VeganCheesecake

You have an island governed by a democratically elected government, with a population that from what I remember mostly doesn't want to be assimilated into the PRC. The PRC taking it by force would, in my eyes, be rather imperialistic.

Well, shit, there goes my vote.

The same attitude, not the same words. Both "I use Linux, that makes me better", and "I use Windows because I actually need to get work done" seem rather smug to me.

It could of course be "I use Windows for my needs, but recognise that other might be happier with a different experience", but to me it feels like "I am a serious adult, and they are not."

If we wanna go down that metaphor than it'd be in a world where the only options for a fully featured experience currently where a mac and a Chromebook.

Fully Foss Smartphones are great as a concept, and I hope that Linux on mobile gets to a point where it's usable as a sail driver, but it isn't there yet for me, and I believe the same applies to a lot of people, which is kinda ironic to say in a comment thread in which I just wrote about recognising how personal experiences aren't necessarily universally applicable, but whatever.

Well, it works for me and the people I have set it up for, which of course isn't necessarily applicable to other people's usecases.

I think I was mainly a bit miffed about your I use Windows because I actually need to get work done line because it felt like the same smug attitude you had been criticising. We all need to recognise that out experiences aren't universally applicable.

We do have quite a few Linux evangelists on the platform, but i feel that's kinda inherent to where lemmy as a platform came from. I think they are a bit silly, but making that a reason to not like a whole OS or ROM seems equally silly.

There are stable distros that just work™. In the end, you need a certain amount of knowledge for both Windows and Linux, and even then, I can recognise that Linux isn't universally suitable at the moment. I can easily do everything I need for work on it, but I'm a software dev. Friends who are artists can't, sice the tools they need just don't exist on Linux, and are difficult to get to run in tools like Wine.

The stability argument is a bit of a low hanging fruit though, especially if you simultaneously point at working around Windows issues, which most of the population probably doesn't want to learn doing either.

you have an app called android podcasts

Never heard of that. There's Google Podcasts, but Google discontinued it recently. I'd personally recommend AntennaPod, but there's other alternatives as well.

I personally don't value them differently, but I see your point.

The wonky ownership of these games is actually the reason I've been pretty much exclusively buying stuff on GoG for a few years. I don't know their stance on inheritance, but at least the hypothetical grandchild won't need perpetual access to the account to keep playing the games.

In the end, clear legislation is kinda the only thing that can resolve this mess.

Yeah, my point was, if they do try to enforce their policies, we could probably find a way to work around it. It's probably cheaper and easier than for your heirs to test those digital inheritance laws in court.

What Stream support have sent that person is probably an accurate representation of what happens when you apply their policies as written. Write another article if they are seen enforcing it.

Luckily, SteamDRM is usually easy to bypass, so if that happens one could prepare accordingly.

If you wanna bet that AMD accelerators become a viable alternative while the bubble is still going, maybe bet on them. It's all gambling, in the end.

All the new AMD Chips have had an integrated fTPM for quite some time. Dunno what else the problem could be. But as long as you don't really need Windows, I'd go Linux.