✨Nora Tindall
honestly I almost wish I could bear to use windows for stuff bc i'm just so fucking tired of hearing people shit on the way i do computing because some people who also do that are mean
yeah man. they doxed me a while back. i know. doesn't mean i want to use windows tho????
✨Nora Tindall
"it's so annoying when {there are ads in my toolbar, my apps get uninstalled without warning, i have to update in the middle of an important moment}"
"ah well here's a thing that might solve that problem for you"
"this isn't exactly like the original thing i was using"
"yep, some of that is on purpose but some of it is being worked on. there's not a lot of funding for some aspects of it so it might take a while"
"wow i can't believe your community is so hostile to newcomers"
✨Nora Tindall
and please don't take this as me saying that there are no problems with foss, that there's nobody awful there. obviously there are, i obviously know that.
but it is me saying that like. there are only so many volunteers who can do the work necessary to get us to a place where free desktops are universally accessible, it's gonna take a while, and it remains better than the alternatives for a lot of people. i want that group of people to include you but i cannot physically drag the entire fucking loosely affiliated mass of "people who write things that are GPL licensed" in that direction.
✨Nora Tindall
and there's the avenue that's like, "why don't you make stuff _for_ the corporate desktops that's _better_ in these ways" but like
that really misses the point?? first of all I am making stuff that I want to use, so it has to at least somewhat support the shit that I use. but also like, those platforms are engineered to make that impossible!
how can i build a good free audiobooks app for iOS when it's nigh on impossible to transfer files to an iOS device without proprietary services? how can i build a Windows privacy protecting browser wrapper when the operating system steals clicks out from under the user?
yeah it sucks that we have to build our own from sticks and twine but like?????? how the fuck else are we supposed to do this??????
✨Nora Tindall
the options here are
1. don't use computer (and thus be forced out of society)
2. use proprietary stuff (and be surveilled and controlled in many small and large ways)
3. deal with the various issues of free software
and like. none of those are good options. but i do know which one i'm gonna pick!!!!!!
✨Nora Tindall
@sa2tms idk though like. just buy a thinkpad and throw ubuntu on there, you don't have to fiddle w it really?
sa2tms
@tindall the price of freedom is endless fiddling
a hivemind of packbats
@tindall *sneaking into the middle of this thread to add a "fuck Apple for making phones that enforce an app store monopoly on their users"*
(the gaming news comedy show Checkpoint was all "they're Apple's phones" about it and we don't get why - Apple sold those phones, they belong to the people the phones were sold to, aaagh)
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