• @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      407 months ago

      Ubuntu is actually falling down the ad hole lately. It’s not great, even if you leave out the technical issues that the distribution leans into these day (snaps, amongst other things)

        • @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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          7 months ago

          In the system update dialog, you’ll see something like:

          You’re not getting 53 critical security updates! Join Ubuntu Pro to keep yourself safe!

          Ubuntu Pro is a subscription service.

          This is seriously at the level of Norton “AntiVirus”, and it’s truly absurd and nakedly predatory.

            • @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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              137 months ago

              Fair point.

              Counterpoint: why should I be compelled to give Canonical literally anything besides using the package manager to say “I’m using your software and I want the update”? Why do we need this additional new corporate-authorized side channel? What benefit does this yield, outside the realm of profit?

              • @ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world
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                27 months ago

                I agree.

                They’re a for-profit company, ubuntu pro is supposed to entice business customers. You and I get introduced, because canonical hope that we might use ubuntu profesionally and they gain a new customer. I don’t hate it personally, but I see why people don’t like it.

          • Dojan
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            77 months ago

            Wait, they’re withholding security updates unless you pay? Hope they go bankrupt.

      • @kusivittula@sopuli.xyz
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        17 months ago

        does kubuntu have the same issues? kinda want to go for a debian or ubuntu based kde distro and kubuntu is always highly recommended.

    • palordrolap
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      87 months ago

      Not sure I’d want to see that, tbh. It would only introduce more avenues for DDG to make questionable choices when they’re already on thin ice.

        • circuscritic
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          57 months ago

          Can you only get hard by trolling? Or are you just really seriously lonely and depressed?

            • circuscritic
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              27 months ago

              To bad, your missing out on the revealing dialogue I had with him IMO.

            • circuscritic
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              47 months ago

              AIDS? So sexual frustration is definitely a key part of your pathology. Interesting.

              Tell me, how often do you think about close female relatives of yours? Are you mostly imagining hurting them, molesting them, or both?

              I’m betting it’s both.

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                  7 months ago

                  I’m sensing genuine hostility here, so clearly I struck a nerve.

                  Tell you what, I think that’s enough introspection for today, I’ll let you get back to finding sexual release through trolling.

                  Honestly, I think that’s probably healthier than whatever you had planned for that female relative of yours. If this helps keep her safe from your instability and acting on fantasies of violence, sexual or otherwise, I think you should keep on trolling.

                  Godspeed my sick little buddy, godspeed.