BlameTheAntifa
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- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 12 hours ago:
openSUSE is also pretty great, and doesn’t get the attention it deserves.
There really is a Linux for everyone.
- Comment on The Home Depot tax at work! 12 hours ago:
Clearly, there are no winners. I don’t want to encourage people to use it, or make them think it’s okay to use it. There is no “taking it back” in this case.
- Comment on The Home Depot tax at work! 19 hours ago:
I am autistic and do not appreciate it at all. On whose behalf am I offended?
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 19 hours ago:
Ubuntu is fine. I do understand the hate, though. Snap is contentious for very good reasons, Canonical makes major decisions by fiat rather than listening to the community (see Snap again), and they have corporate motives that are often at odds with the spirit and desires of the greater FOSS community (like forking upstream projects instead of contributing).
Mint is still based on Ubuntu, for example, but I feel it’s a more ethical suggestion than Ubuntu itself.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 19 hours ago:
I find that’s very unhelpful to potential Linux converts. They will quickly find out that there are infinite flavors of Linux, become overwhelmed, and give up.
When you are introducing newcomers to Linux, it’s best to make specific suggestions.
- Comment on Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth” 1 day ago:
I kept waiting for a eugenics storyline where the Federation tries to make Klingons more human and turns them into TOS Klingons, thereby completing the narrative justification circle.
Instead…
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 1 day ago:
Oh. That’s an interesting use-case I hadn’t considered.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 1 day ago:
Pop!_OS is my top recommendation for Windows expats, followed by Mint (Cinnamon Edition), and then Bazzite (KDE Plasma desktop). Bazzite is so, so, so good, but it has some unique features that make it a little more frustrating for Windows power users who are new to Linux. But honestly they are all good. Pick one, and if you aren’t vibing with it, try something else.
Also, keep in mind that “distro” and “desktop environment (DTE)” are two different things. Sometimes a distro has a default DTE and sometimes it gives you a choice. The DTE makes the biggest difference to your experience. There are many different DTEs, but the two biggest are GNOME (MacOS-like and moderately customizable) and KDE Plasma (Windows-like by default, but very customizable).
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 1 day ago:
There has never been a better time to switch to Mint, Pop_OS, or Bazzite.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 1 day ago:
Just be sure you have enough savings for the inevitable repairs, tows, etc.
- Comment on i broke 2 days ago:
This sounds a lot like the Second Noble Truth in Buddhism. “Suffering is caused by desire”, meaning that there is a disconnect between what you wish were so, and what is actually so.
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 3 days ago:
Japanese IP laws are no more strict than other major blocs due to trade agreements. Nintendo has never “lost out on licensing” due to IP laws. Beginning in tbe 1980s, they have been extremely and aggressively litigious as a matter of company policy. They literally see everything they produce as theirs… you don’t own the things you buy from them. You pay them for the enjoyment of using their things. They’re about as hardcore neoliberal as it gets. In other words, they seem evil because they are evil.
- Comment on is it ableist to “support equal rights and those with disabilities” but think someone is terrible and doesn’t deserve rights for showing signs of a disability? 3 days ago:
You can believe that people stuck in wheelchairs deserve equal access to public spaces via accommodations like ramps or elevators, and still hate Ted, who happens to be paraplegic, because he is a hateful, racist, fascist MAGA jerk. In this case, your shunning of Ted is not ableist because the reason you treat Ted differently is unrelated to his disability and you are well aware of the fact. He doesn’t get a pass for things unrelated to his disability.
However, if you are aware of someones disability and treat them prejudiciously because of it (or it’s symptoms) then you are the ableist jerk. If you are the one with a disability and people treat you in a prejudicious manner because your disabilities or their symptoms, then they are jerks and not friends.
- Comment on Kids nowadays don't have many (if any) videogame heroes... 3 days ago:
Um, the point of Helldivers is that we are the baddies.
I feel like we have more than enough death-cult machismo fascism in real life.
- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 4 days ago:
Oh, you thought you owned that thing you bought? No. This is 2025. You own nothing. It doesn’t matter how much money you gave them. Yeah, gave them. Because you didn’t buy that stuff. You’re just borrowing it.
- Comment on Are We All Becoming More Hostile Online? 5 days ago:
One of the differences these days is that marginalized groups are having their existences threatened… and not hollow threats, but meaningful ones that have had, and continue to have, very real consequences in the form of policies, hate crimes, etc.
That is legitimate, very real violence, and it results in very understandable hostility. And then those perpetuating, supporting, and celebrating the violence pretend they are victims when people treat them like the orcs they are.
“Why are you being so divisive?” “You’re not very TOLERANT of different opinions, are you?” “Why are you so angry all the time, snowflakes?”
Violent bullies need to be put in their place, and with more than just “hostility on the internet”.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 5 days ago:
I know there are as many distros as there are stars in the sky, but definitely give it a test drive! It’s one of the better distros out there IMO, especially for gaming.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 5 days ago:
I definitely blame the patent office.
But also, patents should not exist. They need to be completely abolished. Copyrights are one thing, copyrights make sense, patents are another entirely, existing solely to facilitate intellectual theft from both individual entities and the broader public.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 6 days ago:
You see, the patent system is based on a “first to file the paperwork” basis, thereby enabling literal legalized theft. Neoliberalism at work, precisely as designed.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 6 days ago:
Yes. It’s very healthy and actively maintained by System76.
- Comment on Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for 6 days ago:
Oh they know how to do it. They are just desperate to swindle existing owners since their vehicle sales have fallen off a cliff.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 6 days ago:
Digital patents should not exist. Period.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 1 week ago:
It’s almost as if college isn’t about bettering yourself but paying a racket so you can check off a mandatory box on your resume for the pleasure of your corporate liege-lords…
- Comment on Apple Fights Back Against Ruling Requiring External Payment Options 1 week ago:
Gotta protect that illegal, anticompetitive trust at all costs.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 1 week ago:
Pop_OS or Bazzite, IMO.
Unfortunately, Ubuntu is corporate bloatware these days.
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 1 week ago:
Not really. It’s just called “Teams” now.
- Comment on Vermont Library Association Leaves X (formerly Twitter) 1 week ago:
Same. It’s a red flag for me and I’m less likely to do any business with them if ai can help it. The time to leave was a long, long time ago. There is no excuse for it now.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 1 week ago:
Aww, and I here I was hoping multiple vendors were FINALLY going to contribute to mobile linux.
- Comment on New Meta XR glasses again tipped to land later this year – well ahead of Apple's rumored AR glasses with Apple Intelligence 1 week ago:
So it’s Google Glass.
That’s literally just Google Glass.
Who would even want that?
- Comment on New Meta XR glasses again tipped to land later this year – well ahead of Apple's rumored AR glasses with Apple Intelligence 1 week ago:
You ahould be able to do so many amazing things with AR… in theory. But we don’t have the tech to make it a reality. Even Apple’s headset, with all its theoretical power, can’t do basic AR things like real-time object recognition and tracking. It’s little more than an iPad you wear on your face. That’s not AR. In theory, Apple Vision has the power to do that stuff. So why doesn’t it? Why can’t it? What did they do wrong?