Ahem. Konformists.

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Ugh. That reminds me of the Microsoft admin fanboys where I worked, dissing Linux because its all command lines, while saying that MS inventing PowerShell was a stroke of genius making their lives easier.

Seeing a metalhead in the snow reminds me of this gem: The Mighty Gates Of The Couloir Bonaventure

It can’t hurt to know this but to me PS is not intuitive, looks like SomeLongString-ActingLikeA-Command, and I avoid it as much as using Windows in the first place, unless absolutely necessary.

For a moment I thought that ‘commandName -’ was some PowerShell stuff.

Also when someone you know uses Windows 11.

It’s kind of complicated. I’ve used Linux since Slackware 7 and I still have issues with some drivers.

Sometimes you just already have the hardware. Sometimes the vendor says it’s compatible but it’s not, or you have to compile drivers from a CD. Sometimes it depends on the version of the kernel used. Sometimes it depends on the architecture. Sometimes conditions change and what’s supposed to be working doesn’t.

I don’t think the meme is blaming Linux, it’s just how it is for some people. Some are gonna distro hop, some are gonna compile their own kernel.

Just in case you don’t know, unless it changed last time I checked, some organizations like Comptia didn’t allow computers with dual boot to be used to pass a cert exam.

I’ve seen another “joke” like this when I was on reddit and I had to save it to remind me how most people think it’s funny to drive a multi ton lethal vehicle when they can’t see shit around them.

Do you camp in the wilderness? Because most people insist on bringing their car or their SUV with them.

I make it a point to cycle to provincial parks and use rustic camp grounds, but most of these still have parking spaces. In fact, the provincial parks here literally have a disclaimer on their website to warn people that some camp sites are not accessible by car. You have to tick a box that says “I understand this camp ground is not accessible by car”.

And if people want to go on crown/public lands where wild camping is permitted, then they’re probably gonna use a fucking car.

I’m usually aware of my surroundings even with the headphones. Apparently sometimes more than some people without them. I just remove them when I need to interact with others. If I really needs to hear the crap around me, like when I’m cycling, I use bone conduction headphones.

And if it’s so crowded that I need to hear the people around me not to bump in them, then it’s too crowded for me to be there in the first place.

As a city dweller without a car, headphones are part of the essentials when leaving.

✅ Keys

✅ Money

✅ Phone

✅ Headphones

And probably a backpack.

When I started to use Linux more than two decades ago, Qt’s license was not considered free software friendly. Because I didn’t want proprietary software, I avoided KDE and Qt applications. I know the situation changed after a few years but it stuck with me.

Controversy erupted around 1998 when it became clear that the K Desktop Environment was going to become one of the leading desktop environments for Linux. As it was based on Qt, many people in the free software movement worried that an essential piece of one of their major operating systems would be proprietary.

Plus, it was much easier at that time to have themes and “rice” my desktop using only GTK apps.

So it’s petty but even to this day, I kept the old habit and still avoid Qt applications.

Don’t worry, car collisions are only one of the leading causes of preventable deaths in the US.

Who cares if you’re blind, you need to go places. Here’s your license. The other shiny dots are just NPCs.

Anything but public or active transit.

Of course. My meat tenderizer connected to the internet has an accelerometer and sensors. For a small monthly subscription fee it tells me how hard I need to beat the meat, and for how long. All powered by AI for my convenience.

It’s a quote from an episode of the Simpsons. I don’t know who wrote that but I left it verbatim.

Don’t kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow had the chance he’d eat you and everyone you care about.

It was difficult to accept but after talking with a therapist, and years of being discouraged every time I talked to her, I made the same realization and stopped telling her about most of my life. Everyone is much happier if we don’t talk about this. Otherwise she will tell me I took all the wrong decisions and that I should have stayed miserable because that’s how it works.

She (and all of her family) is afraid of pretty much everything. So as soon as you can secure a job, you keep it; for life! Even if it destroys your body or your mental, you have a job so keep it! Don’t go to school, it’s just a waste of money. Don’t look elsewhere because it’s not going to be better anyway. It’s even causing conflict in her family because one of her sister is a nurse and is “too educated”. They consider her snobbish.

It’s my mother, I love her, but I can’t tell her anything or it’s going to be worse for both of us.

AFAIK they did that because of GSM interference and the phenomenon mostly disappeared not because those cheap little speakers are mostly extinct, but because the technology used by cell phones changed. In fact, GSM is being phased out in most countries.