Phrasing …

Nah, Windows XP and 7 get a pass. These were solid consumer OS’s.

You go back 30 years and you’re at Windows 95 (holy shit) and the beginning of massive home PC adoption.

I don’t feel they got hostile towards users until probably midway through Windows 10 lifecycle. The first half wasn’t that bad, aside from changing up 20+ years of muscle-memory…but Gnome did that, too.

Having someone to complain to/point fingers at/sue is incredibly important in the business world, and a big part of why M$ is so big.

In fact, just having support is a big thing. Look at how shitty M$ support is. Or Cisco, for that matter.

Not to mention a steady, predictable, accountable release cadence.

If you want that, in the Linux world, it’s basically Ubuntu/Canonical, RedHat/IBM, or Oracle/Oracle.

I’d call Canonical the lessest of 3 evils here…

Do they accept Walmart gift cards?

I really want to convert my pixel but I’m so damn lazy.

Mostly worried about losing TOTP apps and configurations. I really should be backing those up.

The NRA would probably be the best equipped. They bring their own authority.

I wanna see a D&D style alignment chart of politicians (or even just presidents) that shows good/evil and intelligent/incompetent now.

I’m really curious for who different people would rank for “evil genius” and “true neutral”.

I’m also very curious what the different major LLMs would spit out…that would probably reflect heavily on their training and master prompt.

But also don’t look at our advertisements.

It’s that deeply-rooted Catholic body shame.

Fact is, approximately 50% of children have a penis all of their own.

Fact is, for many of those kids, it’s their favorite play toy.

Fact is, 100% of kids have at least one biological parent who has, or was born with, a penis.

Fact is, if they live with said parent, there’s a very significant chance that they’ve seen it (in innocent, non-sexual scenarios).

Fact is, if they have seen said penis, they likely have commented on how large it is. Usually in a public restroom, for the amusement of all other patrons.

Because fact is, an important rite of passage for any dad, is being out at a mall/store, alone with the kids, and suddenly needing to take a massive shit.

And fact is, my wife, who I love dearly, has grown more penises than I will ever have.

There’s two ways that one way can occur. And I fear it will be the passive means.

Obama did drone strikes on children.

Wrong Obama, but let’s put things in perspective here…Trump bombed a girls school in a remote village. Then came back and bombed the rescue effort.

I really wonder what a generation of boys who grow up in a remote village with a shortage of female peers will end up like.

Lol, my dude…History will gladly demonstrate for you, that when you have a fascist leader already in power, there is only one way they “leave office”…and it doesn’t permit much time for a trial after.

And they love trump.

Think about how much (fuck) u/spez protected r/the_donald.

Think about how much they showed their oldest, most tech-savvy users, power users, and moderators, the door…right at the run-up to the election, with the changes in the API rate structure. These users were overwhelmingly anti-Trump.

I got a 3-day ban right after the Venezuala attack for suggesting that another country “return the favor” on our leader.

Unless you were in BFE, there were options for getting Linux delivered in the mid 90s.

I know I bought a Red hat 4 (not to be confused with RHEL) CD in the late 90s from some mail order thing.

This was actually “fill out a form and mail it”. And they offered legit nearly every major distro. I think they even sold printed out copies of HOWTOs.

But it was quite cheap. Iirc it wasn’t much more than postage and a small fee to cover time and materials.

And I paid C.O.D.

This wasn’t a secret…I think I found the site either from usenet or EFnet #linux… but it wasn’t like going to CompUSA.

I also remember seeing Walnut Creek FreeBSD and Slackware CDs at a nearby flea market (Flea@MIT) around then, too. Probably also the computer fairs as well.

33% of people are pedophiles, or at the very least, pedophile sympathizers.

Maybe some are just completely malinformed (and that’s a major feature of our current social- and traditional-media landscape). But I suspect that is a small number.

I got a 3 day ban for suggesting Venezualans “return the favor” on Trump.

Victoria would have made sure he was whitelisted.

And certainly wouldn’t be selectively enforced anyway. This is 100% “rules for thee not for me” shit.

Like if they get debanked for “religious” or “political” reasons (esp. when they are the ones politicizing literally everything), it’s a crime.

Things that they consider political but sensible people consider “human rights”, tho? They sleep.

On national TV. And was immediately called out on it. And doubled down. And people still voted for that pile of waste.