It is a unicorn. I dread the day Gaben dies and Valve ends up going public. It feels like the last bastion of decent online services.

Until they lock it up where you can’t. Or they’ll decide on selling data and injecting ads into your convos or streams.

In other words this hasn’t been enshittified to the max yet at all. There are new and horrible depths to explore.

Prescription meth does wonders for focus. Lol

I’m riding the same struggle bus and there are a lot of us. More like a struggle cruisliner, or struggle ark. Keep up the fight. I know it’s exhausting, but don’t let the bastards drag you down.

…fuck off.

I get it. I used to beat myself up for it. Still do sometimes. But I have to remind myself that if they aren’t reaching out either, they may feel the same. We both care about each other and if one or the other of us called we’d help in a heart beat or have a lengthy enjoyable conversation. But we also have lives to go about. And if they aren’t involved in the day to day it takes concerted effort to reach out.

When I feel really bad is when I don’t send a Xmas card but get one from them. Lol

Because all these bitches are supposed to have therapy to help you get over petty anxieties like talking on the phone. 😋

Right, like they all have a point to a degree but really just need a little more info and put bias aside to focus on what each system does well and just connect the dots to the most appropriate to their use case.

But then that requires social interaction, and having enough emotional maturity for putting aside personal biases. Two things on a relatively short list of things Linux doesn’t usually do well at.

Would’ve been great if they’d said “See you next Tuesday” instead.

I see about 3 I’m either interested in or played. CP2077 is definitely worth getting into. As is Baldurs Gate 3 from what I know of it.

The fanboying to the point of blinders is maddening to deal with among Linux users.

I don’t have issue with Ubuntu personally. I still prefer Zorin over it though. It’s a really nice “transition from windows” type distro and not as bloaty as Ubuntu.

That certainly doesn’t need to happen. Konami, I am disappoint.

Older stuff, nearly 100%. New stuff, still really high to nearly 100%. The only place you’ll run into trouble is with devices made with only windows drivers etc. So things like a USB label printer or glucose monitor or something like that.

Computer hardware though, very unlikely to see an issue. Servers use both the CPU and GPU. And most servers run some flavor of Linux.

What’s Realtek done? I haven’t kept up on them.

I’ve hated and avoided 11 since I first experienced it. After Xmas I had to help setup my parents new PC. It of course is win 11. I spent so much fucking time getting that shit just to a usable state. I’m more convinced than ever to fuck off from MS for good.

My favorite feature is honestly so simple. Denying network permissions during install.

I’m stoked to give it a try. I left my last PDF application because they injected AI into it. So I’ve been shopping around a little. I’ve been using Okular, but it’s really limited, even as a viewer. This looks awesome. Nicely done! I hope you keep at it!

Lol wait seriously? Surely those are a joke.

New taskbar from ground up. And despite all the requests to bring the feature back, their reasoning amounts to “we’re too lazy”

I’m not moving any goal posts. You made a statement that equates to “but it is easy if you are american so Americans are whiners” and that’s just plain false. Easier than some countries, sure. But still not easy.

Just because a couple barriers are removed, doesn’t make the process easy and accessible. Glad you can galavant about with nary a care, I wish I were so priviledged as you, but that’s not realistic for the overwhelming majority regardless of country of origin.

I can definitely understand that. It’s especially bad coming back to an old save. Feels like Gandalf in Moria “I have no memory of this place…”

Also…

Fuck you Shoresy!