they view it as propaganda or something.

But of course the whole premise is BS. Even the concept of ‘becoming’ trans is. And yes I know it’s not a choice <3

But that came out wrong.

I like the way how conservative Americans are generous on Thanksgiving and think that one day is somehow enough or whatever.

I really really don’t understand what people have against you. What you do with your body is obviously none of their business whatsoever. I don’t get why people even want to have an opinion about that.

FWIW I’m really happy for you that you can live your life in the proper body to match your soul and I’m an LGBTQI+ ally <3 (and a little on the Q side myself).

I can understand people don’t want to be trans because they are simply in the right body or they aren’t but have religious doubts or whatever but that deep hatred I see even in some of my “friends” scares me.

Why is mastodon too much trouble though?

I really don’t see the difference. In fact the one difference I do see is that it’s a whole lot less toxic than Twitter.

I don’t really understand why people hate so much on transsexuality these days. Calling them a ‘scourge’ and 'mentally ill". What BS. Trans people are not hurting anyone. They just want to be their true self.

One of the arguments often used (also here) is that they are trying to force other people to be trans (in this case the poster says “they think everyone should get puberty blockers”). Which is complete BS, I have never met a trans person that wanted everyone else to be trans too.

It seems to be a big pet peeve of the extreme-right these days. I just don’t understand why.

Well I hate GNOME personally but it’s just because of its philosophy: Opinionated software. They prefer removing choice and forcing users to “use it as it was meant to be used”. I don’t like that because I have my own opinions and I want my software to adjust to me instead of me adjusting to the software. Other people are more inclined to really embracing a product and its methodology but I don’t work that way. But hating software is not the same as hating people. Software is just a ‘thing’.

I moved away from Mac too because it moved ever more in that direction: Removing choice. But I don’t hate GNOME developers or users <3 Just the product. I use KDE instead and am very happy with it. And I don’t care if anyone hates KDE, that’s their choice. Not every product is for everyone and that is OK.

I also don’t like Systemd but I don’t use it either. So it’s fine, they can do what they want and I do what I want. I’m not a team player and not loyal to anyone or anything, just my own opinions.

But I don’t really understand what all this has to do with LGBTIQ+ (which I’m very much in favour of)

But I’m in Spain. People here are not Latinos or Latinas :)

Here in Spain you see X or @ a lot.

Like senorxs or señor@s. Where the X or @ means ‘o’ or ‘e’ (male) or ‘a’ (female). I like the way they do this.

This has some issues as it doesn’t include non-binary options. I think it’s also more of a protest against the patriarchal nature of the Spanish language which always defaults to the male version in the case where the gender is unknown or a mix.

How is pronounced I don’t really know. People don’t really speak it in practice. It’s more used written.

In Holland we’re trying to kick them out because of all the pollution they cause (and refusal to fix that). The jobs aren’t as much of a concern. In fact the towns that are the most worried are the ones where all the workers live.

You could be the second!!

That’s what I used to love so much about reddit. NSFW and regular content on the same platform. No judgment.

Though the quality has really gone downhill since the people that really did it for exhibitionism reasons got overshadowed by the enormous wave of people trying to spam their onlyfans :(

Monetisation kills everything, not just on the platform side but also the content-generator side.

Cool that they put FreeBSD in the list anyhow! I’m part of that 0.01% globally (though not in Morocco).

So like a man in the middle proxy?

Bikes aren’t for everyone. I personally don’t like them (and I’m Dutch, lol). I’d much rather see great public transport.

The Netherlands is very bad at public transport though. Some villages only have 1 bus per hour and only during rush hour, nothing during the rest of the day. This way we’ll never get away from cars.