I left it open ended so you could choose how to answer or how specifically. I guess I should have added more of a prompt. For me I was thinking independence from big tech or consumer culture.

X ray vision

I agree not sweeping Linux under the rug is important, but what about something like:

Doors: Powered by Linux

After all, Linux is just the kernel. It isn’t the operating system <insert long Stallman rant>. Saying ”Powered By" is both accurate, and the brand recognition horse shit people go for

Make no mistake. I don’t like that brand recognition is an important consideration, but it’s important to recognize what works for many people

I can see where you are coming from and chrome os is a good and bad example of what I mean. It’s a bad example because of the lack of transparency. It’s a good example because it creates a “brand” around the product. Linux lacks brand recognition to the average person, and when we approach getting folks on Linux, we do one of two things. We pick a brand for them, or we explain what a distro is and that linux is actually the kernel and that its really GNU/Linux or GNU and Linux etc. I want to get to the point a non technical user makes the choice themselves

Outside of just buying computers with Linux one them, imo the best scenario would be if there was a recognized brand, like chromeos, which people could point to and say “you’re good with computers and fuck windows. Can you install Doors?”. You have to admit an operating system called “FuckWindows OS” would be appealing to those who utter the words several times per day.

I’m also not suggesting we go guns blazing into doing this so much as presenting a consideration why we are less effective than we’d like and what we could add to our focus to improve conversion rates.

TLDR: Linux, or our representation of it, is confusing to the average person. Could we address this with a distro whose purpose is to establish a stronger brand?

Tridactyl

Sold

Why would you piss in a sink?

I’m working on getting my parents off of onedrive. Would you suggest using syncthing over nextcloud?

Is there incentive to swim in a smaller pool? Otherwise far enough not to smell it.

I’m the same way, but I end up buying something similar. Show me Wendy’s and I’ll eventually go to Burger King

Harambe

The people could easily overthrow the U.S military and all the police who protect the corpos and stuff.

Why haven’t we? It’s not for lack of gun

That’s just Florida being stupid

Perhaps, but the Florida Window is wide open

only thing that can save America is a revolution, and for that we need to be armed

The keyboard is mightier than the gun

Form meaningful trusting relationships with other people

People make arguments like “If you ban guns why not knives? They are both weapons.” The counter is the addage “don’t bring a knife to a gun fight”

You’re right you could make firearms in your basement, but they would be far less effective that something that came out of a factory.

Apropos of nothing, doesn’t reducing ease of access to something inherently hinder the use of it? Here, if you are reduced to having to 3d print or cast steel to have a weapon, isn’t that hindering use? Material conditions.

With an armed population, the state at least has to keep a venture of morality and legitment to the people

Or they need to be more heavily armed. Which they are.

Most of the world’s countries have already fallen to extreme orwellian authoritarianism and they are working on the U.S right now

And yet only we have armed drones in schools to prevent school shootings.

If you need to ask, it’s too late

Making small talk, humor, lying, empathy all work, but here I would suggest blaming something that mutually fucks you over. In this case insurance companies. And learn to lie in ways they couldn’t verify, and never offer unnecessary information that would fuck you over. (I.e. DO NOT mention the doctors)

So I would say something like “this is supposed to be a routine procedure, but insuranc3 needs to verify it is necessary. My grandma died from shit like that. Fuck them. I’m going to do everything I can to help you <insert name>”

ALWAYS learn people’s names. Fuck you if you “are bad at learning names” you are just lazy. Try until you can do it, even if you have to ask more than once. People actually appreciate it. Here, it personalizes the bullshit you are slinging and gets the person to believe you

Reality has a liberal bias

Memes only have because they reference an original work. AI strips the connection between the original work and the final product deliberately.