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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/42022906

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (5 children)

IBM had a role in the holocaust. Those numbers tattooed on everyone in the concentration camp? Those were IBM ID numbers for the punch cards.

If IBM staff protested about their role, it’s been lost to history. But it’s repeating today with Gaza and the staff who speak out are being demonized. Israel’s Lavender AI is being used to kill civilians. History will prove this woman and the other employees right in the end.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Linux time, nerds, who aren't already using it.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Textbook retaliatory, I hope they have a nice retirement

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sue the company and bring the details in to a the court of law.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Washington is an at-will employment state. Businesses may fire any employee at any time, for any or no reason, as long as they are not violating any employee protection laws. Speech is not protected.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

what else do you expect :D it's always about the money, if not helping jews would be more profitable they would do that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

You're a war profiteer Mustafa!

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I cannot recommend switching to Linux enough! Linux mint is a solid, stable OS with a thriving community and ample support for newcomers.

There are alternatives to nearly everything, yes YOU CAN absolutely live without microsoft or google tracking your every move, stealing your data, selling it and using that profit to fund unethical bullshit. Take back control, you will never regret it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Mint for general use.

Nobara or PopOS for gaming.

Edit - you know what's dumb about silent down votes? If you have an opinion, share it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

How hard is it to distro hop on your daily driver without losing your userdata/homefolder

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Put it on a separate partition and you can easily keep it for each new install. I did that for quite a while.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I installed pop os yesterday after repeatedly saying I hate Microsoft all week. Bye windows 11!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I used to be an avid Linux user a couple of years back -- but had to move to macos due to work. I however soon have the freedom to move back soon. Just out of cursiosity, do you know why people are recommending Mint over Ubuntu now?

I have no horse in the race, i'm just curious what changed as when i used Linux last time you would be recommended Ubuntu 95% of the time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Mint is Ubuntu with the icky proprietary Canonical stuff removed and with an extra layer of polish.

Mint Cinnamon even has a windows-like desktop/taskbar-like setup out of the box. I don’t know of any reason I might recommend somebody replace windows with Ubuntu rather than Mint.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ubuntu is run by Canonical and people have mixed opinions about them. It mostly stems from their insistence on using snaps to run apps when other versions are supposedly faster (flatpack).

I think that's the biggest issue otherwise Ubuntu is fine and I use it on all my VMs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah okay, thanks for the answer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

There's more. When you get away from Windows, you want to get away from ads. But Ubuntu is a commercial package that will remind you gently on occasion of this and include an ad for its own paid plan.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

wow! first I've heard of this

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Someone broke into my house on Tuesday and installed Linux Mint on my previously windows ThinkPad so I'm setting that up with all my productivity software today.

Fun fact I thought that my sound card was just gradually dying because I lost onboard speaker output 5 years ago, and lost any BT audio output last week, but it all came back after Mint was installed so I guess it was just windows being windows this whole time. I honestly just accepted that she would never speak again from her onboard speakers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Someone broke into my house on Tuesday and installed Linux Mint on my previously windows ThinkPad

Now that's my kind of mischief.

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