This defeatist mentality is exactly what those spying want you to think. Why bother trying to be more private at all right? Might as well give up entirely

I was happier not knowing this

Though that could have been a reference, iirc that was an unrelated April fools RFC that was filed as a partial complaint people were creating overly specific http status codes

We have boats with guns

I totally agree. We should be more open and welcoming to new users. Imagine some new people on the steam deck being curious and diving into Linux and running into this. Undoubtedly, we’d lose at least a few users that brick their machines.

I get that this humor fits and entertains the technically inclined of us, but if we truly want more widespread use of Linux, shouldn’t we open our arms to less technical users as well? Besides, even for the more technical of us, this joke is so old and run down 🙃