Impossible to say without knowing everything about your opsec but yeah, most likely the airline just sold your info to them. Especially if it was Spirit or similar cheap airline.

This is why I use aliases.

I said “usually”, and I’m talking about mainstream distros.

They don’t all have that either

This is not “different” this is “anti consumer non-sense” and you sound like a chud when you recite corporate propaganda.

USBC is perfectly acceptable for the people apple is targeting.

It’s literally called a “pro”, who do you think they’re targeting?

Ignore the “pro” name in any consumer electronic device.

I do, thanks to Apple. It doesn’t make it any less shameful or ridiculous.

You need to take a closer look at how the M-series chips work and why they work they way they do

You’re going to have to elaborate because I already have and I don’t understand what bearing that has on this discussion.

Apple does a lot of anti-consumer bullshit which we should absolutely club them over the head for,

You shouldn’t “club them over the head”, you should just stop buying their trash. That’s literally the only thing that will work.

Gaming performance; although Linux is gaining ground, Windows is just better in this regard

I mostly agree with you but this contradicts everything I’ve seen. Presumably you have evidence of this?

Me forgive. Reading hard.

I mean I don’t particularly like it either but not having tons of choice is not always a complete negative, it simplifies a lot of things. And having an OS that mostly functions like an OS instead of a fucking billboard is nice. Just keeping things in context here.

and every distro had flatpak enabled in the package manager out of the box

That would be totally true if every software was distributed as a flatpak and every distro had flatpak enabled in the package manager out of the box. That’s just not reality.

That’s more of an Nvidia problem than a Linux problem.

For now it is opt-in. It’s unlikely to remain that way.

Mac hardware is a fucking atrocity. $2k for a “pro” laptop with 8GB RAM and 256GB storage and no i/o except 4 USBC ports, that’s completely and intentionally irreparable and unupgradeable? SSDs and RAM that are marked up 3000%? That’s what you call “excellent”? If they were cheap I might not completely object to them being disposable but it’s the opposite. It’s fucking gaslighting. You’ll never convince me it’s anything other than a cult.

They act like Windows (minus lots of the good stuff) too.

MacOS isn’t terrible, only the hardware is.

Doing anything requires the memorization of thousands of commands that must be formatted perfectly and are specific to your distribution, into a black box that rarely provides any feedback at all, and when it does it’s extremely generic.

I’m sure my inbox will be blown up by delusional people claiming you don’t need it but it’s just not true.

The simple act of installing software is crazy complicated and different on every distro.

My current distro has 2 separate system update apps and I don’t really know how to use either of them, nor do I understand why I need to use them at all. Why does the system need me to click buttons to make it go? Just do it in the background. Then as soon as it’s done I get another popup 3 minutes later saying another package needs to be updated.

Hardware compatibility is a huge problem, fingerprint readers, WiFi, facial recognition, Bluetooth, etc. etc. Very few companies make computers with Linux compatibility being considered at all. Everything will have drivers day 1 on Windows and then they’ll trickle down to Linux a year or two later.

Nvidia GPUs are by far and away the most popular and they’re still very painful to use. And even though that’s entirely Nvidia’s fault, the problem remains.

I dislike Linux the least but there’s no way I could recommend it to anyone who isn’t a giant nerd who likes fixing computers.

Until Macs become cheaper or Linux becomes easier, Windows will remain the largest OS.

What other browsers are implementing this? It’s the first I’ve heard of it.

Is this because we’re still relatively small or some other reason?

Pretty much, yeah. Incredibly.

I’ve tried. They don’t want to. They already have jobs. They make what they want to make. Only way to get them to make it is to convince them they want to.