In most public places in the US it is technically illegal to be publicly intoxicated. It’s incredibly rare that anyone would do anything about it unless you’re being a public nuisance or something though.

Ever since I got with her I feel this… burning sensation.

100% true, and a great counterpoint.

Windows ACLs are far more complicated than they have any right to be, and file perms are generally far simpler on Linux.

The solution to that isn’t to post even more blatantly state controlled media just with a different flavor of boot sole.

Come on now.

100% valid choice. I’d argue that it’s even the correct one.

That said, those specific examples are all “solved”. My issue is that the overwhelming amount of Linux pushers here tend to act as though those issues are literally unsolvable.

The ads are nearly all controlled from a single yes/no switch a single level deep into the settings menu. And that switch has not been reset by updates in at least four years. Since I’ve joined lemmy, every single “Microsoft is pushing more ads into Windows” article I’ve seen has been talking about ads controlled by this same singular switch.

Things like the pushing of the Microsoft account and Recall are mostly avoided by using their Professional SKU/License/OS version and using GPO to disable those features. Or to take specific steps during install. You have to use the tools they have for corporate customers that have specific legal guidelines that prevent them from being able to use whatever MS’s new revenue extraction trick is.

Bullshit? Yes. Should anyone have to do this shit to have a decent OS? No.

But if you’re savvy enough to navigate Linux, you’re more than capable of navigating this shit on Windows. It’s not impossible.

I work in this space profressionally. Systems administrarion, architecture, design, and integration. Please take your single sentence “hot takes” elsewhere.

Windows is far from “a shitty product” or “broken”. It is developed by horrid anti-consumer motherfuckers out to extract as much profit as possible from their least profitable user base: home users. Evil as hell, sure, but so is nearly every large corporation that makes shit that fills your personal hovel you call home. If that makes them untouchable for you, that is a great choice. But that does not factually impact the usability or usefulness of the product.

Linux is awesome and necessary. Open source is the only way this whole mess keeps working far into the future, and I am no stranger to compiling shit from source and submitting pull requests.

My problems with the Linux community, specifically on Lemmy, are these: Linux is not “just easier” and depressingly still not ready for the average consumer unwilling to tinker. The overwhelming majority of complaints about Windows so frequently posted here are solved problems that people pretend are entirely unfixable, or refuse to learn how to fix. For many people venting about their computer, it would be easier to direct them how to fix what they have rather than try to use it as an opportunity to push your religion OS of choice.

If you can manage Linux, I promise that “fixing” a Windows install is well within your reach. Plenty of problems with it, but “broken”? “Unusable”? Take a look outside at the majority of the world, or even the fucking Steam user statistics and get back to me on that. More than good enough for the overwhelming majority.

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Glad to see another voice of sanity regarding Windows.

If you haven’t learned by now, on Lemmy the only valid option for dealing with Windows configuration and basic Windows admin tasks is to yeet Windows and go to Linux.

Great news for me, not so much for my bank account.

Man, that still is one of the best tasting energy drinks I’ve ever had. Tasted just like orange cream soda, would never know it was an energy drink.

It’s a shame, I’m pretty sure the company folded. You can still find pallets online, but I have no idea if they’re legit, ancient back stock, or what.

Man, a lot of you are going to be absolutely fucked if we somehow don’t have societal collapse.

No wonder so many people keep pushing accelerationist rhetoric.

Pretty sure they mean in terms of scraping out ice that can build up on the walls of the inside.

If you have space for like a bedside table, or a coffee table, or even a table table, you have space for a small chest freezer. It doesn’t necessarily have to be in the kitchen.

Looks like the average small ones are only about 3.5 cubic feet. I’ve rarely seen 1.2 cubic feet ones as well.

That said, if all you have is one of those small kitchenettes with barely enough space for a microwave, you’re kind of kneecapped in terms of food prep in other ways as well.

Protip: Save up, buy a dedicated freezer. Like a “redneck hunter’s garage” style one. Nothing fancy, just a white box with a dial on the front for how cold you want it. Cheaper than the fancy flashy fridge freezer combos, and much more usable space (although you have to stack stuff inside). A lot cheaper than you’d expect. They also come in a variety of sizes, from small to “I need space for three bodies”.

Gotta love the ones with no frame rate data like this one. They relied on the slowness of old PCs to keep them from zooming. Now we get this speed demon.

Welcome to my webzone

Brand of sock called Gold Toes

Why? Hate babies? Or all children?

Or just the giraffe baby? I’d understand that one. Fucker’s always eating the leaves off my trees.

That came out ages after this became a thing.