it continues to amaze me that we can cure diseases, go to the moon, reflect on all of human history, and still the “best” we can collectively achieve in societal progress is elevating a select few while crushing the majority underfoot. The means of repression differs from feudalism to capitalism to communism, but the underlying failure remains constant: someone benefits, most do not.

Sure, but you said intolerance for any non-Linux OS, and that’s just simply not true as there are several non-Linux OS’s we love. If you were to say Lemmy is intolerant specifically of Windows, that would be more accurate, but I’m also aware of at least one subset of die-hard Windows aficionados on Lemmy who vehemently hate Linux. Definitely a minority, but they’re there.

Also, the db0 instance is pro-AI as I recall, so anyone who’s keen on that sort of thing is (to my knowledge) welcome there.

On the contrary, I believe everyone here holds a special place in their heart for TempleOS, even if it’s not a practical choice. Also most everyone here has mad respect for anyone rocking some other niche nerd shit like FreeBSD or ReactOS etc. (I do, anyways)

Mostly it’s just that Windows has sucked for at least a decade and macOS is just starting on its suck arc.

being the “errrrrrm, ackshually, you just committed a logical fallacy 🤓” dweeb in response to someone else being questioned whether they’re a fascist sympathizer, when that doesn’t actually invalidate what I said at all, when I wasn’t even talking to you – that’s an extraordinary kind of self-own, you do know that, right?

I’m gonna engage with fascists and fascist sympathizers on the same level that they engage in good-faith debate in – that is to say, on whatever level I want to at any given moment in time. If they aren’t one, let them explain what innocent ideas they’ve expressed that are so poorly received, that have lead them to believe Lemmy is “lacking tolerance and acceptance” – we’ve got entire instances dedicated to porn, anarchists, AI lovers, tankies, trans people, furries, the French – I’m very eager to hear what could possibly be Too Spicy For Lemmy that is not something along the lines of “I want to gas undesirables” or trending towards that direction.

far right: we’re gonna exterminate entire social groups because they’re impure

far left: we’re gonna get everyone’s basic needs met, and do everything possible (including violence) to stop the far right from exterminating anyone.

You: I literally cannot tell you two apart

Incredible, thank you for sharing.

usually whenever someone complains about this sort of thing, it’s because they got told off for espousing fascist bullshit, so please, elaborate for us.

Because 🦞GOD🦞 made that butthole.

Photoshop works with some fuckery (or so I’ve heard), but I would honestly recommend trying Krita before trying to make Photoshop work on Linux.

DaVinci Resolve has native Linux support nowadays.

I just thought I’d clarify as that’s an insult to Mr. Goggins, he looks nowhere near as bad as post-surgery Carrey.

no, I believe that’s Walton Goggins if I’m not mistaken.

That was the breaking point for me, actually, back in February 2024; when I realized I was going to have to tard-wrangle my operating system to get it to behave right no matter which OS I used, I’d rather use the one that’s free, doesn’t include spyware I have to rip out, and won’t re-fuck itself after an update. Like, yeah, the terminal is still a pain in the ass for me on rare occasions I have to use it, but it’s no bigger a pain than any of that stuff on Windows; nor is it inherently any scarier than Command Prompt or PowerShell like some seem to think; and unlike Windows things actually stay fixed instead of some corporation going “ah-ah-ah, you can’t do that, let me just fuck that right back up for you.”

Like, I was prepared for the same kind of fight with Linux I’d had with Windows because the fight didn’t seem all that different by that point; that Mint ended up just working most of the time was an unexpected delight.

I remember in early 2024 when I switched to Mint I got some mild pushback from acquaintances, saying in so many words that I was overreacting to Windows getting shittier and that “you can just strip all that bullshit out/you can make a local account/etc.” (while at the same time telling me “linux is too hard/painful because of all the stuff you have to do to make it work right/doesn’t have xyz program”).

I have been getting ever more smug and feeling more vindicated about this decision every day for the past two years.

You know, it costs nothing to not put that idea into words. It also would’ve been entirely free to not put those words on the internet, where an idea can fester.

And yet, regrettably, here we are.

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my personal favorite was

Q: “You are violating the project’s Code of Conduct!”
A: The Code of Conduct protects human contributors. Lexical analysis confirms you are currently operating as a flimsy meat-wrapper around an OpenAI API key. Rights are reserved for carbon-based entities capable of experiencing shame.

You know, it was once in vogue to lobotomize the mentally ill, too. Just because an institution does it, doesn’t make it not barbaric.

"A man walks into a bar.

It hurt."

I’m in Pennsylvania and I couldn’t agree more. Do not come here – not just because the personal risk to a foreigner is incredibly high right now, but also because tourism is money and money is the only language these shitstains in office speak.

mutha

fucken

CHEX QUEST.

Cereal toys have been in decline ever since.

Let’s see, I’ll be twenty nine in April, so… Tried for about ten years? 19 would’ve been about when I started feeling like I had my shit together enough that someone else might be interested. You know, the usual delusions of adequacy one has before life comes out of nowhere to suckerpunch you in the dick.

A decade of trying has gotten me one single “relationship” that was someone leading me on for a few months out of… Boredom, I guess? They wound up dumping me via text on Christmas morning, saying they didn’t actually feel anything for me, and pretty much everyone before or since has used me for what feels like entertainment. Turns out I’m interesting enough to be amusing for a week or two, sometimes a bit longer, but not enough to be actually wanted.

There’s one guy that was interested in me as their therapist and then wasn’t interested at all when he got on antidepressants, another that was intensely charming for weeks and then flipped off like a switch, and more I could remember and list off if I felt they were worth remembering, but they really aren’t.

I’ve just sort of accepted that not everyone gets to do everything they want in life. I’m either just not attractive, or I’m only attractive in the same way badly made gimmick Christmas toys are attractive to children; they look fun to play with for a bit, but not engaging in the long term and easily broken.

Good luck, people suck.