@tusharhero@badrihippo Ehh, the browser loading symbol is accurate with arbitrary code execution disabled - you can see that the page has finished loading, but the page is blank, so no time wasted (waiting for 50MiB of malware to load to get a garbage website really isn't ever worth it).
@anokasion On reading it the third time, I realized that the text contains several spelling mistakes.
Wow, Alpine doesn't actually ship bash? No wonder why it sucks so badly.
Bash has been the most security audited shell (meme shells haven't had any of the severe bugs found out) and it's quite small, considering that it's 1.3MiB with everything installed.
I corrected the mistakes (and added 12 more); "I use Linux as my operating system", I state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. He swivels around in his desk chair with a GNUish gleam in his eyes, ready to GNUsplain with extreme precision. "Actually, he says with a grin, Linux is only a kernel, a proprietary one at that." he took a powerful breath into his thick GNU/Lungs and continued; "Most likely you use GNU slash Linux!' I don't miss a beat and reply with a proprietary smirk; "I use Alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's Linux, but it's not GNU/Linux".
The smile quickly enhances on the man's face. His body begin emanating a holy GNU/Glow as he prepared for yet another GNU/Exorcism. Being possessed by a proprietary daemon, I soon began foaming at the mouth, dropped to the floor and started to writhe and scream. He calmly continued with his interjection; "Alpine does in fact contain GNU coreutils and several other GNU packages in the recommended installer and most packages are built with GNU build systems and GCC - it quite clearly cannot be anything but a GNU/Linux distro. While there is a cut down BusyBox/Linux installer, prepared to prop up false claims (the cut down installer still contains a few GNU packages and BusyBox contains GNU code), clearly the first thing most Alpine used do is installing the missing GNU packages." The daemon replied; "If windows was compiled with GCC, Would that make it GNU?" and demonically interrupted before he could respond with; "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more Compiler-agnostic. Even you were correct, you wont be for long."
He signed and continued; "Yes, that would make it; quote compiled with GNU unquote. Furthermore, there are indeed distributions of GNU for windows, which does make GNU/Windows if you install them - but those only exist to give the suckers a taste of freedom - you're better off installing the real thing (GNU/Linux-libre). It's a real shame that Linux puts any development work into ensuring that it can be compiled with compilers that aren't under a freedom-defending license, rather than using all the fine GNU extensions GCC makes available, but that's sadly to be expected from a proprietary kernel project - although Linux is indeed freedom respecting once exorcised to make GNU Linux-libre. I'm always correct despite the proprietary efforts to make me wrong." With a sickly wheeze, the last of the proprietary daemon was exorcised from my body. It lay on the floor, cold and limp - he interjected it to death with the good word of freedom.
Now that I had been saved, I begged for forgiveness. He proclaimed; "Forgiveness is not required - all you need to do is repent. Repentance consists of installing a free distro on your computer to replace the proprietary Alpine. A list of free distros is available at; https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html"
@phnt If winblows could install updates without spending ages restarting multiple times, during which the computer cannot be used, NPC's wouldn't complaint much about updates - but microsoft is just that incompetent.
Part of freedom is the ability to choose to never update if you wish.
@phnt@benis_redux >When an unprivileged user on Windows triggers a UAC prompt, it asks for the password of the administrator, not the unprivileged user. `su «user»` asks the password of the relevant user (which can be privileged), not the unprivileged user.
Just alias `sudo` to `su root -c` and change /etc/pam.d/su to; "auth required pam_wheel.so group=su use_uid" if `sudo «command»` is the only use case - all users in the su group can run something as root, if they know the root password.
GNU's functionality where you can login as whatever user via `su` from root, is 1 million times superior, as you can actually install, fix and test things for the user, without needing to know their password.