Looked it up and apparently that quote was from 2001, and it was specifically about GPL code infecting their precious intellectual properly. Does sound like classic Ballmer though!

Which billion dollar companies hate Linux? The likes of Microsoft and Google actively contribute to it and make money from it!

There was a comment thread in one of the Linux communities a while back talking about this mindset. Obviously the comments got a bit rude and unconstructive, but the point is that you can switch to something like bazzite now and most things will work pretty well, but if you’re holding out until it’s perfect then you’ll be waiting forever!

I think Summit can do it too

Lemmy can be as simple if not simpler than that:

1. “Hey, Lemmy is a bit like Reddit, have a look at <link to your instance>”
   • they can have a browse, no download required
2. If they want to join, enter email, username, and password
3. Verification email

Na don’t worry, I raised an issue and the developer confirmed it was a bug, so you did everything right, no need to post the link twice!

I guess it’s still true if you want to get that perfect Arch install, but I’d imagine most people still saying that now had a bad experience many years ago and are unaware of how simple and smooth it can be nowadays.

I was about to say “what article?” because this is just an image post, but then I opened this in the web ui and apparently there’s a linked post that my client isn’t showing!

Defed Investigator seems pretty useful

Exactly, this feels like one of those things you see in politics where someone claims that because one group is slightly bad then they’re just as bad as the incredibly bad obviously evil alternative. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good, and don’t get the doomers drag you down to their level!

CEO being an idiot but not the end of the world that everyone seems to think

I use whatever the machine gives me when I type vi, I assume it’s usually vim

I think you’re looking for [email protected]

[email protected]

Typing it starting with an @ doesn’t resolve for me but [email protected] does

Probably a technical consideration (like what if they have an edit timestamp which would allow a dedicated person to find all the comments unlinked at the exact same time), a personal consideration (what if you actually want that information purged as thoroughly as possible), and a legal consideration (sounds like it violates the GDPR)

Data privacy (the “right to be forgotten”) I’d say is the main reason. Say you realise that you’ve built up a little to much linkable information about yourself over the years and don’t want it readily available for whoever might want to make use of it.

Interesting idea, but how do you decide on what the universally-agreed on reactions are? Have too many and they may as well just be comments!

I’ve tried KDE Plasma Mobile on an old Surface Pro and it seemed to work better than Gnome

I remember that being a problem back on Reddit (though I always found people upvoting low-effort stuff that wasn’t community/sub-appropriate to be more of a problem). It’s kind of a site-wide UX issue though really, if a new casual user is just presented with a list of posts then they might genuinely be unaware of (or perhaps just uninterested in) where they came from and what their votes mean.