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Thanks for your insight, maybe you are right and that with time her opinion will change. I'm not expecting anything and I have come to love and accept her all the same. My only hope is that I can expose my daughter! She wil get Linux from her Dad and Apple from her Mum and may the best one win! 😋
2023-12-13 · 6 months ago
i think there is no 'best'. if macos is million times 'better', whatever it means, than 'linux' (whatever that word means) i still would never consider using non libre software.
this isnt a questiin of 'best', this is a question of does the person feel that freedom is more important than convenience? some people have that feeling and some people not. most of the people do not.
in order to feel they have to know some things, i guess. or be not indifferent to some things.
i dont know how people feel some things, and why some of them feel and some not.
it is maybe not even about knowledge?
sometimes i feel that i and some conspiracy believers are very close. the difference is that i know it is hard to make a robot which lives in your blood, you need to solve the problen of power and communication, and fit somewhere the antenna.
they do not know that and may afraid of unknown.
but otherwise we both are suspicious to governments and big companies, big powers.
we are not happy with the status quo.
so i value and respect these people and dislike when others are making fun of conspiracy believers. though it is so hard to communicate with them!
and they afraid of 'wrong' things!
so one aspect of this gut feeling is low trust maybe. but i trust people around me. not the gov.
other reason to not be happy with what is there is creativity.
creatives tend to be able to do by themselves what they like.
to be able to play and sing that song. or to be able to craft that guitar in order to play that song. or even invent a new song.
some creatives want to create video games and it starts with them appreciating video games.
when you want to create yourself, often you want to deal with tech you can build or repeat
for some thats about drawing with oil on canvas rather than on a computer.
for some it is being able to wriye a rendering engine.
it is hard to implement a complex spec. so creative programmers love gemini for its simple specification they can implement.
i am coming closer to the idea that creatives love to also create within limitations. to choose a limitibg at first glance palette for example.
so some of us feel we need limitations. not features.
we need not what is the 'best' but what limits us.
this is another way to feel not satisfued witg macos. can we write it? no! compile it? no! so not interesting.
For a long time I thought that people with uncommon beliefs were just ignorant and all we need was to give them more facts. Now I understand that each person is deeply influenced by their individual experiences and so it is very hard for any of us to be perfectly rational. Like you, I forgive believeing in a conspiracy because I also made many mistakes in my beliefs in the past. I don't forgive being stubborn. If you can learn new ideas then even if you are wrong today there is a chance to be correct tomorrow.
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