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  • I uh … actually don’t know. I guess I has enough of windows 10 three years ago and simply installed Linux.

    Wait no, it was my graphics card that had issues with Windows during Valorant gaming with my friends, then other games where the OS simply crashed and rebooted for no apparent reason.

    It sucked a bit at first as I couldn’t play with my homies, but there are other hero shooters that do work (like Rogue Company) and we played that then.

    So hardware was the pebble.



  • It is. Let’s look at activitypub, a protocol that allows decentralised services to talk with each other. The protocol is auditable, viewable and modifiable by everyone aka open source.

    Everyone can participate in it’s development.

    Closed source on the other hand is not auditable, viewable or modifiable unless you are part of the organisation. Only those part of the organisation can participate in it’s development.

    Furthermore the open source nature allows to fork by anyone for whatever reasons. Closed source doesn’t allow that.

    Changes in a source can affect everyone involved. In close source you can only assume what changed, see YouTube as a recent example or algorithm changes on Twitter or not being able to use your favourite software.

    So yes open source is political.