This is 100% the experience I have had. Could not vibe harder with this.

Most of the time people have paid a premium for their new watch, camera, door bell, service and you try to point out that it connecting to the cloud or AI is overly complicated and not required for the result they are so happy about. You go on to say that the company is probably selling, exploiting and using that data to minipulating you… But you just come off as unhinged.

There is nothing good about america atm the only benifit is that there are some really good examples of why “I’ve got nothing to hide” is deeply flawed. This helps cut through to normal people.

Ad Company: How do we sell mass surveillance… By helping sad kids and cute puppies. Keep it short so people don’t have time to think to hard about it.

All good. Checkout the flatpak called “gear leaver” for managing and updating appimages. It’s really helpful. If your using a ublue image it might already be installed.

I have used sivlerblue, kinoite and bazite. Each one of them could run appimages. What are you using?

You either die hero or live long enough to become sleepy Joe.

+1 bazzite as well. It comes with waydroid for android apps, its Linux (so WSL covered), it does have a gaming focus, it has various Virtualization tools (toolbox, box-buddy) but you can get other options depending on what you actually want.

Don’t like it you can rebase to one of the other ostree based images from uBlue or fedora with about one command and a reboot.

How many goes have that had with the hulk and spider man movies?

Asteroid mining startup to launch mission in early 2024

Also astroid mining will be a thing very soon.

I tried helping family and friends as well however the reasons why I wanted to switch (privacy issues and getting served start menu ads) where not shared.

Most people don’t care how something works or the moderations behind it just that it works and more importanty that it works exaclly the same way each time.
Ignoring an ad or slightly modifying your tolerance for a increasing shit process is more easy that trying a completely new approach.

The way Mac OS overcomes this is with “buy in”, its expensive so people are more motivated to actually learn the Mac OS way to do things so their purchasing choices are validated. There are more reason but this is a big one.

Just keep yours expectations reliatic. Just because someone complains about windows does not mean they are ready to switch.

Have not used windows on my personal computer and laptop for 3 years now. I still game, proton is awesome.