A CEO of an American car company

I believe you refer to a certain CEO, but even so, the rest is unnecessary.

Republican laws working as Republicans intend.

Cruelty and oppression was always the point.

Corsair

I believe I found the problem.

I’m not sure Microsoft would agree, but I feel that’s fair game since the registry is readily available and accessible to any user. It seems clear that Microsoft now treats Windows as a marketing tool to get people to subscribe to their other services, anyway. The way they cram marketing and adverts into every process and corner of the OS, it’s a wonder they are still trying to charge at all.

Aha, I didn’t realize that was an option.

I see there’s a notesnook-sync-server project. Thanks for pointing that out or I’d have missed it!

I think people here are honest about Linux, but there is a catch that often isn’t clarified - there are many distros and desktops out there and they are all optimized for particular use-cases.

Want to game and nothing else without technical headaches? Bazzite. Want to game and love to tinker? EndeavorOS. Want to do productivity stuff? Ubuntu, Kubuntu, or Fedora.

Want updates fast, including graphics drivers? Arch or openSuse Tumbleweed. Want stability instead? Debian.

MacOS fan? GNOME desktop. Windows fan? KDE Plasma or Cinnamon desktop.

It goes on and on. I still keep a Windows partition because a few things I need simply wont work properly on Linux no matter what I do… notably, the Affinity suite. But Linux as a whole is getting better fast. More people are working on it and that work is starting to snowball. I’m hopeful that in a few years I’ll finally be able to get away from Windows entirely… but you’re right, not everyone can. Not yet.

A freedom-focused decentralized platform is naturally going to attract people who love freedom-focused decentralized software. You should learn to love that about Lemmy, lest your own misguided desires contribute to your suffering.

Check out the debloat script. It can’t get rid of everything (like Edge) but it makes a HUGE difference.

https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

Windows 11 does not allow Edge to be removed. There may be some roundabout ways to do it, but the system actively puts up a LOT of roadblocks. It’s extremely trashy.

Windows 11 is freely available through official channels and only disables some personalization GUIs if you don’t activate. But you can still customize things without the GUI. There may be other gotchas to force you to pay up, but piracy isn’t even necessary.

“Do not kill”… unless he insists you commit genocide so you can take someone else’s land.

I’m talking about the Amalekites, though history clearly repeats itself…

I just checked it out and at first it looked perfect… then I started noticing local features like exports, notebook counts, etc that were paywalled behind a subscription. For an app that is “open source” that really rubs me the wrong way. I may look through the source code later. I have a feeling they’ve tied those features arbitrarily to web services to drive subscriptions, which would be really creepy… though not as creepy as if the code exists locally and is paywalled. sigh

I just like how overtly humanist and socialist Jesus’ teachings are. “Rich people are evil. Be good to others and share everything you have with those in need. If you don’t, my daddy takes that personally and will burn you like the trash you are at the end of time.”

It’s wholesome.

I haven’t heard of notesnook. I’ll need to check that out.

I don’t love Obsidian, it’s just the best free app I’ve come across so far.

This reminds me of the words of Frederick Douglass.

…between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference—so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of the one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels. Never was there a clearer case of “stealing the livery of the court of heaven ​to, serve the devil in.” I am filled with unutterable loathing when I contemplate the religious pomp and show, together with the horrible inconsistencies, which every where surround me.

• Frederick Douglass, 1845

The entire thing is worth reading. The “corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land” is clearly the very same that overwhelmingly persists and thrives today… 180 years later.

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Narrative_of_the_Life_of_Frederick_Douglass,_an_American_Slave/Appendix

Replace OneDrive with a NAS. You can roll your own with something like OpenMediaVault.

Replace OneNote with Obsidian. It’s not FOSS, but it’s free and cross platform.

Good on them. Those are all solid choices.

I prefer Evolution over Thunderbird, personally. But to be fair, there aren’t any mail clients for Linux that I would say I genuinely like. I’m always open to suggestions, though.

Ok, fair.

In my defense, I wasn’t thinking of mass market brands, but things like korean bbq taco trucks, NY style pizza, smoked beef brisket, cajun seafood boil, pumpkin pie, and other crazy fusions created by a mingling of the worlds immigrants making due with they can get.

Unfortunately… gestures everywhere

I’m sorry. I only downvoted you for slandering our food. The rest is accurate.

If you don’t see the enormous double standard you applied in your last comment, then there’s nothing more for anyone to discuss here.