@PraxisOfEvil

> I'm starting to come around on Linux

Grab a Slackware installer, Ubuntu is normie-Linux that Amazon keeps paying to add spyware to. It's gonna be a little unfriendly but it works and is reliable and 99% of the shit people use computers for is in the browser nowadays anyway. Devuan has no systemd and is a little easier to operate but it breaks a little more often than Debian does. I am using Slackware in basically every place that I am not using CRUX; CRUX is better but it does have a learning curve.

> I think we'll all have to distance ourselves from the tech oligarchy in one form or another in the near future

The thing is it's just the San Francisco Data Cartel. Everyone that thought Elon was different is getting their big surprise, but they don't have much of an excuse: he shoved tracking software into exploding cars and replaced the dashboard with an iPad and got his cash by being part of the group that the industry calls the Paypal Mafia (a group that also includes Peter Thiel).

The current model for VC is to spend the other companies into the ground, which is why you used to be able to get food from Grubhub for cheaper than you could if you bought it yourself.

Incidentally, for the record, the reason for all of the extra benefits that Elon and Vivek are complaining they "have to" give US tech workers is shit that they use to keep people on a leash. Google provides free childcare and laundry and a bus to work and whatnot so that you don't have an excuse, and everyone decided to ape that model because someone that quits Google suddenly has to get a new doctor and babysitter and whatnot. They make these job posts that say shit like "$1500 mental healthcare stipend" and they inundate you with email to try to get you to take advantage of it. It was already shitty when you had to sit through a 20-minute speech about their horrible open-office plan and ping-pong table and free coffee but now they want to be your new mom and you are "not a good culture fit" if you tell them you are more interested in the work you'll be doing and your colleagues and your base salary than how many companies you get a gift card for.
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