I like how we’re sinking more money into a dying industry instead of spending it to push renewables and become a leader there. What happens when our pipelines are worthless? Our land becomes fucked, our economy becomes fucked, and we have nothing left.

Democracy only works when people actually go out and fucking vote.

Gotta trigger people to go out and vote. We could have 999 elections, and they’d all have the same result if people continue to not bother voting. That’s why we are where we are now - everybody wants to bitch and complain, nobody wants to actually go out and make a difference when they have the chance.

Prob move to Alberta and take up residence under Smith’s desk.

He should tell that to the landlords, not the renters.

That’s not my point. My point is, they try Zorin, they don’t like it, and now they go on about how much Linux sucks as they run back to Windows. I highly doubt many of them will bother distro-hopping. As far as must users will be concerned, they tried Linux and it sucked. They’re almost definitely not going to want to spend more time redoing their system a bunch until they find one they like, nor are they going to want to spend the time with dotfiles getting it the way they want.

If they did research on other distros before installing Zorin, they probably wouldn’t have gone with Zorin…

They’re riding a bandwagon, not setting their own path.

Some of them might. But I wouldn’t put too much faith in them, though.

So essentially, a bunch of them are going to try this and be disappointed and then go on to shit all over Linux as a whole…

I wish we could just ban advertising period. It’s psychological manipulation that’s been perfected and concentrated over the years, and it’s only getting worse.

Whooooa, I had no idea Arduino sold out. I thought this was about RaspberryPi for some reason at first, but this is even worse.

The enshitifcaiton was guaranteed the second the ink touched that paper.

I had no idea RaspberryPi sold out. The writing of enshitifcaiton was on the wall the second they happened.

Caving to less secure methods seems to be what we love to do. Look at how much shit went from on-prem servers to being housed on server farms owned by companies based in foreign countries. I don’t care what a contract says, it’s only as trustworthy as the company behind it.

I’m with you - if a program does a good job of what it’s set out to do, why avoid it because of a dumb name or less than stellar UI?

To paraphrase Brian Lunduke: This software has gone woke! That software has gone woke! Boo woke software!

I have some friends with family down there who reluctantly go to visit because it’s cheaper and easier for them to go down then for their family to come up.

What trouble? archinstall makes it dead simple to get on your computer, then at that point it’s not much different from any other distro?

I’d sooner ask why people choose shit like Ubuntu where you’re stuck dealing with snaps out-of-date packages, and bloat.

I used Debian and Ubuntu for like 20 years and just got sick of packages being forever out of date, and the Archwiki always having exactly what I needed.

All these company execs know is exploitation, and it’s hilarious to see how immature they act when they don’t get their way.

On the one hand, the risks associated with different modes of transport are incommensurate. A car that runs a red light can cause serious or even fatal injuries. A cyclist, on the other hand, is unlikely to cause the same degree of damage.

The fuck? They may not cause the same degree of damage, but they’re gonna get fucked up by a car that is following the law and has a green light if the two meet in an intersection…

This whole thing seems like it’s less a case of “bikers should run lights” and more a case of “cities need to be reviewed and many intersections should be updated with yield signs or traffic circles.”

So how long until Lunduke does a video about how this software has GoNe WoKe?

Tbf I always assumed that anyway.