What I’m suggesting is that if we’re going to pretend that consumers are never victims of company practices, then emeralddawn specifically should never, ever, ever complain about shrinkflation. Or $80 video games, as far as I’m concerned.
But who knows. Perhaps they don’t.
Getting around people’s lack of willingness is the only way the year of the linux desktop will ever happen.
Like with global warming, people can just choose not to, you know.
“Uh, I bought my computer from Alienware. I don’t know what a GPU is.”
You aren’t being paid to give IT advice either.
The thing I love about linux people is their inability to abstract or do any kind of analysis.
— Me to somebody complaining about their depression.
I would like to imagine you say these same things every single time grocery store packaging gets a little bit smaller.
This makes you sound like a Jehova’s witness.
The main problem is that linux people are politically linux people, their morals and identity are strongly attached to their OS choice, and they have no social skills.
You can advocate for linux to windows people all you like, you just can’t be annoying. A lot of linux people are really fucking annoying.
The comparison is the door-to-door evangelism, i.e., it’s really easy to tell that that phrasing has an ulterior motive. Kinda like how “Netflix and chill” does not mean “let’s watch Netflix.”