I fall under Tech Conservative mostly, but I would like to edit the last 2 points to this for myself:
“Believe every publicly traded company is inherently evil”
“Doesn’t morally support big tech, but uses some anyway”Same
Grats on Arch Linux install, S-tier distro for what it attempts to accomplish.
It feels like there needs to be a category in between conservative and paranoid. I’m probably 90% of the way over to tech paranoid but using Tor Browser and Tails is a little much.
Also the middle should be called Tech Centrist or Tech Social Democrat, daring to use the projects from philosophical minorities is not conservative at all.
Conservatives are always trying to make themselves seem “cool and different” like the middle guy in the meme. Being anticonsumerist, pro-privacy and pro individual liberty is far from actual conservative policy goals but they obviously have to pretend otherwise.
Conservative means “not extreme”
E.g. conservative estimates
Words can have multiple meanings - it might be best to find one that doesn’t have the same baggage that conservative has, such as “risk-averse”
Not extreme is rather moderate. Conservative estimate means there’s a tendency to not change what was estimated in the past. Moderate would mean that a small change would be accepted.
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Both projects sound great, thanks for explaining
Do you know how Mullvad browser compares to Librewolf?
Tor/Mullvad are better for anonymity use cases, but when you go tweaking it (settings, add-ons) you are no longer blending in with the pack. LibreWolf suits a more privacy-oriented use case I think since it’s not aiming to mimic Tor, but just have privacy settings mostly maxed out & you opt into everything you are comfortable with, such as cookies—whereas base Fx you have to opt into more privacy.
I mostly use librewolf as a substitute for private browsing. Firefox is my go to for places where I log in
It’s librewolf if they had a VPN to shill to you
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Where did you read that?
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🏳️⚧️ Congratulations on coming out and I wish you a successful transition. 🏳️⚧️
bruh
lolll
What does MKBHD have to do with this? He’s just a tech reviewer who kinda fits between tech normie and tech conservative
What if my favorite OS is Mac, my favorite browser is Firefox, and my favorite app is self hosted?
I’m a tech conservative?
Yes. The meme said so and it is now universally and unrefutably true.
The fact that the favorite OS of the tech conservative is an Arch based distro and and a Debian based distro instead of pure Arch or Debian makes this meme inaccurate.
Tails is also total ass as a daily driver. I know, I did it for a long time before the lack of persistence was such a pain I had to give in. Like, you can save in your data partition, but having to install/configure everything on each boot sucks, and if you made the system partition writable it would defeat the point of Tails.
I don’t think Tails, backtrack, kali, and similar distros were ever intended to be daily drivers. I’ve only used them as live ISOs to leverage their very specific toolkits.
They weren’t. Or at least Tails wasn’t. I did it anyway.
I’m in the last column with the exception of thinking RMS is a misogynistic transphobe asshole
Luke Smith, too
Just finished reading up on Luke Smith. Yup. Fucking hated everything he had to say
Yeah… Its a shame
No idea who he even is, so sure
richard stallman, he made gnu
Is this a lemmy switcharoo joke moment? Because it was Luke Smith I had to go read up on
just read wrong sorry lol
Fuck RMS. A hideous, slimy grandpa attached to a computer.
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Mmm, people only get so many bites at the “vociferously defending pedorasty’” apple before you’re written off in my eyes. He is far beyond that point, even after decades of having to listen to people make appeals to authority.
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I’m a software engineer that uses windows and firefox, has no social media accounts (minus message boards), and owns a google pixel. Be confused. You can’t stop me.
This is the way. Because all the rest of that other stuff is fine and dandy… but I gotta work, and jobs often requires a Windows environment. Video games are plug n’ play w/ windows. I know about proton, but for now… it still isn’t perfect. Firefox because it works just as well as Chrome without the feeling of Google overseeing everything. Most social media has turned to constant ads and trash, and Pixel because Apple locks down their phone with little to no customization.
If proton can handle starfield at launch, its jover for windows.
Chaotic neutral
has no social media accounts
I regret to inform you that you are posting this comment on a social media site/app.
(minus message boards)
I regret to inform you that you stopped reading.
“I can’t live with modern tech anymore”
uses modern tech
A truly paranoid individual unplugs every piece of technology and uses nothing with screens, buttons or electricity going through it.
We call them The Amish
The truly paranoid are not reading this on here :p
I run arch, have the latest iphone, watch MKBHD, amd use tor… so…. yeah i dunno
Middle panel on most points, but only because too dumb & impulsive to be tech paranoid.
Don’t be dumb & impulsive, kids, it is not a good mix.
I’m between conservative and paranoid and watch mental outlaw.
Same, the best of both worlds and a weird cat thing
Tech normie also uses VS Code as a text editor sending data to Microsoft & using proprietary plugins.
tbf vscode is a decent, open-source editor with great support for Rust (it’s rust-analyzer’s primary platform with nvim and Clion on the second place)
(but the official ms packages ship with a custom config with ms telemetry, branding and marketplace)
basically just use code(oss) or vscodium instead of binary vscode releasesMost of the language servers can run with Vim, Neovim, Helix, Kakoune, or Emacs as you noted. You could run VS Codium if you’re the “Tech Conservative”, but ultimately if you’re going all the way to “Tech Paranoid”, you won’t touch VS Code or Codium knowing Microsoft is steering the ship with another EEE plot in mind. It’s all a part of that package with Microsoft™ GitHub® + Codespaces® + Copilot® trying to vendor lock-in the developer experience into the platform.
It’s “open source” as a technical matter, but the fact is that plenty of common extensions are still strictly controlled by Microsoft (like say, Live Share) and can’t be used with vscodium due to licensing. It’s a pretty useless editor without extensions, and the marketplace isn’t exactly “open”, either.
most extensions I use are available on openvsix
don’t care about proprietary C++/C# debuggers because I use CodeLLDB (with Rust-analyzer).
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Yep, you best pull your Chad chaps, & decide what’s better: Church of Emacs or the Cult of vi.
Give me neovim or give me death
That’s still Cult of vi. It counts. But you have to choose one side & fight for it til you’re freed of your mortal coil.
Love my Neovim, it’s a program that’s been nothing but good to me.
