It’s just a poor description of some of the effects of capitalism through a consumer’s lens. It’s actually really low-level stuff.

Learn the basics my man. You seem curious, go read instead of guessing.

I admit defeat.

I can run any software designed for Linux or Windows. Period.

If a package doesn’t function, it’s because the developers arbitrarily decided to disable it for capitalist reasons. Not because it won’t work.

So the answer to “can Linux run X game made for Windows” is always yes. Always.

Yes.

I can run adobe software in Linux.

I cannot relate in any way. I would tell these people to figure it out themselves and that they’re ignorant and ungrateful. You’re also a very nice person for putting up with that.

How is continuing to use their product (thus being farmed for telemetry and other revenues) defiant in any way?

The reality is you and others are afraid of change. There is no windows-only program I can’t run. Your defiance is futile and you’re the only one suffering, not Microsoft.

Chauvinism is the term you’re seeking. And we all in the West suffer some degree of it.

I’m not “trying to be nice to minority languages”, I’m directly pushing back against the chauvinistic idea that the English Wikipedia is so important that those without it are somehow inferior. There is no “doom spiral”.

As for scientific papers, it’s called a translation. One can write academic literature in one’s native langaue and have it translated for more reach. That isnt the case with Wikipedia which is constantly being edited.

Ghosting is a sign of a dishonest relationship. If someone ghosts you, recognize they had a deep issue and it had fuck-all to do with you. If you ghost someone unwarrantedly the opposite is true: you’re exhibiting cruel, sociopathic behavior, even if you feel bad about it.

Tell people things with your words. It is important to not leave people hanging. It does psychological damage and pretending it doesn’t makes you a sufferer.

Hey look, me at 13

It’s profoundly chauvinistic to think that people who speak other languages don’t have the same depth of literary resource as English-speakers because Wikipedia has fewer users.

Books. They’re called books. Every nation speaking every language has them.

“I’m not judging.” Yeah, you are.

You’re judging your friends and looking down on them. What if they look down on you for some other reason? Would you appreciate them scheming how to “get through to you” and posting threads on Lemmy that paint you as pathetic?

If you want to be a good friend, stop thinking you’re better than others. Accept folks for who they are.

Lmao

Nerd ass.

Insanely

You are literally in the meme. You’re the racist liberal.

Please leave and don’t come back.

Cope.

Hey champ, how are you?

You’re brainwashed and ignorant and politically illiterate. Reading your posts is like hearing the dying gasps of a generation of delusion.