Alaknar

Thank you for being the sane one.

I've recently stumbled upon a lot of people like whoever wrote the article, rampaging all over the place, going "Linux is more user-friendly than Windows", which is just an insane thing to say.

Linux is great, I love my Garuda to bits. But games are still optimised for Windows, we still need to use compatibility layers to get them running, and even though it's gotten MUCH easier these days, there's still a lot of titles that require tweaking/hacking. And some just refuse to run, period.

And then you have all the hardware compatibility issues that come with manufacturers just not supporting stuff. I can't turn my GPU's RGB off without Windows. I had to distro-hop to get the GPU drivers working correctly (it might be a "skill issue", but that just proves the point, I think). Even titles that are marked as Gold on ProtonDB sometimes crash or refuse to run randomly.

But will you possibly quit drinking if they do?

Try asking any female friend

Why don't you also ask him to end world hunger while you're at it? He has equal chances at both.

Pro-tip: stop being a fundamentalist, and you won't be getting compared to one.

Small steps? What small steps are you talking about? We both know there are none

Yeah, absolutely nothing's been done (other than two court cases, one ban, and a bunch of further actions I outlined).

It's a shame that you're so thoroughly brainwashed into this tribal attitude, mate. You seem like a smart person, but somehow, when it comes to this "us vs them" you revert to a mindless fundamentalist no different than a Taliban blowing up statues...

I hope you find it in yourself to take a step back and look at things from a wider perspective, to see that you can applaud the good moves of a bad party, while still pointing out the bad ones.

Peace!

try and look at what I am saying outside the lens of internal US politics.

I'm not from the US, I think this is how I'm looking at this.

An oligarch gang does not engage in good faith with respect to anti-trust

I already said this a couple of times, but seems like I have to repeat it: nobody in the conversation (Yen included) believes Trump did anything "in good faith". I specifically stated that I believe whatever anti-trust policies and actions Trump has made were done explicitly in bad faith, as an attempt to get back at "Big Tech" for being "anti-right-wing".

To try and imply otherwise (and be all high and mighty about it) is essentially mocking your customers.

He didn't "imply otherwise". Not once has he stated that he "believes in the long term mission of the Republican party to fight for the rights of the consumers". He only said that Reps became anti-Big Tech recently and that it's good.

Again: there are no statements of intent, ONLY statement of fact.

The examples you cited mean nothing

I'm sorry, what??

You asked "what were the good things [Reps did]". I gave you examples. You didn't ask "what did the attempts accomplish", did you?

Considering it's the US we're talking about, and how hilariously long some court cases can take, it'd be a miracle to see ANYTHING come out of these cases before 2030 (assuming they're not trashed now that Big Tech is back in bed with Trump, of course).

However, it is an undeniable, objective FACT that these cases are a start, that these examples show anti-Big Tech attitude, and that these are examples of Trump admin's (accidental) fight for the betterment of the life of "the little guy".

then you would actually highlight some real world results

Did you forget about the Tik-Tok ban? Again, you asked for examples of actions, not results. Considering how fresh things are (it all started fairly late into his previous term), I don't know why you're expecting many examples of results, that's just being extremely unrealistic.

Although I will say there is a beautiful irony in the following phrase (...)

Well, that's because you still seem to be thinking in a kind of "all or nothing" way. It's either "Trump == Hitler" or "OMG I love Trump" for you - no inbetween. It's either "they completely obliterated Big Tech" or "absolutely nothing accomplished". It's like you don't believe in small steps? I honestly am baffled by your responses so far.

This whole situation is baffling. It's literally:

Me: Guy said X, not Y.

You: Well, he shouldn't have said Y.

Me: But he didn't.

You: But he very well didn't say Z, therefore he meant Y.

It's just... weird to me.

Anyway, maybe read THIS comment by Yen which he made just 3 months ago, and THIS post from a day later.. It sheds some more light about his stance on things.

I don't see any malicious intent in there, do you?

OK, so you missed the point of the discussion and have nothing constructive to add. Got it.

Then what does this mean?

Elsewhere, yes, I will happily call the proton guy a nazi supporter

Are you capable of stating what issue it is you see with my arguments?

Once again, you are the person in this thread arguing about the rightness or wrongness. The fact is he made a post praising trump

Oh God, we're running in circles, this conversation no longer makes sense.

I guess if I ever end up in a situation when I say "Trump accidentally did something good", I'm now a Trump supporter and I'm praising him, and I'm MAGA - in your book. Right? Oh, no, sorry, I'm actually a Nazi supporter! Well, fuck off, and fuck you.

Further, what you just said looks like a carbon copy of other bad faith arguments I’ve seen on lemmy on this subject

Have you ever stopped to think that maybe the reason you've seen "carbon copies" of those arguments is because these are not arguments, these are statements of fact? And the only thing making them "bad faith arguments" in your mind is that they go against your fundamentalist worldview of "us vs them"?

Don't bother answering, I know you haven't.

EOT on my end.

No.

I mean, it's probably reported as that a lot, but no, they didn't.

First of all: Proton provides privacy, NOT anonymity.

Second of all: the authorities knew the suspect used Wire. Subpoena on Wire revealed the user had a Proton email account. Subpoena on Proton revealed that they had an iCloud recovery email.

Once they subpoenaed Apple, they got all the data they needed - name, address, etc., etc.

Proton didn't give up their user, but they are legally obligated to provide any data they have on the user if a court orders them to. Had the user's recovery email been a Tuta address, or even another Proton mailbox, that would've been the end of it.