Tekchip

This is pretty US centric thinking. Linux doesn't have licensing. That means it's used extensively in other countries, especially poorer ones. Some countries entire governments use it. It's pretty huge in India too. Africa. Places where common folk, not IT professionals, use it but either have rough or no Internet and aren't communicating in English, especially not GitHub.

I think part of this that I'm not seeing talked about, and perhaps confused for "more tech savvy users", is just the user hostility of Windows.

9 times out of 10 when a Linux app or game crashes I get a verbose error and more often than not one that I can simply copy and paste.

9 times out of 10 when Windows, or much of windows software, crashes it gives some random number or code and in a window I can't even copy and paste out of.

My skill level doesn't change. Linux just isn't user hostile in nature making it easy to search for fixes and report issues. Where as on windows I can't summon the care or effort to manually transcribe the error so I can then do something with it.

I get the joke.

But related real talk phones get got a lot. They won't need to steal your phone they'll just hack it like every other computer on the planet.

You don't have to look much for the evidence.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/ileakage-flaw-can-prompt-apples-safari-to-expose-passwords-sensitive-data

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/samsung-galaxy-s23-hacked-twice-on-first-day-of-pwn2own-toronto/amp/

I agreed with your factual correction. I'm not sure why you're coming at me so hot.

I will maintain that while their facts may have been incorrect the intent isn't what you seem to want it to be. Of course the op of the reply we're replying to is the only one who can say.

Also, yeah, you're right no systemic change has ever been successful ever so why try. /S

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While your argument is sound it doesn't dissuade from the point the preceding argument was trying to make. Which maybe you missed, or maybe you just like to debate? Guns as they are now in this country are a big fucking problem. Anomalies are just as bad, and likely preventable, as any other thing with a higher number on some chart. Many might argue >0 is a number to large when it comes to loss of life.

Sounds like lots of folks who could take advantage of SmartTags/Airtags and the "notify when left behind" function. Tuck/Clip a tag in thing that needs to go with. Get electronically yelled at if you get to far.

Not if you install Firefox from Flatpak. ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

Flatpak steam can do all that. You just have to learn to control the flatpak sandbox. There are CLI commands of course or you can install Flatseal which is a real nice gui that lets you control the sandbox for each individual flatpak app. https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal

Just add whatever drive/directory/mount point in the filesystem path for Steam in flatseal and Steam can see it.

I don't think cheap is what they're after. Unless you mean this somehow helps their margins? Around here a 20oz soda is approaching $3 USD when just a year ago it was nearly half that. That's definitely not cheap.

As the saying goes "If you're not paying for the product you are the product."

I've been using Fastmail for years now. Worth every penny. Doesn't even come with "extras" other than a little webdav storage space.

Most email providers have free tiers. Try them!Find the one that works best for you. Pay for that.

Those two things aren't mutually exclusive. You can just stop using Gmail and still maintain a Google account to use with oauth providers.

Your mistake here is in assuming removing DRM isn't trivial. As someone who's pirated games for literal decades I have enjoyed many a DRMed game on launch day. DRM is security theater just like the chumps at the airport who routinely are found to be missing 99% of contraband.