It’s incredible seeing this shit over and over, specially in a place like Lemmy, where the people are supposed to be thinking outside the box, and being used to stuff which is less mainstream, like Linux, or, well, the fucking fediverse.

Lemmy is just an opensource reddit, with all the pros and cons

No, just cringe. The pope died of cringe.

Based Francis

nah, people are talking about what he said years ago. He didn’t say anything recently (or at least, not that I know of)

I feel that the original quote “better a pig than a fascist” is more relevant and important these days than this take

This is wrong. Google will now share Android code after each new Android release, instead of releasing over time in real time. This is not uncommon in open source projects.

I’m not defending, or claiming that they won’t try to make Android closed source eventually in the future, but right now what you said isn’t correct

A one-week boycott is completely ineffective by design.

Amazon’s executives aren’t sweating over losing a week of your business. They’re a trillion-dollar company that thinks in quarters and years, not days. They’ll gladly wait out this symbolic week of inconvenience.

The moment you put an expiration date on your boycott, you’ve surrendered all leverage. They have zero incentive to change anything because they know you’ll be back ordering Prime deliveries next Monday.

Real - actual - boycotts work by creating genuine economic pressure that forces companies to reconsider their practices. They require commitment, not just temporarily pausing your shopping habits.

Emphasis on >habits<, because we’re not talking about political parties, it’s a shop. A humongous shop for sure, but still a shop, and you can buy what you want from other places.

If you want to actually impact Amazon, you need to be willing to walk away indefinitely until they address your concerns. Otherwise, it’s just performative.

That’s so stupid. Boycott only works if it’s indefinite, because you want the company to try to win you back.

If you say that you are coming back, what exactly are you expecting to happen? They’ll change nothing because you already said that you are coming back

I’m under the impression that the idea of an unified EU army is that they would be able to act independently in case of an attack, no need for votes or bureaucracy.

If that’s not the case, then yeah that’s a problem

A situation where Russia invades EU and US immediately after invades greenland, no longer looks so impossible to me

Better to suck Putin’s cock than to have a female president

We were? I wasn’t

bad translation btw. In portuguese we say “sistema operativo”, thus the error

Ahh my bad, bad translation

It’s the thing that lets you do the things in your electronic thing

My dad has a bunch of old friends that elected me to be their tech support, which makes me have to explain the basics of the basics most of the time. Trust me when I say that a lot of people in these forums have no idea how tech illiterate some people are.

I had a situation years ago where an old guy asked me to reset his android phone. I - unfortunately - complied because I made the mistake of trusting that he knew what he was asking, so I just made sure everything was backed up on his cloud. Result: he lost access to his photos, numbers, etc because he had no idea that he had a gmail account associated to his phone. Fortunately, his daughter knew and remembered the password so he recovered them.

Another situation I had with another guy was having to explain why stremio wouldn’t work on his iphone while his friends (with androids) could use it. Without going into details, he didn’t know what an “OS” was.

Let me repeat it because it’s relevant to this post: the guy didn’t know what an Operative System was. And he’s hardly alone.

In these kind of tech forums, I found that a lot of users don’t truly grasp how tech illiterates can be (and sometimes confuse that for lack of intelligence, but that’s another discussion). It’s hard for them to understand how most people don’t care what OS they are running. A lot of people will continue to use Windows 10 and not care they don’t receive more updates, as far as they are concerned, it still works and lets them do their stuff.

In Portugal, it appears as “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)”

Long story short, there were two main issues that people had with Epic:

• they made exclusivity a thing inside pc platform (this was the main issue for most people)
• Tim Sweeney is generally disliked

The first issue speaks for itself. The second needs a bit more context.

Tim Sweeney has an history of being arbitrary. One year he says one thing, the next another. Relevant to this case, Tim was openly against PC gaming back in the day, while Valve was pushing for PC gaming. We’re talking around 2010, where console gaming was predominant, most publisher favored consoles against PC. Valve at the time was one of the few companies betting on the PC platform.

Now, he’s suddenly pro PC gaming. People see this as him doing a 180, and trying to take the spoils from Valve’s work.

Then there were also some comments that he made that aged like milk, but generally speaking this is why people take an issue with Epic but not Steam

This sub is delusional

This meme says:

• windows 8 somehow is more beloved than Windows 10 (lmao)
• linux is just one single OS, instead of an agglomerate of hundreds of distributions
• and implies that every single one of them got better with time (lmao)

Who made this meme forgot about android lol

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