I wonder how much of all this is just the government realizing that social media is the next world-changing weapon.

Why dig out your nukes or your fighter jets to destroy the enemy when you can instead make them like you?

I agree, but as an American it also doesn’t surprise me at all. Dehumanizing others is one of the top tactics to make awful conservative policies more palatable.

That’s funny because I bet Firefox will keep running my MS applications just like it does now. That’s what I do on Linux anyway.

But if I’m not forced to use those tools, Libre Office it is!

Mint has been on kernel 6.8 for months now, and that kernel version was first released less than a year ago. They made a change a little while back to be more up to date.

So it’s not bleeding edge, but it’s also not far behind now.

Oh yeah no disagreement there. The way that social media of all types democratizes content creation and celebrity status is great.

For me personally, the YouTube model is great where individuals can basically produce their own TV show or documentaries. But all the other big corporate social media services are meh in comparison. When it comes to interaction rather than consuming, that’s when I love Lemmy.

That is sounding more and more like a benefit to me. Social media that functions as social media for humans and not just another giant corporate surveillance and marketing machine wearing a fun app costume.

people who repeatedly ruin companies

You mean those bold leaders who have the rare ability to take risks* and make the tough decisions**?

• Risking their “number go up” fun money, not their actual lifestyle, or health, or home, or food supply, etc. Or just risking other people’s assets much of the time.

** The decisions that will hurt people they don’t care about and won’t have to deal with, in order to hopefully make their “number go up” score improve.

In my experience it’s usually the magats who are the ones defending asshole and/or immoral behavior by pointing out that the offender is acting within the bounds of the law or within their legal rights.