“We’ve been trying to resolve this for over a month, and getting nowhere. Support is non-existent,” Windscribe said in its post. “Anyone know a human with a brain that still works at Microsoft and can help?”

Microslop. The word is Microslop, for reasons you have just experienced first-hand.

To be fair, he and his government have been working tirelessly for this. They've been

• lying about the necessity of new debt (then immediately taking up unprecedented amounts of it)
• promising reforms that never came
• calling the working part of the population lazy bums, all the while preparing tax breaks that will disproportionally benefit large companies and the top 10%
• fucking up and slowing down the transition towards renewables amid yet another fossil fuel energy crisis
• copying the disgusting populism of the far right all the while claiming to be trying to contain them (instead of doing the obvious and initiating a constitutional review of the party by the Supreme Court)

What annoys me more than the man himself is the fact that everyone paying even a modicum of attention could have seen this coming from a mile away. And they voted for his party anyway.

Good. Enshittify some more so more people will be driven towards adblocking frontends such as NewPipe and FreeTube. Eat big tech's bandwidth, but starve them of any revenue.

Quiet piggy! You don't have the cards. Also, have you ever said 'thank you'?

The security of your phone is a concern to surveillance fanatics.

Time for a slap on the wrist, that'll teach 'em!

"Apple News underrepresents made-up "news", according to - checks notes - this study we've made up."

Enough has been said about the dogshit company doing this. That's a lost cause. At this point, you know what you're signing up for if you're getting in bed with Meta. In a sane world, the company should crash and burn - but yet it doesn't. So what's wrong with the people who still use Meta's services? What's wrong with the people still willing to work at this dumpster fire? They're a part of the problem.

"Exploit" is a weird way of spelling "backdoor", but ok.

"Corruption" is the word you were looking for.

To be fair, I don't trust European companies with it either. As the saying goes: "Where there's a trough, there will be pigs." Want to keep your data safe? Keep it.

I'm a simple man. I see Cory, I upvote. Then I read the text.

I see couch boy has shifted his business from killing papacies to killing presidencies. Here's hoping he'll do it at home, too.

Rapist mentality all the way. How fitting they're all either owners of or owned by to the rapist in the White House.

Please do not recommend Arch-based distros to newcomers. At some point, something minor or major is going to break, and they're not going to be able to fix it. Give them something Debian-based to learn the ropes (or not). It's not going to break down on them as easily.

Just like your "opponents" are over-generalising, you're deliberately picking the most extreme examples to make your argument. (Batocera as a daily driver - you know that's what Hanna Montana Linux is for!)

My Linux axioms are: for most new users...

1. choice of DE is most noticeable and decides whether they like their initial experience.
2. choice of base distro family does matter a lot in the long run (Debian-based vs. Arch-based vs. Redhat-based); if you stay inside the same family (e.g. Pop!OS vs. Ubuntu vs. Zorin vs. Mint), choice matters a lot less (and DE is most impactful, c.f. point one).
3. choosing a distro with specialised security hardening (immutable systems, Nix, Qubes, Bazzite) does matter; most of these will make new users unhappy or even question their sanity.

Where you are right: yes, the choices embedded within these three axioms do matter a lot and are noticeable, so it is helpful to have an experienced user recommend a distro to you when starting out.

Where the "distro don't matter" people are right: there are a lot less choices to be made than meets the eye. Effectively, it can be boiled down to three.

Ich bin gespannt, auf welche deplatzierte Weise es dem Fotzenfritz auch dieses Mal wieder gelingen wird, eine Debatte über Regierungsversagen umzumünzen in ein "die Ausländer sind Schuld".

Ich bin offen für eure Vorschläge: Inwiefern könnten "die Ausländer" Schuld am Zustand der Bahn sein?

Just another day in the life of an enshittificator.

Corporations like Amazon are a scourge. Switch to free and open formats, software and hardware. Ditch what you can. Hack and pirate what you must. Starve big tech.