sapient

sapient, 4 days ago to random

You know how when hostage negotiators work out deals they're like "hey just let one hostage go okay"... making it opt-in is like one hostage, and windows users are a christmas party at Nakatomi Plaza... but there's no John McClain coming to save the day, you just gotta give up the vault codes and hope they don't kill another one.

sapient, 4 days ago to random

You ever been like, listening to some EDM and you start to smell the scent of fresh cut grass and you realize that buzzing sound you've been hearing wasn't actually part of the song?

Cause that just happened to me.

sapient, 4 days ago to random

And It's not even the spyware that most users care about, they opt into that shit all the time... its the ad creep and unwanted UI changes that piss people off, things which, while always possible to "fix" on windows, but its one of the things Linux is known for being able to customize the hell out of your setup and most importantly KEEP IT THAT WAY, even if your disto or window manager decides to change the defaults for new setups they wouldn't dare touch your personal config files.

sapient, 4 days ago to random

Clowning on windows users who are shocked pikachu about it being spyware 15+ years after I first told them linux was better is something I honestly feel entitled to... Like not to be too much of a dick about it, but I was making patches to get photoshop and steam working in wine while being told linux will never be good enough for the average user.

I was doing tech support for Ubuntu in 2010, by that point there was very few "average user" issues that couldn't be solved over a phone call.

sapient, 5 days ago to random

Just testing out @GrapheneOS new "duress pin" option... LOVE IT!

video/mp4

sapient, 5 days ago to random

Where we're going we don't need "passwords"

sapient, 7 days ago to random

While I do welcome with open arms all the dozen or so of people who actually are outraged enough over the AI-CoPilot stuff to switch, unless you actively make an effort to do things like block ads, regularly wipe ALL cookies, and generally avoid posting to social media, you are just self reporting all the the same stuff you're worried about microsoft knowing to a dozen other companies.

zerodogg, 8 days ago to random

@ente Wanted to migrate my wife too, she used AndOTP. Couldn't import directly so made a script that converts their JSON to the Ente plaintext, might be useful to others: https://codeberg.org/zerodogg/andotp2plaintext

jacqueline, 9 days ago to random

it btrfs good yet or is ext4 still the goat (zfs touchers dont @ me)

sapient, 12 days ago to random

I got a free hat the other day.

sapient, 22 days ago to random

Gods I hope this doesn't mean NFTs make a comeback too...

sapient, 22 days ago to random

sapient, 27 days ago (edited 27 days ago) to random

The last season of Star Trek Disco is pretty disappointing TBH.

Entire season based around the plot of one TNG episode that went nowhere.

Adira is basically the anti-wesley crusher... they have all the skills and none of the confidence but instead of telling them to "shut up" they get constant encoragement.

And then there's the whole, making the one off "jellico" type captain #1 after he gets demoted, only to show him not learning from any of it over and over.

sapient, 27 days ago to random

Hey Kids remember this easy motto: Stop dropping, and roll with it!