The problem is that they see people hating the torment nexus and then they assume it must be because they didn’t market it correctly.

Like "oh I guess they don’t like it because they can’t share it, let’s add a suffering multiplexer so they can enjoy it with friends and family^*

_{*⠀for⠀a⠀small**⠀fee}

_{**⠀might⠀not⠀be⠀small}

I’m so glad I never gave any serious amount of money to Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo.

Or the Steam Deck/all the handhelds that support Linux/SteamOS

It’s yet another distro being shilled by god knows who on YouTube and other social media.

The fact that it’s being pushed so hard without anything of note about it is already suspicious to me.

The more I think about it the less I see them as victims, and more as irresponsible with important data.

It’s hard to feel sorry for these non profits even if it the data loss is a tragedy. It’s been years of people screaming that this kind of shit could happen. That not accepting the pain of early adoption of open source software would lead to the extreme pain of being locked out arbitrarily.

In my experience even one of the platforms with moronic developers eventually fixed their Firefox support. I dunno if the surge in Linux users had anything to do with it or not, or if it was because I would browser there, make my payments fail then switch to the Falkon browser every single time.

This only applies when you are talking about comparable things (E.g. two pieces of for-profit software that do the same thing). If they don’t seem to be the same thing, then you actually have to explain how would it happen if you want to be taken seriously.

Specially when we have examples of companies trying to tighten control over GPL software immediately getting forked and having to backtrack

The actually funny part is that they can’t. Most of the bloatware is not available on Linux because it doesn’t support it.

Having deleted my account recently I’m not so sure anymore. Before I left, a lot of comments lacked coherence, and many were in the wrong language. I think the bots are finally outnumbering the real users for specific communities.

It’s actually a bit infuriating after a decade of tech savvy people screaming that any data given to these corporations was eventually going to be used for something they wouldn’t like. This isn’t some unforseen consequence.