meejah @meejah@mastodon.social

@meejah
Plus you are right about the activism attitudes. I kinda see it as trying to prove to others in the group how pure you are. Which is kinda toxic.

@meejah
Free software on Windows, can be the gateway for Linux. It was for my father. It was also me refusing to support his windows box, installing it the first few times, then pointing him at the community docco. He's independant now and can support his own kit. He's also not rich and gets affordable cheap hardware. Basically the purists spit on folks like my father. 🙄

One more thing, it's not just cost in terms of money. Consider the man hours setting up and supporting those devices. It's a heck of a lot easier supporting someone on a distro where there's accessible documentation and a welcoming helpful community, than a bunch of purists declaiming "RTFM" , or research the hardware, "chose open hardware. " Start helping us to drive the demand! If you can't get off your wonky pedestal of ideological purity you are no help at all.

If that is the case, fine. But don't presume to look down on the rest of us, who actively try to help to grow our communities. Who work around around the issues and try our best to help folks when they start out. We care for freedom as much as you do. We just recognise the practicalities on the ground.

Sometimes I feel free software thinks about individual freedom and not the freedom of the commons. Yes there are grass roots, but we leave everyone else behind. We do ourselves and those we want to help no favours, when we consider ideals over practicality. We appear to have learned nothing over the 17 years since I started using Linux. Still the equivalent of RTFM but about hardware. From where I'm standing it feels a lot like condescension towards those outside our community.

@meejah @cstanhope not sure tbh - I haven't been keeping track of signal

@benjancewicz This was most likely the most profoundly correct prediction of the future 20 years out ever. The last sentence just kills it.

Author successfully predicts what technology will be like in the future.

You don't own the content of your digital garden if you need Chrome to access it, simple as that.