Holy crap! Is that where the term comes from or is this just a really good pun?

Y’know when things were relatively less crazy with Russia, I remember lotsa military fiction (or maybe just Modern Warfare 1 idk) using "Russian Ultranationalists " as the “never-ending military bad guy goon-squad terrorist faction” that’s okay to fight while still saying “Any resemblance is coincidental.”

…My point is that the highest offices of the U.S are controlled by a US “ultranationalist” terrorist goon squad faction. They’re such ridiculously overt bad guys that they’d be considered too outlandish for a Michael Bay movie.

…and everybody’s like “Oh my! So shocking! Well, you know, this is just politics.”

They just don’t want to believe that a violent faction is right there in front of them, ransacking and demolishing centuries of progress.

They must be stopped or they won’t stop.

Without even going into the benign and responsible content of his words,

Right? And the Penty gets all riled up and barking at him. . .

…after the douchebag occupying the POTUS chair publicly made a literal death threat against our own countrymen for advising the military to. . . (Flips papers) " Not do illegal things if ordered to do illegal things.

Y’know…this. I might not like it, and many of their choices are… questionable…

…but I think it’s good we have some effort coming from full-time career paid Linux developers, rather than just sponsorship money from FOSS-leeches like “mEtA” and “aMaZoN.”

By simply not using Ubuntu, and ignoring the MOTD on my VM servers…I don’t really feel affected by their actions in any meaningful way. And that makes me happy.

As opposed to having to just accept whatever new footgun Microsoft wants to blast users with next.

Well hello right back!

O/

I can’t imagine writing something like that. Job security? Hah, I’d end up in an inescapable labyrinth of my own making if I named things something that wouldn’t be obvious to my 3-months-later self!

Maybe that’s the play: He intentionally confuses himself so it takes extra paid time to remember what the heck “SOISOISOI” does, compared to “Whopwhopwhop”.

Just looking through this as a fledgling barely-coder…

…It inspires fear. Terror, even. LMAO

Hey now, garbage companies actually do something productive for society. :p

However if you tell their api that you are an smart tv running Linux it works…

I wanna figure out how the heck to do this. 1080p doesn’t particularly bother me, but it’s pretty ridiculous getting discriminated against like that.

I also blame the Uni for not advertising that it would be required for the coursework.

Just like Steam now says "REQUIRES KERNEL LEVEL ANTICHEAT" like a big ugly Surgeon General’s warning, I think college courses should say stuff like this too.

Along with “REQUIRES INVASIVE KERNEL LEVEL REMOTE ACCESS MALWARE BROWSER TO TAKE EXAMS”

Heroic is so aptly titled. Combined with one of those helper apps to install “Proton GE”, it makes you just about unstoppable.

I’m finding that Linux has given me better compatibility with my game library as a whole!

For real legacy stuff, Bottles also works a treat. Never thought I’d get Sims 1 working again with so little hassle.

It’s a wonderful time.

Something really cool you can do though is block sites from showing up in the results.

So if you’re looking up Linux answers for instance and you keep coming across “First of all, what is a Linux, we’re going to…” Ai slop sites, you can click thr 3 dots next to the result and tell it to blacklist that site.

Not perfect, but definitely helps!

windows is shitty but its setup bullshit is very straight forward and clear to deal with

Unfortunately, you definitely get a false sense of simplicity when you’re essentially forced down a lazy river of:

“Accept all these corporate agreements, make an account with our centralized authority structure, try to deny a litany of invasive ad permissions (you can’t turn it all off lol nice try.), enable our one touch AI button, shut up, and click go.”

"(Pulsing blue light) We’Re TaKiNg CaRe Of YoU. . ."

Some setup things in Linux can be confusing at first, like how I’ve agonized over the implications of which file system to use. (Settled on BTRFS for rollbacks, otherwise it doesn’t matter for 99.9% of people lol.)

But also I think we’re just at a sad point in history where computers are everywhere but people have terrible computer education (self included), and it’s left up to private interests who mainly want a cattle-like customer base.

…So everything seems scary and complicated.

I imagine cars would be the same way if we weren’t required to test for a license. They’re getting that way quickly though, people wanting a “Push ignition and turn off brain” machine that seemingly “just works” until it doesn’t and they must take it to Special Wizards. A black box which they ultimately have no control over, but feels “easy”.

I think it’s because people are forced to use these devices. Like driving, some people enjoy the act of computing. Linux is for those people.

When everybody is forced to use computers every day and most of those computers run something by Apple, Microsoft, or Google, anything else feels like yet another stupid thing to deal with.

TL;DR: Linux respects the user, but respect is built on a two way street of understanding.

"I’m a busy person with a jobbity job and kids and a mortgage on an iPhone 18 Ultra Plus Air and stuff.

If I have to READ to make anything work, it’s not customer ready, and this new thing should take no time at all to completely understand on my part.

It needs to be a perfect ‘free Windows clone’ before I’ll even consider switching from the mega-corporate ecosystem I was coerced into dependency on from the start. If there’s one thing I hate more than reading, it’s asking anybody for help. Especially my friends. The operating system is the problem."

EAC works fine enough, and it turns off when the game is off, and should uninstall with the game, so people don’t hate it so much.

But I dropped all interest in Helldivers 2 because of that crap, which sucks because it seemed like such a fun game. And I’m not touching anything Riot for the same reason. These “just trust us bro” always-on, deeply embedded rootkits are just unethical.

That is too far even for taking school tests, it’s indefensible and absolutely nonsense for a game.

It’s definitely something I can see both sides of though. It would suck to put a huge chunk of time and effort into a multiplayer game just to have cheaters ruin it for everyone on launch. Any game that isn’t moderated or making effort to deter them gets overrun quickly.

I don’t understand the mentality that drives people to buy cheats just to feel better about themselves, but it’s clearly there.

TBH though…I don’t remember stuff being this bad when private servers were more of a thing. Battlefield 2 / 2142 / 3 / 4 had ranked vs. unranked servers. The good private-run ones had mods to ban cheaters, the ranked ones had stricter enforcement. It seemed fine and we had fun…

Maybe I’m missing something…

I think you need to possess the certificate first before they’ll even consider you, though.

That’s the only thing I worry about personally, not the users so much, but the capitalists who see “opportunity” once Linux gains a hold, and start figuring out how to make it disgusting like everything else they touch with their greedy little slop mitts.

It won’t be “Well, Linux doesn’t permit anticheat”, it will be

“Okay how do we create some centralized power structure that makes invasive DRM and anticheat that runs on Linux?”

And they’ll move to colonize.

Good on you for being so helpful. You’re what’s good about this community. ❤️

Project 2025 = guns are good, and lots of 'em

(Sarcastically) Finally, an unexpectedly bipartisan opinion!

I imagine they had it in their heads that all of those left-of-fascist are cowering hoplophobes who won’t defend themselves when abused.

This will bite them in the ass, hopefully soon before or after the tsunami of “find out” from their other ideas does.

I’m of the firm belief that our current society’s issue with weapons is based in a distinct and highly politicized lack of education and sense of responsibilities around them.

The more we educate and train as a community, the better prepared we’ll be to protect ourselves and our neighbors, and the more the the blowhard cowards who need a big bad boss to do their thinking for them will think twice.

Oh yeah, and disallowing employees from discussing their income, I think was another one.

Lots of anti-union behavior.