You lose me at stolen. If we are talking code anyway.

For projects I am involved with all irc chats are archived and searchable. There is nothing private, no registration needed and searchable.

Quite a bit different.

It only is if you want it to be. Subscribe to what you like and that isn’t your will see if you only view those things.

Use scaled as a sort occasionally to see other posts in your subscriptions. I switch back and forth.

At the same time: the world is crazy now. There is a lot of push to take away things like platforms like this. People are trying to push opinions and people are scared.

“You lefties”. Thanks for letting me know you have an agenda and are ignorant.

And since you keep bringing it up, what is the history of the kill the white man song, why is it important, and how does it relate today? You keep saying it, so back it up big guy.

I get where you are coming from, but I wanted to put that out there. Not for the person I was calling bullshit on, but for everyone else reading this.

You are right though. The only way to get through to anyone is to get them to prove their point of view. Proofs just make them argue in new ways and never learn anything.

I guess I will leave this up as it is done already, but take what you said into consideration for the future.

Ok so here are the rules:

(a) where the land is not being used and the owner’s main purpose is not to develop the land or use it to generate income, but to benefit from appreciation of its market value;

(b) where an organ of state holds land that it is not using for its core functions and is not reasonably likely to require the land for its future activities in that regard, and the organ of state acquired the land for no consideration;

© notwithstanding registration of ownership in terms of the Deeds Registries Act, 1937 (Act No. 47 of 1937), where an owner has abandoned the land by failing to exercise control over it despite being reasonably capable of doing so;

(d) where the market value of the land is equivalent to, or less than, the present value of direct state investment or subsidy in the acquisition and beneficial capital improvement of the land.

In other words, land can be seized without compensation if the owner is not using it, and is rather just waiting for property values to rise in order to sell at a profit.

Yeah sounds horrible.

How is this a genocide?

Stop spreading the bullshit.

Also, you might want to at least consider south African history and who was really fucked for a long time under Apartheid before spouting your crap.

Yeah the block and ban thing these days is really weird.

If someone is harassing you, then I guess it makes sense. But otherwise why do people do that?

Back in the day I just assumed everyone was lying. Or trying to get people worked up, and we called them trolls.

Learning how to ignore the trolls, and not having trust for strangers on the internet, coupled with the ability to basically not care what random people said is a lost art.

Somehow people forgot to give other the people this memo, including the “you don’t fucking join social networks as your self”. Anonymity makes this all work.

Eternal September newbies just didn’t get it.

Nothing better to do then this?

Trying to decide who gets to have a government approved contract for the thing people are going to do anyways?

What a bunch of do nothing waste of time assholes.

There is no problem. Yes, they pretty much are consistent distro to distro. Desktop to Desktop is a bit different but not by much.

My grandparents have had a much easier time with Linux than Windows. Both environments would be confusing to look up if something goes wrong. Fortunately since linux packages are updated together, not much goes wrong. Cant say that for windows. Stuff is always popping up and asking questions and changing.

Why is this repeated over and over on Lemmy? It is nonsense.

There is a button. You don’t need the terminal any more or less than any other OS. Yes people give advice with commands. They are not magic nor arcane, but it is so much easier to tell you to do a command than 20 pages of diagrams and drawings on how to use the gui to do the same thing.

That makes more sense. Thank you for the context.

Lol what? Linux servers are still dominant in market share.

There it is again. That term “gatekeeping”. I see it here so damn often, but nobody ever can back up the claim.

You are saying: people are actively trying to make things difficult to use in order to keep people out? Can you give me an example? Has anyone in the fediverse rejected YOUR proposal to improve anything? Pull requests made and denied?

Ever consider that it is not gatekeeping, but the lack of millions of dollars on advertising and venture capital that makes people think anything else is easy to use? Instagram and Facebook are MUCH harder to join and MUCH harder to curate for anything useful, and keep some sanity on your privacy, but nobody complains about them.

I am being disingenuous? You make a very bold claim that people are “gatekeeping” open source software. You then claim that everything in Linux outside of web browsing requires the command line. I am completely serious.

All I am asking you to do is back up those claims.

Either you have a specific gripe that should be addressed, or you are just spreading bullshit online or trolling. Which one is it?

Having to do most real things besides browsing the internet via command line on 2025

What are these “most things”? I haven’t had to use the command line on this laptop I am typing on since I got it a year ago. Files, music, shares, my own cloud storage on s3, photo editing, etc? What are “most things” to you?

And even if it was “most things” you are not showing an example of gatekeeping. Give me an example, such as you submitting a pull request for a GUI for a current command line only “most things” that was rejected.

Can you show me an example of gatekeeping in this space? I am not sure that word means what you think it means.

I mean it is open source, ANYONE can create a different UI and fork the code, which is drastic but an option.

Are you saying you have submitted UI improvements as pull requests to several projects and had them tell you they would not merge due to a desire to keep the UI the way they designed it?

I am not downplaying the phone spying on me, I imagine it is.

But ads are the least of my concerns. I see less ads now than at any other time in my life.

So how do I know if it is happening to me?

And sadly now I have to watch a video. Wouldn’t step by step instructions be quicker and more effective? Yes. They were. Now it’s some video wasting my time.

Not sure that is a great example.

You are right. I forgot we were talking about a web front end, and I was think of an application. I take it back.

I am just so used to watching you tube with applications on desktop and mobile I forgot we were talking about you tubes new web front end.