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33 y/o tired bi autistic chick. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 I like boobs, playing video games, learning music, & fucking around w/ linux. Egalitarian/humanist & reluctant activist for internet freedoms. Defund Ofcom.

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O w l l i e 🦉 @eternowllie.bsky.social · 13d

Read it here, and if you're British but have yet to sign, just bloody do it.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

petition.parliament.uk

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O w l l i e 🦉 @eternowllie.bsky.social · 1h

Please keep standing against this!

They're likely going to pressure you to back down, but keep standing!

We appreciate your efforts to protect our privacy, security and freedoms.

O w l l i e 🦉 @eternowllie.bsky.social · 1h

Why should we be happy with digital ID when we risk Reform being in charge of the system? Think.

Labour keeps building these tools that Reform could use for mass censorship and surveillance, and we're just supposed to be okay with it, because people living in a high trust society are okay with it?

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 9h

A Green MP has launched a bid to stop the Labour Government’s plans for digital ID

Greens lead crossparty MP bid to force Keir Starmer to scrap digital ID plans

www.thenational.scot

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O w l l i e 🦉 @eternowllie.bsky.social · 6h

Ubuntu doesn't play so nice with Steam in my experience.

Linux Mint is better for that, Bazzite and CachyOS are even better still imo, and I settled on CachyOS for my gaming laptop.

If people aren't gaming at all though, Ubuntu is very polished and easy to use.

O w l l i e 🦉 @eternowllie.bsky.social · 6h

First post in thread is supposed to read 2-4, sorry I think my dyscalculia tripped me up there.

Point stands, if my dumbass can do it, despite literally having a learning difficulty/disability, quite literally anyone can install and use Linux.

Go on an adventure and just have fun w/ it!

O w l l i e 🦉 @eternowllie.bsky.social · 6h

If my dumbass can do it, anyone can!

O w l l i e 🦉 @eternowllie.bsky.social · 6h

But, also, the more people that use Linux, the better Linux becomes over time and the more developers will port their programs over to Linux too. So be brave and actually take back ownership of your computer!

O w l l i e 🦉 @eternowllie.bsky.social · 6h

One weird issue I ran into was my multi monitor setup, it was buggy in Linux Mint, but installing synaptic drivers fixed it.

Again, on the synaptic website they tell you all the commands you'd need to install correctly.

O w l l i e 🦉 @eternowllie.bsky.social · 6h

So, for example, when I wanted to install Mullvad VPN, on their website they give guides on the commands you'll need to enter into the terminal. It takes maybe 3 minutes.

O w l l i e 🦉 @eternowllie.bsky.social · 6h

"Is Linux still too fiddly and do I have to use the terminal?"

If you go for a distro like Linux Mint, then for the vast majority of use cases, you shouldn't need to use the terminal.

Depends on what you want to do, but there are guides for pretty much everything whenever terminal use is required.

O w l l i e 🦉 @eternowllie.bsky.social · 6h

I recommend artists try to make either a clean move to Linux, or even switch to Mac if you can afford to, because I do not one iota trust Windows to not steal your art via their implementation of AI.

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O w l l i e 🦉 @eternowllie.bsky.social · 6h

The last option, and I'd recommend this especially for people who play games with anti-cheat, is to dual boot Windows 11 and Linux.

O w l l i e 🦉 @eternowllie.bsky.social · 6h

There are an increasing number of options if you need to use programs that only work on Windows.

Haven't tried it yet, but apparently WinBoat is awesome. As I understand it, it's a special type of virtual machine.

Could straight up use a regular Windows 11 VM too.

Or try programs through wine.

O w l l i e 🦉 @eternowllie.bsky.social · 6h

Options for your switch to Linux if you are a complete beginner:

1. Linux Mint Cinnamon

2. Fedora (I haven't tried, but have heard good things)

3. Bazzite

4. CachyOS (this one's where I live now)

For options 2-3, when given a choice of DE, choose KDE for the most windows-like experience.

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 10h

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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O w l l i e 🦉 @eternowllie.bsky.social · 9h

This is why a British digital ID is bad, btw.

I need people outside of the UK to understand just how authoritarian our government and corporate class are, before telling us we should just roll over and accept the centralisation of all of our personal data.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

No doubt this de-banking will also be splashed across the front pages of every single newspaper in the country and lead BBC bulletins for weeks on end too? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation

John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society

www.theguardian.com

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O w l l i e 🦉 @eternowllie.bsky.social · 9h

Are you Spanish? Or did you migrate away from the UK to Spain? You don't have to answer.

If you're Spanish, then you likely don't understand the especially hellish political landscape in the UK.

If you're British and moved to Spain, you made the move for a reason.

O w l l i e 🦉 @eternowllie.bsky.social · 9h

Their system got hacked almost immediately.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 12h

🔴Pro-Trump Tech Billionaires Are Poised to Cash In on Gaza’s ‘Peace’ Deal

The same digital technologies that helped the Israeli military target Gazans are now being embedded in its peacetime infrastructure, with Trump-supporting billionaires poised to benefit, reports @nafeez.bsky.social

Pro-Trump Tech Billionaires Are Poised to Cash In on Gaza's 'Peace' Deal

Documents show Tony Blair’s Ellison-funded institute designed Gaza’s recovery plan on data-driven lines echoing Oracle-Palantir war systems.

bylinetimes.com

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End Of The World News ✊ 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @you-are-product.bsky.social · 10h

When people tell you they have digital ID in their country & they don't see what the problem is. Remind them that their government was also able to provide successful public education, health & transport networks.
This is not just any Digital ID scheme, this will be the British Digital ID #No2ID

Jenny List @jennylist.bsky.social · 17h

Please don't stop sharing the ID card petition. The 3 million signatures milestone is within reach.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

petition.parliament.uk

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O w l l i e 🦉 @eternowllie.bsky.social · 1d

Besides which, all it takes for those high trust societies to collapse is for them to accidentally elect someone like Blair, or heck, even Starmer, or someone like Farage. Suddenly, that once safe and convenient digital ID becomes a noose.

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O w l l i e 🦉 @eternowllie.bsky.social · 1d

It also aligns with Labour's infatuation with AI, too. OpenAI's integration into government services.

So, this is shaping up to be nothing like the digital IDs found in high trust societies.

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O w l l i e 🦉 @eternowllie.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone knows that a British digital ID will be the brainchild of Blair and Ellison. Everyone knows it. Oracle have been pouring billions (and bragging about doing so on their website, so this is real) into cloud storage, essentially creating the infrastructure for what they both want.

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O w l l i e 🦉 @eternowllie.bsky.social · 1d

Now that I'm looking into his government, reminding myself of what went down during that time, I'm realising more and more...it wasn't actually a joke. I accidentally hit the nail on the head.

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O w l l i e 🦉 @eternowllie.bsky.social · 1d

I made a joke, before actually reminding myself what Blair's time as PM was like, that he joined the Labour party thinking it was actually pro-slave Labour, and was deeply disappointed when he realised he had to pretend to be on the side of workers.

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O w l l i e 🦉 @eternowllie.bsky.social · 1d

High trust society vs cripplingly low trust society.

I remember it was Blair's Labour that were the ones that actually started the slow privatisation of the NHS.

Not the Tories, Labour. Labour did that. They were red Tories even back then.

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