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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 13:01:20 JST 翠星石
@RustyCrab @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar Every single free software program I've tried has been usable for all the functionality that has been claimed.

All software in alpha stage obviously has limited function and bugs, but imagine having so much of a skill issue you are unable to use a computer without being handheld.

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  翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 14:11:56 JST 翠星石
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  @sapphire @RustyCrab @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar Well, I find that free software always has the best ease of use, as there's no proprietary sabotage or antifeatures or refusal to carry out any meaningful operation and also is usually designed to allow for scriptibilty, allowing for whatever usage that suits you (rather than whatever usage the proprietary master permits), or easily workaround any bugs.
  
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  sapphire (sapphire@shortstacksran.ch)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 14:11:57 JST sapphire
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  @Suiseiseki @RustyCrab @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar convenience of use is a feature, and a damn important one. Imagine if people were this petulant about hardware
  
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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 14:13:29 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @Suiseiseki @RustyCrab @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar @sapphire > I find that free software always has the best ease of use
  i love your bit, it never fails to entertain
  
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  sapphire (sapphire@shortstacksran.ch)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 14:17:12 JST sapphire
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  @Suiseiseki @RustyCrab @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar yeah nah I do that shit for a living when I get home I just want daddy gates to make my games play without effort
  
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  翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 14:19:21 JST 翠星石
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  @mischievoustomato @RustyCrab @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar @sapphire Yes, the irony is that proprietary software is always shit to use (although the proprietary malware says that their way is the best and of course every single NPC takes their word as the truth).
  
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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 14:19:53 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @Suiseiseki @RustyCrab @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar @sapphire keep it up man
  
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  翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 14:21:44 JST 翠星石
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  @sapphire @RustyCrab @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar If you've actually use windows without getting psyopped hard, you'll soon realize that master gates' shitty OS is pretty bad at playing games due to the forced updates and breakages.
  
  GNU/Linux-libre is in fact better at playing free software games without effort, as 99% of the time you launch them and they just launch (or if they fail to launch, they tell you what went wrong and once you fix that issue, they always keep launching).
  
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  sapphire (sapphire@shortstacksran.ch)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 14:27:09 JST sapphire
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  @Suiseiseki @RustyCrab @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar sorry m8 the games I play don't all work on linux. meet my full use case or I will use something that will
  
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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 14:27:35 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @sapphire @RustyCrab @Suiseiseki @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar games probably run just as good as linux or better on macOS. There's recent ports even and there's shit like uh Whisky and Crossover
  
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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 14:27:59 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @sapphire @RustyCrab @Suiseiseki @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar also he fucking mentioned fucking free software games
  
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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 14:29:14 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @sapphire @RustyCrab @Suiseiseki @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar the only stuff i play with friends is coop (no anti cheat), singleplayer (cracked or just fine) or ported
  
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  sapphire (sapphire@shortstacksran.ch)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 14:29:15 JST sapphire
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  @mischievoustomato @RustyCrab @Suiseiseki @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar sorry, I have friends and we play games with KL anticheat, support it or don't get my business.
  
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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 14:29:33 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @skylar @RustyCrab @Suiseiseki @sneeden @SuperDicq @sapphire yes it works because it's not amd
  
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  skylar :confederateflag:??? :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 14:29:34 JST skylar :confederateflag:??? :z:
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  @mischievoustomato @RustyCrab @Suiseiseki @sneeden @SuperDicq @sapphire i guess if you drink enough whiskey you can imagine games run fine on linux
  yall ever get the GPU driver shit working?
  
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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 14:30:32 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @sapphire @RustyCrab @Suiseiseki @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar I'm talking about mine now
  
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  sapphire (sapphire@shortstacksran.ch)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 14:30:33 JST sapphire
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  @mischievoustomato @RustyCrab @Suiseiseki @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar that's ok we're not talking about your use case, we're talking about mine :)
  
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  翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 14:31:21 JST 翠星石
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  @mischievoustomato @RustyCrab @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar @sapphire AMDGPU is quite convenient in that it tends to reliably work at full speed once you load the proprietary malware up.
  
  nvidia's proprietary driver is often broken of course.
  
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  sapphire (sapphire@shortstacksran.ch)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 14:31:23 JST sapphire
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  @mischievoustomato @RustyCrab @Suiseiseki @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar ok I don't care about the needs of the broke
  
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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 14:31:23 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @sapphire @RustyCrab @Suiseiseki @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar that's ok
  
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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 14:42:22 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @kimapr @RustyCrab @Suiseiseki @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar @sapphire count your blessings
  
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  kimapr (kimapr@ublog.kimapr.net)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 14:42:24 JST kimapr
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  @mischievoustomato @RustyCrab @Suiseiseki @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar @sapphire it works on amd 4 me
  
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  翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 14:57:42 JST 翠星石
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  @kimapr @RustyCrab @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar @sapphire You have the freedom to not update and things will never break.
  
  Yes, Arch is a broken meme distro.
  
  On Gentoo-libre, for decent software, you can update only a single package without issues and load in whatever custom ebuilds you want.
  
  windows 10 has forced updates and good luck shutting down without updating.
  
  Whether you get an update that breaks things or not is up to luck (it also has a rollback feature implemented for the semi-regular occurrence of failed updates, but the rollback can fail and leave you with a broken system).
  
  windows has many critical unfixed bugs (that most people by chance don't run into, but many people do and then promptly forget about if they manage to fix it) - for example opening the file manager can crash the whole explorer.exe and that bug usually cannot be fixed without a reinstall.
  
