please let this happen again i am SO upset i didn’t get to go

we most certainly will not

you’ll have to forgive me if I don’t give this sentiment much weight when it’s said by people who define “conservative” as “anyone to the right of Ursula K. LeGuin”

I’ve always been baffled by this sentiment

if you (by which i mean you the reader, not OP) use linux for no other reason than to be able to tell people you use linux, kindly get the fuck out of my community

that specific combination of things describes over 90% of lemmy

They’re also similar in that if you tell them you use Linux but like Canonical and/or Lennart Poettering they’ll yell at you and call you all sorts of names but if you tell them you’re a Windows user they’ll leave you alone

Every couple of years I think to myself “Ubuntu can’t be that bad, can it? I must be misremembering. Surely it’s just some combination of my memory exaggerating how terrible it was and my lackluster Linux skills, which have since improved. Everybody still recommends it as a beginner distro, right? Why’d I stop using it?”

And then I download Ubuntu.

And then I remember.

Ah yes, the solarpunk high tech happy-for-everyone future in which artists no longer have jobs and are forced to do something they hate doing because otherwise they won’t eat.

This post goes out to like half of .ml

Microsoft realized they were losing basically the entire software development market to Linux so they started adding features like a pretty alright terminal emulator and a shell that almost looks POSIXcompliant if you squint (and don’t pass any flags to its built in commands) and trying ineffectually to hide the fact that they were basically on their knees saying BLEASE COME BACK WE NEED YOU

always nice seeing a fellow Bill Wurtz fan

woman with vaccine microchip coming in for a software update

Which is a bit surprising since that’s kind of hard to do.

i have a hard enough time finding places on lemmy that aren’t that

Well, if you were previously throwing anyone who ate the rice in the garbage, then yes, not doing that would be safe.

^{sorry, I} ^couldn’t ^ ^{resist. yes, it’s safe to eat rice without throwing out the first batch of water. see rest of this thread for nuance.}

Wait, can I see a news report about this?

I wouldn’t either had he stopped there (and perhaps been a shade less overtly hostile to someone giving their work away for free). Instead he followed it up with

“Maximum amount of freedom to potential users” is somehow mass-surveilance of every computer user thanks to the BSD license. Thanks for your contribution to “freedom.”

To an extent I agree with this, but “Once upon a time, this guy licensed his code under BSD instead of GPL and basically it’s his fault the Intel Management Engine exists” is definitely a step too far

Option A:

• Funneling arms to Israel with intent of eventual peace treaty

Option B:

• Funneling arms to Israel with intent of wiping out Palestinians
• Also making it illegal for vulnerable minorities in America (trans people, immigrants, women seeking abortions) to get things that may save their lives (gender affirming care, visas, abortions)

Intelligent people: “Both sides equally bad”