It’s “politics” for the nerd-set.
Frankly, freedom of computation (basically, property rights as applied to electronics) is politics for everyone; it’s just that normies don’t understand how important it is.
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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
*shrugs
Especially in regards to Linux, which with many of the most vocal adherents doing so because they reject corporate control over their lives and want to see the rest of the world do so as well. It is very much a political issue to them, and so it’s not surprising that you see it crop up just as much as politically oriented posts, because the Linux-posting is essentially the same thing. It’s “politics” for the nerd-set. Same with piracy. Some people involved with these have deep anti-corporate and anti-capitalist philosophical roots for their reasons behind why they live like that, and they’re often not afraid to “preach” it to others.
So yeah, shitposts sadly aren’t going to stop it anytime soon.
grue@lemmy.world 8 months ago
saltesc@lemmy.world 8 months ago
recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
It’s also much more practical to use as a dev
umbrella@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Also as a non dev.
recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Yes, but using it for development is what gets many people into it including me
daltotron@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You know, it’s kind of interesting, because I kind of wonder, and I’m sure someone could educate me to, the differences between philosophical outlooks that drive these different ideals.
If you were like, a windows or mac purist, you’d maybe just be gunning for as much mass adoption as possible, meaning that you have as much interoperability, or, accessibility, as possible, and maybe you’re just biting the bullet in terms of like, corporate shenanigans and control. Basically you’d just be like, admitting defeat, to some extent, it’d be a compromise ideology. It’s sort of like the same ideology that pushes one big centralized set of servers for everything, compared to everyone running their own little instances. Sure, you’re getting a lack of security, lack of flexibility, and thus, potentially, the functionality of the app ends up sucking depending on what you’re doing, yadda yadda. But in return, you get mass adoption. This is kinda flip-flopped with like, Linux purism, right? And then the natural use cases and market adoption for it tends to just be the more niche uses, that demand such flexibility.
So, which is more important for free access. Actual legal freedom, which even works itself into the structure of the app itself, right, or just, straight mercenary mass adoption, under any means necessary? I dunno.
On one hand, within the current structure of the economy and political landscape, globally, it’s kind of impossible to achieve mass adoption with Linux, and I think mass adoption of it is almost kind of antithetical to the anarchism of the project itself, as is mass adoption of most anarchist political projects. It’s just kind of impossible to win in a head-to-head competition with larger corporations, or with more short-term gains focused ideologies.
I’m still just running windows 10 LTSC with MAS, and it works fine for me, so that’s obviously where my ideological line is kind of threaded, just having everybody have the best free version of windows, maybe with some sort of increased privacy modifications to cut down on telemetry and shit like that, but I kinda doubt people could actually do that without destroying the usability of the system like all of those tend to do, or else someone would’ve probably done it by now.
Splatterphace@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Not trying to stop anything, just wanna poke fun
umbrella@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
poke: cannot open file fun
swab148@startrek.website 8 months ago
sudo touch grass nerd
umbrella@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
swab148 is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.