Well, my ISP doesn’t need to know anything about my posts. And the fediverse doesn’t need to know who I am beyond “growingentropy,” so…
Well, my ISP doesn’t need to know anything about my posts. And the fediverse doesn’t need to know who I am beyond “growingentropy,” so…
Did you just do the “if you don’t have anything to hide, what’s the big deal” move?
I want privacy. That’s all.
No idea. I installed a VPN on my router to get privacy. That’s all I ask.
I have a router with a VPN. I’m not disabling that just to post on lemmy.world.
I got off lemmy.world because they block VPN connections. Not happening, under any circumstances. I don’t trust anyone that much.
Yes, absolutely. We should all be concerned with the source of our ideas and even our memes, as dumb of a concept as that is.
The repercussion to bad speech and ideas is inherent to the current paradigm of the internet: downvotes and ostracization.
Maybe they will wind up on their own forum saying despicable shit, but they were probably going to do that anyway. Bad ideas love a vacuum away from prying eyes and outsiders.
I’m just going to throw in a bit at the end of this thread here, as I find the conversation fascinating.
This is how fascism starts. “We have to control speech for your own good” becomes “hateful speech comes from [insert group]” becomes “we have to stop them.”
We are all being weaponized by the internet. Free speech is important. You don’t fight fascism with more fascism, you fight it with better ideas.
The last paragraph is vital. Grab a flatpak of any software you need to be more up to date. Flatpaks running on Debian are amazing. Current software running on a stable base.
I have yet to meet the random animal that I dislike more than the average human.
Yes, absolutely. But I also wouldn’t want to. GUI tools have their issues sometimes. The command line is basically raw compute power.
I can’t wait for some new bargain Linux machines.
My coworker does graphic design, and he paid $8k for his Mac laptop.
I honestly don’t know if there’s anything I could order in a Windows/Linux laptop that would add up to $8k.
I get great performance out of my $90 eBay laptop running Debian, by the way.
Buying a Mac didn’t help.
I was team VLC for certain things it could do, and then I found that MPV could do all those things and more. Crazy how versatile it is.
I just can’t believe it’s gonna be these two losers again. This is our best and brightest?
Lame.
I think he was being as glib as the person he was responding to, to mirror the “Biden or fascism” dynamic.
Wow, dude. Get back to your echo chamber. You’re brittle and shrill outside of it.