Notices by xianc78@gameliberty.club

@maija @bonkmaykr I mean Trisquel, the most popular freetard distro is designed for business use, so there clearly are some small businesses and non-profits out there that exclusively use free/libre software even if they are extremely rare.

Of course, that's assuming this person is even real and not just some Big Tech/CIA/NSA plant to turn people away from Linux.

@rher I made an entire effortpost a few hours ago explaining why this free software zealotry is actually hurting the movement and keeping people on Windows.

https://gameliberty.club/@xianc78/113828793448317580

@phnt @rher Yeah. I just realized that they are no different than left-anarchists who try to fight capitalism buy destroying small businesses. They're just firing at the wrong targets.

@mint I think Suiseiseki is a hachi alt. He is just trolling people with free software zealotry on that account instead of trans rights activism.

@bonifartius Nobody wants to see my comfyposts because they are too angry about $CURRENT_PSYOP.

@mischievoustomato I think people think that they could potentially use copyright and the legal system to "sabotage" AI and prevent it from replacing them. It's not so much about protecting their own copyrighted works. I guess that's also the motivation behind those "data-poisoning" algorithms which causes AIs to produce tainted results if they use your work as sample input.

Free Software Extremist users are more trigger happy than Poast users.

@djsumdog I just wish they offered options other than Ubuntu and Pop_OS for distro choices. Their headphone jacks also suck. If you just move one millimeter, it disconnects.

@pesekcuy @bonkmaykr Sui literally takes everything the FSF and GNU project says as gospel. He will even scold you if you use the word "Linux" to mean the whole GNU+Linux operating system or if you use the word "FOSS".

That's a point that I forgot to bring up: the FSF's insistence on using certain words. I agree that using "Google" or "Photoshop" as verbs for searching and photo editing respectively does re-enforce their monopolies, but I never understood why Stallman insisted that you don't use the word "hacker" to refer to security breakers. That has nothing to do with software freedom. That's just him defending some subculture that doesn't even exist anymore.

@bonkmaykr
>However I will never be able to justify the "everything must be FOSS or you're a stupid normie" mindset. Diehard FOSS advocates are some of the most toxic elitists and I don't think they understand that they're only hurting their cause.

I like the Free Software Movement, but I have always been skeptical about it sense I first heard about it. It was around the time of the Snowden leaks that I was aware of it, but it was just a coincidence because I just so happened to be using a Chromebook at the time and the only option other than ChromeOS was to install some modified version of Ubuntu that ran parallel to it. I learned a lot about GNU+Linux, why people like it, and the philosophy behind both free software and open-source. But when listening to the then-recent interviews with Stallman, he was talking about privacy and saying that free software was the only solution. I knew that was false because I know for sure that something like an old NES ROM wasn't going to spy on me, but Stallman would say that was bad anyway.

And before the privacy issues were even relevant, Stallman's main talking point was about "sharing is caring", saying that proprietary software developers keep people divided and isolated by prohibiting people to share. Except it doesn't. Never in my life have I lost friends because I couldn't copy a piece of software and give it to them. I'm not a fan of "intellectual property", but muh sharing isn't the most important thing in the world. That's probably why most people didn't care before 2013.

>I think a lot of the evil of proprietary software is overblown too, yes it is inherently anti-user in some ways, but the whole point of concern is that it's *easier* to abuse, not that it's always worse or better. Not all proprietary software is malware.

EXACTLY! Like I already said earlier, there are plenty of examples of proprietary software that has proven not to be malware. We also have decompilations of old games now and we can see for a fact that they never included any backdoors, even some of those that were released more recently. And I don't like how Stallman paints everyone who releases proprietary software as evil. Was Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya evil for releasing Cave Story as proprietary freeware? Of course not. He was making something that he loved and probably never even heard of the FSF. Even if he released it under a more restrictive shareware license, I wouldn't label him as evil.

@PurpCat @RK7 The FSF has openly stated that art and level assets don't matter as long as the code is libre.

@PurpCat @RK7 I know that, but the whole "sharing is caring" thing is probably why nobody outside of (Anti-Capitalists and Austrio-Libertarians) gave a shit about FOSS until the Snowden leaks.

@RK7 @PurpCat
>They forget that older hardware/software typically wasn't really capable of the same sort of spying/telemetry that more modern stuff is

You should see all the old FSF interviews and documentaries from around that time. There main talking point was "sharing is caring". Like I'm not a big fan of intellectual property either, but I don't think that sharing copies is the most important thing in the world.

@PurpCat Nah bro, you should only play free software games like Tux Racer. Proprietary games, including games released for old platforms keep you isolated and helpless.

@djsumdog I think I used to have some followers from Fosstodon. They didn't seem to block instances until a few years ago.

@p They will reject FreeDOS because most people use it to play old, proprietary DOS games.

In the eyes of an extreme freetard, playing an old DOS or NES game is no different than using Windows 11, Discord, or Google Chrome.

@djsumdog To be fair, there have been many times where I install a distro on recently purchased hardware and I have to do some configurations to make it work properly, which is why I try to buy computers that are actually built for Linux, like System76.

I can't tell what's worse, people still insisting on using Windows or macOS despite them becoming even more locked-down than ever or the freetards who insist on using only FSF-approved GNU+Linux distros that can only run on 2011 Thinkpads.

Don't listen to these idiots. Even using a shitty distro with SystemD such as Linux Mint or Pop_OS is 1000x better than putting up with the bullshit that Microsoft and Apple are giving you and will give you in the future. Despite most GNU+Linux distros coming with some proprietary software, I have yet to encounter a single distro that requires you to link your installation with some online account, unless you count ChromeOS, Android (which is only Linux, not GNU), and SteamOS. I would say that you should stay away from those distros and maybe stay away from anything RedHat or vanilla Ubuntu, and that you should install Librewolf after installing your distro as most distros still bundle vanilla Firefox as the default browser, but other than that, you should be fine.

And look, I would love to see the day where nobody has to rely on proprietary software anymore, but we are just not there yet. I still like to remain optimistic, despite all the blackpills, but you need to be pragmatic about this. Sometimes, you do have to work within the system before you can fully replace it.

@lina I think these fires we're intentional (Gavin Newsom basically stated he wants to rebuild LA as a smart-city), but I do agree that this ecofascism shit is fucking cringe. They aren't volunteering at their community garden or planting trees or collectively buying land to create nature preserves. They are sitting in front of their computers talking about how TND and TKD will solve all environmental problems.