Oh that's bad. Good luck getting rid of them.

I personally find downvotes useful because there are a lot of low quality comments and content. Downvotes help me (and others) to avoid seeing them. Thus not wasting time with uninteresting posts or comments. But you aren't supposed to downvote everything that someone says.

It sounds like a weirdly specific thing for a bot to do.

It could be a case of the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon:

Frequency illusion, also known as the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon or frequency bias, is a cognitive bias referring to the tendency to notice something more often after noticing it for the first time, leading to the belief that it has an increased frequency of occurrence.The illusion is a result of increased awareness of a phrase, idea, or object – for example, hearing a song more often or seeing red cars everywhere.

what do you mean? I haven't seen one myself yet. It's just a common expression.

I don't think that comment is trolling, just a bit low effort post. But that's nothing rare in Lemmy/Reddit.

audio driver support in Linux is good enough these days.

and if it doesn't work in your specific hardware, that's your hardware's fault and not Linux's.

It's like buying a Raspberry Pi and saying "windows doesn't work". You've acquired the wrong hardware.

but you're stupid enough that you can't tell that religion is nothing more than masquerading power over the masses with the promise of a paradise.

Religion is just politics but in the name of a not existent god so the ones in power need no justification of their actions other than "it's God's will".

It's just getting used to it. You can add the Collins (or any other dictionary search to Firefox) and it's as easy as selecting the correct search engine and writing the word in the search box.

there was an app for Wiktionary on fdroid. But I don't like Wiktionary's definitions as much as Collins'.

they're downvoting you because your logic was "apple does hardware so they must know better" and trusting a big corp to do your encryption better is kind of innocent.

anyway, seeing that they do hardware encryption, they are right to downvote you. I'm not with Microsoft either, bitlocker is probably backdoored, but hey, at least you're not trusting your hardware manufacturer to actually maintain an up-to-date secure firmware.

if it's made for power users why is it proprietary software? Vivaldi is yet another chromium browser with a fancy skin.

what are you talking about? XMPP doesn't have such a thing as default settings. It varies from client to client. There are clients which have E2EE enabled by default, clients which make it available, others that support it with a plugin and there are others that do not support E2EE.

That's no excuse to avoid XMPP. XMPP is an open standard, the key is choosing a good implementation.

if you create a MUC in XMPP, I'm in

Just an innocent movie reference

I don't perceive that as offensive