Most distros are forthcoming about telemetry if they have any, and they tend to be opt in rather than opt out, and even when they're opt out they actually respect your choice.

Telemetry as a tool is useful and it makes little sense to bash it as a whole, but you're comparing the results of very different design philosophies.

Yeah, or other relatives or friends of the parents

Best of luck finding a job, sorry about your father

The more outrageous the claims, the more you need equivalent evidence. I looked into it months ago for a few days, going all the stuff related to the claims, and there's no convincing evidence.

Personally I find these accusations in extremely poor taste. We're seeing genocides taking place elsewhere and being livestreamed, yet not a single video showing shit in China? Be respectful to the victims of genocide, please.

People will believe anything of countries they've been taught to not like

If you hadn't say this I'd have assumed everything else was unironic, well done lol

I interpreted it as them mentioning lemmy (since lots of lemmy users are communists or socialists of some flavor), but if they meant to complain I agree with you completely

That's very understandable, but impractical for investments and savings, the US insures some banks and the like but it doesn't insure crypto funds, if people's savings end up there based on false promises (or if their assets are managed by a third party) they can lose everything and have no recourse.

This isn't a hypothetical, it's the story of countless people who lost everything to grifters. I don't think blaming individuals makes a lot of sense when it comes to emerging technology and when, again, regular finance is generally insured by the state. The biggest reason for scammers to flock to crypto is that there's a lot less regulation, making it harder to prosecute them. And that's my original point on the choice we have right now, even if ideally we want better choices in the future. Right now you either go with a traditional institution for financial services, which includes government oversight, or you operate on your own and assume a lot of risks, whether you're even aware of that or not (and financial actors purposely deceive people on this end, as it's in their best interest to do so).

As long as it's just receiving money it's whatever, we have lots of corporate sponsorship in the Linux kernel and in other components we use every day for computing. I wouldn't move to a different kernel/OS just because I agreed on some ideological stuff with their makers.

There are plenty of issues beyond that, especially BTC and similar coins being energy inefficient, just imagine if every single transaction ran through that. It wasn't designed to be practical.

And on the less technical side, the biggest contributor to crypto being despised by most people is the massive prevalence of scammers, from companies that pretend to help you invest (while being a ponzi scheme) to rug pulls to other scammers being attracted to it for its perceived anonymity.

Afaik there's legitimate uses for the underlying technology, but cryptocurrency is just inferior to regular digital currency from a practical standpoint, and you either have to put up with government regulation (defeating the purpose of a currency aside from government) or put up with fraud that can't be stopped by our governments.

They don't even send the right status code in the header?

100%, my older relatives embraced it wholeheartedly while people younger than me seem to have more negative feelings as they're being told their career prospects are over thanks to AI, regardless of how true this is. You can even see this divide in entertainment, many mainstream youtubers are clearly aware of how much their (predominantly young) audiences hate AI and respond accordingly, and that's not to say they don't have ideological issues with it, but I feel like we'd see a lot more indifference if the audience didn't hate it as much.