More like the author is so insecure herself that she feels forced to use these terms in the belief that they somehow strengthen her position.

That’s not what proprietary means. The dualism is proprietary/free (as in freedom), not proprietary/public.

How stupid must you be that merging layers takes you hours? It is a single button press. Exporting PNGs is a matter of under 10 seconds. It is clearly labelled in the dropdown menu.

Absolute you problem. GIMP is some of the best and most powerful FOSS ever made, and better than most proprietary applications. But this is probably just bait anyway.

Wayland at this point is just Works on my Machine™ tbh. That being said, it does work on my machine!

Imagine your brain not being in your sudoers file

Coffee cologne?

Isn’t Lemmy pretty much that?

A lab work group, like that one on Reddit. I cannot remember the name and I sure as hell will not go to that damned site, but it was basically full of graduate students and technicians that shared stories from their labs.

…which is totally reasonable because her allegations turned out to be unsubstantiated.

Yes, using the Wine translation layer.

For web browsing, that almost makes no difference. As long as the browser is being updated, the most important attack vectors are closed. Even if there are any exploitable vulnerabilities on the OS, that will stop malware from even getting to them.

Principally correct, but please note the difference between “open-source software” (OSS) and “free and open-source software” (FOSS). They are two related, but different philosophies, and principally, GNU/Linux belongs to the latter rather than to the former.

You can do that while sensitive information requires completely private. There’s really no discrepancy here.

Hopefully, not all is lost. He has appealed and hopefully a greater authority will overturn this ruling.

Lol any kind of flash storage suffers from degradation over time, it doesn’t matter whether you attach a computer to it or not

You can be smug and feel superior all you want, in the end, any contributions you could make would be worthless anyway :)

I don’t want it to have any JavaScript

That’s not going to happen. I also don’t understand why you wouldn’t want JavaScript. All the concerns with it are about the times when you access a website by a proprietary software maker and encounter obfuscated and opaque code that you can only with great difficulty reconstruct what it does. But JavaScript “in the right hands”, like on a FOSS website, is perfectly fine and even required to make a webpage that can actually do something more than simply display text or images.

That’s not the reason. The “PC” marketing term originated with the IBM PC, after which every non-Apple device attempted to make some name-wise connection to the former, spawning a series of so called “IBM PC Compatibles” that have principally lived on design-wise until the present day.

And why would that be? GNU and the Free Software Movement have made an amazing positive contribution to the entire world, including your life even if you do not use GNU/Linux. I find this unwarranted hate on the amazing people that developed the GNU utilities and their equally as astounding work to be extremely disrespectful and quite frankly very petty.