This joke is sadly becoming a common perception. Lots of furries and femboys ruining the perception of FOSS and cybersec because they feel the need to push their lifestyle into total synthesis with their career and other hobbies.
I just hope that if Linux ever becomes mainstream or close to it, us reasonable users won’t get clumped in with either community.
All these replies are extremely indicative of just how utterly ridiculous the Fediverse can be. It almost makes me want to leave again but no: this network needs opposing opinions from its “acceptable” narrative. It’s bad enough that the Fediverse is already an echo chamber as it is.
this network needs opposing opinions from its “acceptable” narrative
So it’s okay for you to do it, but not for others to push back against you because they believe the expressed views to be morally wrong? I think you might be looking for an echo chamber of your own.
I’ll remind you that you’re in a public forum and should expect the public to voice their displeasure.
I also want to point out that I can see the votes on every comment. It is incredibly childish of you to downvote every dissenting reply and most of the other comments.
Aaaand you’re gone. Truthfully I should’ve done this yesterday, your original comment was enough to warrant a temporary suspension. If you can’t play nice, if you can’t at least feign tolerance, you can find a different forum where your conduct is accepted.
Linux is becoming mainstream, the other two big OS happen to be closed-source and based in a country which is now becoming a dictatorship bent on declaring war on everyone. If you’re in the EU or in China and you’re still using Windows right now, you might want to be concerned about your security even if you’re just a normal end user. It is widely known Microsoft mine users’ data - and when it comes to that, Trump has been blowing up the EU-US Data Deal. Government agencies and companies all over EU are now scrambling to switch to EU-based cloud providers and other IT solutions.
It’s no joke: https://noyb.eu/en/us-cloud-soon-illegal-trump-punches-first-hole-eu-us-data-deal
Bold of you to assume that Linux is not mainstream. Most servers run Linux, most phones run Linux, it’s only your work PC that still runs Windows, and it increasingly becomes an isolated bubble of old white corporate dudes who keep buying Windows PCs because that’s what they used for twenty years to run their spreadsheets.
The FOSS community doesn’t need this kind of mentality. “Us reasonable users” really tells what you think about people with different lifestyles to your own. Quit being weird and fracturing the FOSS community. The Corpos don’t need the help
You’re not better anyone for not wearing the cute socks bozo. Linux femboys and furries are smart people who are probably more accepting and “reasonable” than you are
Free as in freedom, not only free as in beer. That is how FOSS works. Also one of the things I find appealing about it.
By focusing on FOSS being this super serious thing, we kinda lose what is great about it. Everyone is welcome and free to use it as they see fit. That is by design (see licenses). A lot of FOSS is passion projects by people on their spare time, they do it because it is fun / fulfilling. We need all hands on deck, and FOSS should also be playful, experimental, and novel. FOSS is this super idealistic gift to humanity, from humanity. Every piece of FOSS software contributes to the collective human database of ideas and software.
The “us reasonable users” is a really unfortunate way of sharing your opinion on this matter. Is it unreasonable to be a femboy and use FOSS/Linux? By being elitist like this, I kinda get the same reaction you claim to get from this user. I don’t want to be clumped in with the users that feel they are superior to everyone else and acting like it, and gatekeeping the FOSS community and its representation.
If anything, it is hate and prejudice that’s ruining the image of FOSS. If you don’t have the mental composure and maturity to at the very least ignore the people you disagree with, you can hardly call yourself “reasonable”.
It’s pretty hard to ignore a subculture that does nothing but shove their lifestyle in everyone’s face, screaming “LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME!” and then cries about “hate and prejudice” when people express that they’re sick of it.
You’re doing the exact same thing with this public crashout about how much their happiness offends you. You’re spreading your vitriol because you want people to take your side. I’d rather surround myself with furries and femboys than the likes of you.
Queer and nonconforming people exist, they have the same right to express themselves as everyone else, and you’d better get used to it real quick.
You can express that you are sick of their showcase of their lifestyle just as much as they can showcase them. However, saying that the entire subculture is nothing but shoving their lifestyle at everyone’s face is neither cool nor is it largely the truth. Sure, maybe some of them are annoying, but that’s not the basis to dismiss the entire subculture.
