@iron_bug@friendica.ironbug.org, out of 3.3 billion end-user devices running Linux, only about 33 million of them uses free-ish distros thou'rt talking about. Please read what I wrote a wee more carefully because it seems I'm repeating meself here. Cc: @terminaltilt@climatejustice.social

I don't play proprietary garbage, so yes, @ninesigns@birdity.club, I can play my favorite modern games on BSD. If thou preferest the former on BSD, get a played station or sth idk. @terminaltilt@climatejustice.social @iron_bug@friendica.ironbug.org

@iron_bug@friendica.ironbug.org, our niche experience with GNU/Linux is not representative of the majority of Google/Linux systems deployed in the wild on end-user devices.

As an analogy, @terminaltilt@climatejustice.social said drink soda and you can avoid sugar, I commented most soda has sugar and thou replied with actually my sugar-free soda doesn't have sugar. Well yea, no shit, so doesn't mine, and that was my point, soda is a shit indicator that the drink doesn't contain sugar. What part of the reality that 99% of end-user systems using the Linux kernel are some variant of Android Google/Linux dostn't thou refuse to understand?

@iron_bug@friendica.ironbug.org, thou'rt living in a bubble if thou thinkest Google makes any of the mentioned activity easy (or even possible depending on the OEM). This is not the year 2000, distributions other than <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://awkward.place/emoji/stolen/android.png" title=":android:" /> Google/Linux are outliers, not the majority. Cc: @terminaltilt@climatejustice.social

@iron_bug@friendica.ironbug.org, I use Linux. and I have never ever used any SaaSS is a very different statement from what @terminaltilt@climatejustice.social suggested, i.e. use Linux and you'll be free from SaaSS, consider the majority of Linux systems force and trick its users to only know of SaaSS as the sole way to do things.

FWIW I use Linux kernel too and I don't use SaaSS, but the kernel could be swapped out for a BSD one and there'd be literally no difference to the way I do computing, hence Linux is hardly the representative for software freedom. The people behind GNU or OpenBSD or whatever free userspace, no matter how shit thou perceive them, at least don't try to fuck over people like what's on the front page of linuxfoundation.org.

Yea @snep@y.diskcat.com, I was replying to @terminaltilt@climatejustice.social who claimed using Linux is a solution against SaaSS, when it's really about empowering everyone with a free software. Linux is not a politically important part of GNU/Linux distributions (and GNU implementations too for that matter, but at least the GNU project, unlike the Linux Foundation, isn't advocating for proprietary software and SaaSS). Neither do GNU/Linux distributions hold a significant market share of Linux, most of which being Android that many people are already using.

Already did in that comment, but since I can't rule out custom emoji inaccessibility issues, Imma spell it out for thee, @snep@y.diskcat.com: Android Google/Linux.

Cc: @terminaltilt@climatejustice.social

You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.

@terminaltilt@climatejustice.social, this already happened, through the form of applications that are thin clients to SaaSS.

Run Linux. <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://awkward.place/emoji/stolen/tux.png" title=":tux:" />

Run <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://awkward.place/emoji/stolen/gnu.png" title=":gnu:" /> or something idk, but Linux users are renting computing powers through SaaSS. <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://awkward.place/emoji/stolen/android.png" title=":android:" />