When I tried Arch in '23, it worked well. Then I got busy and lazy and didn’t use it for 2-3 months. When I came back and did yay -sYu as I had learned, dozens of KDE and core packages were throwing errors and wouldn’t update. Unfortunate.
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When I met a close friend’s husband at an event, somehow PCs and Linux came up. He asked if I’m a Linux user (which I like to think you can’t immediately tell); I assume he wanted to build some nerd cred. I said “yeah, I technically have Linux with me right now”. He asked what I meant, so I pulled out the Steam Deck. He was unfamiliar, so I briefly explained.
When he heard it’s (obviously) a commercial product, he actually pretended to faint. And then kept acting as if I had personally insulted him, not in a joking way. I had clearly failed the purity test in that moment.
It was a strange experience. Not even in hackerspaces I’d ever had a conversation like that. So these people are rare but they do exist.
3·1 day agoI avoid Klarna and similar services like the plague. But if it’s really interest-free, it doesn’t belong in the same category as those scummy loans with crazy interest at least.
1·3 days agolmao why would the “representatives” care
Dems prefer it for the exact same reasons. It makes things so much easier for them.
17·7 days agoThey’re not sarcastic about these circumstances, but about how we as a society treat the people affected by them.
Though it’s fair if you don’t want to focus on that in this context.
4·7 days agoWhat good does that do as long as the internet is run by private corporations?
It’s Ramstein. And people are really fucking scared to upset the de facto rulers of NATO since the Russian invasion, as ironic as that might be considering Trump’s connections and resulting stance on NATO allies.
It is currently under legal review, though unfortunately caught up in Realpolitik and unlikely to go anywhere due to the government disbanding.
Fact is the center-right always has a bullshit reason to sit on their hands. They stopped the NPD review years ago saying they aren’t popular enough to be a threat. Now with AfD they say they’re too popular to be banned.
Institutions and laws are meaningless if they aren’t used as intended.
We’re talking about twitter as a company and platform, not twitter users.
6·7 days agoOlder people rely on logic. And most interfaces are the opposite of logical.
Younger people have this idea of "press a bunch of buttons and once you see how it works, then memorize the steps ".
That’s the exact opposite of my experience.
I tried to explain Windows logically to the seniors in my family. This is a window. This is the taskbar, it shows your open windows. This is a folder, it contains your documents.
Every time we would start over with these abstractions which are supposed to make logical sense, the very foundation of Windows’ early success with casual users. None of it ever stuck with them.
They would instead write down every minor step to achieve a specific goal in a specific way, so they could basically control Windows without paying any attention to context presented on the screen. That’s the only thing that worked for them.
21·8 days agoYes, but don’t ask me for cake recipes. I’m not in the mood.
Always-online locked down ad-riddled spyware on cheapass unfixable planned obsolescence hardware.
Have you experienced what passes for “an actual TV that plays Netflix” these days?
Miss me with that shit.
1·10 days agoThe mere presence of disagreement doesn’t make freethought. If someone actively resists engaging with counter-arguments and scientific research because it would undermine their controversial public profile with a certain audience, it doesn’t serve any legitimate interest to further platform their deliberate ignorance.
I don’t know enough about the other two to speak on their relevant conduct, but the case of Richard Dawkins is quite clear-cut. Hence my comment pointing out how your criticism of the FFRF’s decision lacks awareness of the context that it was made in by providing this exact context to you and others.
I hope this helps you to understand my point’s connection to your original comment, if you really weren’t just playing dumb with me.
Honey’s base business model probably falls apart without some linkjacking. You go to a website to buy something and it says no no go buy it from these people instead.
That’s not what Honey does.
18·11 days agoKönnte es trotzdem sein, dass der von vielen Menschen als bevormundend empfundene Politikstil der Grünen es der AfD manchmal sehr leicht macht?
manche sehen in ihm den schlechtesten Wirtschaftsminister, den das Land je hatte.
Wäre mir ja schon peinlich, über Strategien zu reden, wie man den Populisten beikommt, und sich gleichzeitig anzubiedern indem man ihre Polemik nachlabert.
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You think you can shoot your way out of this?
Yeah fair. I expected we’d talk about how Linux could displace Windows on Desktop, to which SteamOS and Proton running on an x86 laptop chip is a lot more relevant than an Android phone.