Or maybe I should be allowed to use a device I purchase however I damn well please.

No. It’s a loss for everybody. It doesn’t save grandma, and it prevents power users from using the device they own.

That’s what’s great about reality: it doesn’t matter if you’re convinced.

Breaking news: people age

Spyware is not a virus because it does not self-replicate.

I mean, duh. Eggs don’t come out of the mouth.

Technically, everything about those games is stupid. Aside from the fact they are fun, I mean.

See, you say that as a Linux user.

Ordinary folks don’t talk or think like Linux people. Nobody understands what a “process” is, let alone what a container is or what isolation means.

And if somebody is used to “pres butan get bacon” anything else is going to sound like gobbledygook.

Also: a modern distro running gnome or KDE is harder to screw up. Folks don’t need to use clunky package managers like Synaptics. As a result, they are less likely to break things.

They’ve been doing this for probably as long as they’ve been in business.

Chuwi has been around for a long time.

I don’t believe the word “trust” has ever been used to describe that company.

c/shittyyoushouldknow

Cautiously optimistic.

It’s also not worth my time or money to track down old, beat-up Chromebooks and put Linux on them, and yet here we are.

I’m weird, so the things I find fun are weird.

I look forward to thrifting one in a few years, then installing Linux on it.

Attempted satiation of the curse. Probably.

Sir, if you are inserting actual shit, you’re not going to have much success either turning screws or making holes in things.

If we’re speaking philosophically, do we really know that an electric kitchen mixer, when fitted with a bit, would make a terrible drill? It’s probably not something that’s been tested or studied much, if at all.

For all we know, it would make an excellent one.

Maybe we should apply for grants, talk to labs. Set up some experiments.

They’d probably die long before they had a chance to try working.

The device is the drill.

The driver or bit is the thing you insert into the end of the drill.

Oh yeah, totally correct. But it bills itself as a “gaming distro.”