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Ubuntu's trust problem in 4 concrete issues - verified facts, no FUD (media.piefed.social)
submitted 17 hours ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/linux@programming.dev
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[–] Lawnman23@piefed.social 23 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Ironically, just read an article recently about this exact issue.

https://itsfoss.com/opinion/why-hate-ubuntu/

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The article from LinuxTeck is AI generated. Not unlikely the itsfoss was used as inspiration or whatever since ot was posted the week before.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 36 minutes ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago)

No prompt. No warning. No consent.

This was not a bug. It was a deliberate product decision.

Yeah... too many rhetorical devices. A human writer would notice that it's getting a bit excessive.