Same, I was thinking “gnome isn’t THAT hard to use, maybe they’re having config issues?” then I read the community it was asked in.

Did he do pixelfed on his own? That’s mind boggling

It won’t be ai, it will be greedy c-suits who will fire everyone

You made me realize I use tabs as bookmarks… Darn. 20gb bookmark file here we go.

Those are great stories, thanks for sharing!

I’ve heard the term distro hopper, first time I think about distro slut

Bet you can’t turn that meme into a haiku

That’s step zero: rule out black magic

I used to take the long route of physically disconnecting the drive with windows when installing a Linux partition until I realized there wasn’t anything of use for me in windows, so I backed up some documents and removed windows completely from my desktop.

Because the torrent = piracy narrative has been ingrained in most people’s minds, having never known legitimate uses for it like… Linux ISO distribution

For me it was enhancer for YouTube, it had a basic ad blocker that I had forgotten.

No popups for me on FF with unlock origin, but something weird happened yesterday, all videos on a playlist didn’t play at all, they just skipped. Edit: Found out there was another extension triggering YouTube’s ad detection, all’s well now.

Imagine the tons of hands pictures they fed ai models just to combat that

I’ve been using Linux on my laptop and work/school computers for a while now, but what made me switch my desktop to Linux was emulator performance. Then I saw the progress Proton had achieved and news of MS putting ads everywhere and I doubled down wiping the windows partition for more disk space.

*RCS Messaging will require the external coprocessor dongle, available at just 49.99

They don’t care about the real creators, to them the massive companies are the creators

Had something similar happen to me a couple of days ago setting up a new desktop, micro freeze and an input being repeated. Turned out the ram was a little bit over the stable clock. Reverted the typo on memory clock and all’s fine now. Don’t know if you control that in you laptop tho

Me with my i7 2600 playing with oblivion level graphics: yeah, older hw is just fine

Missed the opportunity for: January, February, March, March harder, April

Never looked in IGGs direction ever since their spat with gog-games. It showed me they would bury other crackers if they had the chance.