oh I’m sorry are my takes regarding liquid glass and age verification not nuanced* enough for you?
good. get the fuck off my feed. bad things are bad, pretending they’re good doesn’t make you a fucking adult. it just makes you wrong.
I don’t need to pretend I didn’t watch Apple capitulate to fascists. I don’t need to pretend I didn’t watch Poettering do the same in a way that fucks over the rest of the FOSS ecosystem. this isn’t hard. don’t choose advocacy over truth.
* centrist
but nah there’s no complex theory of mind behind my posts, I’m just angry and disregulated
you fucking asshole. what a god damn thing to fucking say.
how dare I be angry when I watch companies and open source projects capitulate to fascists. how dare I take it personally. I’m angry and disregulated because I can’t pretend to be excited for garbage and victimization and harm.
yes I’m fucking angry. why in fuck aren’t you.
I’m not gonna come after you if you bought a neo and like it. I don’t think you got a good deal but there aren’t a lot of good deals in hardware right now (thanks AI).
if you like systemd and feel like the rug got pulled out from under you, I can offer solidarity. I don’t like systemd because it enables rugpulls like these, but I use systemd everywhere too. I want the best path forward for all of us.
if you enter my replies with points sourced from your ex-employer’s marketing for their new product and get so tilted that I can’t muster a reply that you call me angry and disregulated: go fuck yourself
if you’re contorting your brain to twist the age verification code in systemd into anything but capitulation to a fascist regime: get the fuck out of my replies
it’s not irrational to have a line you won’t cross. I try not to attack people for fandom reasons. I don’t capitulate to fascists.
and I really have to emphasize this:
if you like the macbook neo, that’s fine. I really don’t like the discourse around it, but you can buy it without being part of that.
if you like liquid glass, I’m fucking baffled but whatever, sure.
if you’re fine with age verification in systemd or any other OS component or with android’s new app restrictions, go fuck yourself.
one of these things isn’t like the others and it’s very telling that they got treated the same way by the other poster.
and of course not a word from them about Apple publicly capitulating, with a liquid glass themed trophy
not a word about the most recent iOS update coinciding with a fuckload of exploits for older versions dropping publicly (some of them were previously zero days) and getting trivially weaponized, forcing a ton of users onto a version of iOS with age verification
cause that would be analysis and it might lead someplace uncomfy and it was easier to subtoot me for being too angry instead
@zzt Don’t you want to cooperate? You don’t want to be labeled as uncooperative, do you? Here, we all cooperate. See, look how happy Greg is here, he opens twenty PRs per day and always frames things in a positive light. Positive *light*, like the beautiful sun. Light as a feather. Oh, my, look I’m floating again, haha.
There’s no need to feel emotion. We must set about calmly together, carefully considering all of the options, and then simply implement what management has deemed best for shareholders, and follow all local laws simultaneously. And when there is no more need for us, we can step into the atomizer in peace.
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