The competition of who can fuck over everyone else the fastest.

It’s a shame if he never did anything with it, but thanks for going into detail! :D

As others have said, the general rule is simple: if it no longer runs what you want it to run, upgrade.

For example, I have an Nvidia RTX 2060 GPU. It’s no longer that new, it’s like 5+ years old at this point. But most of the games I play are at least 10 years old—I think the newest, and most graphically intense, game I own is Cyberpunk 2077—and my GPU runs them just fine.

So, why would I spend hundreds of dollars on a new GPU when it’s still wholly functional for my needs?

Looks like they invented a new way to doxx people!

Does it still exist, and can it be implemented client-side? That sounds really cool!

Ooh that’s a good point. I mean, not Linux Mint because as thanksforallthefish said below it’s not a Mint-supported DE but I actually installed Arch (btw) with the KDE Plasma DE onto an old laptop I have and yeah it definitely gives early-2010s OS X vibes. :)

That’s legit.

I hate GNOME because it feels like an iPhone.

That’s fair.

I don’t know much about what Ubuntu is doing but it surely can’t be that bad.

You would be surprised.

Yeah…

See, I used to like Ubuntu, but then Canonical had to ruin it for me by betraying the principles that Linux stands for.

Ubuntu is a shadow of its former self, and it saddens me. :(

You know, I can see that.

Still, mac users use macs because they just want the computer to work.

And the Cosmic DE is rather new so can be a bit buggy from time to time. It might look mac-friendly, but its stability is still largely untested so caution may be advised before recommending it in my opinion.

Can confirm. I’ve used FitGirl for years and countless games and have never once had an issue with malware. She seems pretty reliable on that front.

Ubuntu is heresy. Canonical hath turned against the users.

Also, I’m genuinely curious: why do you hate GNOME?

They didn’t say beeteedubs so clearly not.

If she’s a Windows refugee, Linux Mint.

If she’s a Mac refugee, fuck if I know.

If she’s a IBM OS/2 refugee, please let me know how to get the drugs she’s gotten. I want in.

I will now respond with a single word:

Dafuq?

I get panicky from time to time.

Then I try to remind myself of my threat model.

It helps me to re-center myself.

In a storm of emotion, logic can be my rock.

While I agree with everything else you said, I would like to specifically respond to the following part:

Maybe he is considering not everyone is an adult on the platform.

God forbid a child hears the words “shit”, “ass”, or “fuck”. 1) That’s not the end of the world, no matter what conservative parents groups would like people to think, and 2) I guarantee you that 99.999% of children have heard at least 2 out of 3 of those words from television, movies, and elsewhere on the Internet. It’s a word, nothing more, and not that big of a deal.

Again, though, I would like to repeat that I agree with what else you said. I just wanted to respond to this particular part.

Have a great day!

So I guess you could say it’s…Metadata?

I 100% agree, but to be fair, in some jobs there really isn’t much to do. Lol.

With dumbphones, you’re usually limited to regular phone calls or SMS/MMS messaging.

That’s kind of the point.

Sure, you can’t do much with them, but by that very fact you also won’t have nearly as much data to be spied on.

Likewise, you can do much more with a smartphone, but that comes with a much higher surface of attack, and you also have to work a lot harder to keep all the data away from spying.