m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@kim At least you don't connect to ssh-server running at a non-standard port that often. Unlike -R/-r to copy recursively. I mean it is -R for e.g. chown and it works almost universally this way, you get used to it. Not with scp, you just have to use lower case -r 🤬

@trisschen You can download a cop unintentionally though. Like other malware.

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network Try #VoidLinux — it's fast, it's flexible and despite being rolling release distro, it's rock solid. You can use custom CFLAGS and cross-comile with xbps-src. The USE flags aren't as flexible as on Gentoo, but at least, unlike with Gentoo, you don't have to spend half the day in gdb to figure out why the fsck everything just segfaults after the last upgrade.

@evelyn I've only played some iPhone version of Sims. There was not a lot of brutal stuff you could do in it so I was trying to fsck everyone in town instead 😊

@nytpu Oh, I see. I only have Xbox One and I have physical copies of all the games I own. I think it still has to check something online, download updates, etc. So all these discs are nothing more than shiny nice artifacts 😅

@nytpu GOG allows you to save offline installers. And it is the only sane game store anyway.

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network Complete trade ban is always a disaster. It only achieves political goals which in turn might be justified, might be not.

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network It is in fact catastrophic. Some restrictions (e.g. higher fees) might be justified to increase competition, not to reduce it and give someone an unfair advantage. And only as a temporary measure, no one benefits from it in the long run, look at the US vs China trade wars — it's not some recent Trump thing. Both sides lose.

@hatkidchan @evelyn B-b-but we can have cavemen in our computers… And live happily, right? 😅

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network My fault, it was preposterous of me to assume that from the fact that you think imports ban is a good idea. Well then, if something good happened as a result of war, it doesn't mean it could not happen as a result of healthy competition. Killing someone or something off is less competition, less choice and that is bad. Ok, then healthy competition > war > no competition 👍

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network No, even in this case, no. Wars break trade, trade = good. I know you disagree with the last one, but I'm to lazy to delve into it using 500-character messages 😋

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network Warzone is a type of echo chamber. Look at a typical Twitter discussion, it's "us against them", same set of arguments that matter only to the ones who agree with you, but the other side is completely deaf to them. No truth will ever be born in this. A sane person with somewhere-in-between opinion who could bring something new or accept your arguments will either stay out of this or not be heard. That is the way mainstream social networks are designed. So yeah, bicameral echo chambers.

@evelyn Because you are interested in cat photos and want to socialize? 🤷

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network There are no liberals in the Russian government, only opportunists. Ban all imports and you'll wake up in a MadMax-like world sooner than you think. Even for China that is not feasible, modern world is too globalized: you can't live in isolation and still have nice things. The worst part — you can't invite scientists and engineers from all over the world to fix this and attract them with shiny stones and humble comforts of the nineteenth century. People want their modern stuff now.

@mo Более девяти тысяч шлёпанцев — это не для слабых духом, у-у-ух!

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network If there was a slightest chance for that to be feasible it would already have been done 😂

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network It hurts — in a way. You pay $6 for OpenArena, find a bug, report it to the dev listed in the Store, get ignored, try to find a fix yourself, discover the original dev & realize you could get the app and some support and still have your $6, get frustrated, shake your fist at the sky and say: "Damn you, MS and your fscking Store" — it's the last step they are trying to avoid, I think 😅
Not like they are are against payed for open source per se. The article mentions Paint.net as an example.

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network @thenewoil AppStore versions of apps are more restricted compared to the binaries you can download and install yourself. Some developers are not willing to invest extra time to comply with restrictions and provide support for these builds. Copy🐈🐈 don't have any problems as they are not planning to provide any support at all. It's a question of customer's false expectations — if cases like that are likely to happen why not act beforehand and put it in the store's policy? 🤷

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network @thenewoil In fact it was a real cancer in the early days of Apple's AppStore for Mac. You build something like OpenArena, slap a $6 price tag over it — done! Apple support even refused to remove stuff like this when reported.

@graf This is exactly what will happen. It won't magically turn Russia into an open source paradise. I've been using Linux-based OSes while living in Russia since the late 90-ies. At no point in time any of the common folk showed any interest in all of it. They will illegally download shady "builds" with integrated ransomware, but will not turn to Linux because some fucking reversi game from twenty years ago doesn't work.