You do realize that no normal person understands what point your post is trying to make, right?

Your mindset is exactly what authoritarians want. It's basically the Putin model: get people to distrust any official concepts of truth so they will 1) be skeptical of any criticism of the authoritarian 2) be cynical enough to believe any alternative to the authoritarian will be equally as bad or worse.

Your post is riddled with these beliefs you have formed based on the speculation of your insular online communities and you don't even realize that a normal person has no idea what you're talking about. Worse yet, that previous sentence probably made you feel proud, like, "Yeah, I know the REAL TRUTH." No, you believe in fictions. You have become so absorbed in a fictional worldview that anytime you read about something in traditional media, your mind immediately starts speculating about the REAL TRUTH underlying the supposed lie, because in your fucked up mind everything you read in traditional media is a lie that only you and your super special online communities can decode into truth (by speculating and then turning that speculation into a fiction).

Your concept of the world has become completely detached from reality. You are an insane person.

You think that BlueSky users scare people, and then you admit to being part of a community that consistently produces mass murderers. You live in a severely fucked up funhouse mirror type of world.

Tell someone you are an active BlueSky users and they will assume you vote a certain way. Tell someone you participated in 4chan at any point in its history and they immediately become afraid that you will go on a killing spree.

You had enough awareness to post AC because this post is so absurdly dumb, but you still felt compelled to post it anyway. Hmmm. . .

This has to be the weirdest conspiracy theory I have ever heard. He must really get under your skin. I do not usually mod rsilvergun up (posts are too long, often teetering on the edge of off-topic), but now I am going to start doing it just to mess with you jack-offs.

You just conflated desktop environments with a specific application. Linux has probably a dozen desktop environments that are superior to Windows.

Linux does not have a raster image program on par with Photoshop, but that is probably why you do not see any graphic designers using Linux. It is easy to take shots at GIMP because this community developed program cannot match up, feature for feature, with a multi-billion dollar Photoshop. But there are a great number of community led projects that blow their proprietary counterparts out of the water.

I'm pretty sure it was all his idea, including the smug marketing-driven leadership. Sounds like he had exactly the team he wanted working on this thing.

The law does not differentiate, which is why he has gone to great lengths to maintain his anonymity.

It's weird that you seem to think that, in order to be an act of rebellion, something must be legal. You also imply that a thing cannot be two things.

When John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln, he committed a crime, an act of rebellion, and a murder.

Personally, if Banksy tagged my house, I would be so fucking happy. I could sell my house for a shitload if it had an original Banksy on the side. That would be like getting mad if you went on vacation and someone broke into your home, didn't steal any of your stuff, but completely remodeled everything so it was way better than before. Sure, they committed a crime, but it would be weird to complain about it.

You could have made the distinction between immersive games and casual games without the weird 'no true Scotsman' fallacy.

Yes, "gamer" traditionally refers to someone who plays a bunch of console or PC games, but you still sound ridiculous getting on your high horse about it as if gaming is some sort of noble pursuit.

The OP was wrong and pedantic. You're just pedantic. I roll my eyes at both of you.

Apparently you do not have much experience with macOS. I have my gripes about it, but I have yet to find the perfect desktop operating system. I still have gripes about the Linux ecosystem, too, they are just different.

The only OS that really fits your description is Windows. What a piece of garbage.

In this context, allies means people who give Trump lots of money and use the money he sends them via government handouts to reshape the media landscape so it benefits his fascist aims. This is absolute cronyism at its worst.

But I guess you are okay with ill-gotten gains as long as they are properly laundered.

Pretty much all those big solutions you are talking about are being replaced with SaaS solutions as the boomers who made these spreadsheet monstrosities age out of the workforce. While I do not like the cloud-everything part of this, at least the data is in a database, where it belongs.

Collabora office is LibreOffice. The UI you want is two clicks away in regular LibreOffice, it just is not the default.

I hate the ribbon interface. It is extremely inefficient. Things are hidden, it requires multiple clicks to get to basic functions, and it takes up too much room.

The best word processor interface is to put the LibreOffice toolbars vertically to the side like how Adobe interfaces work (or ClarisWorks back in the day). It frees up the most vertical space, which is what you always need more of in a word processor, and you can quickly get to everything you need.

Collaboration.