then you mustn’t have seen LATAM memes! they are super uncanny.

thanks! it’s a result of many a personal experience. :p

yes, though if you can’t wait for lineageos to be available for you device, you can flash a GSI

that was my intention. thanks for putting it into words

yeah, the meme template I used is intentionally like that with the trollface and such. sorry if it bothered you. I had to recently interact with one of these dis-services and it made me think of this.

thanks for the insightful comment

costs me 100 dollars each year just so that I can push an app to their app store, even if I make zero bucks off of it(and if I did, they’d want an additional 30% share of it).
not to mention that I can’t develop an app without a mac – an artificial requirement created by them.

it is expensive for developers that aren’t in the west

Firefox’s inbuilt reader would cut some of the crap

yeah, least thing I would want is my PC becoming another use and throw mobile phone(it’s already happening with mac and hp’s elitebook).

> chad GNU/Linux respecting my preferences.
> only updates when I do sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade.
> finishes updating kernel and 150 packages in less than 5 minutes whilst I’m merging a pr.
> I close computer when I’m done, unaware of updates.
> open it up next day and it starts like nothing happened.
> mfw I read this post

tons of alternatives.
search engines with independent indexes(i.e., not beholden to any big search engine):

• mojeek
• brave search(semi independent)
• kagi(semi independent)

meta-search engines(gets results from other search engines):

• startpage(google)
• duckduckgo(bing)
• qwant(bing)
• swisscows(bing)
• metager(multiple sources)
• searx(ng)(multiple sources, configurable by user)

I’m still missing a ton but this should give you an idea.

for more, see this interactive graph, or this Wikipedia list which includes other niche types of search engines as well.

I personally use mojeek(because of their independent index) with duckduckgo as a fallback.

can’t say about rest of the population but when I read about some great people, I feel there’s too much to learn and too little time.
and it happens every single day.

then the lore of Linyos Torvoltos would’ve been true :p

I agree with your point in spirit, but again, he didn’t say any such thing. I haven’t talked to him in person, so, I can only rely on internet to validate/refute those claims.

he is the public face of free software because others have their own terminologies(e.g.: open source championed by bruce perens and eric raymond), with which the GNU project disagrees.

you can read everything in great detail and with citations here if you have the bandwidth.

but I’m not sure if the commenter is mixing two unrelated accusations towards him.

stallman is known for his fixation on certain choice of words, which is the reason most people get him wrong. that’s why I shared the link to read his exact words and make up your mind by yourself.

I understand your point, but those weren’t the words he said. though I don’t think that’s going to make a difference.

I like RMS for what he did(and is doing) for the free software community. I can also talk about some uncanny things about Gandhi, but that doesn’t make his contribution to the independence movement and his views on nonviolence any less relevant.

to me, a person should be seen in his entirety. because only fictional characters are without flaws.

thanks for explaining

I never heard the acronym before.
also, you could say that in case of Aaron Swatrz too.

I have an unfavourable view of gates despite his philanthropic actions. mainly because of his buying of large farmlands and his opposition to freely licence astra zeneca’s vaccine.

that’s a good point. if i get it right, you mean that since wealth is a resource, it should always be in the hands of those who are accountable(like the government)?