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"who may not be quite as stubborn as I am" that is the most Linus torvalds thing to say. good to see his passive agressive nature being put in a press release.
Press release? This is a git commit.
You must be an ex reddit user as you neither clicked the link, nor looked at the domain it linked to.
You will be surprised to know, "ex-reddit user" is the majority of Lemmy users.
But most of us have the decency to be ashamed about it.
It’s not that serious
why? reddit actually had content and debate
"debate"
I don't think I had a single coherent argument on that godforsaken hellsite
Reddit had the Epstein-Zionist entity follow you tirelessly and downvote random posts you made just for speaking out against them in some niche subreddit.
Not to mention the downvote-mentality of the generic NPC Redditor. I’d rather avoid putting effort into speaking publicly, than to have such “debates”. Waste of time if you ask me, because a lot of their locals just sit in their echo chambers and don’t do anything productive with their lives… that is, if they’re real people in the first place and not just AI algorithms or paid bot farms.
Just a nitpick, git commit. Kernel development has nothing to do with GitHub other than the fact that there is a mirror of the repo in there.
Thank you, corrected.