Blocking users is free.

Shame that it seems like people don’t realize you’re using a real issue someone opened on github as a copypasta.

I’m a huge fan of Shout Factory, and I’m at a place in my life where I can generally afford to pay for my media, so I do. I’ll have to look up Arrow.

Voting with your wallet works both ways, and while most of the payment will be eaten by corporate interests at least it signals “I want more of this sort of thing”.

My comment was mainly meant as a response to the statement regarding later seasons of Always Sunny simply not being available to purchase physically. In situations like that, I see no reasonable objection to raising the sails.

May I interest you in the [email protected] wiki/megathread? Yo ho yo ho…

I support creators as I can, but when there’s literally no other option to own it in a way it can’t be just taken from you I don’t feel there’s any strong argument against it.

That’s not photoshopped/edited btw. It’s from a song going through all the fingers on our hands. I believe it’s from the first year/season of the show.

Those are simple. SMH: System Managed Heraldry, SMDH: Shaving my dog here!

Any options for wired VR with the Quest 2?

Citation needed. So far there has been one instance, in Tenessee, where a horrendous law was passed recently to allow that.

That law is a state law. As in, only in Tenessee. Not the whole country.

Things are absolutely shit, amd headed for worse, but let’s not spread falsehoods please.

I spent a ton of time playing the nabisco minigolf flash game online as a kid.

Oh, sorry. I’m definitely not trying to argue against the idea that the economy is shit or that the ever widening chasm between the “classes” is a massive fucking problem.

I’m fairly outspoken online about how I feel like the social justice movement (while critically important) that rose out of the ashes of Occupy Wallstreet was a ploy to get everyone below the 1% fighting each other. Won’t go as far to say the only war is class war, but it’s for sure the most inportant one.

I was specifically focused on the headline’s claim of 60% using BNPL for groceries. We shouldn’t need “alternative facts” to make our point.

This comment on the post indicates that it’s a CitizenWatch article, but that article’s own listed sources don’t support the 60% number either (as I call out in my response to that comment).

I swear there’s barely anywhere online anymore where people practice basic skepticism. If it aligns with their existing biases they just slurp it up, no matter how absurd.

I mean this sincerely: Am I missing something in their sources? None of their three sources about BNPL support the “60%” number for groceries.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markfaithfull/2025/04/28/american-consumers-turn-to-buy-now-pay-later-for-groceries-as-high-costs-bite

https://pueblostarjournal.org/news/2025/06/03/shopping-buy-now-pay-later-groceries

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/26/americans-groceries-buy-now-pay-later-loans.html

CNBC mentions 60% of general admission tickets for Coachella being BNPL sales.

It and the other two articles state 41%-43% of generally surveyed people simply stating they used BNPL last year, not for what.

I’m not seeing any source for “60% of Americans using BNPL for groceries”, and anecdotally that doesn’t match anything I’m hearing/seeing in my day to day life. Economy’s shit, but this feels a little “narrative”-y for my tastes.

I’d extend that to most internet memes.

In most public places in the US it is technically illegal to be publicly intoxicated. It’s incredibly rare that anyone would do anything about it unless you’re being a public nuisance or something though.

100% true, and a great counterpoint.

Windows ACLs are far more complicated than they have any right to be, and file perms are generally far simpler on Linux.

100% valid choice. I’d argue that it’s even the correct one.

That said, those specific examples are all “solved”. My issue is that the overwhelming amount of Linux pushers here tend to act as though those issues are literally unsolvable.

The ads are nearly all controlled from a single yes/no switch a single level deep into the settings menu. And that switch has not been reset by updates in at least four years. Since I’ve joined lemmy, every single “Microsoft is pushing more ads into Windows” article I’ve seen has been talking about ads controlled by this same singular switch.

Things like the pushing of the Microsoft account and Recall are mostly avoided by using their Professional SKU/License/OS version and using GPO to disable those features. Or to take specific steps during install. You have to use the tools they have for corporate customers that have specific legal guidelines that prevent them from being able to use whatever MS’s new revenue extraction trick is.

Bullshit? Yes. Should anyone have to do this shit to have a decent OS? No.

But if you’re savvy enough to navigate Linux, you’re more than capable of navigating this shit on Windows. It’s not impossible.

I work in this space profressionally. Systems administrarion, architecture, design, and integration. Please take your single sentence “hot takes” elsewhere.

Windows is far from “a shitty product” or “broken”. It is developed by horrid anti-consumer motherfuckers out to extract as much profit as possible from their least profitable user base: home users. Evil as hell, sure, but so is nearly every large corporation that makes shit that fills your personal hovel you call home. If that makes them untouchable for you, that is a great choice. But that does not factually impact the usability or usefulness of the product.

Linux is awesome and necessary. Open source is the only way this whole mess keeps working far into the future, and I am no stranger to compiling shit from source and submitting pull requests.

My problems with the Linux community, specifically on Lemmy, are these: Linux is not “just easier” and depressingly still not ready for the average consumer unwilling to tinker. The overwhelming majority of complaints about Windows so frequently posted here are solved problems that people pretend are entirely unfixable, or refuse to learn how to fix. For many people venting about their computer, it would be easier to direct them how to fix what they have rather than try to use it as an opportunity to push your religion OS of choice.

If you can manage Linux, I promise that “fixing” a Windows install is well within your reach. Plenty of problems with it, but “broken”? “Unusable”? Take a look outside at the majority of the world, or even the fucking Steam user statistics and get back to me on that. More than good enough for the overwhelming majority.

Glad to see another voice of sanity regarding Windows.

If you haven’t learned by now, on Lemmy the only valid option for dealing with Windows configuration and basic Windows admin tasks is to yeet Windows and go to Linux.

Great news for me, not so much for my bank account.

Man, that still is one of the best tasting energy drinks I’ve ever had. Tasted just like orange cream soda, would never know it was an energy drink.

It’s a shame, I’m pretty sure the company folded. You can still find pallets online, but I have no idea if they’re legit, ancient back stock, or what.