Well, trying to take your point seriously I guess you could argue that companies with paying customers do have an incentive to keep stuff compatible. However, also FOSS devs don’t like public shitstorms by their users which should be a similarly effective.

However, you just argue based on annecodotal evidence without explaining how your examples are exclusive to FOSS.

The word and the law do exist. If it makes sense is debatable.

Which platform? Netflix works fine - do you mean YouTube?

Does anyone know if this affects Linux Mint too? I’d assume they haven’t customized the kernel any further?

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If that’s true it should really be stickied by am admin. That’s crucial info.

Poor Windows NT.

While this is far more elaborate, I agree it’s the best approach if the other person is willing to have a discussion.

You may sprinkle it with actual examples of what’s happening in China with their point system: not getting bus tickets or loan grants or whatever because you not even mentioned something critical somewhere but are associated with someone how did.

They may say it’s unrealistic but 30 years ago Eastern Germany was the same. They just lacked the tech and needed to recruit regular people as spies.

“Xtract Ze Vucking File” for tar

Hey thanks! I should be able to remember that too.

I agree, it has to be at least part-time hobby.

But that’s why I don’t generally recommend Linux to friends/family, not just DIY distros. I’ve also had Debian upgrades cause problems that needed to be resolved via terminal (something X related, don’t remember exactly).

I like pacman too but I will probably never get comfortable with its arguments. It’s worse than tar which has already become a meme. apt is more intuitive to use.

Not sure if you’re being sarcastic or serious. I’ve been using computers for decades and not once adjusted fan speeds, so that function doesn’t seem very basic to me.

I wrote it’s not wrong but the criticism is wrongly addressed. What you wrote is known and that’s why regulations exit. And still we have this kind of slavery. Don’t give your regulators a pass here.

It’s not wrong but a bit of a stretch to criticize capitalism for what is actually slavery.

Maybe some of these older suggestions still apply: https://superuser.com/questions/486844/how-can-i-unlock-a-microsoft-docx-document#486883

You’ll have to tinker a bit, probably write some script to bruteforce the password. Unless you expect your password to be a strong one. In that case I fear there is no way.

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I’d use separate accounts. I like being able to recognize bots by their user name.

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