I keep hearing from separatists how popular the idea is, but I’ve only ever seen one or two people at a folding table on their phone.

I remember the time I had a good pear. I actually thought it was a different fruit.

Hey look how about some sympathy for the gun owner here? He accidentally pointed a loaded weapon at a loved one while having a heated argument, and the gun felt scared and accidentally went off! By accident!

Really, that poor gun owner might be scared to point a loaded weapon at a loved one again! Don’t victim blame the poor owner!

That’s awesome! I had to side load it and it was such a pain in the ass i just bought a Chromecast.

My university had the head of cyber security for a bank over to talk about pen testing, and one of the questions he got was “What Linux distro do you use at home.” He said Ubuntu, because he wants a system that’s stable and has support. If it works, it works.

I had a friend who was high up in a refinery years ago, and he once explained to me that many parts of the refining process are held separate as an artifact of rail companies and old oil kings being close knit.

I guess the idea was if you make it so we have to carry your product back and forth, we’ll only use your product on our trains. The concept carried over with pipelines, people with interests in both industries ensured that the IP and patents needed for mass consumption were protected to essentially create the need for pipeline infrastructure. Otherwise they would have just bought miles of land and shipped near complete product to shore instead of the current back-and-forth.

I’m paraphrasing info i heard 20+ years ago, but the general take away is: oil production is siloed so the rich could get richer.

Oh shit, now the NRA are going to get involved, and bring all their gun nut buddies, right!

…right?

There are a bunch of things that dictate where I’m going to buy a game, including the DRM policy, or if I’m going to use the platform for connecting to online games, and honestly EGS doesn’t add anything to the equation except “is the game exclusive to a storefront?”. Being the only place to buy a thing isn’t a good reason to use a store, its a good reason to play something else. I stopped checking the free games a long time ago simply because i got overloaded with games and i don’t need a revokible license to more games than I have time to play.

Surface camera doesn’t work.

I think that’s it.

I did the whole work work work thing, and the only reward i got was more work and more responsibility. There may be some time where the responsibility eases off and you can actually take time off, but i never saw it. Now I’m very much life-oriented. I don’t make as much money, but I have the time to actually do things, which is more important for me.

This is the beauty of federated services. If someone is making more work for you, you have every right to defed.

The Zorg ZF-1!

That, or glow blue when a cop is near…

I’ve had a couple of people suggest they were going to dualboot and I often suggest against it. Logging in and out is more of a deterrent than people realize.

The only instance where I think it would be effective is if you work with MS software, in that case you can get away with having a work OS and a home OS.

IMO, the hardest part of moving over is relearning a bunch of things you’ve taken for granted. However, Windows has been changing and breaking things at such a rapid pace, that not even my friends who still use it can keep track.

Can I ssh into a server and not lose all productivity yet? Last time I tried ghostty I had to setup separate configs for my servers because they didn’t recognize it :/

Never trust the last person, especially if the last person was you.

It’s a shame we don’t have those banner ad schemes anymore. Cybersquatting could be a viable income stream if you could convince the cleaners to click banner ads for a faction of a penny each.

It’s scary and disorienting, but imo it’s worth it.

I can now say anecdotally I have more friends that have tried Linux and are happier on it, than I have friends who went back to Windows.

Most of the people who went back went back for edge cases, weird hardware or that “one game” that has kernel level anticheat and doesn’t run on Proton.

This is true, antibiotics are only effective against bacterial infection, not viral.

Yes, but also its illegal to kill a goose.

And I’m pretty sure someone told the geese.