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  • I mean… they could actually be fixed easily if enough people would understand the actual problems:

    Concentration of power and wealth.

    The loneliness epidemic alone could be solved by simply creating non-profit software for dating and social connections that are not designed for maximum user and advertisement time per day (e. g. doom scrolling), but instead for providing the best results for their users in the shortest time frame possible as to not have a negative impact on their offline lives.

    You could pay so many mental health professionals and doctors if you would just have a hard cap on wealth and a 100% tax rate at that maximum cap.


  • That the U.S. tested an innovative drive technology for drones during the Nimitz incidents in 2004.

    These “UAPs” always seem to miracolously appear near US military bases, aircraft carriers and sometimes submarines, but apparently never around Europe, Africa or Asia where millions of people with phones could film them. The U.S. may have pretended to be upset, but they’re not actually interested in finding out what they are or what people could find out about them, because they did not release the footage from the helmet cameras of the pilots. They actually stayed pretty calm, so they know what it actually was: Their drones. They’re near military assets, because that’s where they’re tested and the U.S. wants to see how a military would react to these device to protect them against tactics that can detect them or bring them down before they are/were used abroad.

    So they have a drive technology that can go beyond hypersonic, is accelerating really really fast, can’t be fought with properly.

    My guess is that they keep this secret, because of the nuclear threat it poses. If any state in this world could deliver nuclear bombs in an instant, you simply couldn’t retaliate or defend in any meaningful way. Except maybe with a deeply burrowed SUNDIAL project device.

    I also read that the Ukrainians use material (especially explosives) which were buried in the former territory of the USSR by the CIA in the time window shortly after the Soviet Union collapsed to conduct some of their covert special operations inside the Russian Federation. That way you don’t have to smuggle in new stuff and the U.S. can profit from destroyed Russian military capabilities.

    My guess is that they probably did not just bury normal material there. I think the superpowers have buried several warheads underground in major cities that they can detonate at any time to immediately first strike or retaliate in case of a larger nuclear attack. Why bother with sending a ballistic hypersonic rocket that the enemy can defend against if you can just detonate the device remotely and with almost no delay?

    Oh and an algorithm based, individually tailored (to you) social media “experience” is probably the new MK ULTRA and it works much better.












  • Hopefully it is obvious why open sourcing a payment processing application with tens of millions of user and bank accounts tied into it would be highly problematic.

    It wouldn’t be. In fact, it would be a lot safer, because there are more eyes on the code. You have to control the code integration authorization process obviously.

    You might as well be demanding PayPal or Epic Games Store to be open source.

    Okay, I demand it. What now?

    There are 0 games I have that do not work on Proton.

    Well, I have 13 out of 15 games that do not work on Proton, Proton Hotfix and Proton Experimental. And none of them are multiplayer or rootkits. And as you say later, you’re on Bazzite, not Linux Mint. But of course you’re the center of the universe, so all you say must be right and universal, my lord? It’s impossible for other people to have a different experience and problems with the system, right?

    All game devs that say its too hard or impossible to make AC work on linux are incompetent or lying.

    Who gives a shit about what the devs say. For me only the end result counts. My games either run or they don’t. And currently. 15/15 run on Win11 and 2/15 on Linux Mint. That’s just how it is at the moment. That’s reality. I don’t like it either. Sorry, not sorry.

    I have absolutely no idea how you managed to screw up Waterfox,

    See, this is exactly the kind of “IT WAS YOU, MY PROGRAM IS FLAWLESS!”-behaviour of linux users that I was referencing. You’re incompetent, ignorant people who can’t admit if there is a problem with a program. The bug is/was listed on the project page by the way, but of course you were too fucking lazy to check.

    I’ve never encountered any behavior from it like what you describe as a default setting.

    Well, that doesn’t mean it’s not happening, you incompetent hack. Someone can have a motor failure or a flat tire on his car, while your car still runs fine. Doesn’t mean that’s the driver’s/user’s fault.

    It is entirely possible to work and play on either Linux Mint or Bazzite.

    You just said you only use Bazzite. So how would you fucking know whether it works on Linux Mint or not?

    With LibreOffice, yeah, you don’t get all of the proprietary Windows fonts directly out of the box, but uh, Bottles is a neat flatpak that rapidly sets up a Windows environment, with a GUI, and its a few clicks to add the ‘all fonts’ dependency, snd then voila, you have your proprietary fonts.

    Yeah, I’ve heard that “just a few clicks” bit a bit too often from linux users now. I don’t want an extra Windows environment. I want the program to fucking work natively. That’s why I’m saying that Windows is easier to use now. That you’re emphasizing the “proprietary” part just shows how fucking salty you are that it’s not integrated into LibreOffice. I’m sorry, but my law firm uses that font and that’s how it is. They’re good fonts. Not everything you don’t like is bad.

