I liked Unity, but Ubuntu has always been a crashy mess.

Well yeah. Plastic isn’t really recyclable it’s all been a scam.

I am at the point where you tube is now a rare choice. I am tired of the stupid games and adblock and trying to not log in.

Fuck it, I can do without.

My point was that you would think that Lemmy users of all people would at least be more open to dropping the big platforms. If most of the users here are pushing back, then we really are fucked.

Risk was great in black and white on the first apple macs.

Same game, nothing changed. But the quick outcomes of each war and troop movement is so easy that the game goes by fairly quickly.

And nobody cares enough to do anything about, not even the consumers. Meta is building a new AI and data facility larger than disney land. They have the money thanks to face book and instagram.

But you tell people, “hey if you care maybe do the simplest thing and quit using those products”, and all you get is push back. Even here on Lemmy. They would rather their lives be worse than take the slightest inconvenience.

Yeah I am sure some people do that. But I wouldn’t. Some people eat dirt too.

And you have a weird world view if you think being social is leaving posts on a forum to reply to some rando you will never know.

Annonymity is extremely important. I don’t know you, you don’t know me. Nothing I say matters, nothing you say matters. There is no tone, no personality, just words. You could be a liar or a bot, it makes zero difference.

That isn’t very social at all.

I disagree. Billions are being made, data centers and AI machines are being built that use the electricity that could power 50 million homes, and that is Meta ALONE. Your tattoo artist and musicians are perpetuating it. Oh well, they don’t need my business. I don’t support people that do that.

If people keep saying “but I have to”, then fuck it, meta won.

No. There is no valid reason to use it. All this does is continue to enable a massive AI data center and Zuckerbergs billions. Walking away is the only viable option. It needs to go away, stop helping it remain.

Edit: Why would any one argue with this? Unless you are a billionaire, use of this shit is hurting you. Your environment, AI slop, your politics for fucks sake. Continued use is making your life worse for the sake of a handful of people enriching themselves from it, and you don’t care?

No. I am reading an aggregation forum, and getting clarity and insights from the comments. I barely am interacting with anyone.

Look, this term didn’t even exist until the mid 90’s and didn’t take off in common use until the mid 2000’s.

The difference is Lemmy is topic centered thread first, discussion last, where social media is basically a self publishing, identity first platform. People put shit on instagram and facebook because it is about them (mostly). Here it is just news/stories with comments. And anonymity, which is what makes it all work.

I consider everyone here the same way I did when I was on a bbs: they are liars. Modern twist: they are liars and bots. Everyone is bullshitting and saying whatever they want, this is hardly a social event.

That seems to be a you problem.

That isn’t a problem, it is by design. I don’t want to follow you or anyone else. I don’t want to promote myself either. I absolutely do not want to make any connections with people here. I read the aggregated subject feeds, I get clarity or insights from the comments. And that is where it ends. Anonymity makes this all work.

Social networking is about connecting people

Well Lemmy is not about that at all. I know absolutely Zero people from lemmy.

What is the social part? I change my name daily, and dont really give a shit about people following me.

Why? Fuck Instagram.

Buddy, they literally do not know that choice exists

Yeah, because people like this author keep repeating it.

The Linux community has a reputation for being filled with condescending dickheads

Yet another annoying myth. Look, I am saying it with a bit of vitrol here, but its basically to the universe as the author (as far as I know) isn’t here.

Could I be a bit nicer? I suppose, but they were so wrong, and using strong words like “exhausting” to describe a practice they don’t even have to do is annoying. Read what they wrote, they said all admin tasks are command line. Nonsense of course. If they had said, I started out this way, or it was what I had learned, with just a tiny bit of journalistic effort they would know there are a variety of ways.

I have gone back and read forums, from 10 to 15 years ago, just because I keep hearing: linux is so condescending and rude, and it wasn’t the way I remembered it, so I went to see. And guess what? Nothing but nice and friendly people trying to help each other.

It gets old fast.

Gatekeeping, I hate that word. So useless. In this scenario the author is gate keeping saying all the linux system management is the command line. Its “exhausting”. Well bullshit. Let me say it again: BULLSHIT.

It is perpetuating a myth. This is not true. They are gatekeeping the users who don’t want to because they are saying it has to be this way.

Look, I like the command line, I get why sharing information is so much easier by providing a command rather than a wall of screen shots.

Yet at the same time, my travel laptop over here, two years in, has never had to have “system administration” and package installation from a command line. Depending on the distro it simply is not necessary.

The user has choice.

KDE as well. It is astounding how easy it is to use a modern KDE distro: everything has tips and hints get you to the setting you want. Even mounting shares is just click and mount.

I really take issue with the author suggesting that you need to. You do not need to, and it is a myth that needs to go away. Particularly when they said it was “exhausting” installing applications. Linux is miles ahead on that front: you look through a list of what you like, or search for them, and click on the ones you want.

Also for system management, there is no need for the terminal either and the author says “It’s an unavoidable part of the Linux experience”. That one in particular really doesn’t sit well with me.

Now can you? Yes. Should you? Also yes, because it is the easiest way to convey and execute an idea. But you do not have to.

And they fail to mention that windows does this too, for almost every task for system maintenance is done this way: press run+r, now type “whatever -command”.

Anyways a moderately mainstream article and they are going to scare people away over something they did not need to do. Which after a year you would think they would have figured that out.