You do realize that most or at least the main Lemmy devs are from .ml

And it’s not like it’s going to be much better depending where you live in a lot of countries that are democracies(itself not so great under capitalism). Like what happened in the USA can happen and did happen in other countries to especially where fascist and authoritarian tendencies are on the rise.

This Perspektive also ignores bigger causes like media companies, systems of opression, political campaigns, lobbying groups and we’ll people in power protecting their interests as well as the state, that can form and influence what becomes public opinion. And we’ll far right fascist groups and their billionaires building this up for quite a while now.

Point being these developments are complicated and blaming the average American for trump’s victory ignores the larger picture especially when you see people from Europe calling Americans stupid and thinking that an authoritarian takeover could never happen here in western eurooe. To that where just a few years behind but it is a very real possibility.

But that doesn’t mean that people who did not vote for him or literally could not vote in the first place are irrelevant. Or what about the people who are actively resisting?

You do realize that there are people who did not vote for him?

Idk pies? very creative of me I know /s

How fucking distasteful is that cover of the article

yeah I get that for my laptop it works out just fine. however for my pc I use bazzite as it has an nvidia gpu.

overall thats a good point and definitly something people should consider.

I mean I alredy have As my vpn provider has no flatpak

For my Laptop I wanted to stick with the basics and go from there so I didnt really checket wether there where any distros based of off kinoite or silverblue. I want to use only packages I need. I guess aurora bazzite etc would remove the fedora flatpaks out of the box which would have saved maybe 5 minutes vut either way I dont want to install derivatives from derivatives etc. for example mint or cachy(I know these have different bases the point is I want to stick to the source as close as possible)

Now on my pc on the other hand I just installed bazitte because I do play video games on it.

*why

Funnily enough I also used Ubuntu studio when I was distro hopping a lot more a year ago

I use fish via konsole however I still use bash as my login shell for stability reasons.

I think with any alternative to big tech the problem is most people are really unwilling to change their habits and make short term compromises. A lot of people know on a surface level that big tech is stealing their data etc. But actually changing their habits goes to far.

Another issue is that its more or less a systemic issue.

To many people aren’t even awear of what FOSS even is. The state of Foss and is a bit complicated where you do have organizations and activists advocating for it but also gigantic corporations that use Foss technology and exploit the free labor that goes into it.

There definitely needs to be more activism for FOSS technology and alternatives to big tech. And those alternatives should be open to everyone like Linux is. Of course there are always multiple reasons why something isn’t used but I do think it is important to look at a bigger perspective than individual consumer/ in this case users

*capitalism/colonialism

I guess the sidebar thing is becoming a trend in browser with even regular firefox implementing an option to have it.

Floorp maybe? not really shure but it is quite customizable.

yes waterfox still exists

I love what postmarket os is doing. I hope it will be daily drivable in a few years.

100% agree

ill check it out

this is totally how i would write stories if I ever came to writing