DarkThoughts

I would’ve, or rather had at the time of its creation, fully expected it to shut down either way. Because that’s kinda been the trend with most new Mozilla products from before the new CEO anyway.

Because Arch users would’ve shunned me for asking for support when I don’t use literal Arch.

You know what’s great about modding? You can decide for yourself what you want to use and what you don’t want to use. You customize the game to your personal liking.

I’m specifically talking about the EOS forum, which was just dicks throwing insults towards me having a support request and the admins consequently closing the thread and hiding it, telling me to make a new one if I still need support.

Can’t recommend EOS. Awful community when something breaks. Definitely not something for people coming from Windows.

Ubuntu’s packet manager Apt was already kind of awful in many ways, especially with its PPA hell. But them adding Snap packages somehow managed to make them reach even new levels of awful.

I’d argue 7000s series and up since they actually have AI cores on the board. Any sort of AI crap on the previous generations is such a hassle that I doubt they’ll support them.

I think retaliatory downvotes happen either way if you’re in an argument. Same with report abuse, which, if it happens to a high degree, would be the moderator’s responsibility to ban the perpetrator (reports here are not anonymous like they were on Reddit).

Also, if there’s someone with an abusive mind, they can easily use another instance that shows Activity to identify downvoters. The vote is public either way for federation purposes, they’re just hidden from certain instances - at least on the user level, but they’re still there technically.

Fedia hiding the activity is one of those things that I kinda dislike, as it was an easy way to detect certain trolls.

Just check the reviews, or the permissions.

That one is scummy as hell.

I’m talking products and you come with components. Thanks for proving my point though.

I also specifically talked about Chinese products, as in Chinese brands. A Chinese company is going to have a different set of quality assurance & oversight than a western company that buys in Chinese components or does their manufacturing there. It also makes a difference in how much monetarily you are supporting the Chinese regime directly.

Like, I understand the markets are fucked beyond belief at the moment, to the point where there are niches without any or just bad alternatives (especially if money is an issue), but our consumer mentality still is partially responsible for how those markets shape and evolve.

And another person with a broken reading comprehension…

I think your reading comprehension is broken.

I think you want to work on your reading comprehension. The topic is about politically problematic mbin instances, not how mbin works.

You still directly support the Chinese regime though.

A Western company still has a different level of oversight & quality assurance than a Chinese company.

I don’t buy Ubisoft games but that is almost tempting.

There’s still non Chinese companies…