Although i’ve been a linux evangelist for quite a while now, I do truly feel that something has fundamentally changed in the OS landscape. My first introduction to linux would have been around 2006 or so. I installed Ubuntu Dapper Drake on my Pentium 4 and I was impressed at the speed when compared with Windows XP. However, it was not very stable. Audio was a constant issue, wake from sleep was an issue, hiberation was an issue, and updates seemed to break things often.

I recently made a comment on HackerNews that went something along the lines of this: Why do I bother to post ‘content’ on the internet, when the main purpose of posting on these platforms fundamentally is to provide free labour for the mega tech companies? The thing is, the platforms themselves like to incentivise people to post as much as possible, and that’s simply for the fact that the more content on a platform == more money for the platform.