Most things?

What WAS better?

Yearning for the past always has a reactionary vibe.

Time to bully the new mods and spam the sub reddit with pictures of John Oliver

Caspian report has some good videos but some of their stuff is really far fetched. Speculation presented as fact.

The sad part is that this meme is 100% wishful thinking. The reality is that most people will just be complicit and too lazy to enact any form of protest. We’re doomed unless we organize.

It’s gotta be pretty difficult to differentiate human users from bots. If it was easy, you could prevent bots from loading the page altogether.

iOS is fully proprietary, so while some might argue that it is more private, it is almost impossible to know. What we do know is that it isn’t private, and apple has a track record against privacy.

I think comparing the two platforms from a privacy perspective is pointless. You’re not going to be private either way. Might as well focus on other factors.

Upvoted for Manjaro, downvoted for gentoo. (no vote as a result)

That’s no longer the point of Gentoo either.

• gentoo manages compile options globally. This is not only for optimization. It can be used to enable certain features of a program only available via compile options.
• freedom between rolling release, stable release, or a mixture of the two. You don’t have to opt for one or the other. And you can only make some programs rolling and others stable. Gentoo is the only distro I know that lets you do this without issues
• can use any version of a program you want. That’s the benefit of the build system. Since you’re compiling, you link against the versions you want. No more compatibility issues because you didn’t use the specific version your distro has.
• super easy to install programs not in the repos and still have them managed by portage. Ebuilds are easy to write, and you don’t have compatibility issues if you configure your deps right
• super easy patch management. Just drop it the right place and you’re done.
• although its not mandatory, openRC is great

I agree. Nix and Guix follow a very unorthodox approach to managing a unix-like system, and while they make it work for most things, there’s always those few issues that linger around.

I really like their approach. But Gentoo’s approach is much more “just works” and tries to be unorthodox only where it is necessary or highly beneficial.

I personally use Markor on Android and (neo)vim on Linux. I sync the note files using rsync (but syncthing is totally viable also).

It’s probably not the solution you want but thought I’d mention it for others interested.