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I see your point. Considering the consequences of their policies, I think it is ok to call them out. Unfortunately, I don't think there is any argument to win there and I think the replier knows it. They have a point of view that is not based on science and imo that is devoid of critical thinking. It's hard to win an argument against that. The only way that I see to sway them would be for it to happen to them directly. And even then, they sometimes prefer to cut ties with their own kids. Having a kid, I just can't understand that.

Usually, when I argue with someone, I have 2 goals. The first is to test my ideas and learn new ones. The second is not to win an argument against the person I'm arguing against, but more to sway the bystanders. Those who watch silently. A reply as posted isn't bad in that regard.

You're both siding this though. The first one is completely made up, but the second one is a very real possibility.

This is TOTP. I use my password manager for that. I used to use Bitwarden, but I recently switched to 1password.

SSO means single sign on. If I sign on to Google, it automatically sign me on other apps. I use a forward auth on my self hosted services. I used to use authentik but I switched to google since it just works much better. If Google makes a shitty move in that department, I can always fall back to authentik.

I don't mind using proprietary softwares if they're good, I just prefer to think about an alternative in case I need to switch.

I installed this week, so I'm not a long time user. But it's by far the best self hosted photo app that I've used. Before that I used nextcloud, but the user experience isn't as good Imo.

The only things that I miss are automatic albums based on face recognition and pet recognition. I still use google photo to share with family though.

For Gmail, I switched to fastmail. For google photos, I switched for immich.

The services that I still use from them are google maps, YouTube and SSO. They are all services that I wouldn't mind them shutting down. It's just that I find them much better than any alternatives.

The Tidal subscription is only available for the account that subscribed to Tidal. Other users can also subscribe themselves, but it's per user.

You present western media as a single monoblock. It isn't. Even a single media is not a single coherent unit. Every journalist has his/her own voice since, contrary to China, we don't lock people up for voicing their opinion. Everyone can do investigative journalism. There are correspondants in most countries, when information comes up, it is verified as much as possible with people living there. When we talk about investigative journalism, the information is verified and usually corroborated by the other independent medias. If a media realize that the government propaganda doesn't match with reality, they can publish the story without retaliation. Not only that, but they would have quite the story and they will be quite happy to publish it.

You seem unfamiliar with all this, do you have free press where you live?

Equating Western propaganda (and yes it exists) with Chinese authoritarian state is precisely a China apologist attitude.

I replied because I wanted to. The fact that I replied doesn't have anything to do with your ability to convince people.

You're doing a poor job of it though... What your doing is going on posts that have nothing to do about America and saying "yeah, but America is bad". Most people here are aware that america does a lot of bad things. But denying that China is magnitude worse for its citizens isn't "not to defend China".

You sound like a China apologist more than anything. You convince nobody by doing that.

You should learn about something called free press and specifically the consequences on the societies that have that compared to others. It doesn't immunize a population against propaganda, but its effects are much more tame. Also free press also means that you can have main stream media that goes against the government's narrative. This is just not possible everywhere.

Of course we are bombarded by American culture, but science and investigative journalism still exists and where I live, we don't lock people up for having "bad" beliefs or for simply investigating and sharing ideas.

On my surface go 3, I used pop os at first and the screen tearing was so bad that I stopped using it. I then changed for arch with gnome on wayland and everything works much better.

Though, for my main computer, I recently switched my main OS from Windows and went for Hyprland on Arch. I love it. Most applications run fine. Though I have a 3080. This means that most electron apps are very slow, almost unusable. Also, some applications just refuse to open, notably Plex. For jellyfin, half the time the screen is black and I need to restart the app. I also have a KVM switch that I use for my work computer. When I switched to it and came back, I got a red screen of death for which I had to exit Hyprland and get back to SDDM to log back in. I was able to start and play games though. Global shortcuts didn't work easily (feature, not a bug), so I want to use a support app for Path of Exile. Impossible on Wayland. And finally, I tend to use a screenshoting tool. Flameshot isn't available on wayland so I used snappy, but it doesn't freeze the frame, rendering it useless.

Now I switched over qtile in X11. Everything works fine, electron apps are much more snappy. Most importantly, the WM doesn't crash when I use my KVM, so my sound device works perfectly. The only issue I'm facing is the audio, there seem to have a very small delay (I'm using pipewire).

The only thing that I miss now is a way for me to assign an audio output to an application so that if I close the application it even restart my computer, that assignment is still remembered. Currently I have a tool that does that that I autostart with my WM, but it doesn't redirect the audio, it just adds the other assignment without removing the default audio output.

There you go, wayland is not recommended if you have a nvidia GPU, even though it still works.

Yep, best thing ever, I bought a GaN charger, 100W 3 USB-C and 1 USB-A. It's small and light. I carry it around everywhere. I even bring it at my client's office instead of the power brick they gave me since it's so small.

Just make sure you have plenty of wattage. For instance, my job laptop uses a 65W adapter. If I want to charge this at the same time as my phone, I would need at least 90W to cover everything (65+25). So I have more power than necessary In order to be able to charge everything at once. Also, make sure to. Heck the adapter on how it distributes power trough the ports. My configuration could not be supported on a 3 port if for example they decided to split the power 55+45. But mine is 65+35 with 2 ports so I'm fine.

Just don't care and use them. People understand them. Maybe they're not used to hearing it, but it doesn't matter. This is what I do and never cam across someone who was so dense that he didn't understand me. I also never had someone tell me that it was strange to do so.