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Techschizo:
"Technology is a satanic ritual designed to open the pentagram on Saturn to let the energy vampires into our universe"
"Hehe just one package, no I don't need the tracking info"
"They glow in the dark and I run them over in my car"
"The numbers don't add up"
"Hey can you leave the heat on during your vacation? It gets a little chilly in the walls"
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I feel like the still running Windows 7 puts me in the Tech Conservative at this point.
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Running a version of Windows that no longer receives security updates puts you in the "silently mining cryptocurrency for Armenian drug lords" category.
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Why does svchost.exe eat up 16GB vram?
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I feel like a newbie who watches Luke Smith videos or uses GraphineOS just has a strange threat model to me.
I simply don’t think the desktop paradigm serves most normies well to begin with but especially with windows straight up putting adware on base install.
There’s an excellent security case to be made for iOS and Apple devices and I say this as a lifelong Linux guy.
But if you get all your tech opinions from maladjusted high schoolers on /g/ I guess it makes some sense?
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not really. iOS and MacOS have superior sandboxing, but this is because the apps are malware.
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Designing with proper capabilities in mind from the start clearly has benefits vs. slapping on workarounds to models that never considered a hostile world.
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capabilities have long been an inadequate model
really the main benefit of iOS is that they actually review the apps coming into the app store and checks if capabilities are being observed
The way iOS sandboxes every part of their OS has long been better than Android, but Android has caught up.
Also GrapheneOS is useful because it's testing the limits of security on Android and those ideas get cycled back in. Even if you don't use it.
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/g/ has created a lot of r-slurs who think LISP is a benchmark for hiring a software engineer.
The Luke Smith stans are pretty cringy as well if you've seen them.
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Doing Scheme is the only time my brain really clicked with programming.
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Black Luke Smith is more popular these days.
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at this point @grizzly have spent way more time reading comments of r-slurs repeating other r-slurs saying @grizzly supposedly spend all @grizzly's time troubleshooting
@grizzly say this as a feminist ally
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This is why getting a MacBook is the real cure to distrohopping
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i say this as a feminist ally
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Me on the left
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paranoid chads RISE UP
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That's me, bimothy, in the middle![:marseywave3: :marseywave3:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseywave3.webp)
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OP is a heterosexual
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No it should be in the conservative's favorite apps
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another person who I have no clue on why they are popular
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not including arch linux in tech conservative makes this list TRASH
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It may even be on the paranoid one. Most of the hardcore security guys I know used Arch (or similar) because Tails is obviously unusable.
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if you don't run the software your own cpu without propietiery backdoor blobs, its over for you anyway, techslave![:marseysmugautist: :marseysmugautist:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseysmugautist.webp)
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blobs![:soycry: :soycry:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/soycry.webp)
I had a friend who ranted about those
they are everywhere in (default) Android despite being "open source". I trust that OS way less than iOS after going deep into it, unless you use some locked down version which is no fun.
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I dont think there the iphone is more "trustable" then google pixel for example. its just that most android phones are basically shovelware that get barely any security patches after their salesdate
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people who use linux have no friends and are neurodivergent. every functioning human uses windows or macOS lol
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where's
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Don't kid yourself.
Your average "tech conservative" doesn't use brave or firefox.
Your average "tech conservative"doesn't use f.lux or ubuntu or some shit.
Your average "tech conservative" sticks to Win10/7 and uses Opera. Not some gay half working linux shit.
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The frick are those os
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its well known that real schizos use qubes not tails or gentoo
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Middle is a cuck, only right makes sense
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Fiscally Left
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^Techspaztics yet again obsessed with cuckoldry
Middle way or no way!
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I would use tor more if it wasn't the slowest browser known to man.
Yes, I know why it is slow. I'm just saying it's inconvenient.
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Isolating myself from normie apps/internet is why I don't have any friends.
The only people I talk to these days are Telegram terrorists and you r-slurs smdh
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Is Gentoo still around and kicking? I remember playing with it like 8 years ago. Did the whole compile your own kernel thing, spent hours going through config menus and tweaking shit on and off to see what would work. I think another couple hours just getting the audio subsystem up and running.
It was educational I guess, but I can't imagine actually using it for anything outside a hobby.
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Facts
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What if you have an iPhone but run tor on it and use gmail but name your account something super racist like “Jewish chadKilla420Goku”?
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Frick
, where are the spores. ![:marseyshroom: :marseyshroom:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyshroom.webp)
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Luke Smith doesn't even talk about tor or tails or gentoo or irc. And you are forgetting i2p, firejail, non-intel managmenr engine/amd etc.
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