I've been interpreting it like "the artist formerly known as Prince"

I dunno man, that's what I was trying to find out.... I thought I was out of the loop on something here.

last-gen weak shit like teams, Ansible, or vro.

A role I worked had this holy trinity. Moving to teams was nail in the coffin for me. Out of interest, what is "broken and last gen" about Ansible? And what's newer and better than it? I find it to be okay for infra patching tasks...

: folks who think Linux is too complicated or whatever, but are perfectly willing to jump through endless hoops to work around some of Windows’ deliberate hostility.

Man I realised this when I found myself running a third party program just to get my audio to simultaneously play out of multiple outputs on windows. I had regular issues with games and my killer ethernet adapter (they're notoriously bad, but after switching to linux didn't have any issues). Reformatting for home was getting longer and longer. Start menu search started to become slow and bogged down. Windows store was a nightmare. It was a constant battle to remove all the advertising and tracking "features". I game, but mostly a PC for me is a tool. When a tool stops doing its job, it gets replaced.

Funnily, when I play games with my friends, I rarely have issues... but as soon as I do, they they're pretty quick to jump down my throat about my OS of choice.

EDIT: WSL is pretty nice though, I use it on my work box.

Thanks for the read brother.

You struck a chord that resonated with me

In reality, the Fediverse is a fucking security and privacy nightmare and it is really based on who you are handing your data too and how much no matter what. Decentralized is great for migrating and not letting one entity own an entire platform but holy fuck now you are talking about handing your data over to random servers and people who may know Jack shit about security and privacy. You are at the mercy of random people without knowing them.

Maybe people aren't aware, but we're entrusting anyone who can run an ubuntu server, an ansible playbook and has a registered domain. Had a crack last night and it took minutes to config (granted my profession is cloud orchestration), but anyone with a little time and literacy could work it out. And we're sending everything through their servers, storing them in their DBs. Pretty cool, but definitely makes me want more transparency as to how my shit is being handled.

Thanks for going against the grain my dude. I don't agree with everything you say, but I appreciate you having the balls to say it,

so facebook stopped linking to news. and now they’re complaining because facebook isn’t providing the valuable service that they used to. so does facebook provide value by linking to news, or not?

Same thing happened in Australia with similar legislation... the problem is, local county fire authorities who don't receive sufficient funding utilise social media to provide regular updates.... Meta (facebook at the time) shut off access for the day, and people went batshit. It definitely exposed a real flaw in that sparsely located, small county fire authorities don't have a good way to communicate to the people during bushfires.

The problem here is that they want to reach a wide audience... and the wide audience are more likely to be using something owned by Meta to seek information.

I hope someone stands up to the Meta mafia. Governments listen the fuck up and make it so your people aren't reliant on foreign entities to obtain vital information.

[EDIT] I'll also add that while the county fire authorities in Australia might have apps to communicate, these are run by the state governments, so the reach of the individual apps is pretty variable. People who live in bushfire prone areas will probably have an app and their radio going to listen out on alerts to leave, but visitors, new residents, people passing through etc are pretty unlikely to think to download the CFA app for the state.

Take any of the top 3 social platforms, then have a look at their total number of users. If we were going to go unite, that shit probably would have happened by now. Instead we post memes about billionaires.

Man tidal is nice. It also seems to be curated by people who actually care about music. The recommendations it has given me have been amazing.

Man you're absolutely correct. But I've yet to find a simplified music streaming solution that functions as seamlessly across a wide range of devices as Spotify connect does.

I want an alternative... I also don't want to manage a library as extensive as a streaming service's offerings myself. I need convenience.

I have a pretty sizeable local collection, and it can be a pain to manage sometimes. Tagging can become a real pain as well. A real splinter on the scrot.