Easier question: Which marketing tactics DO you like?

I like Steam’s discovery queue, sometimes I find some pretty interesting stuff. It’s entirely voluntary, and I can leave at any time, instead of holding my time ransom and demanding my attention with annoying cringe-inducing content like most marketing.

postmarketOS, native, on pinephone. There’s a few mobile devices these days that can run mobile Linux.

I run a real linux on my phone, so I can use it for anything I can use my laptop/desktop/unix for. I think what people forget is that phones are ultimately just computers with a WWAN radio, and the restrictive nature of Android and especially iOS obfuscate that.

Distrotube, Luke Smith, and Mental Outlaw all give me bad vibes. Shame they’re (minus distrotube) at the forefront of OpenBSD youtube content.

I’ll never forget him for introducing me to dungeons of dredmor, the game is the bad roguelike, but I don’t know if I ever would have gotten into roguelikes without it

I fucking hate this dystopian hellscape of misery and torment and I hope it gets glassed. Land of the fee, home of the slave. If I get drafted in WW3 I’m a turncoat as soon as they hand me a gun.

At least we made UNIX. UNIX is cool.

We already have that

Linus Torvalds or Theo de Raadt

Every piece of hardware I’ve used past 2010 or so seems to have just gotten worse and worse, I honestly think I’m cursed.

2013 (? can’t quite remember), Sager gaming laptop with sli gpu config, gpus drew too much power for the battery (I believe), leading to black screen and reboot. Company feigned ignorance, ran unrelated tests on RMA, Socially awkward at the time and was scared to ask for a refund. Convinced to this day it was a scam.

2015, desktop computer I built randomly powers off during usage, no errors, not the power supply, unsolved to this day.

2020-2022 5 cheap ebay thinkpads, all with one hardware problem or another. My beloved T60p was the last to go.

2022-present Framework laptop, ports suffer intermitent failure, webcam microphone stopped working. Replaced webcam/microphone, works for a day, breaks again. Unsolved.

2022-preset Steam deck, had to RMA 3 times for various hardware issues, works now, but the right trigger still rubs against something but I can live with it. Spilled coffee on the left trackpad so it’s sticky; that’s my fault though so I can’t blame it on the curse.

They said the worst thing that could happen, not the best.

letting unqualified businessmen rule the planet instead of experts in their given fields.

Roko’s Basilisk / Pascal’s Wager scared me for a little while. Then I realized it was stupid.

Also you can invert Pascal’s Wager and argue that god could not want to be worshipped, and worshipping a god result in punishment due to celebrating ignorance and blind faith.

Skibidi Toilet, specifically this video and this video

I’m no longer a leftist, but when I was a leftist (and yes, I mean “real” leftist, critical support for AES states and other such nonsense), there were no objections to dictatorships or censorship. I don’t know where you got the idea that leftists love democratic absolutism and freedom in every aspect of society.

Also I hate to tell you, but many leftists (dengists) here think highly of modern North Korea and China.

Most video games

“not surprised they all died shortly after this”

I’m an OpenBSD user & ports maintainer, and while I don’t totally agree with the permissive ethos, I’ll summerize it the best I can:

Permissive licensing (anyone can use your code for any reason, as long as they give attribution) means more people are using your software, which is improving the quality of software in the world, and regardless of it is being used for nefarious purposes or not, it increases the probability of your software becoming a standard. Copyleft/GPL can lead to total rejection of software by large proprietary/corpo entities, and lead to in-house proprietary implementations instead. A good example is MacOS, which if BSD didn’t exist with the license it did, we could have very well have ended up with with two systems as non-portable as Windows instead of one.

My personal opinion on the matter is that your license should change depending on what type of software you’re writing. I think permissive is good for libraries and highly portable applications. For something like a game on the other hand, I think something like the GPL isn’t good enough; I would pick a license that would would prevent any commercial use whatsoever. I don’t care about the purity of open source or what does or doesn’t qualify open source or free software; I view it as zealotry, and licenses are a tool, not an ideology.

As much as I appreciate projects like Linux Mint improving portability for projects like GTK (against GNOME’s wishes), Linux Mint and PopOS have a similar dependency issue of being dependent on Ubuntu. To what degree each project is I don’t know, but personally I’d use something that is either entirely independent (Alpine, Void, Gentoo, Devuan, Debian, etc), or at the very least not a fork of a fork (especially in Ubuntu’s case with how many poor decisions Canonical are making in regards to proprietary repositories and telemetry).

Devuan or Debian aren’t exactly hard to set up with a similar environment and interface to Ubuntu, and otherwise function in a very similar fashion, so if you want something like Ubuntu without the shittification, use one of those.

EDIT: A commenter pointed out that LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) also exists, which is a Debian-forked version of Linux Mint, rather than Ubuntu forked.

An americano. when particularly thirsty, an americano with water on the side.

Have to wait for Hunter X Hunter to finish, or for the author to die. Then I can die.