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If that’s true it should really be stickied by am admin. That’s crucial info.

While this is far more elaborate, I agree it’s the best approach if the other person is willing to have a discussion.

You may sprinkle it with actual examples of what’s happening in China with their point system: not getting bus tickets or loan grants or whatever because you not even mentioned something critical somewhere but are associated with someone how did.

They may say it’s unrealistic but 30 years ago Eastern Germany was the same. They just lacked the tech and needed to recruit regular people as spies.

I wrote it’s not wrong but the criticism is wrongly addressed. What you wrote is known and that’s why regulations exit. And still we have this kind of slavery. Don’t give your regulators a pass here.

It’s not wrong but a bit of a stretch to criticize capitalism for what is actually slavery.

Maybe some of these older suggestions still apply: https://superuser.com/questions/486844/how-can-i-unlock-a-microsoft-docx-document#486883

You’ll have to tinker a bit, probably write some script to bruteforce the password. Unless you expect your password to be a strong one. In that case I fear there is no way.

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I’d use separate accounts. I like being able to recognize bots by their user name.

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I fear you are right. While I do believe that further policital abuse of that data is inevitable (Trump or the Malaysian civil war were at least partial results of campaigns of Cambridge Analytica, for example), people probably won’t see the impact data analysis had and how they’ve been manipulated.

where the f have these people been for the past 10 years?

They’ve been giving away their data for all that time and it hasn’t visible affected them negatively.

Of course it will eventually and they’ll Pikachu face then but that’s hardly comforting.

Would you agree that what makes Linux laughable as a replacement for consumers is how splitered or fractured it is?

Again, while you might have a point, your tone just sucks and makes me not want to interact with you.

Consumers can just pick one off-the-hook polished distro like Mint and are never even confronted with all the possible choices.

That and your average electrical engineer will consider an LED useful that signals the device has power.

Most probably then don’t consider where the device is actually used. In a well-lit office space that LED doesn’t annoy anyone.

I also think “year of the desktop” is a unicorn (even if it were to come, you wouldn’t pin it on one year - it’s a process) and I personally believe that if Windows is going to die, it will be replaced by some web-only shit instead of another local desktop-based OS.

However, Linux desktop adoption did increase quite steeply in the past few years and to a point I confidently moved also my wife’s and mother’s computers to Linux because it actually causes me less headache than Windows did.

So, no need to be condescending and sarcastic about it.

This is a good summary. It really depends on the game. There even are a few examples where a Windows native game runs faster on Linux with Proton.

I’m not a YouTube user but your experience makes more sense to me. None of the data gobbling corps actually delete anything when you say so but just set it invisible. Why would Google delete their precious ML model just because you “delete” its training data?

The thank you for your patience one has always rubbed me wrong.

I wouldn’t say wrong - it is disrespectful since I wasn’t patient by choice. You fucked up, you own it. But then I’m not a native speaker, maybe it just feels that way in my country.

I only briefly had an iPhone 12 and if I remember correctly I tested Keepassium which worked pretty well (synced via Nextcloud).