fedi techbro starter pack:
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@mynameistillian hashtag not all arch users /j
@navi @mynameistillian not all Arch users but it’s always a fucking Arch user
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fedi techbro starter pack:
- white man
- Name Surname, face as profile picture
- flag of any major global north entity in nickname, but usually eu or usa
- Writes like this.
- "we gotta do better as the community. anyway, *racial slur*"
- thinks he can undo decades of systemic oppression with a fancy app
- calls anybody he dislikes hysterical
- "oh, <bad thing done to minorities> happens? huh. I DID NOT SEE IT THOUGH."
- if you use windows, to him you're worse than hitler[adds "Mastodon For Biden/Harris/Newsom/Some Other Gross Neolib PoS" hashtag]
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- yells at anyone still using Windows
- yells at anyone that uses Linux Mint
- yells at anyone who requires accessibility tools that actually work
- doesn't even use alt text
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fedi techbro starter pack:
- white man
- Name Surname, face as profile picture
- flag of any major global north entity in nickname, but usually eu or usa
- Writes like this.
- "we gotta do better as the community. anyway, *racial slur*"
- thinks he can undo decades of systemic oppression with a fancy app
- calls anybody he dislikes hysterical
- "oh, <bad thing done to minorities> happens? huh. I DID NOT SEE IT THOUGH."
- if you use windows, to him you're worse than hitler@mynameistillian both looks like and has the personality of sandwich bread is a missing criteria there
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fedi techbro starter pack:
- white man
- Name Surname, face as profile picture
- flag of any major global north entity in nickname, but usually eu or usa
- Writes like this.
- "we gotta do better as the community. anyway, *racial slur*"
- thinks he can undo decades of systemic oppression with a fancy app
- calls anybody he dislikes hysterical
- "oh, <bad thing done to minorities> happens? huh. I DID NOT SEE IT THOUGH."
- if you use windows, to him you're worse than hitler@mynameistillian Also, "I'm not political" or something along the lines of "no politics, it's just a code" which seems to be a dogwistle for no politics other than the *right* one.
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@mynameistillian@plush.city As a Windows hater with rather educated grammar, uh, not all of us are bad.
@flesh @mynameistillian you can hate Windows without hating people for having to use it. The former is anti-capitalist, the latter is anti- people who don't have the privilege of choosing their desktop environment (or have to choose based on factors like accessibility, and can't find a single Linux distro that's actually accessible to them). There's a world of difference there imo, as another Certified Windows Hater myself
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@flesh @mynameistillian you can hate Windows without hating people for having to use it. The former is anti-capitalist, the latter is anti- people who don't have the privilege of choosing their desktop environment (or have to choose based on factors like accessibility, and can't find a single Linux distro that's actually accessible to them). There's a world of difference there imo, as another Certified Windows Hater myself
@raphaelmorgan @flesh @mynameistillian yep, I'm stuck using Windows because linux accessibility is somewhere between 'trash' and 'nope'
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@flesh @mynameistillian you can hate Windows without hating people for having to use it. The former is anti-capitalist, the latter is anti- people who don't have the privilege of choosing their desktop environment (or have to choose based on factors like accessibility, and can't find a single Linux distro that's actually accessible to them). There's a world of difference there imo, as another Certified Windows Hater myself
@raphaelmorgan @flesh @mynameistillian microsoft is easily one of the most evil companies in world history and the hitler comparison is strange to hear from a professed anti-fascist. certainly the building of data centers on Black burial grounds tends to be less well-known but its centrality in the technical infrastructure of israeli genocide and conquest is thoroughly documented.
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@raphaelmorgan @flesh @mynameistillian microsoft is easily one of the most evil companies in world history and the hitler comparison is strange to hear from a professed anti-fascist. certainly the building of data centers on Black burial grounds tends to be less well-known but its centrality in the technical infrastructure of israeli genocide and conquest is thoroughly documented.
@raphaelmorgan @flesh @mynameistillian and @dwaynemonroe in particular has produced a youtube series with a materialist analysis of microsoft and windows in relation to the capitalist mode of societal organization which is much further off from this conception of "tech bro" than OP lets on https://youtube.com/watch?v=VABFg40a-pY
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@raphaelmorgan @flesh @mynameistillian and @dwaynemonroe in particular has produced a youtube series with a materialist analysis of microsoft and windows in relation to the capitalist mode of societal organization which is much further off from this conception of "tech bro" than OP lets on https://youtube.com/watch?v=VABFg40a-pY
@hipsterelectron @raphaelmorgan @flesh @dwaynemonroe i appreciate that you care. those are real things. the problem is however the software i need (and trained to use) for my college work and other stuff isn't yet available on linux platforms and attempts to run it have so far proven futile. i am not a fan of windows, but i can't ditch it right now as of yet. if it is of any consolation i don't pay for anything microsoft does, i pirated that stuff and torn away all telemetry.
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@hipsterelectron @raphaelmorgan @flesh @dwaynemonroe i appreciate that you care. those are real things. the problem is however the software i need (and trained to use) for my college work and other stuff isn't yet available on linux platforms and attempts to run it have so far proven futile. i am not a fan of windows, but i can't ditch it right now as of yet. if it is of any consolation i don't pay for anything microsoft does, i pirated that stuff and torn away all telemetry.
