Good ol rose colored glasses.

That’s not how anecdotal evidence works. Just because you aren’t aware of it being different for others doesn’t mean it wasn’t different for others.

Your experience isn’t necessarily universal.

Literally anything can be addictive. Humans love pressing the dopamine button. The features that Lemmy has which are shared with other social media platforms can definitely increase the addictive potential.

It’s basically like a tiny virtual machine running locally.

OP is only ambiguous because you don’t understand what ‘supporting’ means in this context. Supporting mods has never meant providing customer support to make them work.

It’s always meant that modders didn’t have to find exploits to change the game.

That’s not what supporting means in this context.

It means that the devs made the game so mods could be used with it instead of modders needing to find exploits to make mods work.

There have been instances of serial child predators claiming to be trans as a defense when caught exposing themselves to kids in women’s locker rooms and such, but laws never stopped rapists, so it’s irrelevant.

Fox News likes to frame it as liberals giving them permission to do so, though.

That’s absolutely not true anymore. Many games support mods now, and Steam Workshop is a thing.

Maybe Google’s CEO did something to piss him off

It’s just a few cells they created on a mesh, it’s not like they’re using a hunk of his brain.

No one said they weren’t funding vulnerability research anymore. They just weren’t going to share the information.

Good luck, I’ve been trying for 2 months and I was a senior engineer.

Anyone who is savvy enough to install an OS won’t have any issues installing specific programs, especially since most products that people would be using have a direct download for the deb/rpm.

And if you’re not tech savvy enough to install an OS, you’re probably already getting someone who is savvy to do computer work for you.

But, this isn’t the 2000s. Everyone knows the concept of an app store, and most mainstream distros have one featured prominently.

Modern Linux doesn’t have a learning curve for 99% of people. My wife’s 90 year old grandma picked it up with no trouble.

Blind 70 year olds can still be dangerous. Being blind and old doesn’t prevent that.

They’re not saying that offloading the responsibility to an algorithm is good, they’re saying it’s weird to assume a person is harmless based on nothing but two attributes.

I know for a fact they’ve released “harmless old men,” who basically instantly go out and kill someone.

That’s terrifying