Yeah, but then I’d have to search for a service that can do that in the first place and that’s wayyyyy too much effort.

Never mind that "meme generator " + [name of meme] would have gotten me that result just as quickly as telling Gemini “generate a meme” or however that works

Some people consider “may you have an exciting life” a curse

I like our open space plan, personally. It’s full of plants and green, which makes it less clinical, full kf sound dampening, which makes it less oppressively noisy and also full of people I get along with well, which makes quick across-the-desks banter more fun.

You’re perfectly right, of course, but I’d be wary of projecting the assholery of the elites onto the bulk of the people actually fighting that war, and particularly on the peasants that bore the cost of plundering armies taking their supplies and occasionally daughters or wives.

Either way, the topic of defending againt malware or AI is closer to the type of small-scale raiding warfare that passes beneath the notice of the recording elite (or predated record-keeping entirely). Accordingly, these will not have made it into the records, but they’re probably a better analogy.

In warfare usually both sides are assholes.

I don’t think that generalises well. There are many wars where there is an aggressor and a defender.

IDK how idiomatic it still is, but I was taught to differentiate between Exceptions and Errors, where any recoverable Exception is to be logged and handled gracefully and only the truly unforeseen or fatal issues end up actually killing the execution.

And for unforeseen errors, it’s kinda hard to construct a helpful error message, given you might not know just what info to include.

(Of course, proprietary obfuscation adds another significant hurdle, but I suspect even without obfuscation, you might not be able to do much about closed-source code. That’s an argument against closed-source code, in my opinion, but I don’t think I need to preach to the choir here.)

The perpetual development cycle of attacks and defenses: weapons create a threat environment, which new armour technologies are created to protect against, which in turn new weapons are developed to circumvent. Virus begets Antivirus that has to keep up with new viral signatures. AI slop prompts AI detection tools and circumvention methods.

So long as assholes continue to exist, anti-asshole-strategies will need to contend with their unwillingness to just fucking respect other people’s boundaries and wishes.

Yeah, the way Discord has taken over the role of forums is less than ideal. It speaks to a shift in communication culture, and it’s unfortunate that public solutions to this seem to be unavailable or at least not widely known.

It’ll have been an important question to Epstein, for very wrong reasons

Make your own, coward. No distro so niche as one that has half a user because it’s hardly usable.

Fuck those losers (the execs, not the workers).

I mean, fuck the workers too, if they want to~

Look, you’re harming our effort to convince people that there are no bugs in Tux-Sing-Se. How are we gonna get people to switch unless we pretend that all is perfect and flawless? Because clearly, that’s what Windows users expect…

(sarcasm)

Likewise, I prefer to stress that my system worked great out of the box. I just couldn’t resist tinkering with the audio setup, because I can and wanted to. I broke something, fixed it again, all is well.

I’m the type to mess around with pipewire, break stuff, fix it, learn nothing from that and fuck it up again. I’ve got it doing what I want it to, and yet I wanna tinker around and probably mess it up again because I can’t seem to really understand the docs or configuration files.

I’m the type to have two OS (Nobara, Ubuntu) on separate disks, then decide to rip the guts out of the second one (Ubuntu) and just use the disk for data storage (without reformatting) but keep forgetting to also delete the boot partition that no longer works anyway (because none of the system directories exist anymore) but occasionally UEFI randomly decides to boot it first and ends up with a fucked up and hopelessly confused GRUB.

I’m the type to put the second disk in fstab, then unplug it and wonder why boot is having issues loading the filesystem.

This is my primary system, so I’m just barely holding back from messing with the system itself, because I know I’ll fuck up something and I’d rather still have a working system to either troubleshoot from or at least decide I’ll postpone the unfucking and play Satisfactory instead to mess up my factory there.

I’ll probably format my third disk again (currently Bazzite, which I never really fully set up to try at length) and try something new on there. Still haven’t figured out how to make my GRUB add entries for other disk, but also, I really don’t wanna touch my primary boot config.

I can’t stop messing with things I don’t properly understand, get impatient with trying to understand the Docu and just fly blind, with predictable results. I tell myself half the joy is in fixing it, because the second it works, I forget it all and get to figure it out again next time.

I’m the “incorrigible amateur” type.

I assume they mean that the general sense of “Switching to Linux is easy! I’m still fiddling with basic things but any day now…” doesn’t reflect their own experience, nor that of many others who had less trouble with displays under Linux.

In that context “I have an unusual setup” is an important note: It’s not that Linux struggles with basic things, but that it struggles with some uncommon things that nobody ever built and shipped a proper solution for.

It’s in the “Unranked” tier because OP hasn’t used it enough to have an opinion.

When I used it decades ago, I was a kid. It seemed pleasant enough for me back then. On one hand, I’d say “works for children” is an endorsement. On the other, child-me never tried any of the advanced stuff I’d care about today.

Huh, apparently Lemmy tries to turn that into a Lemmy link (and fails)? Both Voyager and web appear to turn it into some variant of instance.tld/nyarchlinux.moe

The actual link should be like this: Nyarch

Unless that breaks too? IDK what happened here.

TempleOS has its own, sacred tier that mustn’t be listed with the profane

It’s a bit shifty though, the packages are all over the place and you need to actually look for and vet package vendors instead of just trusting one for-profit company to handle it all and not enshittify.

The “.nl” is for “never learned”, right?