To be fair the idiots are the followers. They are very smart scammers.

Skipped the gym? Not the Christ depicted in so many churches where he looks like an Olympic gymnast, 6 pack and all.

I don’t like unmatching cutlery. Every fork needs to be the same style and bent at the same angle so they can “spoon” neatly in the drawer. (Yes, incorrect the bend when I see one who deviates) What kind of monster do you think I am.

In fact, that’s why my wife and I live in different apartments. Her drawer loons like the thrift shop cutlery box. 😱

Edit: I’m just reading that people consider forks “bad” when the times are unaligned. It’s quite easy to align them. I check them after each wash. Using a knife to slightly bend them in place does the trick.

I always wonder what happened to forks in other houses where they are all bent. Do people chew on them?

What did you think I asked about Windows?

“Misterious”?. In that same line of thought, there have been some misterious décapitations of cartel members in northern mexico.

Windows 8 and that was at work. At home, windows XP, although I kept updating my dual boot “just in case” to see what was new all the way to windows 10. When I tried to upgrade to Windows 11 my desktop was no longer supported (no TPM). I used a workaround that failed and never cared to waste time. I may do it when I have more time.

I was still familiar up to Windows 10 as sometimes I helped my dad. He is quite technical but he is now 91 (still sharp enough to drive, socialize extensively, deal with bureaucracies, etc but tends to forget more than what he learns). Unfortunatelly he lives 4000 km away but when I go, there is always something I can help him with.

Ad I said. I realized I can’t have an opinion because my experience is old.

With that said following your tools analogy, and based on that old experience. imagine if over time, your tools became slower and slower until someone came to do maintenance and mine didn’t. Or if when you were closing shop for the day, the tools started updating and you couldn’t close the tool box.

Now, based on what other people are saying, imagine that every now and then your tools at home stopped to play an ad for more tools.

You wouldn’t see this from corporate tools because someone else takes care of it and it doesn’t show ads.

By the way. I used Windows really well (since the early days) so I could call myself an expert at the time. In my early life I was the one behind the scenes ensuring people could work seamlessly. I never really liked it the way I like Linux.

So no, not all tools are the same. But if you like yours, all the best.

I left before the ads era. That’s sounds awful. I’ll search to see how they look.

You mean my distros?

Different distros are the best for different purposes.

My Fedora is the best for my laptop because it just works and all the hardware is supported.

My Arch is the best because it’s a super fine tuned setup that prevents distractions and doesn’t waste memory or CPU doing things I don’t care about.

My mint is the best because it’s simple, stable, beautiful out of the box.

My debian is the best because servers are no nonsense.

My puppy Linux was the best when I was a developer for the distro because it was the smallest lightest and fastest distro I’ve ever used.

Etc.

And the rub should be radial, not circular.

Nothing can compare yet to YouTube.

The main reason is: YouTube is not only a distribution channel. It is also its own promotion channel tied to a search engine which magnifies that promotion.

You open YouTube and it offers similar videos tho what you’ve been watching. You search for something and there is probably a video (or many( matching what you are searching.

Other platforms are currently only distribution channels. You upload the video and promote it through other channels. Whether your own website or posts somewhere else.

Si, if you are a content producer and want to share, the current fediverse solutions are great, however it will need critical mass to attract content consumers.

And without content consumers, it will be hard to attract content providers who want a broad distribution and exposure.

So, let’s start moving out own content to the fediverse and use other channels to promote them. Let’s create a snowball effect. We could even post to several and see where the content consumers gravitate to.

The word “can” Is doing some heavy lifting here. I mean, there is a difference between theoretically possible and actually being done.

Oh. That’s because Christianity is tradition.

They’ll find an out the same way they found an out for having religious symbols in public property after bill 21.

Teachers can’t wear religious symbols, you see? But schools, hospitals, streets, etc can have prominent religious symbols and names, I mean, if it’s Catholic it’s tradition, not religion.