Because freedom-loving people will eventually get tired of being ensalved by you selfish corporate cocksuckers, and burn your house down with you and your family tied up in it.

Really, dipshit? Perhaps you would like to explain why you think my comment was 'stupid', so I can explain in detail exactly what a moron you are.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...

It's already long since been supplanted by news media a hundred years ago and now pictures and. video also, none of which can be trusted anymore in the age of GAN. Welcome to the Brave New World aka New World Order.

But hey, self driving car evangelists, don't let this discourage you from pushing your religion on the rest of us.

OH NoES!!!1 What would we ever do without all this Javashitware code polluting the intertubes??? Go back to web 1.0 websites that load quickly and reliably even on a slow connection, without mining shitcoin in my browser?? H0rRor!!!eleven

Mainstream means anything which is backed by big corporate entities, all of which contain security and usability abominations like systemd. Linux has been intentionally sabotaged, and not just the OS but the kernel now also with version 5.x. Notice how much weight Torvalds gained recently? That's what stress will do to a man who has been threatened and his life's work shit on.

I created my own distro From Scratch specifically to undo all of the intentional damage. It runs Gtk2, older versions of software that went to shit in later versions, no dbus/pulseaudio/systemd/bluetooth, etc. My distro is speedy as fuck, running circles around bloated, laggy shitware like Ubuntu.

  Furthermore it for damn sure does not spy on me, because I went through a lot of trouble ripping out a lot of code from Chromium (puke) and things like software "auto update" bullshit that the typical Linux system is infested with. My computer contacts the network if and only if I command it to, and never otherwise, and is a breeze to use and administrate.

Shitware like systrmd is purposely designed to make the system as obtuse, obscure, and buggy as possible. "Linux Puttering" knew exactly what he was doing when he wrote this garbage. It is intentional sabotage. He should be put up against the wall and shot, right along with Bill Gates and all other traitors to humanity.

You are dumber and more useless than a sack of composted dog shit. Wait, I take that back--at least dog shit can be used for fertilizer. Well actually I guess your bloated corpse could be used for fertilizer also, with composting. Anyhow, Microsoft is one of the most evil corporations to have ever plagued this planet. They don't even try to hide the evil anymore. Now take your eleventy billion UID and shove it sideways up your bleeding asshole. Digital slavery is exactly what you deserve. Enjoy Big Brother's cock up your ass.

Right. The fact that people still use Microsoft shitware just proves how much the average person likes taking Big Brother cock up their ass. To be clear, Apple and mainstream Linux are no better. These days one has to go well off the beaten path to experience any kind of sanity in computing. DRM chip on the CPU die? No thanks....I will never, ever use this slaveware.

And then in 2022, you won't be able to bypass it anymore. For your protection, citizen.

How concerned they are! I guess that's why their browser is full of malware and they have injected their tentacles into every crack and crevice of the internet. They really, really care about our privacy.

Censorship is for tyrannical Nazi faggots like yourself. Kill yourself, Nazi, and save someone else the trouble.

"What no one seemed to notice was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people. Just think how very wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany. And it became always wider. It doesnâ(TM)t make people close to their government to be told that this is a peopleâ(TM)s government, a true democracy, or to be enrolled in civilian defense, or even to vote.

[...] What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it.

[...] To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it, unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, âregretted,â(TM) that unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these âlittle measuresâ(TM) that no âpatriotic Germanâ(TM) could resent must some day lead to. One no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head."

- Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free

The endgame here is total control over the internet. Look at how the pieces are being moved, step by step in that direction. One other major piece that is being quietly advanced is HSTS, HTTP-Strict-Transport-Security, which essentially means removing the ability for the user to force the browser to load a page if Google isn't satisfied the site is "secure."

Step by step, everyone will be forced by peer pressure and browser nags to get a certificate for their site and use HTTPS, because HTTP will become more and more crippled. Right now it's only "mixed content" sites being affected, but next time it will be HTTP sites, period; and why not? Doesn't the same "logic" apply in either case? If it's "insecure" to download from an HTTP site if you're on HTTPS, and if people can be made to accept this "argument", then what's to give anyone pause when HTTP is deprecated entirely, because "security"? The unthinking beta drones who inhabit computerland these days will march in lockstep with whatever they're told.

Then Google will gradually, step by step, force HSTS to be enabled everywhere. "Because security." After all, you wouldn't want some bad ole mean evil un-American Chinese communist hacker trick you into loading that political web site you were about to visit, right? Better to let your browser do your thinking for you, citizen. When the Very Smart Folks decide that a certain site needs to go offline Because Very Reasonable Reasons(R), "For Freedom(TM)", etc, it's only one revoked certificate away (or auth server timeout, or....) from being inaccessible to anyone. Try Fox News, or CNN.com instead, citizen; those certificates will always be valid and functional.

Fucked up times we're going into. Plan accordingly.

The truth is you have no idea what kind of value you could potentially gain, because you are stuck in a false paradigm, and you have taken an active role in painting yourself into this corner.

I used to work for a company whose sole job was to pull data off of ancient optical platter systems, tapes, etc, from closed source systems with unknown formats from companies long out of business, then decode that data (sometimes with differing formats over decades of changes), translating the data into open formats for continued access on late model PCs. We did this every day of the week. And you can't even go through a little bit of pain to convert some Excel shit? Please.

What we have here is sheer laziness combined with ignorance, resulting in apathy. What you think you want is a carbon clone of Windows, with software exactly like Excel, just with a different badge slapped on it. What you actually need is to divorce yourself from the Microsoft way of thinking about things.

The UNIX way is to store data like that in flat text files (or a database like MySQL or SQLite) and use shell scripts, Perl, C code, etc to pipe it through various stages and filters to process it according to your business needs.

The data only has to be converted once, and the new system only has to be built once. Then you would have a system of things based on open standards and open code which is actually maintainable, extensible, and will never be destroyed by some kind of idiotic software change forced upon you by a centralized behemoth under the control of psychopaths and incompetent dotheads.

After moving your critical business data into open, safe formats, you can then easily use open GUI software like LibreOffice, and the millions of other UNIX ecosystem tools, to manipulate said data. Data can be shared with other organizations via open formats like CSV, PDF, etc.

"Too complicated" you say? Fucking hire someone who isn't an idiot to set it up for you, if you're too bothered to put in the effort. Can't do it "because reasons"? Your life and freedom is at stake! If that's not enough convincing then see yourself out and turn in your geek card at the door.

I recommend staying away from the "mainstream" Linux distros, which are all shit now, under control of Microsoft and "Puttering" and his ilk. Anything using 'systemd' should be avoided like the plague. Try Funtoo.