I’m a tech conservative?
Grats on Arch Linux install, S-tier distro for what it attempts to accomplish.
It feels like there needs to be a category in between conservative and paranoid. I’m probably 90% of the way over to tech paranoid but using Tor Browser and Tails is a little much.
Please tell me there aren’t two more tiers to the right of paranoid. The last tier would just be “homemade pencils only.”
There’s one either side!
Edit: also, I’m at “Newborn Paranoid” and definitely feeling the pull towards tech paranoid. Writing this on Librewolf in Arch (btw) lol.
Grats on Arch Linux install, S-tier distro for what it attempts to accomplish.
For some reason, the best word to describe it in my mind is “fun”. Just fun to learn and play with, fun to install, fun to configure and customize, and fun to daily drive. Definitely not fun when a random package update breaks your system (looking at you grub), but that hardly ever happens anymore provided you don’t enable the testing repo.
Also pacman is the fastest package manager I’ve ever used.
Apt is very quick as well (with the nala frontend), no complaints there. I’ve been running Arch for the past 5 years and recently switched to Debian Stable. The “grub event” was certainly notable, but otherwise I don’t think Arch is really that unstable or gimmicky. Arch itself is a very solid and dependable platform - the reason I decided to move is because I really don’t need the bleeding edge packages from other projects anymore. With Flatpaks and all the rest of the /home-based package managers that are around now, I can keep a stable base system and install a couple bleeding edge packages that I want, instead of being forced to run my entire system as bleeding edge (do my printer drivers really need to make me bleed?).
Overall, I’d say the Arch experience is as high quality as the Debian experience, they just target different usecases. Neither of them is better, it’s just up to the user how bloody they want their system to be.
Also pacman is the fastest package manager I’ve ever used.
I hope you enabled parallel downloads, that makes it fast as fuck.
Is it really not that stable? I’m trying to switch from ext4 because of the built-in compression
Also the middle should be called Tech Centrist or Tech Social Democrat, daring to use the projects from philosophical minorities is not conservative at all.
I’m in the last column with the exception of thinking RMS is a misogynistic transphobe asshole
And the reason free software exists.
Also one of the only people I’ve seen who routinely attempts to ensure people don’t insult each other (like you have) on the mailing lists he frequents, so he gets another point in my book.
Mmm, people only get so many bites at the “vociferously defending pedorasty’” apple before you’re written off in my eyes. He is far beyond that point, even after decades of having to listen to people make appeals to authority.
Just finished reading up on Luke Smith. Yup. Fucking hated everything he had to say
Tech conservative. What does it mean if I use librewolf?
Somewhere between Normie and Tech conservative?
Real bummer that Signal decided to shit the bed.
They stopped the dual support of both SMS and private messages (for “UX” reasons).
I’ve used it like 3 times since then, but to be fair, I have used it.
Yeah that really made it hard to convince normies to use it. Have you found a similar replacement that does e2e privacy if both using the software and sms/rcs as a backup if not?
