Timbers are shivered.

They also push their VPN a lot. Every week or two I open Firefox and they send me to their VPN page on their website telling me to try it.

Like no. I’m not interested in paying for a rebranded mullvad.

That’s an extremely small minority, and you can turn it off if you want.

Affinity

Ubuntu is the best bet for a distro to just work well out of the box.

Granted I have still had a fuck ton of issues, errors, etc, but Ubuntu is the only distro that has worked the best out of the box. Fedora was a broken mess, and Mint was in between.

So if you want anyone to not give up on Linux, direct them towards Ubuntu first. You can always switch distros later, but spending 3 days trying to fix issues on a different distro isn’t fun.

4:33am - 11:33am: 7 hours, 3%

Other than me, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a person, business, etc, in the wild running Linux.

Even business signs/billboard I’ve seen run Windows.

My Pixel 7 Pro drops maybe 2-3% all night. 1% per hour is not normal.

My Nexus 4 from 2012 still works. It’s also running Android 13.

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Then learn to fact check instead of believing rumours.

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The context is that code made its way into shipped open source software.

The type doesn’t matter. It proves that there can be slip ups.

Move goal posts, though.

But oPeN sOuRce iS sAfe.

Meanwhile I have 25ft cables running my large format vinyl printers lol

Ubuntu, one of the most popular Linux Distros, already did that.

Remember when Ubuntu had Amazon ads baked into the OS, and would send everything you typed in your dash to the web, to advertise to you? and it was enabled by default?

Or are we just hating on Windows?

Um, America? Name any large company and it’s America based and tracking you.

Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta…

Meanwhile all of the services I use that do respect my privacy are from other countries like Switzerland, Canada, Sweden…