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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • I want to use free open source software, and if I were a business customer I would certainly want my business to use free open source software when reasonable.

    If all we’re doing is sharing files and messaging each other, I don’t know why we would need Teams. There are so many other options that work quite well.

    I don’t hate it, but I don’t think it would typically solve my problems in ways that other software doesn’t already do better.


  • From an advertising perspective, it’s important to think about who you’re targeting. Who are your likely customers? Certainly there are some based on the strengths that you raised.

    However, some people are definitely not a good target audience, and some people is actually a very large group of people. There are a lot of current and potential users who essentially want the standard major applications to work, and they’re not going to touch the root partition, and they want things to be very simple. For people like that, Debian or Ubuntu or Fedora already do what they want. And these major operating systems have been around for so long that people will naturally be more confident using them, because they were their friends have experience, or because they think the organization has more stability because of its experience.

    Of course a lot of things depend on how you define words, but to me the above paragraph describes the mainstream audience, and I don’t think you’re going to have much luck reaching them, because I don’t think the thing you’re trying to sell gives them extra value. In other words, it’s not solving a problem for them, so why should they care.



  • What does your question mean? What is “people are worse”?

    Cops are bad everywhere. They will ally themselves with anyone who is rich and powerful. Cops don’t care what party the judge or mayor is in, because power is the point.

    Non-white people who physically resist the pigs or open carry, for example, know that there’s an extra high chance the racist pigs will smoke them. At the same time, they get targeted more just because of their appearance. So the data on who acts in what ways around cops is skewed in weird ways.





  • Sometimes people use FB to look up old acquaintances. I don’t, but it is a thing that one could do, and in fact many people do it.

    Probably this also depends how often you moved. For example, if you moved away at age 18 and then somewhere else at age 22 or whatever, and will never go back to where you once were, it’s probably not so interesting to keep track of the past jerks. But if you’re still in the same city or region, maybe you would care more.