I’m sure in our underwater alternate universe we’d find a way

Don’t blame the land fish. If it had stayed underwater we’d just be having meetings there.

Well, since the capitalization of Pacman is not related to the joke, I’d just like to remind everyone that Linux memes are case sensitive, just like Linux.

EDIT: or, at least, Linux nerds are sensitive about case sensitivity

It should not

Thanks for the explanation

Since I don’t get the meme I’m assuming there’s a reason Pacman is capitalized and this isn’t just low effort.

I don’t have experience with LPIC specifically but given how most industry cert exams ask things that are seldom encountered in “the real world” and often want a specific type of answer even in cases where other solutions would work, I would not take this advice.

I don’t dismiss people for using malicious software products. I just struggle to understand how they can have their eyes so open about so many things but refuse to look at this particular issue.

My local PSL announces all their events exclusively on Instagram. I brought this up at one of their meetings and they were baffled. “But where else would we make announcements?”

Maddening

If you have a Soho router already and its compatible with openwrt, use that. Otherwise, build a cheap x86 PC with 2 or more nic ports and use OPNsense. pfSense is probably not a great option anymore for reasons already outlined in other comments.

These are young anticapitalist, chronically online queers I’m talking about too.

Right! They already are familiar with being on the fringes of “normal” society, and have a lot more to gain than a “normie” from protecting their privacy, and yet they just can’t be bothered because “Matrix is too clunky” or “I just really like playing Overwatch”. My eyes can’t roll hard enough.

Perhaps. And if not that, I’m sure there are other forbidden topics there.

Just like in the West.

The difference is that the West pretends to care about free speech and even uses it as an excuse to bomb/sanction/invade other countries.

Rimworld

If those policies aren’t enforced it hardly matters. 996 is technically illegal there but last I checked some of the richest companies in China were still practicing it.

Happy to be shown evidence to the contrary, but I don’t think the plight of Chinese workers is better than Americans, and certainly not Europeans.

I bet in China you can talk about the genocide in Gaza without getting beaten, jailed, or deported.

This is a real answer

That is the most satisfying answer yet.

Sorry for soapboxing. I get a little spicy when discussing intellectual property rights.

I know its not realistic, but I just imagine how great GIMP would be if people donated just 1/20th of what they pay Adobe to the GIMP devs.

Same with LibreOffice vs Office.

We are really missing out on some potentially fantastic software so that a few people can be in the centibillionaire club and it makes me sangry

I know that’s true about more than just software, but the way to “fight back” here is so easy and low risk compared to fighting the other cartels that farm us for $$. It is as easy as not using their products and services if there is a viable alternative that respects your humanity.

Was it more difficult or just unfamiliar? Like, if you’d given it a couple of weeks maybe it would have become intuitive? Or was it just bad UX?

Fair, but why not put energy into learning to use the FOSS tools now instead of getting used to another interface that will eventually betray you?