Actually yes.

In my childhood it wasn’t very easy to find a licensed copy (TBF, even pirate copy sometimes), but demos would be distributed with magazines etc.

And after playing a demo which you like a licensed honestly bought copy becomes emotionally much better than piracy.

It was a working mechanism. For games which are not crap anyway.

Trying on 6GB. As a Linux user I usually don’t need more RAM, so haven’t added any yet.

offtopic: on your 3. it’s also illegal to “discredit the Russian armed forces”, for which even “patriots” and Putinists get fined.

Let me introduce you to FreeDOS!

A README file is usually comprised of text.

Other than that - usually if it has a webpage, it has some screenshots.

If I’d want to rewatch Babylon V, I’d pirate it. Same for Star Wars (not even talking about despecialized editions, I just don’t want to give a dime to Disney).

It’s funny, I’ve never met anybody who’d have that kind of experience and use the word “hacker” in this meaning simultaneously.

A lot of the people who think IP jives well with the internet were the ones who looked at me weird when I said I had online friends circa 2000

This checks out.

Back when “FOSS” was “Free as in Beer” and fuck that Richard Stallman with his “free as in speech” bullshit.

I remember exactly the opposite, people being much more acutely aware of the difference, and Stallman being much more popular than now.

people like Bill Gates stealing the foundations of technology

Clarification? Movies about Steve Jobs excluded.

I mean, there’s the FAQ for this question among others, and it’s like asking why Linux and not some Windows 1337 Pr0 B00tl3g Edition.

This is a neat idea, but the requirement of installing a whole new piece of software just to decide if it’s worth exploring is already a non-starter.

That “whole new piece of software” takes many times less than loading a webpage FFS, how often do you visit new webpages? And some people also play games, is installing a game a non-starter?

Cool, I really want something like RPi, but with SATA on RISC-V. Maybe somebody will make “laptop” cases with normal deep travel keyboards for these too. It’s a possibility, at least.

It is static pages with hyperlinks, only in a different protocol. It’s supposed to be like upgraded Gopher with some good things from modernity and HTTP.

Static pages with hyperlinks have evolved into a certain horror we all know. One of the stated goals is that Gemini is not extensible by design. It’s not intended to easily grow additional features, even server-side theming of pages.

Why new protocol and clients - because of control. It’s a small protocol, clients are simple, they don’t need all the sandboxing and interpreting and DOM that web browsers have.

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

Ah, my workplace requires Telegram, but not WhatsApp. Still lots of people use WhatsApp, so I still have it.

It’s endgame for old WWW. Well, maybe Gemini will have its market glory moment, though commercialization is explicitly what its creators and users don’t want.

Well, I’ve made the point yesterday that it’s unfair if another person expects me to always use what’s convenient for them, but never returns the favor. And that there’s no desktop client for WhatsApp for Linux, and that my wrists are bad with touchscreens, and that Meta are bad guys.

It was unexpected, but this worked and I now have some XMPP contacts, relatives, of course, who else would listen to me on that.

The solution is not using crappy things. As simple as that.

Natural selection. Docker apes must suffer.

Windows, Mac, iOS and Android will all “work” even if you have no idea what you are doing and no plans to to learn.

Oh no they won’t. You’ll just replace iOS and Android devices too often to notice, and with Windows you’ve gotten used to fixing broken crap.

If something doesn’t work immediately it’s up to the user to search the relevant keywords and see if there is a is a fix

Worked much better for me that the alternative process under Windows. May be the main reason I switched.