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   ???? (praxisofevil@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 05:05:57 JST ????

   I think about this whenever I hear about massive tech layoffs or the influx of H1-Bs choking the industry

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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 05:05:55 JST pistolero

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     > I'm starting to come around on Linux
     
     Grab a Slackware installer, Ubuntu is normie-Linux that Amazon keeps paying to add spyware to. It's gonna be a little unfriendly but it works and is reliable and 99% of the shit people use computers for is in the browser nowadays anyway. Devuan has no systemd and is a little easier to operate but it breaks a little more often than Debian does. I am using Slackware in basically every place that I am not using CRUX; CRUX is better but it does have a learning curve.
     
     > I think we'll all have to distance ourselves from the tech oligarchy in one form or another in the near future
     
     The thing is it's just the San Francisco Data Cartel. Everyone that thought Elon was different is getting their big surprise, but they don't have much of an excuse: he shoved tracking software into exploding cars and replaced the dashboard with an iPad and got his cash by being part of the group that the industry calls the Paypal Mafia (a group that also includes Peter Thiel).
     
     The current model for VC is to spend the other companies into the ground, which is why you used to be able to get food from Grubhub for cheaper than you could if you bought it yourself.
     
     Incidentally, for the record, the reason for all of the extra benefits that Elon and Vivek are complaining they "have to" give US tech workers is shit that they use to keep people on a leash. Google provides free childcare and laundry and a bus to work and whatnot so that you don't have an excuse, and everyone decided to ape that model because someone that quits Google suddenly has to get a new doctor and babysitter and whatnot. They make these job posts that say shit like "$1500 mental healthcare stipend" and they inundate you with email to try to get you to take advantage of it. It was already shitty when you had to sit through a 20-minute speech about their horrible open-office plan and ping-pong table and free coffee but now they want to be your new mom and you are "not a good culture fit" if you tell them you are more interested in the work you'll be doing and your colleagues and your base salary than how many companies you get a gift card for.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 05:05:56 JST pistolero

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     @PraxisOfEvil Venture capital has ruined the industry completely. 100% of those things are VC firms pumping cash into global retardation. All of the good shit happening in software is open-source shit being done in the spare time of people that wish they were using their hard-earned computer science knowledge for something besides spyware at feature factories, made deliberately unfriendly to normies because normies are the ones whose eyeballs are driving the spyware feature factories and decrying all of the "unfriendly" nerd shit. Enjoy your Windows machines.
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     ???? (praxisofevil@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 05:05:56 JST ????

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     @p tbf these posts were months ago and I'm starting to come around on Linux, I think we'll all have to distance ourselves from the tech oligarchy in one form or another in the near future

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     ???? (praxisofevil@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 05:10:54 JST ????

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     @p Thanks p, you're the man, and yeah it seems people were right about Elon and tech field in general. I'll give Ubuntu a shot, I'm pretty sure Google is spying on me looking at cute anime girls anyway

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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 05:10:54 JST pistolero

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     > I'll give Ubuntu a shot, I'm pretty sure Google is spying on me looking at cute anime girls anyway
     
     Using Ubuntu is still feeding them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_(company)
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     veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 11:14:18 JST veff :trash:

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     • pistolero

     @PraxisOfEvil @phnt @p lmao just make a thread asking a GNU+Linux question and 2/3rds of the entire fediverse will reply.

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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 11:14:18 JST pistolero

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     @veff @PraxisOfEvil @phnt Cunningham's Law: "The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."
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     ???? (praxisofevil@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 11:14:19 JST ????

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     • pistolero

     @phnt @p Thanks, at least if I have questions I'll know who to ask, I appreciate it

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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 11:14:20 JST Phantasm

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     @PraxisOfEvil @p Instead of Ubuntu you should probably try Mint Cinnamon instead. You still get the Ubuntu base, meaning that 90% tutorials/stackoverflow questions apply to you, but you get a nice desktop environment with it that is almost the same as Windows.
     
     And yes I'm very much aware, that I just wrote the thing that almost everybody switching from Windows hates.
     
     Before you fully commit to switching, maybe try putting any user-friendly distro on a USB stick and try out the live environment to see if you like it.
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     kuteboiCoder (kuteboicoder@subs4social.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 11:15:03 JST kuteboiCoder

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     • pistolero

     @p@fsebugoutzone.org @veff@poa.st @PraxisOfEvil@poa.st @phnt@fluffytail.org
     
     In Defense of Misinformation, Vol. IV, page 741

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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 11:27:58 JST pistolero

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     @KuteboiCoder @PraxisOfEvil @phnt @veff Well, Cunningham probably said that before then; he is the inventor of the wiki but I think he got that idea from a technical mailing list rather than from running his wiki.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 12:12:29 JST pistolero

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     @Jonny @PraxisOfEvil I'm old, I do what I want.
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     Jonny (jonny@annihilation.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 12:12:30 JST Jonny

