Annnnnd in my case, running very complicated scripts provided by genius level volunteers to overwrite the bootloader (to Libreboot I think?) so it could accept a Linux OS because Chrome OS told my mother in law:

“We decided we’re done caring. Throw this device out and buy a brand new one.”

She’s been happily running Mint and getting her browser and security updates ever since.

Chromebooks and ChromeOS were an e-waste generating scheme from the start.

(Gigantic megacorp titan dumps billions into forcing a cheap thing on mass culture for further control of everything, selling at a massive loss to artificially inflate adoption rates)

“Wow! So many people use this thing now that an ultramegasupercorp did it to exploit countless masses of normies before their competition did! How did that happen!? I guess this must be the winning ‘linux’ of the future!”

No wonder it annoys Linux evangelists: We just want a world where we use computers, not the other way around.

Oh is Apple finally releasing different colors again? :p

“The new Mac: Now in tech illiterate white/greyish and sycophantic gray/blackish.”

Linux is like the Internet or even computers in general.

As I always say: “It’s for anyone! But it’s best not for everyone.”

You make a point but, hey now, let’s not be cruel to people. I think we’ve all had a situation where a click was accidentally a click-and-drag and now things aren’t how they were before, and we didn’t realize exactly what was happening.

I feel like KDE might have features to lock down taskbar customization a little better but, I haven’t looked for such a feature… 🤔

I feel like I’ve seen this exact complaint around the internet before…

Somehow you got downvoted even while there’s the occasional full-screen startup spam:

"WANNA SUBSCRIBE TO OFFICE?

ENABLE DEEPER AD DATA TARGETING?! (you can’t disable ads)"

Options:

{YES PLZ (here monee)}

/

{I’m so dumb I clearly don’t know what I’m missing by refusing your products and services. Remind me very soon.}

This is exactly why I laughed out loud, incredulously, at Dell’s “AI powered laptop” commercial that promises you will “free up so much time for the things you love” by using AI.

From washing machines to robot assembly, we’re still buying that old lie??

The tools improve, the expectations increase, the wage stays the same.

This. This. A thousand times a thousand times, yes. Nobody should be blindly trusting their safety to Amazon, one of the worst abusers of trust and privacy.

(Plus they’re the most common hardware… Guess what’s getting targeted for mass exploits?)

Almost anything is better than giving Amazon access to your home.

As a KDE person who’s got an 'ol reliable Mint machine, I’m really glad Cinnamon has fans. I do wish certain customization was a little easier maybe? But it really does “just work” while looking pretty enough and not being overly obtuse.

I love my KDE and it kicks butt right now, but I don’t want to see everything converge on a single DE. I want them all to improve for the people who love them for their own reasons.

Cinny rocks.

(The machine with the only Steam account active in North Korea would like to already knows your location)

Welcome to the team, Dan! Can’t wait to see where you take things. :)

That’s so rad. :D

The result of Curious George after his “Let’s compile a Kernel!” hijinks!

OpenMediaVault is pretty rad. I run it in a VM on a ProxMox machine and it ended up doing all the Docker lifting because the GUI management is just so nice.

I do need to get more CLI-ninja with Docker eventually, but in my experience it’s a very cumbersome and fiddly process.

Unless something breaks and needs more hands-on, I feel like OpenMediaVault’s container interface completely replaces Portainer and smooths the on-ramp for newbie self-hosters.

This is awesome!

Did you spend a lot of time underdrawing with light pencil, or is this more of a doodle using just the marker?

I love how clean and dynamic it is. It just has that “cute but badass” quality we love Pokemon for, but also looks like something you’d see in an old school TTRPG manual. :D

Thanks for this, I’m impressed by Bambus’ quality but I’ve always been highly suspect of the true cost of their “turnkey” operation and appliance-like nature.

It was making me sad seeing people just recommending them left and right even though it seemed like a huge step backward from all the hackerspace community-spirit innovation we’ve been seeing with 3D printing.

I’m really glad to see people pushing against that and advising people to consider the ramifications. <3

“mOvE fAsT aNd BrEaK tHiNgS LaWs”

It’s all Thiel’s stupid idea. He’s started a ton of companies all ripping off Tolkien’s work while basically LARPing Sauron. Such despicable trash.

OMG, preach! Louder for the kids in the back!

People are far too eager to identify under monolithic cults that demand perfection, instead of just, doing their best at what they feel is a good thing.