MyNameIsIgglePiggle

@MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In the end I popped up the terminal and used some pot command with some flag I can’t remember to skip the login step on setup.

  I reckon there is good chance you aren’t using windows 11 home though right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry answered it elsewhere, yep windows 11.

  The forced update took forever and failed and then it also fucked out with the Microsoft account. It was legit 2 hours from boot to seeing a desktop. I wanted to skip the updates and the Microsoft account.

  The start menu is full of ads for software I don’t want. If I buy software off you, stop trying to upsell me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, sure. But I don’t run a shop anymore and just picked up an off the shelf machine from a retailer.

  Turned it on, connected it to wifi, then it took forever to try and update itself, which failed, required another reboot, then made me sign in, which also failed, needed a reboot

  I dont want a fucking ms account, I don’t want to wait for every update, just ask my name and take me to the desktop

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been a full time dev since 2012 and needed a Mac, I had barely used windows over that time but beforehand ran a PC service business.

  Anyway, Ive been using Linux as a daily driver for the past 6 months for reasons.

  … The other day I got a new cheap laptop I needed to setup for run a single application.

  Holy fuck what a shitshow.

  It took me 2 hours just to get to the desktop. Shit didn’t work, bullshit login screens, ads everywhere.

  It was a massive pile of dog shit.

  After battling to get the system setup for the rest of the day I gave up, chucked Fedora Kinoite On it… Took 30 minutes from creating boot media to getting a desktop going, chucked the app I needed to run in a Flatpack, chucked it on a USB, and it was up and running.

  No bullshit.

  Just works.

  Truly the year of the Linux desktop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Bullshit. Lasers have been intended to gain interplanetary superiority since the dawn of time. We just didnt know they could also be used to read music from a circle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Benjamin Franklin fucks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Techno feudalism, here we come⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that a coffee percolator fish tank?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unconditional support⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol I own a distillery and this tracks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Are we the bad guys?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, one of the great uses for gen ai is “write me a script to diagnose this problem” and then pass the output back with “write me a script to fix it”

  I don’t have the bandwidth in my life to diagnose and tinker for fun, and it’s really made a bunch of big annoying things easy.

  I found KDE way more intuitive than gnome, even though I was last on a Mac before the switch. Perhaps pick a KDE distro.

  Also maybe list here if you have any deal-breaker apps or workflows to the folks can say if it’s worth your effort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did ChatGPT come up with Trump’s tariff rate formula? AI chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok all return the same formula for reciprocal tariff calculations, several X users claim.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “these lazy fucks in the government are using ai to come up with policy”

  Also news outlet

  “I am too lazy to do the laziest thing I’m angry about, even though it’s my literal job”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, til

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  See, now I have had a few things pegged as being in the denial phase for a while. I’m in Australia, so the housing market I have had pegged to collapse, also I figured we would be heading into a recession coming on 3 years ago and changed businesses to “weather the upcoming recession”

  Now while things have cooled off since then, and I still think both elements are overcooked, I obviously moved way to soon.

  So my question is, how do you time the denial phase? The housing market issue has been going on for about 30 years from what I can tell (though it got more reasonable for half a minute a bit over a decade ago and then went stupid again).

  In my lifetime, and I’m 40 now, I haven’t seen a proper major correction where bad decisions and greed was punished. I should have been “taking stupid risks” the entire time and I would have been just fine.