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     @p @PraxisOfEvil
     Don’t good luck me, fuck face.
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     Jonny (jonny@annihilation.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 12:12:32 JST Jonny

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     @p @PraxisOfEvil
     On a gay scale from 1 too 10
     
     I’m gonna fuck your mom.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 12:12:32 JST pistolero

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     @Jonny @PraxisOfEvil Good luck.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 12:12:34 JST pistolero

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     @Jonny @PraxisOfEvil Iron Dome expanded, I won't see them any more.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 12:12:35 JST pistolero

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     • Jonny
     @Jonny @PraxisOfEvil Dickheads with money have tried to ruin computers by sending that money to other dickheads.
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     Jonny (jonny@annihilation.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 12:12:35 JST Jonny

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     @p @PraxisOfEvil
     Let your little friends know that there’s some retards watching.
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     Jonny (jonny@annihilation.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 12:12:36 JST Jonny

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     @p @PraxisOfEvil
     I don’t understand a lot of what you are screaming about, but I love your energy.
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     mischievoustomato@0.5dollah.click's status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 21:32:25 JST mischievoustomato

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     @PraxisOfEvil @p what are you gonna try?

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     mischievoustomato@0.5dollah.click's status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 21:33:11 JST mischievoustomato

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     @PraxisOfEvil i contest the chatbots part because chatgpt is legitimately useful.
     > put it on our hard drive...
     helps the 1 2 3 backup method

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     mischievoustomato@0.5dollah.click's status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 21:37:08 JST mischievoustomato

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     @PraxisOfEvil @p try fedora

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     ???? (praxisofevil@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 21:37:09 JST ????

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     @p I'm willing to try anything new Ubuntu or not, I need to do more research into these things, in 2025 I'm making a concerted effort to break free from the tech oligarchy

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     mischievoustomato@0.5dollah.click's status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 21:38:30 JST mischievoustomato

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     @veff @p @PraxisOfEvil @SuhDude making a live usb with persistence is kino

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     SAME (suhdude@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 21:38:31 JST SAME

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     @p @PraxisOfEvil I've dual booted for ages and found that as I game less, I spend more time on the Linux partition. I didn't know there was a systemd free slackware release, which is very cool.
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     veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 21:38:31 JST veff :trash:

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     @SuhDude @p @PraxisOfEvil But for beginners I would highly recommend against dual booting because it can run into problems quickly. Just run off a live USB until you find a good flavor of distro+de and then install it on a separate hard drive, much fewer problems that way.

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     mischievoustomato@0.5dollah.click's status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 21:38:47 JST mischievoustomato

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     @SuhDude @p @PraxisOfEvil @veff using systemd-boot now 🇹🇩

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     SAME (suhdude@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 21:38:48 JST SAME

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     @veff @p @PraxisOfEvil I've definitely grubbed my computer the wrong way before :(
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     givenup (givenup@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 21:39:17 JST givenup

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     @coolboymew @p @PraxisOfEvil @SuhDude all the paradox games i play have native launchers for linux, factorio runs on linux, and proton's list of shit that just works is expanding all the time, so it's barely an inconvenience since i mostly use open source software alternatives as it is cuz they're free
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     cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 21:39:17 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @givenup @p @PraxisOfEvil @SuhDude even in the "more advanced" stuff there's starting to be more and more solutions online
     
     I had trouble running some eroge from JastUSA, I found the solution on search engines (ddraw dll override)
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     givenup (givenup@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 21:39:18 JST givenup

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     @SuhDude @p @PraxisOfEvil i infrequently game on a linux laptop that has some arch based distro on it, as a complete normie in this shit, it works without much fuss, my main gaming pc is windows, but i'm thinking about leaving more and more.
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     cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 21:39:18 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @givenup @p @PraxisOfEvil @SuhDude good stuff my dude
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     cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 21:39:28 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @EnnaComa @p @PraxisOfEvil @SuhDude @givenup I find Bottles to be better, there's a list of old requirements (like x version of .net) that you can click and actually install from Bottle itself
     
     Lutris has user install scripts however, but I never had to use that
     
     Otherwise, putting the games in Steam and running them with Proton that way actually works too
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     EnnaComa (ennacoma@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 21:39:29 JST EnnaComa

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     @givenup @coolboymew @p @PraxisOfEvil @SuhDude Check out Lutris. Its worked pretty well for me.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 02:07:42 JST pistolero

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     @Xeraser @PraxisOfEvil Everyone hating on Elon while feeding him and the rest of the cohort. "Oh, I will sacrifice anything for to defeat the people that are destroying this world...except I won't stop using Windows. I need the AAA slop."
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     Xeraser (xeraser@varishangout.net)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 02:07:43 JST Xeraser

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     @p @PraxisOfEvil
     "I don't want to use linux"
     t. absolute King :chad0: