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Apparently, Jesus, while familiar with steering a car; was not nearly so familiar with a flight stick.

and it’s a multi-billion dollar corporation, that already makes more money than you or I will ever see in our lifetimes, that actively strives to make the user experience worse for people who don’t pay, when they’ve got a practical monopoly in the “free video sharing platform” market. And you’re whiteknighting for them. 🤡

“If you just give them your wallet right away, the mugging isn’t so bad, really. They didn’t even kick my teeth in!” 🤓

.ml users try not to play the victim challenge: impossible

golly gee whiz it sure looks like I’m finally getting around to getting off the stock android on my Pixel, I’ve been lazy and dragging my feet for some time. Thanks, Google, this is just the kick in the pants I needed!

if say, Spotify or YouTube complain about them.

… who owns YouTube?

Yeah, they’re going to block ReVanced.

Sounds to me like you need to update your blu-ray collection to 4K during your stay.

Weird, I thought Secure Boot and TPM and kernel-level malware were supposed to be the be-all end-all nail in the coffin? It’s almost like everyone who had two brain cells to rub together was right, and that shit doesn’t do squat to replace good community moderators. But that can’t be it, surely…

well, this is the first time I’ve ever been accused of being an AI, but you can believe whatever makes you happy. It’s no skin off my ass. Personally, I think you’re just intentionally being dense and found there wasn’t any fault you could pick with my original post to champion your original point of “linux bad”, and you instead just decided being a dick and calling me a bot was a decent out. which, for the record, fuck you kindly for suggesting I only write as well as ChatGPT, even a comparison to Claude would be less insulting. But that’s fine, I still forgive you. I just think that’s a terribly sad way to go about interacting with others.

I hope someday you become a tranquil autist, or at least only a moderately irritated one. Because I can’t fathom yours, as it is, being a satisfying way to socialize; nevermind an effective one to change anyone else’s opinion on Linux or any other topic. Take care.

actually no, but if it makes you feel better you can believe whatever you want. I forgive you for being wrong.

Or are you just in disbelief that 2010 was 15 years ago? Because yeah, I feel old, too. I just can’t remember exactly when it was, 10.04 had a beta in 2009 and released early 2010 and was the Hot Cool New Thing for a time because HOLY SHIT IT DOESN’T LOOK LIKE IT’S FROM THE 90S LET’S GET IN ON THIS. Might’ve been late 2009 I tried the beta, might’ve been 2010. I was in my teens at the time, it’s too fucking long ago for me to remember exact dates.

I am sorry you have such passionate hatred for something a bunch of nerds tried to do for everyone else for free, to be nice. I am also sorry you have apparently not tried gaming on Linux in the past ~3 years. It can’t be comfortable having all that pent-up anger inside you.

I myself used to be like you, namely around the early 2010s when Linux distros started gaining GUIs that weren’t stuck in the 90s. Where they looked sleek and modern and oh god were they not at all, they just looked that way. I tried to make it work, but every time I had to boot back to Windows to do something I eventually just ended up staying in Windows. I can’t fathom how fucking archaic and awful it would’ve been to use in the 90s/early 00s, you tried to struggle through that for three years? I barely made it a few months with Ubuntu 10.04 in ~2010. Something I said then, and still say now to Linux dorks who don’t “get it”, is that “some of us want to work on their computer, not work on their computer.” I just want shit to work. I don’t want to troubleshoot or tweak or fiddle-fuck with settings. My OS is a means to an end, not an end in and of itself – if I’m spending more time fucking with the OS than I am using other programs on it, something has gone dearly wrong.

Having said that, I switched to Mint about a year and a half ago, and it works pretty well for me, not nearly as many headaches as I recall when I tried Linux ~15 years ago. When I printed something from a network printer and it just worked without bullshit issues, I was floored. There’s still the occasional hiccup, but then, I also had to deal with occasional hiccups on Windows as well, and the terminal isn’t nearly so scary when you’re used to dealing with the Group Policy Editor and PowerShell. I can count the times I’ve had to boot into Windows since on my fingers, it’s definitely less than 10. One of the things I think I love most is that I can choose to postpone updates, or restarting for them, as long as I want without the computer thinking it knows better than me. I got shit to do, I’ll get there when I get there – and having Windows go “nuh-uh, you’re restarting now” pissed me the fuck off.

Having said all that, I will freely admit and agree with you that a large portion of the Linux community is made up of elitist twats who will tell you to go read xyz instead of being in any way directly helpful. Nerds are not generally known for their social skills. However, it really doesn’t do anyone any favors to be needlessly inflammatory. If Windows works for you and you like it, great, I’m glad you’re happy with it. But there’s simply no reason to be so aggressive over Linux existing, especially now that it’s finally becoming tolerable even for former Linux-loathing users like me.

Sure, they could pull a Nintendo and do that; but then you’ve got a handheld running Linux. Linux that’s trying to tell the user how they should use it/how they’re not allowed to use it. And thus if they do it is guaranteed that there will be a dedicated, pissed-off Linux nerd somewhere who spends hours a day doing everything in their power to revert or circumvent whatever bullshit they pull.

In fact, if they did a “Nintendo move”, a workaround would probably be integrated into Bazzite within days or weeks.

you know, I was just wondering, replaying through Black Flag, how a company could go from making the best pirate simulator to… yeah, no, that explains a lot if that’s how they think “fun” works nowadays.

[Me, firing up AdNauseam, Bypass Paywalls Clean, PopUpOFF, CanvasBlocker and more:]

Ah, that’s what that feeling was – here I thought it was seething rage building up inside me, now I know that was simply my affinity for dick leaving my body.

meanwhile, my family: “just don’t be gay for the next 3 and a half years, we don’t need to leave”

… Right, I’m sure they definitely leave office as scheduled and I’m sure with how quickly things are progressing I’ll still be around to see them do so. Yep. Definitely. 👍

What’s this? A charming French town woefully underpopulated by bees?

A large influx of bees ought to put a stop to that!

a policeman? racist? why, I’m shocked, I tell you, just shocked.