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  • OboTheHobo@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlI like a good UX
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    1 year ago

    First off, you say the rest of us. Do you support lemmy financially yourself? (Genuine question, not trying to call you our or anything)

    But that same thing can be said about all open-source software. I don’t fully get your point. The reason the whole sync thing feels wrong to me is just because all that expensive fancy stuff, whether server hosting or the framework and protocol itself, isn’t the service you’re paying for. All that is free for the end user. Paying for essentially just the UI seems odd. It’d be like having a desktop environment for Linux that’s paid only.











  • The only argument for piracy being bad is that it is stealing because they lost a sale they would have otherwise gotten. You already bought the game. Therefore, there is no lost sale. There’s not a single moral argument against it now.

    That being said, your ISP can’t tell the difference, so make sure you use a VPN (especially if torrenting)





  • Windows kept annoying me. Somewhat ironically, the last straw for me was right after I tried linux for the first time using a live usb. Upon trying to go back into windows, BitLocker locked me out for changing secure boot settings. I thought, no problem, I’ll go online and get my recovery key. I go online to discover there’s no bitlocker recovery key. After some investigation, I found out if your OneDrive is locked down (for me because I went over my storage limit, something that only happened because windows insists on uploading all of your personal files to onedrive) you can’t get your recovery keys. I deleted the stuff but had to wait a full day before onedrive was unlocked and I got my recovery keys.

    So, in summary, windows locked me out of my computer that I own because I tried another OS, then didn’t give me the option to unlock my device because I used too much storage in the cloud service they made me use. No thanks, I’d rather have control over the device I paid for and I own rather than it being controlled by some massive corporation.

    And I gotta say, when you actually learn how to interface with your device on a deeper level, having complete control over everything is super nice. Also, the unix-style command line makes way more sense and is far easier to learn than the windows command line IMO. While a lot of newer Linux distros don’t need you to use the console, it is really nice to know how for more advanced usage.