The only real way to escape corporate enshittification and bots is to just pick up and move whenever marketing ghouls start to show up. Im quite happy with lemmy and the fediverse right now, but Im under no illusion this place will last more than like 3 years tops before its time to move on to the next platform with a user base small enough that its not worth astroturfing with ads and corpo propaganda

Me after cheese

I used to sleep naked but now I wear pajama(s?) inspired by early RHCP to stay decent for this kind of situation

You could try running tails on your laptop. Nothing guarantees resting privacy like removable boot media

Whenever the cats that have been in my life are doing dangerous stuff like that I hiss at them and chase them off. It’s very effective at getting them to stop trying to kill themselves and it doesn’t seem to upset them longterm

Badass

This is bad practice. You should always have an exit condition when using a wait statement or you might get stuck in an infinite loop

Me when my gf asks “would you still love me if I was a worm?”

Do it big! You have a beautiful smile

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Ever seen a Japanese sports car go from 0 to 6 in 15 seconds? Honk at me when I’m on the line and the light just turned green and I’ll show you

She got blue, I’d let her smash

Huh. I always thought the big trucks would do better in the wind, and I’ve never questioned that assumption. TIL

> be me. Business trip to Texas fml

> get some shitty subcompact rental car

> try to drive to some state park on weekend

> the location? About 3 hours driving away

> the cell tower reception? KEKW

> the road? On a 20 foot raised ridge for some texan fucking reason

> the wind? 42069 mph, perpendicular to the road

> literally turning the steering wheel against the wind to maintain driving straight

> literally feel like I’m going to get blown off the road and die

> in Texas so actually do want to die

> wish I was in a big truck for the first time in my life

> after hours of white knuckle driving finally get there

> Amarillo texas, the biggest pile of shit I’ve ever seen in my life

> literally. Active mountain of cow shit being farmed and sold as fertilizer right next to the town

Texas. Not even once.

I feel like I’m being admonished by a schoolteacher and honestly I probably deserve it. You’re probably right but I’m grumpy about it and need to re-read this later when I’m less grumpy about it

Nobody is happy when you call them out for marginalizing people they view as inferior. I get the same reaction when call out family members being blatantly racist at family gatherings. I don’t care about the reactions of people who choose to engage only with my tone, they’re not here to interact with me or my opinions in a meaningful way. Last, I don’t believe I overreacted at all. I called out shitty alienating behaviour in response to a meme that implies an outgroup community is disgusting or inferior based on their operating system choice. As I see it the tone of the meme was significantly more insulting than the tone of my response.

Sure, that’s a valid position to have. Your position only relates to the OP meme in the loosest possible sense; the meme presents WSL users as inferior objects of disgust, which is clearly distinct from a claim that WSL is not the right starter distro for most people. As I see it you’re effectively whitewashing an elitist talking point by pretending it’s about helping new users, or you just didn’t notice the elitism because you are not part of the targeted out-group.

I made a comment about the gatekeeping attitude of the community and you responded to me with a critique of WSL. The point I made sailed entirely over your head, hence the whoosh.

I’m glad you found a laugh and a moment of lightness while you’re struggling, and I hope the world becomes a kinder place for you as soon as possible. This is still a joke where the punchline is “windows user (ie, outgroup) disgusting”, and I hope you can understand why it’s bad to put that kind of energy out in the world then pretend it’s a joke.