I wish I could do that, but it’s not worth the risk when my local guy wins and we lose massively at a federal level, so local guy can’t really do much of anything at all.

Which alternative should I have chosen: Voting for who I want and letting Cons win, or not voting at all and letting Cons win.

If the threat of losing the election was to the Liberals then yes. But until we ditch fptp we’re stuck with a two party system pretending to be a multi-party system.

I’m not sure that people voted for Carney as much as they were backed into a corner and forced to vote for him as a vote against Poilievre.

It needs reform, however not voting means you are just as okay with the elected official as you are somebody else getting voted in. If people cared to try to get him out, they would vote. In fact, with the system as broken as it is, it’s even more important to go out and vote if you don’t want him.

Most of Ontario didn’t even vote, so most of Ontario DID want him.

I like how we’re sinking more money into a dying industry instead of spending it to push renewables and become a leader there. What happens when our pipelines are worthless? Our land becomes fucked, our economy becomes fucked, and we have nothing left.

Democracy only works when people actually go out and fucking vote.

Gotta trigger people to go out and vote. We could have 999 elections, and they’d all have the same result if people continue to not bother voting. That’s why we are where we are now - everybody wants to bitch and complain, nobody wants to actually go out and make a difference when they have the chance.

Prob move to Alberta and take up residence under Smith’s desk.

He should tell that to the landlords, not the renters.

That’s not my point. My point is, they try Zorin, they don’t like it, and now they go on about how much Linux sucks as they run back to Windows. I highly doubt many of them will bother distro-hopping. As far as must users will be concerned, they tried Linux and it sucked. They’re almost definitely not going to want to spend more time redoing their system a bunch until they find one they like, nor are they going to want to spend the time with dotfiles getting it the way they want.

If they did research on other distros before installing Zorin, they probably wouldn’t have gone with Zorin…

They’re riding a bandwagon, not setting their own path.

Some of them might. But I wouldn’t put too much faith in them, though.

So essentially, a bunch of them are going to try this and be disappointed and then go on to shit all over Linux as a whole…

I wish we could just ban advertising period. It’s psychological manipulation that’s been perfected and concentrated over the years, and it’s only getting worse.

Whooooa, I had no idea Arduino sold out. I thought this was about RaspberryPi for some reason at first, but this is even worse.

The enshitifcaiton was guaranteed the second the ink touched that paper.

I had no idea RaspberryPi sold out. The writing of enshitifcaiton was on the wall the second they happened.

Caving to less secure methods seems to be what we love to do. Look at how much shit went from on-prem servers to being housed on server farms owned by companies based in foreign countries. I don’t care what a contract says, it’s only as trustworthy as the company behind it.

I’m with you - if a program does a good job of what it’s set out to do, why avoid it because of a dumb name or less than stellar UI?

To paraphrase Brian Lunduke: This software has gone woke! That software has gone woke! Boo woke software!