At least 1 and 2 are, I can't speak for any past those as I haven't played them.

Plus, in the remaster of 1 they have a setting so people can play duplicates of the characters, so no more "arguments" about who gets to be spiderman thief.

Sure, and that's just as valid points against them as well. For my part at least, none of this is meant as some sort of death knell, or direct damning evidence that some software is some sort of terrible piece of garbage.

I just refuse to believe that someone would literally be entirely incapable of comprehending any of the reasons people dislike systems to only be capable of engaging with the criticisms in bad faith.

That only has impact on the security risk surface exposed for your own install and for troubleshooting on your own machine. The maintainers and other coders on the project still have far more space, complexity, and features to cover.

It's not a death knell by any means, but still a valid cause for concern.

As someone who designs systems as part of his job, "it violates Linux philosophy" is a perfectly valid reason to hate something as critical and low level as an init system.

I think "hate" is a strong word, mind, but following consistent design patterns and constraining scope matters. The problem is that it's one of those things that doesn't tend to matter until shit hits the fan.

The scope creep exponentially raises the efforts needed to properly test, troubleshoot, secure, and just generally work with the project code. The unique design creates rough edges for integrations with other pre-existing systems and tools, while also raising the effort needed for troubleshooting when something goes wrong.

There's also the whole "Chesterton's Fence" aspect to a lot of it, where the project runner's overall attitude has been dismissive of existing conventions and separation of functionality.

There's a lot of perfectly valid reasons to dislike it. That said, I think full on hate is extreme for an aspect of the overall Linux "system" and "user experience" that most users never interact with. Like having an opinion on the order your BIOS handles things in.

Even with a surface knockoff you should be able to plug in stuff. Even if it literally only has a USB-C charging port and runs Android, you can still get a USB-C to A adapter for ~$10 and a cheap USB keyboard for about the same price. That'll work on PC too. Basically if there's a port on the thing there's a way to get an external keyboard plugged in.

Yeah no, 3 second in and I'd uninstall the app. God, the website with an ad blocker is fucking bad enough, why in the world would you opt into more tracking?

Controlled opposition anyone? Reminds me of some of the anecdotal shit that happened around Occupy Wall Street

I, uh, definitely would have worded this with more care, but if anyone believes their side is somehow immune to corporate interests funding or manipulating drama and outrage? It's dumb to think that the rich sociopaths would uniquely mess with one political side while leaving another completely alone.

Nothing to do with any side being right, wrong, better, or worse. Everything to do with rish assholes being rich assholes.

Yup!

For #1, it absolutely is possible, but the technique has changed over time. You pretty much have to look it up every time, and check older methods until you find the way that works with the version you're using. Last I checked you needed to disconnect any NICs, then hit one of the F keys during setup to get to the command prompt, then put in a specific command, then reboot into setup again. Been years though.

For #2, Command Prompt doesn't because it's still the same shit it was from the 90s. They have an open source program called Windows Terminal that supports tabs, multiple environments, most of the nice stuff you'd expect from a good Linux Terminal, but they don't include it by default so you have to install it yourself.

#3 and #4 are pure bullshit. 1 and 2 are as well, but at least they have reasonably reachable workarounds.

How can purity go above 100? Is this concentrated cocaine? Supposed to water it down first or something?

Fair enough. I was more just trying to say that dogpiling on the guy wouldn't change anything.

As far as them showing their ass again, I'm pretty sure that by the time you made this comment, they had already made their "public statement". And doubled down.

They claim that the targeting of trans/queer places was due to the violent rhetoric they saw going on in the spaces. Surely it's against deserving targets, but this guy feels that calling for the death of people isn't ok no matter the target. Theoretically if there had been spaces not allowing that, they wouldn't have blocked those ones.

We won't know because the spaces that do exist do also allow it. Personally I think that people should be able to express those extreme emotions, and that other people shouldn't be forced to see it if they don't want to. Personal filters, potentially based off crowd-sourced lists are what makes sense to me. My issue with this whole thing is that they did it secretly, and did not actually give users options to opt-out. Then at that point there's not even a point about arguing what the motivations were.

But as it stands, the guy's an ass. And confirmed it in less than 12 hours.