[–] 16 points 4 months ago

What's unfortunate is a significant number of people don't like hearing this and instead choose to project onto other countries. Most of our governments aren't our friends, regardless if you're American or not.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    What’s the point of switching to Linux if everything just works out of the box!

    Yeah, I’ve been like that too recently. I prefer my not-so-problematic Debian setup nowadays, and I couldn’t even bring myself to rice it.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago

    Realities like this one are forcing entire nations to move to FOSS, more accountable systems, etc., which is a good thing for many of us, but bad for those who are in jurisdictions that they just can’t get enough of Microsoft et al.

    A far journey ahead but at least we’re getting there!

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Had a similar conversation over in Mastodon recently and yeah, this is a very fair point. The indiscriminate scanning and publication of copyrighted books shouldn’t have happened in the first place, especially when there are existing ecosystems for ethical lending/leasing/borrowing of books already in place, which benefit and are working with authors/publishers already.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    The amount of money billionaires spend on political campaigns should be proportional to the amount of votes their bets lose to their opponents.

    PACs included 👍

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