I’m been a Linux power user for more than half of my life, 8 last years spent on NixOS. I self-host my everything. I’ve bootstrapped a toolchain and a Linux distro from scratch^Wtcc for giggles twice, first without a package manager, then without one. For the last five years, I earn a living by working on a Linux distro. I still have my only decent GPU in a Windows 10 box half a continent away I stream games from. Would you be able to convince me to switch?

Just face it, Windows is the gaming console firmware.

Plasma wakefield simulations PTSD triggered.

musl is a libc

Same as decades before: Ubuntu.

And what’s stopping you? Install new LineageOS on an unblocked Samsung, check one checkbox xin developer settings and here it is. Without the GPU, of course.

2009. 2004 wasn’t even 770 times.

No-no-no, you misunderstood. As soon as communication starts to happen, I grab the popcorn and step aside to watch the fight unfold.

Minding privacy and driving a car in 2025 is like jumping up because you realize you forgot to water your plants right after you’ve clicked the euthanasia button.

They’re not matte.

Russia barely has a 1000 km frontline under control, what’s that long red thing on the right?

Nice monologue, kiddo, I’m sure an inattentive American might’ve bought into that, but you’ve happened to send this crap to a USSR-born Russian. XD

I’m sorry, comrade, your allegedly-so-great-grandma was never “illegally dissolved”, she got into so much debt she committed suicide.

Oh, so will you pay the delta to the uncooperative countries to switch to renewables? No? Then we’ll have to do the real expensive thing: both.

Oh. Then lemme just wish you that whatever is that thing you’re having over there never heats up to a degree to that’d make you reconsider what “can’t travel” means. And yeah, phones, those you can just import.

said another westerner who never needed to hide money from a government turning against them

How many years of your salary does an airplane ticket cost? How many countries even ask you for a visa? Guess what, you absolutely can.

Than asking for a password for a password? Yes. Than yesterday? Hardly.

Hold your horses. You want someone to build a service where you’d register, with a new separate set of credentials, so that you’d synchronize your email password between devices?

Well, I have to admit that this idea of having a password synchronize yourself another password becomes much more practical if you tweak it just a little bit and manage all your passwords with just one. In fact, Mozilla has one. It’s called Firefox Sync. I’d still recommend to use a real password manager like pass and either git or syncthing for synchronizing the underlying data.

I hope that’s a sound of you GTFOing out of the USA to pretty much anywhere else, where Samsungs have and always had unlocked bootloaders. =)

The moment you replace it. You get to keep the awesome hardware.