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I bookmark subreddits and read them without logging in. Every time I feel the urge, I've got a hurdle to cross before I can type anything. Then it's immediately a "fuck it" moment and move on

Yeah but private enterprise didn't. And if commercial, Leo can buy it without a warrant

Thank the good Lord, I get so bothered when I see a woman's ankles.

His name is Andy.

Agreed - for someone moving from Windows / Mac, the immutables and flatpak are the way to go now. It's going to take a bit for the Ubuntu / Mint crowd to change their song. Bazzite in particular is a huge olive branch to the gamers. Even for someone who is "tinkering" learning distrobox and/or flatseal can enable most things you would ever want to tinker with on a desktop. If you are really developing something, chances are that you use containers or a VM anyway.

I have to concur on flatpaks though: they have room for improvement. More validation / trust is needed, and the options are wide open. For non-technical users, the *surety and security *isn't necessarily on par with the app stores of Microsoft, Apple & Google - though the experience is getting there.

Mass adoption won't come easily. People treat social media just like broadcast and print mass media: they want to follow big names and brands. It's a change in mindset looking for niche communities instead. Look at Bluesky, it didn't really take off until big Twitter accounts moved and brought their minions with them.

Using computers since before GUI was available... Sometimes I think we ought to go back to it

It's all about the instance. For the Lemmy instance I chose I had to write a few sentences. For mastodon I had to provide a picture of my SubGenius pastor card. I intentionally picked ones that had requirements.

The D.U.M.B. conspiracy is a jolly good read as you browse the interweb. Evidently we have nuclear powered boring machines that just melt away the earth leaving glassy walls.

If you had installed bazzite those kids would worship you

I sick of the red state garbage. Nearly every "red" state has "blue" cities. Stop blaming entire populations, age groups or other demographics. You're just falling for the divide and conquer message they want to use against everyone.

Sorry hon - you've hit your doll quota.