This joke is sadly becoming a common perception. Lots of furries and femboys ruining the perception of FOSS and cybersec because they feel the need to push their lifestyle into total synthesis with their career and other hobbies.
I just hope that if Linux ever becomes mainstream or close to it, us reasonable users won’t get clumped in with either community.
All these replies are extremely indicative of just how utterly ridiculous the Fediverse can be. It almost makes me want to leave again but no: this network needs opposing opinions from its “acceptable” narrative. It’s bad enough that the Fediverse is already an echo chamber as it is.
So it’s okay for you to do it, but not for others to push back against you because they believe the expressed views to be morally wrong? I think you might be looking for an echo chamber of your own.
I’ll remind you that you’re in a public forum and should expect the public to voice their displeasure.
I also want to point out that I can see the votes on every comment. It is incredibly childish of you to downvote every dissenting reply and most of the other comments.
Oh, the irony of that last statement contrasted with the rest of your post.
Aaaand you’re gone. Truthfully I should’ve done this yesterday, your original comment was enough to warrant a temporary suspension. If you can’t play nice, if you can’t at least feign tolerance, you can find a different forum where your conduct is accepted.
Feel free to complain on YPTB.
Linux is becoming mainstream, the other two big OS happen to be closed-source and based in a country which is now becoming a dictatorship bent on declaring war on everyone. If you’re in the EU or in China and you’re still using Windows right now, you might want to be concerned about your security even if you’re just a normal end user. It is widely known Microsoft mine users’ data - and when it comes to that, Trump has been blowing up the EU-US Data Deal. Government agencies and companies all over EU are now scrambling to switch to EU-based cloud providers and other IT solutions. It’s no joke: https://noyb.eu/en/us-cloud-soon-illegal-trump-punches-first-hole-eu-us-data-deal
Bold of you to assume that Linux is not mainstream. Most servers run Linux, most phones run Linux, it’s only your work PC that still runs Windows, and it increasingly becomes an isolated bubble of old white corporate dudes who keep buying Windows PCs because that’s what they used for twenty years to run their spreadsheets.
The FOSS community doesn’t need this kind of mentality. “Us reasonable users” really tells what you think about people with different lifestyles to your own. Quit being weird and fracturing the FOSS community. The Corpos don’t need the help
You’re not better anyone for not wearing the cute socks bozo. Linux femboys and furries are smart people who are probably more accepting and “reasonable” than you are
Free as in freedom, not only free as in beer. That is how FOSS works. Also one of the things I find appealing about it.
By focusing on FOSS being this super serious thing, we kinda lose what is great about it. Everyone is welcome and free to use it as they see fit. That is by design (see licenses). A lot of FOSS is passion projects by people on their spare time, they do it because it is fun / fulfilling. We need all hands on deck, and FOSS should also be playful, experimental, and novel. FOSS is this super idealistic gift to humanity, from humanity. Every piece of FOSS software contributes to the collective human database of ideas and software.
The “us reasonable users” is a really unfortunate way of sharing your opinion on this matter. Is it unreasonable to be a femboy and use FOSS/Linux? By being elitist like this, I kinda get the same reaction you claim to get from this user. I don’t want to be clumped in with the users that feel they are superior to everyone else and acting like it, and gatekeeping the FOSS community and its representation.
If anything, it is hate and prejudice that’s ruining the image of FOSS. If you don’t have the mental composure and maturity to at the very least ignore the people you disagree with, you can hardly call yourself “reasonable”.
It’s pretty hard to ignore a subculture that does nothing but shove their lifestyle in everyone’s face, screaming “LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME!” and then cries about “hate and prejudice” when people express that they’re sick of it.
You’re doing the exact same thing with this public crashout about how much their happiness offends you. You’re spreading your vitriol because you want people to take your side. I’d rather surround myself with furries and femboys than the likes of you.
Queer and nonconforming people exist, they have the same right to express themselves as everyone else, and you’d better get used to it real quick.
You can express that you are sick of their showcase of their lifestyle just as much as they can showcase them. However, saying that the entire subculture is nothing but shoving their lifestyle at everyone’s face is neither cool nor is it largely the truth. Sure, maybe some of them are annoying, but that’s not the basis to dismiss the entire subculture.