I think I need to look into installing that OS. :)

Yeah I think sales people are so trained into being sales people that they dont actually know how to talk like a human being anymore.

Seriously, there is something about those guys. They just cant talk normally. Not everyone. I have met some of them that just talk normally. and are aware of their products pros and cons in relation to what you need. Those are useful.

On the other hands, nerds can have their own little annoying habits too. Sometimes they have no social skills at all and act like machines.

Heh, true. But even systemd is a choice, kind of. Even though it brings the number of distributions to maybe just a few.

I wanted to try these ones at some point, seems nice:

https://artixlinux.org/

https://voidlinux.org/

Sure. But you probably know that big tech companies like Microsoft and Google spies on their users using the operating system, and makes changes to those said operating systems in order to collect as much private data as possible.

Its a very big difference compared to using Linux. Sure, most of it is American companies. But you have a lot of choice in the Linux world. Its not the same. I think you know this? Otherwise you have a lot of good things to find out about. :)

Im not buying anything with ads. If I have to buy a new flat screen tv, im making sure it can be used without the internet, and any ads can be removed through network ad blocking or other tricks.

Its never enough ads until every surface has an ad on it. Fuck the entire ad business. Making the world ugly.

He is some influencer, dont you wanna be influenced by the video people?

Seriously though, Linux doesnt need this guy to speak for it. Its an amazing system. This guy just wants YouTube views. Whatever. :)

Without Linux, I cant imagine using a computer. Its like asking a big American corporation to allow me to log in, knowing its tracking everything i do. THAT is the insanity of using windows mate.

I did this in 2012 or something. Welcome!

This is actually because of Trump. If the man would have some kind of common sense and not ruin decades of cooperation…

I can easily get nothing done without having adhd. Its a blessing.

Some people get shot because guns were invented.

Yeah those things.

I will stop using it of course. There is a price to pay for not being affected by this. Its not going to be free.

Its not anti science to not blindly trust science. Its actual science to try and verify observations. Sure, most people dont have those skills to properly know what they are observing, but I think its good if people try to learn.

I learned tons of stuff about the common pitfalls about measuring the curvature of the earth by looking at flat earth arguments and seeing what science says about them.

Today you can throw those arguments into chat gpt and get a decent summary of how anything actual works.

Using lasers to track earth curvature across a big lake for example, absolutely fascinating to see why it doesnt work as you may expect.

Ah you meant like that…

Yeah, the power these companies have over our lives is very disturbing. They have positioned themselves as something most academic people really need, at least linkedin has.

Then I will just update my profile to a link my own cv page.

Absolutely never using any service that requires this. I dont even have any account on those platforms and I never will.

I quit at 50, living on savings and stock market…

I dont know, its just something awful about working every day. I got sick of it.

Now im not doing anything special but im free to just live.

I would never go to see a movie with such a person. Wtf.

And she is 40…she sounds like a teenager.

Yeah I agree. We have to wake up a bit. Real change happens outside of this place.

We arent smarter. Actually most people here have no voice or influence outside of their computer screen.

We can use some tech, sure. But I very much challenge the idea that we are smarter as a group than other university students.

But since a lot of us have poor social skills, we compensate by thinking we are smarter or better, when we should instead train our social skills and stop thinking like that.