glassware

The year of the Linux desktop I'm thinking of was like 2008. That was then it became perfectly usable on the desktop and I haven't had to switch back since.

I don't understand why anyone care's what Linux's "market share" is. It's open source, no one makes money when someone installs Linux.

Of course bitcoin is a scam. It's a "currency" you can't spend anywhere. It's only purpose is a pump and dump scheme for early adopters.

Is this part of a series or something? I have no idea what any part of it means

Does anyone else not really like talking about their special interests?

I can see how bored people are the second I start, like their eye contact suddenly breaks and they look around the room, and only say "mmhmm" instead of replying. So I shut up after one sentence.

But if the other person also likes the subject, I don't like talking to them either, because there's nothing to say. If we disagree I don't want to be rude and argue so I awkwardly pretend to agree. If we agree then all you can do is tell each other things you both already know and agree that they're good.

I wish my internal monologue would shut the fuck up. It's almost always rehearsing arguments. Like for a whole day all I'll think about is why someone I spoke to in a forum 20 years ago was wrong. I listen to podcasts or loud music to get a break from hearing my thoughts.

Also they shouldn't do it unless they're going to apply it to all politicians, like when Biden lied about seeing photos of beheaded babies in Israel.

All the answers you got show why this conversation goes badly. No one can come up with an actual problem that data collection causes, it's all silly comparisons to giving people your credit card number or shitting in front of them.

For me, having my data collected is like having CCTV cameras in stores. Yeah, technically someone is filming everything I do. Yeah it would be bad if a private individual was filming me for nefarious reasons. But no one actually uses that data for anything bad, and it doesn't actually cause any problems.

All that happens is I get more relevant ads.

Looks like they commited a change to Piped bot two hours ago which accidentally removed the functionality to actually change the link. Whoops!

Absolutely. I tried getting back into Usenet a few years ago and it was like Yahoo Answers.

Weird how it's literally impossible to ever live without something no one had 100 years ago

Proving my point? You're a non-disabled person trolling a disability forum with ableism, but you think you have some righteous justification because you know somebody with a more severe disability. And you'll never self reflect on it. Spicyautism in a nutshell.