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Ok so at first I thought it was actually kind of cute and endearing but by the end I think that guy is an asshole

In my 30s, got kids, family, friends even. Still game on occasion. No shame in being 30s.

Ha! That sucks. I appreciate that article but now I’m having a little bit of an existential crisis.

My understanding is that flatpaks run in a sandbox, so although there is a risk- especially for what you give permissions to- it’s not exactly the same. The AUR is basically “curl | bash”, it’s a miracle this hasn’t happened before. If you’re worried about it I think flatseal can look at the permissions and such, but you’re probably fine.

I just put my dad on kubuntu like two weeks ago he loves it

It’s a documentary can’t change my mind

It feels like they want to be Panic! At the Disco

I used to have my PC plugged in to my TV, steam box style, but it’s back on my desk now… with a long ass HDMI cable running to that TV so I get the best of both worlds. Steam box is definitely cool, I don’t understand the hate for it. Sometimes I think people are just whiners.

I’m sold, sending my dollar today

Surely this is the One True Religion

What if I want to watch live sports

It does look just like John Brown

If it’s your daily, sure, use Mint. But you will learn a lot more about Linux if you install Arch the hard way, especially if it’s your “fuckin’ around PC”.

That’s really interesting and I appreciate taking the time to write that comment, but I’d put Mac and Windows on the same team because their goals are basically the same, to transfer wealth from the consumer to the company. Linux, and open source software in general, does not have that same motivation to squeeze the consumer so of course it’s going to be better.

Mac hardware gets sold at tremendous markup because it’s so closed. Windows is little more than a vessel to show ads. Linux is a good experience from installation onward, almost regardless of distribution. Free of telemetry and runs on literally whatever, if it can run code it can probably run Linux. I have a laptop from 2011 that runs Arch with XFCE and it’s buttery smooth. My 2012 MacBook pro has been a paperweight for years and Microsoft wants me to throw away anything that can’t be tied to me personally.

That said I would MUCH rather use macos than windows, my wife has an m1 MacBook Air that I use sometimes and it’s definitely more pleasant than Windows. However, I think Linux is the odd man out. MacOS vs Windows is like stubbing your left toe vs your right toe.

I run Arch btw on my gaming PC and my old ass laptop I can show you my qualifications if you want 😂

MacOS or whatever they call it now is “unix-like” but it’s still ultimately a closed environment and definitely not the same, ethically, as a real FOSS OS. Apple doesn’t care about you any more than Microsoft or Google, they’re also in it for money.

If you think you’ll be a marauder in the case of collapse, you’re not cool.

In real life I use

paru

sudo pacman -Syyu

I was troubleshooting some audio hardware and decided that I should try it on windows, to make sure it was hardware and not software. So I tried to download an install disc image that I could put on my thumb drive and it was surprisingly hard, then I got driver failures, then I lost count of all the boxes I had to uncheck, then finally after like 2 hours I was greeted by ads on my desktop. Just a really bad experience overall. I cannot fathom why anyone uses that piece of crap.

Anyway so I figured out it was a Linux problem because of course it was just plug-and-play on Windows, and I found my misconfiguration and fixed it in 10 seconds, and I thought about the tech literacy of the average person, and realized that is why people use windows. They don’t care about shit except least resistance. That was the first time I’ve booted windows since 2020 though, so here’s hoping it was the last time.

I don’t hit my kids, I barely even yell. They’re the most well-behaved kids I know. Almost as though respecting your kids and spending time with them makes them happier? And maybe kids that feel respected act better? It’s a parenting problem. Youth are the future, we the parents decide what that future looks like.