@hipsterelectron @raphaelmorgan @flesh @dwaynemonroe and the issue is the problem that linux techbros on here (note i say techbros specifically, not regular foss folk) act like the mere act of using linux or even linux distros they consider good makes them a better layer of society than others.
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@raphaelmorgan @flesh @mynameistillian and @dwaynemonroe in particular has produced a youtube series with a materialist analysis of microsoft and windows in relation to the capitalist mode of societal organization which is much further off from this conception of "tech bro" than OP lets on https://youtube.com/watch?v=VABFg40a-pY
@raphaelmorgan @flesh @mynameistillian to some extent it seems worth considering whether reclaiming the capacity for critical analysis of technology from the excessive toxicity of the tech bros OP correctly denigrates would be a better use of time than recounting the many well-known issues that lead many servers to protect their users by fediblocking. one reason to motivate this is that these tech bros who denigrate the political valence of software tend to retain immense power and control of software projects like the rust programming language, whose code of conduct limits queer expression and whose governance structure protects racists
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@hipsterelectron @raphaelmorgan @flesh @dwaynemonroe and the issue is the problem that linux techbros on here (note i say techbros specifically, not regular foss folk) act like the mere act of using linux or even linux distros they consider good makes them a better layer of society than others.
@hipsterelectron @raphaelmorgan @flesh @dwaynemonroe i eventually will transition to using linux or minimize my use of windows, but this process isn't always easy, as much as i wish it was. especially given i am not skilled when it comes to tech
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@raphaelmorgan @flesh @mynameistillian to some extent it seems worth considering whether reclaiming the capacity for critical analysis of technology from the excessive toxicity of the tech bros OP correctly denigrates would be a better use of time than recounting the many well-known issues that lead many servers to protect their users by fediblocking. one reason to motivate this is that these tech bros who denigrate the political valence of software tend to retain immense power and control of software projects like the rust programming language, whose code of conduct limits queer expression and whose governance structure protects racists
@raphaelmorgan @flesh @mynameistillian and @freya's post https://social.highenergymagic.net/@freya/116325731377916208 is absolutely why acceding that critical space to people who consider empathy a weakness is a recipe to enable further harm. instead of rejecting windows for being icky, we can make it better and empower people who are forced to use it to varying degrees and through various forms of anticompetitive behavior
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@hipsterelectron @raphaelmorgan @flesh @dwaynemonroe i eventually will transition to using linux or minimize my use of windows, but this process isn't always easy, as much as i wish it was. especially given i am not skilled when it comes to tech
@hipsterelectron @raphaelmorgan @flesh @dwaynemonroe FWIW i am aware of the issues you describe, i am not trying to attack the materialist criticism here but moreso the holier-than-thou toxicity prevalent
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@raphaelmorgan @flesh @mynameistillian and @freya's post https://social.highenergymagic.net/@freya/116325731377916208 is absolutely why acceding that critical space to people who consider empathy a weakness is a recipe to enable further harm. instead of rejecting windows for being icky, we can make it better and empower people who are forced to use it to varying degrees and through various forms of anticompetitive behavior
@raphaelmorgan @flesh @mynameistillian @freya many criticisms of windows apply to linux too. i really don't fuck with juxtapositions of adolf hitler with criticism of windows or (as morgan describes) generally conflating criticism of windows with windows users. the conflation of windows with its users is worth writing an entire book about
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@raphaelmorgan @flesh @mynameistillian @freya many criticisms of windows apply to linux too. i really don't fuck with juxtapositions of adolf hitler with criticism of windows or (as morgan describes) generally conflating criticism of windows with windows users. the conflation of windows with its users is worth writing an entire book about
@hipsterelectron @raphaelmorgan @flesh @mynameistillian ngl, hot take but I actually *like* windows. I'm running Enterprise IoT LTSC debloated, and it's actually pretty nice. I( have never seen an ad, or a weird AI thing, or anything
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@hipsterelectron @raphaelmorgan @flesh @mynameistillian ngl, hot take but I actually *like* windows. I'm running Enterprise IoT LTSC debloated, and it's actually pretty nice. I( have never seen an ad, or a weird AI thing, or anything
@freya @hipsterelectron @raphaelmorgan @flesh @mynameistillian mhm, this one is using IoT enterp-.LTSC as well, albeit for GPU Passthrough VM, and that is.. usable :3 -
@freya @hipsterelectron @raphaelmorgan @flesh @mynameistillian mhm, this one is using IoT enterp-.LTSC as well, albeit for GPU Passthrough VM, and that is.. usable :3
@0x0cb9d119 @hipsterelectron @raphaelmorgan @mynameistillian @flesh I think a *lot* of the windows issues only exist if you're sighted
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@raphaelmorgan @flesh @mynameistillian @freya many criticisms of windows apply to linux too. i really don't fuck with juxtapositions of adolf hitler with criticism of windows or (as morgan describes) generally conflating criticism of windows with windows users. the conflation of windows with its users is worth writing an entire book about
@hipsterelectron @raphaelmorgan @flesh @freya i literally got called a nazi because i didn't like vivaldi's instance, so i don't think this comparison is off the charts that much. but i also wasn't aiming my sights against valid criticism of windows. i was aiming at attitudes
