FauxLiving

"Is this water warming up, or is it just me? Nah, there's a cool spot over here, this is fine."

-Chrome users

A great example of what I'm talking about.

"Disagree? You're a Nazi"

You're cheapening the word and helping them become normalized.

If I'm using VoIP, it reduces the system volume by 50%.

There isn't an option to change this in the Windows 10 UI. You have to dig through the options to find the Windows XP menu to change it. This setting no longer saves between reboots, so every time I boot I have to dig through the same 3 layers of volume settings.

Lots of network settings are unavailable in the modern settings menu. You have to find the "advanced" menu which is just the menu from older versions of Windows.

Each major system update there's a new layer of configuration menus, each with a different set of options some are redundant. They're all integrated with the system in their own unique way and the people that worked on them are not part of the team that's working on the next iteration.

They can't remove the old menus so they just add another one on top. At least in a Linux DE, you know that pipewire is the sound system and there is one way to configure it. You can choose from many different GUI applications if you want a graphical interface, but they're all editing the same configuration.

Great place, except for how far from NYC it is. I miss the days of being able to travel to NYC in less than 24 hours

The real problem is that there are crazy people who define anybody right of them as a Nazi.

But, we're not ready to have that conversation yet

It's a standard terms of service and a verbal "commitment" which isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

I'm sure you'll find the exact same wording on substack's tos.

The problem is that what social media denizens call Nazi and what Ghost and substack call Nazi are all wildly different things.

Unlike the polished experience in Windows where the UI completely changes every 5 years and there are, literally, 6 different menus for adjusting the volume because removing them literally breaks the kernel.

Oh yeah, this guy.

He couldn't have done it, he was spending that time at my house helping me move. You guys were there too, remember?

Now is not the time to sit and think of how education and whatnot should have been. Now is the time to act.

Acting in ignorance is exactly how we got here in the first place.

If you think that acting means attacking the people wearing red hats on social media then you don't understand what is happening, what the sides are and what is at stake.

You're advocating for fighting the other fools while the con man runs away with both of your money.

Because there's an entire alternate reality built by right wing news sources that exist specifically to create confusion and spread misinformation.

It used to be a joke that Fox News was so unaligned with reality. It's less funny now that there is an entire media ecosystem that supports this alternate reality.

This is why you see people thinking that Trump is a great businessman. Because according to everything that they see and hear, he is. They were never equipped with the media literacy to counteract the weaponized psychology that's used to target them with political lies and spin.

By the time any individual encounters reality in a way that is undeniable (like the ex-IRS employee) it's too late.

They're just a tiny voice in an ocean of lies. If they try to talk about their experiences on right-wing social media they'll be labeled as a left-wing plant or banned outright. The right-wing media won't cover their story or repeat their concerns. It'll continue repeating the lies and spin like it always has and that person will finally understand Martin Niemöller's poem.

Your blame is misplaced. You appear think this is the fault of random people who wear different color hats instead of the result of decades of effort by some of the richest people in our society to fundamentally weaken democracy and to create uneducated people that can be manipulated.

You're blaming the other members of your class that are the victims of decades of educational failure and indoctrination instead of the people who knowingly implemented those policies looking for this specific result.

It's a narrow minded and short-sighted way of looking at things; and, in addition, your tribalistic rhetoric only serves to increase the division among the working class further aiding the people who seek to profit from this division.

It's one thing to be frustrated, but ignorance is how we got here and we downvote you because we don't need more ignorance even if it's coming from someone wearing a blue hat instead of a red one.

New people don't realize that Linux is really a soap opera with a small software project attached.