@MK2boogaloo you know how women love firefighters and think they are hot? well a lot of firefighter departments set up a photoshoot, make the guys go topless, take pictures, and take pictures of sweaty hairy buff men in uniform without the top (sometimes holding stuff like a fire axe, or carrying a hose on their shoulder), while they make sure to focus on their torso. i don't even think they make any profit from it i think it's just tradition at this point.
@SuperDicq >Normies using Linux on top of proprietary operating systems does not help us with anything. and neither is nagging on them to use some super esoteric setup gonna do anything, if they want to use the easy stuff they are gonna use the easy stuff, me personally, i just pick what works, because i recognise and work on my moral failings that are all substantially higher on the list than "using software with a restrictive license", i avoid google like the plague and remove the stuff i don't like, but i don't lose hairs about it, and neither does anybody else, i know there is some level of google nonsense i have to deal with, and it's whatever, i removed most of the problem, 80% of the problem gone with 20% of the effort.
>Android for example has made Linux into one of the most widely used kernels in the world.
>Has this brought us any advancements in terms of software freedom?
no but it makes a mid operating system (not that i thing smartphones are an invention that brought much "pros" to my life) yeah there is proprietary parts to the whole operating system, but it is an "operating system", it doesn't need to be fully free, just mostly free as to get the benefits a person has when using free software.
but the question here is, how does people start using an operating system that is more free, rather than all proprietary, harm the free software movement? it would get more support, and more people would be knowledgeable.
and then the question is? is the problem here that it is harmful to free software movements? or is the problem that pewdiepie failed to properly portray free software, and the movement? thus getting people into a sort of uneducated expectation?
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milkposterPewdiepie advised a lot of people to get into Linux and Fosstards still are ungrateful for it. you need to understand, those people don't want some thinkpad librebooted device with fully free graphics drivers, they just want to use something easy to pick up and better, Linux is now easy to use, minimal drawbacks for a lot of people and some, just straight up none. to everyone their idea of linux is the practical considerations, less nagging and garbage on the screen, smoother, and more privacy are the benefits they are looking for, they couldn't really give any less of a shit about software ethics, let alone software copyright ethics.
and the "Gnu/Linux" and "Free software" language police is pretty dumb too, the point of language is to convey an idea, i understand autism drives you to care about all this stuff, but you end up making people think you are stupid, because why WOULD they care about specific language, they just don't wanna get raped in the ass by MS that's all there is to it.
@BowsacNoodle oh yeah, Thomas not believing at first sure was a sign of unbelief, but i think it's also important to focus on a lesson we can learn from him.
the difference between wanting knowledge and wanting proof.
i certaintly didn't believe in God i would say 5 years ago (i would say since i have been agnostic before i converted).
but the thing that made me go insane is that i can't get a straight answer of whether there is a God or there isn't, eventually i started researching and after reflecting on my life and the world around me, i realized there is, but in the beginning it was this demand for knowledge that got me further.
my faith got multiplied in strength after i set on it questions (not in a way testing God) because i believed that there would be an answer to every one of these questions, and that it would stay perfectly consistent, and everytime i did i would get an Answer that makes sense and ties it stronger together, my faith got stronger because i wanted to believe in it.
i realized especially how amazing it is when other people, after they found out i am converting, asked me a lot of these "atheist gotcha" questions, and i was just able to answer them all, and i was able to learn more from my own answers there.
@BowsacNoodle GM fren, it is a good reminder that the Faith is held strong not just because of what we have on Earth as the physical, but also the Spiritual, we believe in the Lords Good News more than just what "evidence" we have on him here, but also because we know in our Hearts that his teachings are the truth.
today i had a little discussion in the cafe after Service about this too, but i think won't be making a thousand word long post again lel.
@thatbrickster@kaia@bartholin@grillchen damn... i was hoping they would start doing better now, however, i think even if a pope was liberal they would still be under pressure to give into the younger Catholic Generation, which i heard is much more Zealous than previous Generations. i don't think the papacy can get away with spewing outright heresy for long, a lot of those newer Caths weren't always Cath, so they went out of their way to study, and won't take the popes word when it straight up contradicts scripture
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milkposteri was very excited to read the old testament, especially since Genesis was honestly an amazing read, but now i am reading Leviticus and it's stuff life: "on tuesday nights, you have to wear red, on thursday nights you have to wear blue, but on every 4th tuesday, you must wear green, however, if you do not have green, then it is acceptable to wear yellow, assuming you alos wear blue pants with it" for like 3 chapters straight