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  kimapr (kimapr@ublog.kimapr.net)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 14:57:48 JST kimapr
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  @Suiseiseki @RustyCrab @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar @sapphire I have used both GNU/Linux(incl -libre) and Windows and I assure you that GNU/Linux shit breaks all the time too, and some distros like Arch and its derivatives (yes Parabola isn't any better) effectively have forced updates because you can't install shit from the package manager anymore if your system isn't up-to-date enough. On Windows forced updates somehow were never a thing for me (and i don't think i remember many breakages either), but maybe I was just using it differently than others.
  
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  翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 15:25:06 JST 翠星石
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  @kimapr @RustyCrab @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar @sapphire >forced updates can be pretty easily disabled by downloading any random “Windows Debloater” software package and running it. After that, it’s not a bother anymore.
  Until eventually updates are enabled again via the backdoor and you need to download a new script and run that again and hope it doesn't contain proprietary malware.
  
  >could be that the pirates i’m downloading windows ISOs from clean it up, seems unlikely to be just pure luck i think.
  Prohibited copies tend to have patches made to such, but usually such patch developers add more proprietary malware in.
  
  >Could be because i’m using the Pro edition and others aren’t
  I guess the "Pro" and "LTSC" editions get less broken updates pushed (the "home" versions get to do the testing first).
  
  >On my GNU/Linux systems i keep having my keyboard layout settings reset to only English for no discernible reason.
  >but easy enough to “work around” with a script i invoke whenever this happens. I think Windows isn’t any worse in this regard.
  windows does almost everything possible to make such workarounds difficult.
  
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  kimapr (kimapr@ublog.kimapr.net)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 15:25:11 JST kimapr
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  @Suiseiseki @RustyCrab @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar @sapphire quite a few people seem to speak highly of Gentoo, perhaps i should try it again sometime..
  back to windows - forced updates can be pretty easily disabled by downloading any random “Windows Debloater” software package and running it. After that, it’s not a bother anymore. I don’t remember getting forced updates (or at least any disruptive ones) on my own windows machines even without that, even though i’ve observed some windows computers do this in front of me. Could be because i’m using the Pro edition and others aren’t (why?), could be that the pirates i’m downloading windows ISOs from clean it up, seems unlikely to be just pure luck i think.
  Bugs are present in all complex software, and i wouldn’t dismiss one for this if it doesn’t get too disruptive. On my GNU/Linux systems i keep having my keyboard layout settings reset to only English for no discernible reason. This is very annoying when i need to type Russian but easy enough to “work around” with a script i invoke whenever this happens. I think Windows isn’t any worse in this regard.
  
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  翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 15:49:54 JST 翠星石
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  @sapphire @RustyCrab @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar @kimapr It's not yours and it has a universal backdoor, so yes it has updated.
  
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  sapphire (sapphire@shortstacksran.ch)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 15:49:55 JST sapphire
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  @Suiseiseki @RustyCrab @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar @kimapr my windows 10 hasn’t updated since I created the disk image 4 years ago
  
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  sapphire (sapphire@shortstacksran.ch)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 15:54:32 JST sapphire
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  @Suiseiseki @RustyCrab @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar @kimapr prove it
  
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  翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 15:54:32 JST 翠星石
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  @sapphire @RustyCrab @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar @kimapr https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.en.html#back-doors
  
  https://web.archive.org/web/20230329021222if_/https://www.informationweek.com/government/microsoft-updates-windows-without-user-permission-apologizes (readable in reader mode).
  https://web.archive.org/web/20110918174200if_/http://slated.org:80/windows_by_stealth_the_updates_you_dont_want
  
  Although those articles are about windows XP and Vista, why wouldn't 10 have more backdoors?
  
  windows has 2 update mechanisms - windows update (can be temporarily disabled with workarounds), plus forced updates via the universal backdoor.
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    Microsoft's Software Is Malware - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
    
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    Microsoft Updates Windows Without User Permission, Apologizes
    
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    Over the last few weeks, without user approval, Windows Update has updated nine small executable files in both Windows XP and Windows Vista.
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    Windows By Stealth: The Updates You Don't Want | Slated
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  翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 15:55:30 JST 翠星石
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  @sapphire @RustyCrab @SuperDicq @kimapr @skylar @sneeden Also, read the "EULA" and see what it says about what permissions microsoft have given to themselves.
  
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  翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 16:04:20 JST 翠星石
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  @sapphire @RustyCrab @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar @kimapr The articles are about the previous version of the same OS and windows has only had more backdoors added, not less.
  
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  sapphire (sapphire@shortstacksran.ch)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 16:04:21 JST sapphire
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  @Suiseiseki @RustyCrab @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar @kimapr >although those articles are about a different, unmodified OS
  so you pulled it out of your ass, got it
  
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  sapphire (sapphire@shortstacksran.ch)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 16:11:28 JST sapphire
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  @Suiseiseki @RustyCrab @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar @kimapr yeah unless you're gonna actually come up with something and not make shit up I'm going to go back to my moon pics. I'd share but your shitty OS probably can't view absolutely proprietary cr2 raws
  
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  翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 16:11:28 JST 翠星石
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  @sapphire @RustyCrab @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar @kimapr With proprietary malware it's not a matter of proving it's backdoored, it's a matter of proving it's not backdoored (the source code is withheld for a reason).
  
  If windows XP and Vista were backdoored, why wouldn't 10 and 11 be backdoored?
  
  Yes, there is free software that can process cr2 raws, but you have to work around proprietary sabotage to do so, thus you're better off using a free raw format.
  
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  翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 16:16:53 JST 翠星石
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  @sapphire @RustyCrab @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar @kimapr I've never purchased a camera that runs proprietary software.
  
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  sapphire (sapphire@shortstacksran.ch)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 16:16:54 JST sapphire
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  @Suiseiseki @RustyCrab @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar @kimapr sure, buy me a new camera that supports "free raw formats" if you're so dedicated
  
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