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Decent human beings in every country find that word offensive (with the exception of the people of color slang culture saying it among each other). The people not finding it offensive are mentally ill hate-filled racists.

Mozilla fakes the user agent for sites without a plugin? oO - that is news to me, but fair point in that case…

You and me both, but as long as we allow accumulation of capital, that’s not gonna happen, I’m afraid.

I wish Microsoft and Google homies would just get beamed into a parallel universe to ruin with their bullshit…

These companies typically have management take the IT advice from their IT managers, and if those intentionally block non Windows/Google/fascist software, you don’t find anyone in the organization willing to listen to you. The only way to fight this is by not doing business with them whenever avoidable.

You are welcome. Worked fine last time I tried it with e.g. the Teams web client (forced to use it for work still)

That’s basically never an error, but malice. But I admire your naivity :)

Try user agent switcher. More often than not, websites work just fine with firefox but refuse to load when the browser identifies as not-fascist-google-trash.

my apologies, I was actually thinking of “unlocking the bootloader”, rooting a device without an unlocked bootloader didn’t even occur to me. And since unlocking a bootloader is non-trivial by design, that would prevent any such accidents.

Rooting a device shouldn’t be any more complicated than having a sticker saying “warranty void if removed”.

Why not force them to unlock root from the start?

The Expanse reference: Welcome to the poor, but honest plebs, next up join the rebellion ;)

Books were absolutely better, but the TV show was still awesome.

pacman is the name of an actual package manager iirc

I know. But better than using products from fascists…

please don’t call it app store, I just threw up a little in my mouth :(

Package Manager!

It isn’t, really. As @CosmicTurtle0 pointed out in their response, it’s mostly finding alternatives to your apps.

Apropos: fuck mozilla for enshittifying the last viable open source browser alternative :( It’s the one I have not found an alternative for yet.

Other than that: Thunderbird is WAY better than Outlook anyways. Gimp is arguably lacking some features that Photoshop people are used to, but works just fine (albeit takes some getting used to) for non graphic designers. LibreOffice is functioning better than Microsoft Office by a long shot in Writer and Calc - and up to par in Impress (presentations.) VLC should already be your media player of choice anyways. Element (Matrix) and Telegram desktop applications come with most distros nowadays. Desktop environment of choice is available, from very comfortable to very rudimentary and blazingly fast.

Steam works, many many games on steam work (but then again, maybe prefer gog / good old games, as it is not US based).

PDF readers: okular is probably your best bet, digital signatures work fine but the interface for signing a document could be improved a bit.

For my system, that’s kind of it - everything else is native Linux stuff anyways :)

Successful propaganda. As if those people were able to install (or configure) Windows if it didn’t come preinstalled and with autoupdates…

Oracle happened. https://www.pcworld.com/article/423300/why-you-should-ditch-openoffice-and-use-the-free-libreoffice-suite.html

Seriously, fuck Oracle with a rusty rebar. They already ruined mysql.

mysql -> MariaDB

OpenOffice -> LibreOffice