because reddit admins are surely always in the right and never overzealous about banning for the slightest transgression or even non-transgressions, right?

…right?

why would you want to? it hasn’t been worth using in well over a year or two now.

The most I get out of reddit nowadays is looking up error messages or other tech issues, and I don’t need an account for that.

the thing I think a lot of “linux dorks” (and I use that term lovingly) forget about is that most people want to work on their computer, not work on their computer. The OS, for most people, should be the software equivalent of a motherboard – an invisible plinth upon which the actual things you care about sit. With a motherboard, that’s your GPU, CPU, RAM, etc. and with the OS, that’s the applications you run.

there’s nothing wrong with making fiddling with your computer a hobby, and I’ve been known to dabble myself over the years, but for me and most other normal people, that ends up being too much work for too little reward in the end. Mint getting to the point where you can daily drive it and not have to worry about it even if you’re a complete brainlet when it comes to Linux is a massive W.

Well it is very on-brand.

It’s not ridiculous. It’s that sociopaths are happy to crush other people underfoot to get what they want, and good people aren’t. And thus, they get ahead. It is just that simple.

as much as I want to believe that will happen, if this election cycle has taught me anything, it’s that you can be the most abhorrent individual on the face of the planet and the universe will reward you for it. People will cheer you on for it.

You know why most fictional stories have happy endings? Because reality is much more depressing. In most movies, books, TV shows – the good guys win, the bad guys lose, protag gets the girl, so on and so forth. Some stories subvert this, but most don’t – because they are escapism from the crushing reality of, well, reality.

As it stands, I am quite confident that Elon will live to a ripe old age, along with every other abhorrent piece of shit in the world, while the good die young. The proles will be made to fight against each other over culture, race, religion, and eventually access to clean water and food due to climate change; while the people responsible will sit comfortably by and watch with mild amusement. And as much as I want to believe that will change, it probably won’t.

Welcome to the meat grinder. We’re the meat.

Am I the only one who, upon seeing his videos for the first time, immediately thought he was an annoying little pinhead?

Like, I’ve watched his channel(s) surge in popularity over the years, and this entire time I’ve just been wondering why, and the issues that have come out about his little empire since have only confirmed my initial prejudice.