ASCII art does count as graphics I guess.

Reject Mint, embrace Debian.

Ok…someone do this but in an Atari 2600 theme. I wanna see what loot boxes and modern gaming shit would look in 160x192 128 color resolution.

Back to the 80s/early 90s where the only people using computers were the ones that actually knew how to use computers? Hell yes, take me back.

Me, the mystery dude in the game server who doesn’t have a mic, doesn’t use any voice features, never text chats, but always shows up and plays.

That’d make it highly file system dependent with no way of updating the firmware. All these drives stopped working after the FAT32->ExFAT switch.

I say it like “pwn”. As in, if I’m sitting here chown-ing your shit, you’re pretty much pwned.

They probably meant things like monopoly breakups, wage increases, lowering healthcare costs, you know, things that directly affect the average person. This isn’t going to affect my life in any way whatsoever. This squabble is between governments, not us.

Ubuntu is basically dead

It’s dead for hardcore nerds that care about such things as snaps and such. But in the corporate world, it’s very much alive. I literally just got done installing an Ubuntu-based NVR from Wisenet for a store’s CCTV system.

The race never stopped. You buy an Apple II. It works for a while. Then everyone is running Lotus 1-2-3 so you gotta get an expensive 386. Now Windows 3.1 and 95 is the standard, and you need Internet too so you buy a modem and a Pentium machine for a couple grand. It’s okay for a while. Then downloads take longer and longer, and your computer gets slower again, so you upgrade to 6mbps cable internet and an AMD athlon/Pentium 4, and Windows XP. It’s okay for a while. But then games and software no longer fit on a CD ROM. They’re using DVDs, and the space they take up on your HD is approaching tens of GB. Suddenly you need to upgrade to 25mbps internet and a terabyte drive to keep up with the space requirements and updates/service packs. You’re on a multi core CPU now because nobody fucking optimizes shit anymore and assumes you have the horsepower to deal with it. Then they get rid of physical media altogether. Now you’re stuck downloading a fucking several hundred gigabyte game or piece of software on a 100+mbps connection to do largely the same shit we did on that Apple II in 1980. Your system RAM alone can now hold all software ever made for that Apple II with plenty room to spare.

I get why a lot of retirees in the industry want to burn their computers and take up farming.

Does anyody really look at anyone in an ad and say, “Yes, that’s a fellow human, I connect with them on a personal level”?

I’ve been perceiving them as robots since 1986. Because even as a child I knew people in an ad don’t act or talk like everybody I knew in real life and what they were portraying was completely made up, unrealistic dialog and scenarios.

Ever watch somebody who doesn’t know about all that use the rawdog Internet? It’s amazing how people can just sit there, deal with all that, and not go apeshit. The population has been conditioned.

Yeah I love it, Debian feels like opening a featureless gray box that just says “OS” on the front. Add whatever you want. A blank canvas. It’s as close to “generic” Linux as you can get.

Hey guys, unless I missed Boeing getting into biological warfare, I’m pretty sure an infection had nothing to do with them. It’s funny to circlejerk though, I know.

Conditioning everyone to see their computers as media consumption kiosks instead of the powerful, productive machines they are. That’s where MS OSes are headed. They tried too early with Windows 8 Metro, but they haven’t lost sight of that concept.

“My TV shows ads so it’s only natural my computer does too.” - I bet a lot of people already think like this.

Yeah to this day I don’t understand this “genius” business move. My redneck conservative dad sure as hell isn’t buying an electric vehicle anytime soon, even if you put a giant MAGA hat on it.

<3 Debian network install image.

As a large language model, I’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty.

Me, an American, to my German cousin:

“So, yeah, I’m changing email addresses, here’s my new one.”

“Email? Are you using WhatsApp?”

“Er, no, how about text?”

“We all have WhatsApp.”

“Okay, maybe Google Chat?”

“WhatsApp? WhatsApp.”

Already got my NEW 12-core machine before prices go up, running Debian 100%. With my 25 year history of using Linux and pirating Windows, MS never saw a damn penny from me, and I’m proud of that fact. Not even an OEM license (all my laptops I ever had were work supplied and I build my own PCs)