And more to the point, your work computer should be provided by your employer. If you’re buying that shit yourself, you’re a chump who’s being taken advantage of.

Ah, TIL. I just figured it was the KDE-est general-purpose distro.

But still, shouldn’t it at least have a development version of Plasma Login Manager sooner than any others, for testing?

Fedora will be the first distro? Adopting it even faster than KDE Neon, a distro made by KDE itself?

I am starting to get real sick and tired of all these fascist deniers pretending things aren’t getting worse.

What the Hell could it possibly ever even need a firmware update for?! The vast majority of headsets aren’t even physically capable of having firmware (because they connect using 3.5mm analog audio jacks), let alone receiving an update for it!

I use a mouse that doesn’t require anything beyond the generic USB HID driver that comes with Linux in the first place.

(Okay, okay, I could also use OpenRGB if I wanted to control the lights. But still, it uses fuck-all software provided by the manufacturer.)

At least the AI-related videos of his I’ve seen were about running models locally, and for relatively legitimate use cases (training text-to-speech voices and commanding Home Assistant), so it could be worse.

He’s a Spaceball.

The last several places I worked gave me a choice between Windows and Mac OS, so I picked Mac OS.

Self-respect. I’m not going to tolerate my property being sabotaged against me in service of some other entity, and I don’t understand why anybody else would either.

As soon as Windows 10 “telemetry” (read: spyware) started getting backported into Windows 7 almost a decade ago, I was gone.

Windows users in 2025 are nothing but cucks and simps for corporate abuse. They don’t “just buy, have, and use a computer;” they are part of the problem.

I guess they consider their murder of non-subscription self-hosted multiplayer to be complete enough that their rent-seeking game service can survive without the need for hardware walls for the proverbial garden.

First immersion circulators, now ultrasonic vibrators? What the Hell are you people doing to these eggs?! Modernist cuisine has gone too far!

Not just software, online updates. Even things that were computerized used to have a lot more QA effort put into them when fixing a bug meant having to physically ship a new product revision, or at least a new disk.

Uh… you do know that people don’t literally save a bunch of Linux ISOs, right? It’s a euphemism for collecting less legit things, like pirated media or porn.

By the time you want to install the same distro again, it’s likely that a new version will be out and you’ll want to re-download it anyway.

Edit: okay, okay, some of y’all really do collect Linux ISOs. That’s fine; I won’t kink-shame.

Why the state of the industry is shit, in a nutshell.

Pathetic compared to a 150+ MPH train. You don’t even fucking realize how much of a backwards, loser country we’re in.

I’m seeing the same sort of behavior in !fuckcars, and that community does (or at least should) have a pretty strong sense of what’s appropriate.

The kicker is, the stuff being posted is appropriate — in fact, often higher quality than the memes some of the established users post — so I’m at a bit of a loss as to what I (as a mod) should be doing about it.

For any machines that are too inefficient to be worth continuing to compute with, you could at least save the power supplies for electronics projects. I’ve got some 12V addressable RGB Christmas lights being powered by an old ATX power supply, for example.

Taking less storage is almost the entire point of a zip file. It only takes more space than the original files in pathological cases (e.g. maybe if you’re trying to compress already-compressed data, like a video file).

Is metasearch really the best we can do? What about YaCy, or something else more like that?