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!

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sapient, 5 days ago to random

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