Do it, do it, do it, do it!

We need legislation with teeth

He said, while living under a dictatorship.

That’s about the size of things, yes.

I’ve read that just installing arch is a whole ordeal in itself.

You’re talking to a guy who won’t touch terminal because on 6 different occasions I’ve bricked a whole hard drive just by using sudo apt update/ sudo apt upgrade incorrectly.

And you expect me to understand ARCH???

Are you high?

I didn’t try to use sudo apt install hardinfo, but the software store will find things from flatpack, snap, a few others.

It did not find hardinfo.

Well…it didn’t. It told me hardinfo would need 3 dependancies. Then said it wasn’t going to install them.

It listed the 3 dependancies it needed, but said they will not be installed.

Did you try installing the dependencies?

I have zero clue how to do that. I don’t even know what file extention they would be, or where I would get them, or what step 1 would be to installing them.

In windows, any decent program will say “this program needs these dependancies. Would you like to install them?” And I hit yes.

In linux it says “This program won’t install because it needs these dependancies first. We won’t help you install them. You figure it out.”

So instead of just using apt – like every introductory tutorial to Ubuntu and its derivatives leads off with – you chose to do it (effectively) the Windows way that you’re familiar with where you hunt and peck around the Internet for an install file.

Because in 20+ years of off and on using linux, I’ve never once gotten apt to install anything. I have however fucked up my whole system by doing sudo apt update/sudo apt upgrade.

I avoid terminal like the plauge.

You didn’t have the dependencies, and it told you which ones to install. Why does it need to tell you why it needs them?

I didn’t say I want to know why it needs them. I’m upset it tells me that it tells me it needs them, and then says “they won’t be installed”, but won’t tell me WHY they won’t be installed. If the program needs those dependancies, just install them. Instead it juat says “we know you need the dependancies, but we’re not going to do that”.

The problem with linux is the rough edges. It’s SLOWLY getting better.

2026 linux I find to be BARELY usable as a daily driver.

2006 linux was just trash.

In both cases, power users may have a different experience.

I tried installing a program called “hardinfo”. My ZorinOS software store didn’t find it through flathub.

So I googled it, found a .deb file, which my Zorin store loaded up to install.

Then I hit install, and it spits out a message like “Software was not installed. Requires these three dependancies, which will not be installed”.

Didn’t tell me why they didn’t install. Just said “Hardinfo needs these programs. Good luck figuring it out asshole!”

Ok, it may not have said it in those EXACT words…but you get the idea.

That being said, I recently booted up my old Windows 7 machine, and…I have no idea if the OS was always this slow, or if it’s gotten slower due to being SO out of date. It felt sluggish. And it theoretically SHOULD be faster. I have 16GB of ram now instead of 8GB. And it’s running off of SSD instead of a 5400rpm HDD. Theoretically it should have a huge speed boost.

Maybe I’m just used to a lighter OS after using it for this many years.

Being brave isn’t the lack of fear. Being brave is acting despite fear.

Max is the bravest boy!

…in the words of Ian Malcom:

“God damn do I hate always being right all the time…”

Also in the words of Ian Malcolm:

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I don’t feel at all like I’m the smartest person in any given room, but lately I feel like the movie idiocracy. Where I’m just some average guy, and the rest of the world is letting AI do their thinking for them. The end result is, crops won’t grow, because the lot of you are trying to water them with gatoraide. Top scientists in the country are so blinded by why science fails them, never realizing it’s because gatoraide controls the farming industry, and helps write the laws to ensure further grasp of control. Regardless of results.

And everybody else just goes with it. What will happen in the future? Click this article to read about it! Answer: No one knows what would happen if you water plants with water.

Here is how the AI experiment plays out…

Corporations cling and force this stuff down our throats, despite it not working. They do this for 2-3 generations to normalize it. With time and tech advancements they continue to develop it.

They keep using it where people don’t push back. Which for AI, is most things. I don’t see a major pushback on google including AI in search results. I don’t see a major pushback from MOST people on AI being in every element of Windows 11. I see people here hating on microsoft, but linux users are like 4% of the market.

So they continue using the stuff people don’t rock the boat over, while not improving services. Eventually they get more and more of these AI services in every aspect of your life.

The one place they spend all their effort improving is survailance. Watching you watch yourself, and sending them the data.

Alexa could listen for “Hey Alexa” or it could listen for sneezing. Then send that information to HQ where they can now sell that data, that you sneeze 37 times per day in the spring, or 3 times a day in the winter.

Now your insurance rates go up for allergy medication before you even see your doctor.

Thats just one example. Like one dot of a painting of millions of dots. But it all starts with people who don’t have critical thinking skills. They just don’t even question why TVs in the 90s were expensive, but by 2020 they were basically free.

So they buy their cheap smart tvs, and smart fridge, and everything else. Happy as can be. Not even realizing that its all just corporations bringing us closer and closer to 1984.

And in 30 years, not having a smartphone will be illegal. Not having a trackable device with you 24/7 will be illegal. They’ll justify it by saying “think of the children!”. And people will fall for it, yet again. Just as they always do.

If I used discord, they would assume I’m 7 years old.

goes back to sitting on the living room floor, and watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles while eating cereal with gummy bears added in

Jokes on you, discord! I’m 42!

he should just fuck off and die already.

Everytime I see him, it always feels like he has less than a month to live. And yet he keeps living.

It’s quite impressive how he can consistantly look like shit to the point of being on deaths doorstep, yet never actually die.

I vote for this guy for president.

I grew up with certain words meaning certain things. Then I get older, and suddenly, those words are gone, new words exist, old words mean new things, medical terms are now no longer medical terms and just purely an insult derived from a definition that didn’t used to define the root word. Pluto isn’t a planet. Instead of 9 planets, there are now an unknown number at least in the thousands. There’s like 4 other Earths.

Language shouldn’t change over time. It can adapt, but I should know that grass is green. Not grass is plubertatude. A word I just made up for the demonstration of absurdity. Nothing wrong with grass being green.

This is the way.

The question always struck me as dumb. Because it doesn’t make any attempt to clarify what geographic region this question takes place.

I don’t care what you’re afraid of a man doing, a polar bear is ALWAYS the worse choice.

But not all bears are as aggressive as polar bears. Some bears will run away from you if you chase them. Some bears will end you if you chase them.

Of coarse you can’t determine how dangerous a man is based on region. But you can likely determine which regions have dangerous bears.

Yep! I got a nice one. It’s 10+ years old now, but I got a new bulb in the box, waiting for my current bulb (which IS dying) to finally go.

Love it. It even does 3D and came with 2 pairs of glasses.

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