Giving permission by saying yes to a “would you mind” question is the hill I die on. Usually I say “I would not mind” but if I’m feeling frisky I’ll say no and watch their brain melt.

It’s a nightmare to search for anything about GUID Partition Tables (GPT) now.

I’d love yearly Debian releases instead of just every 2 years.

Free (As in beer and speech!)

Do you live in a utopia where you get as much beer as you want without having to pay for it, or do you live in a dystopia where you have to pay to be able to speak your mind and only in limited quantities?

Thank you for interjecting.

In exchange, FF uses Google search by default. So they’re also getting direct value from the deal.

Assuming this story is true, Linux is going to be a nightmare for that woman. It’s come a long way, but it’s still not as dead simple as it needs to be for non-technical elderly people.

Kernel upgrades are very… Painful.

Isn’t there a way for individual users to completely hide an instance from their feed? Because I would just do that if it bothers you.

I’m not saying that some posts/instances aren’t unethical, objectively incorrect, and/or dangerous, but widespread censorship is a slippery slope. If you want what you’re able to see to be heavily controlled, there are probably other instances with that purpose. An instance that describes itself as general-purpose and for everyone probably isn’t the place for that, though.

Edit: To be clear, I don’t have a problem with an instance blocking another instance. My problem is with an instance blocking another instance while implying that they aren’t.