also, every day we only take a little.

and they’re taking more than our money. they’re literally burning our futures for their bullshit.

find their bunkers, sabotage everything you can.

or their houses, and be a little more sensible about it.

fucking proprietary bullshit is an ecological nightmare, and that’s why I think Tim cook deserves the wall.

pH honey they don’t understand art or culture or anything after this fiscal quarter. its all just widgets to them.

wouldn’t even be hard to add, someone’s probably already coded it for something.

yeah a ten minute script for your local media playershould be able to manage this.

edit: or ‘shuffle’ I’m a fucking idiot. I’m literally using that for music right now.

heroes. we should support them more.

I understood more than half of that. I feel so smart.

eh, who really suffered though?

sure. you create a parental control firewall, and tell them they’re not allowed to see anything fun until they can get past it, and if they do, tipping off the programmeans youll look for countermeasures after a few days. here’s some good leads on the right white papers for a temporary fix. good luck!

no I’m saying weirdshit that made me fudge things in Linux. and I could. it was easy.

in windows my issues were all ‘this isn’t supposed to work, this isn’t allowed’ and I had to fight the system rather than finding the right config file and changing a couple lines.

so my windows problems were much simpler shit. things like getting the taskbar to to what I want, or getting windows to not explode on top edge of screen (literally a checkbox in KDE plasma)

that was the conclusion I came to, yeah.

oh yeah that could happen, but just to be sure…

set them up with something disposable (or at lewst that you can reinstall the OS on every couple weeks) that runs on an architecture other than x86 to avoid viruses; pi is perfect for this.

try cinnamon with mint on a ‘live USB’ so you can try before installing. and see if your ram is broken, or if windows is fucking you for cheaping out on the license.

its a fork of, downstream, tears out a bunch of the annoying shit and has different ux.

…burned out?

lots of versions of windows limit the amount of memory they recognize.

well you were just taking some time off after twitter. you had the money, and it was such an awful experience, you know? now youre just looking to get back into the job market. your therapist says you’re ready

me?

okay so sometimes you need to run a twenty year old game made for another OS or cpu architecture

which… weirdly, easier in Linux than win7; Linux has better backward compatibility with windows than windows. was like three clicks to install.

but sometimes that game uses broadcast UDP packets for LAN multiplayer.

and this is where our problem comes from, because broadcast UDP packets are deprecated, and also most modern routers don’t love them, I don’t think.

so, I needed to find a way to manually readdress outgoing UDP packets from broadcast to a specific set of multicast addresses, which…

also, some issues running USB as serial for some exotic peripherals. and by ‘exotic’ I mean ‘I don’t know for sure the PC is the problem; I might have soldered this wrong’.

also some issues in qubes, but that’s literally all virtualization, and not a distro for anyone who hasn’t both been using Linux for a while and considered the cost of making their apartment a Faraday cage.

a few issues with bare arch, which is the ‘do everything from scratch 0 automation bleeding edge tech nerd, no, seriously you need to manually download a file system’ distro. don’t use arch if you don’t know what youre doing.

to be fair, while not much of a hacker since the days when you could just open windows and delete the password, most of my casual wardrobe could pass for ‘cozy pyjama party matrix cosplay’.

but new images are always nice.

real question. I’m assuming from the name that you can say trans rights are important. killing Nazis here is cool right? like opening up the physical rack, pulling out the backup drive, and bludgeoning them with it inside the housing? or would that be a violation of tos with your hosting company? is it only okay to suggest shooting them? do I have to be clear its only okay to do outside the data center where youre hosted?