I liked 7 and 2k.

heroes. we should support them more.

no I’m saying weirdshit that made me fudge things in Linux. and I could. it was easy.

in windows my issues were all ‘this isn’t supposed to work, this isn’t allowed’ and I had to fight the system rather than finding the right config file and changing a couple lines.

so my windows problems were much simpler shit. things like getting the taskbar to to what I want, or getting windows to not explode on top edge of screen (literally a checkbox in KDE plasma)

oh yeah that could happen, but just to be sure…

…burned out?

lots of versions of windows limit the amount of memory they recognize.

me?

okay so sometimes you need to run a twenty year old game made for another OS or cpu architecture

which… weirdly, easier in Linux than win7; Linux has better backward compatibility with windows than windows. was like three clicks to install.

but sometimes that game uses broadcast UDP packets for LAN multiplayer.

and this is where our problem comes from, because broadcast UDP packets are deprecated, and also most modern routers don’t love them, I don’t think.

so, I needed to find a way to manually readdress outgoing UDP packets from broadcast to a specific set of multicast addresses, which…

also, some issues running USB as serial for some exotic peripherals. and by ‘exotic’ I mean ‘I don’t know for sure the PC is the problem; I might have soldered this wrong’.

also some issues in qubes, but that’s literally all virtualization, and not a distro for anyone who hasn’t both been using Linux for a while and considered the cost of making their apartment a Faraday cage.

a few issues with bare arch, which is the ‘do everything from scratch 0 automation bleeding edge tech nerd, no, seriously you need to manually download a file system’ distro. don’t use arch if you don’t know what youre doing.

doesn’t technically count

well I’m saying billionaires so we absolutely don’t catch any splash damage.

what are we even arguing about?

you know what, give each one the chance for a nice life. dolly wants a recording studio and school and whatever at her ranch? wants to run a theme park? cool, I can’t imagine her community saying no.

fuckerberg wants to run a cringe mma gym under his apartment?maybe contribute a few lines to vlc or something every year (with extra review)? sure. no more than anyone should have.

shitty Jeff wants to be an aging beach himbo, maybe help people train at an outdoor gym? be my guest.

but they won’t. not until you already have a gun in their mouths, and at that point, its less effort to just kill them.

and never will

Dude have you been in a coma this past decade?

What infra? Youre acting like its a single thing. Sure pumped hydro takes a while. Even small scale, water towers on buildings. Sure.

But build a metal smelting thing. Take a crack at fusion. Use crypto mining techniques to tap cables and install massive racks of computers to do comedic deep fake smut of fascist politicians. Basically all meta-capacity can be applied to this, and some of it is really fucking portable.

No but see you can’t build infrastructure to solve problems. What is this the 1700s? Go ride a train, commie!

Problems are only solved by grinding humans into a fine paste/powder, or destroying things for quarterly profits. Or doing a giant mountain of cocaine.

You can get chatgpt to do this. Or write a simple script.

Til it gets taken down and dismantled. Yes.

Nothing good is allowed to exist but in shadows. Shadow archives are essential.

Even if there’s nothing by them you want to play, pirate some anyway. Seed generously.

For the average person; msoffice and libreoffice function pretty much the same. Even the icons mostly match.

Which is leas good, but still fine.

One of the marginal transitional benefits of open source software is keeping proprietary shit at least kind of in it’s place.

the possibility of bespoke features Such a shame you can’t do this with open source software.

Every time I see someone say ‘I’m actually really a fan of open source’ it reads like ‘I’m not racist but’.

Wow, Schleswig-Holstein meaning well and starting beef by doing it. I’m sure there’s no precedent for that.

Init as in 'contraction of "isnt it”’? Or as in ‘initialize’?