Librarianon

Your local Librarianon

  • He/Him

Writer, TF Finatic, Recohoster, and Game dev. Wasnt able to post here as much as I liked, but I'll miss it and all of yall. Till we meet again, friends!


Gothfoxcoochie
@Gothfoxcoochie

I'm gonna be honest I really don't trust anyone who hand waves online harassment off as "silly online drama", because online harassment is deeply fucking traumatising for the victims of it, but to the wide majority of people it's "not a big deal" and "this kinda stuff doesn't matter in the real world", all I can ask is did you motherfuckers not listen during online harassment psa's in school???


ProbablyNothing
@ProbablyNothing

And like. When your entire social circle exists online, you can't just log off. The weirder someone is in wider culture, the more likely they are to have a heavy or exclusively online social circle. The people targeting folks online know this, and that's exactly why they put in such efforts to poison people's social connections. If you can get even one person in someone's social circle to distrust them, it spreads stupid easily unless there are active efforts to cut off that kind of movement.

These people want to kill us, and they're using the fact that we're not getting wider social support offline as one of the primary ways of doing so. Anyone who says "just log off" simply is ignoring the modern reality of how people socialize.



adorablesergal
@adorablesergal
  • Your experience and expertise with Linux is not universal.
  • Many major Linux distros are at a transition point between Xorg and Wayland, and that will be hell for nvidia users (who should not be fucking shamed for just happening to have/need an nvidia gpu) (and yes, I'm aware a new driver drop is coming in the summer. No, I don't think that will magically solve all the problems plaguing nvidia + wayland)
  • There exists no creative package in the FOSS ecosystem that is a drop-in replacement for the proprietary software it is supposed to replace.
  • Relearning entirely new software is not easy, it takes time, and people are not shitty for not having the room in their lives to dedicate to a transition.
  • About the only creative package I would remotely consider to be "professional grade" and has at least some market penetration in its industry is Blender. Its interface and workflow is still weird as fuck even post-2.7. The world still uses Maya.
  • Most digital artists have invested years and a lot of money in the form of software, brush packs, etc., and dumping all that will cause a lot of workflows to collapse.
  • Big Tech has invested decades and billions into locking people into SaaS ecosystems like Google Docs and Microsoft 365 that have provided value and ease of use for end users. People are not weak for benefiting from that ease of use.
  • Big Tech is light-years ahead of most FOSS in terms of accessible computing, translations, etc. Your favourite go-to tool that needs to be compiled from a git repo might be absolutely useless to someone who only knows Farsi.
  • Regardless of how you feel about it, some of the biggest games on the planet are Windows-only, and won't even run under Proton/WINE. People have built up social relationships and microcultures in those games that are just as valid as your local LUG full of weirdo IBM XT clone enthusiasts, and they are not fools or shitty for being human and forming social relationships and microcultures.
  • "Tech support" on Linux is fucking abysmal, and always has been.
  • "Just switch to Linux" is, and will always be, a temporary and personal-sphere mitigation against the inexorable march of cryptofascist surveillance capitalist tech. You will never make a meaningful enough dent in numbers to affect any kind of change simply by telling your friends to switch, and it will not stop the nightmare world being built up around you. Everyone would be better served by comprehensive privacy legislation, which means you have to get politically active, and message or call your reps.
  • There are other things you can do beyond "just vote" but I ain't gonna write about 'em. Suffice it to say that the fate of our planet's ecosystems are at stake from people who think it's great that we can't tell what search results are real anymore.