    What you almost certainly are is a jaded Windows poweruser who expects non Windows operating systems to function and be tweaked and follow the same paradigms as Windows.

    Oh my! I expect an OS to function! And to be improved! How horrible and arrogant!

    You know, I WANT TO switch to linux, because I don’t like Microsoft either. But the linux desktop environment doesn’t offer the same native functionality and comfort that I need to switch my main pcs to this OS. I don’t wanna deal with the problems. And to be honest: I don’t want to deal with people like you who blame every problem with the system or programs on the user. Keep seething. I will switch when I think the time is right.




  • That’s not about BitWarden or 1Password. That was about the password storage system integrated into Waterfox. And no, they are locally stored and relatively safe. I have used that system for 20+ years and I have never had any of my account data stolen.

    And I do actually keep them separately and on paper. Laught about it if you want to, but it’s easy and most reliable. I’ve had pc’s die on me, so I’m happy to have it that way.

    Why would you trust companies like BitWarden or 1Password? It’s the same as with EncroChat or similar services. Agencies start up a company that promises to protect your sensitive data. Then you give them your sensitive data. But they put a backdoor into their programs. So now they have all your sensitive data. I don’t know who is behind those companies so I don’t trust them. With Mozilla, that’s just an old habit and nothing of essence is in there.

    I have a different way to do it, but I’m not going to disclose it here. Just saying that in the last 25 years, not a single one of my accounts got hacked by my fault. I had 1 Ubisoft account hacked, but that was because their servers got hacked and the password was stolen from there.



  • Windows. If you do anything work related, you need to be able to use excel and word. It’s still annoying shit, but it works and it’s more stable than linux. I have tried both.

    The linux community may claim that you can “do anything” on a linux system and “make it your own”, but if you’re not a 24-year-old tech god, you actually can’t. I tried several times to go on forums and ask for help regarding certain customization changes. Sometimes I got help, but it was very complicated. Most of the time, nobody answered in those threads or if they did, they blamed me for the “problem” and wrote stuff that didn’t help at all. At some point you gotta go: Okay, this is nice and everything, but I want to play or work at some point and this is not capable of doing at least one of the two. And there is no official support.

    I tried Linux Mint Cinnamon. The promise of “games are working now on Steam/linux due to Proton compatibility overlay” are greatly exaggerated. I tried starting about 15 games and of those only 2 would even start up. If you would post on the discussion forums, other (linux?) users would just respond with “but it works for me”. Well, gosh, thanks you piece of shit, but that doesn’t help me identify or fix the problem. And trying to run Word or Excel? “Oh man, you need a virtual machine just to run that, bro! You can’t run it natively, because xhgaoohofa. Who even needs that, bro? Use LibreOffice, bro! It’s enough, bro!” It’s fucking shit. Get it running, I need to work. And your 500 shitty fonts in LibreOffice won’t convince anyone that you’re a professional. I want fucking Times New Roman and Calibri out of the box, because that’s the standard for my office work, sorry.

    Using Waterfox was a shit show. It’s faster than regular Firefox, but then it proceeded to delete all of my passwords by default every time I closed it, without asking whether I wanted to do that or not beforehand. Then I had to find the fucking hidden option to disable that. I did. But this piece of shit software has a bug. So it ignores that I selected that “hidden” option and continues to delete all my account data and passwords. And linux bros will be like: “Oh, that’s your fault, bro! Our linux programs have no bugs, bro [despite it being listed as an official bug on the fucking GitHub page - but they don’t read that]! You have to use an external password manager, bro! It’s totally safe to insert all your account data into a program from an unknown software developer without back-ups, bro!”

    I can’t even change the fucking window closing button design in linux mint without changing the theme of the entire fucking system. The buttons on there are MacOS-inspired and fucking tiny. I want easy to click big boxes like on Windows.

    I still got that linux laptop, but I rarely use it, because everything is a fucking chore or doesn’t work out of the box. The update manager - now that thing is GOOD! But I just want to set it to do update shit automatically and I can’t. So every time I use this fucking system, I have to spend my time on authorizing those fucking update installs with my password manually.

    Then there is the forking issue. There are 100000000 distros, because the developers are autistic, antisocial shitheads who don’t understand that 1 distro with more integrated customization options would be sufficient and more efficient. So they all want their own distro and create a confusing mess where nobody understands what’s happening anymore except for a few IT guys who can troubleshoot the shit they’re fabricating on a regular intervall.