Her name is “Samuel L Jackson”.

Which is kind of weird when you think about it for too long. Like 4 hours. Just thinking about how weird that is. For 4 hours. It’s kind of weird though…

Well, based on what he said, he’s wrong.

Unless he’s not from the usa. So before I pointed out the flaw in his plan, I want to make sure I’M not wrong.

…where are you from?

Ubuntu used to be the obvious choice for reviving old systems that couldn’t run Windows

It didn’t.

It was though. You are living in a bubble. For five years all I ever heard was “You gotta switch to Ubuntu! Windows is awful!” Except this is when I was still using Windows XP, so from my perspective Windows wasn’t awful. It was just out of date. From 2006-2011, that’s all I ever heard was Ubuntu Ubuntu Ubuntu.

Finally I looked at Ubuntu, and instantly realized I hated it, but that’s because of personal choice. For the masses, Ubuntu=Linux at one point. If you knew enough to dispute that fact, then you’re already in the Linux ecosystem enough to have your own opinions.

But for non-Linux people, I’d say Ubuntu was the default Linux experience for most people for 15ish years. I’d say around 3-4 years ago it started shifting towards Mint.

And now Mint is the default experience. The problem is Linux users are very opinionated. Their distro is the best distro. Their distro “just works”. And these opinions are on a spectrum. I don’t mean autism, I mean the opinions are literally a whole spectrum. You could have someone who has almost an identical set-up as you, except they use a different file browser. So, slightly differrent. On the other end of the spectrum you might have someone who uses Arch. Or if you use Arch, maybe they use vanilla Debian.

Whatever the specifics, that’s not the point. The point is Linux is a whole range of visions, which is why your vision will never be THE vision for Linux. Because regardless of your opinions, no matter which stance you take, there’s going to be thousands of people who want to tell you how stupid your setup is, and how much better theirs is.

But the default Linux experience is just the one that the majority gravitate towards. 90% of normal PC users never change any settings, or try different distros. The difference is that most Linux users aren’t the typical PC users. Linux users like to customize their PC. Most PC users don’t even change the theme. That’s why Windows has such a monopoly. The user buys their PC, plop it on their desk, and the factory settings are good enough.

The other thing I find most Linux users do, is they want to grow the Linux base. So they introduce the “easiest” distro, and that becomes the default. For a very long time that was Ubuntu. I actually like Mint, so I personally see this as a good step for being the default.

And if you don’t believe that there are users who don’t change their PC or customize things, I’m running ZorinOS, as my first Linux full time use case. The only thing I customized was putting a custom taskbar at the bottom of my screen. Outside of that, my PC hasn’t been updated, or changed in any way since 2023.

And if all of this sounds like horror to you, then that just means you have opinions that I don’t have. But you’re also one of the advanced PC users who use linux easily. I still struggle with this. If Windows wasn’t one massive privacy invasion, I’d still be on Windows despite all the things you hate about them. For me it was the spying. Linux just does it’s thing, and isn’t controlled by corporations, so it doesn’t spy. That’s literally the only difference for me. I don’t even update firefox. I’m running 133.0.3. I think firefox is somewhere near version 200.

“If it was banned, organized crime would fill the void”.

It already IS organized crime. The only reason it’s not considered organized crime, is because it’s not banned, and therefore not a crime.

But really, all thats saying is “If you banned it, they would still continue doing this exact same thing.”

Except now they need to bribe the government to allow them to continue. Thats the only difference.

Who wants to bet someone took a big pizza box, folded it in half, and tried to fit it in the main chute, but it got stuck?

Then they added in the pizza slot for the pizza sluts.

Yo tengo el gato los pantalones

Why not walk on some railroad tracks until you find a railroad spike lying around?

Then you could take that spike and stab the screen. 8 screens taken out, and the gas station can’t pump gas anymore. You’d think they get the message before they get to the 8th. If not? Oh well. Their loss.

Dude…do both at the same time. It’s WAAAAAY better, and that 30 seconds feels like hours!

I was going to ask how you don’t have any upvotes…then I noticed it was posted 25 seconds ago.

So thats a good excuse…for now…

In 1942 England was dealing with bombings from Germany. Not yet rockets, these were bombs dropped by plane. So eventually he British took one of the destroyed fields, and propped up an entire city made exclusively out of wood. Wooden buildings. Wooden people. Wooden cars. Ect. Build fast, painted fast. Goes up over the coarse of 2 days.

So when the Germans (nazis) returned a week later to take surveilence of where they need to bomb on their next run, they see this whole town that they didn’t even know about on their maps. They decided to bomb it.

I forget what message Britain sent over the telegraph the next day, but it was something sarcastic.

Then, 2 years later, Germany tried to pull the same stunt in Holland. They wanted the allies to bomb this air strip they just installed. Except it too was all wood, and fake. So when the Allies learned of this new air strip, they sent a bombing crew of 19 bombers. They flew overhead, and only 1 plane released it’s payload. It dropped it’s bomb, and then…no explosion. They had dropped a wooden bomb, with the words “wood 4 wood” carved on it.

The allies were saying to the Germans “Bitch, we CREATED this trick! We know exactly what you did, and we aren’t fooled.”

Now, you may wonder why send an entire fleet, if they knew it was fake. The other 18 bombers had real bombs loaded, just in case they needed them. They didn’t. They just released the 1 wooden bomb.

I always thought that was hilarious. That and the ghost army of 1944.

On the one hand, fuck Rockstar. On the other hand, fuck the police too!

Hmmmmmm. So you’re saying there’s no sense in even getting upset over trivial small potatoes stuff. Ok. Ok, I can work with that. So if someone does something against you, you won’t even worry about it if it’s small enough.

Alright.

steals $40 out of your wallet

Is $40 worth engaging in a fight to get your money back? Is it worth a fist fight where you might get a concussion? I’ll be long gone by the time cops show up. So I can just keep this $40? Cool.

Hey, come back tomorrow with $40 again. I could get used to this.

Feel free to cross post this to Fuck_AI

I’m now trying to imagine what series of events would lead to you being shot because of subpar soldering skills.

Buddy cop movie where eurodyne and saltysalamander team up to assasinate trump…and kiss each other along the way.

Nah. I hope OpenAI is fined 800 billion dollars.

You ever play monopoly? I want them to land on Boardwalk, with 4 hotels. I know thats not how the game works, but I want it to be a game ender.

Then do the same to all these. Throw in Meta just for good cause.

It’s very wet today. The soup is very wet.

I would (and have) walk past it while my key scratches the car front to back as I walk past.

And a hot plate!