It’s kind of well-known and a long-running meme at this point that Redditors have a superiority complex about other platforms and think only theirs is the most “intelligent” and “rational” platform. It dates back to when it was mostly controlled by right-libertarian fedora-wearing raging atheist types.

Did you just log on to the Internet for the first time yesterday?

BIOS? I wired switches directly to the data and address lines of my RAM/CPU and toggle in the machine code directly every time I use my PC.

Past due amount is owed, engaging one-way locking prongs and shutting down. Please contact support for assistance.

Data is garbage until you define its structure and what it is supposed to represent, and there’s nothing stopping something from interpreting it as something else, we do it all the time in progranming as type casting. The same piece of data can be just a normal integer to one function, while it’s a text character to another.

The oldest millennials are in their 40s. They’ve moved on to talking shit about zoomers. It’s kind of weird seeing everything repeat itself like that as I get older.

I was, when I was younger. I kind of don’t want to spend the rest of my life I have left tweaking some stupid theme that doesn’t matter in the long run. Whenever I reinstall, I pretty much just use it as is and probably only change the wallpaper and turn the theme to dark mode and that’s it.

I’m at the far end of the desktop tweaking inverted U curve and have achieved nirvana, with the new users at the beginning and you in the middle.

Who is?

My ex wife for one, who would like to play Steam games but is not experienced enough to build and fiddle with a gaming PC, much less Linux, and just wants a box she can just plug in and turn on without calling all the IT folks in her family.

Don’t forget about our nerd bias. Most people here have a different perspective than 95% of normies. Remember how clueless the average person is about the inner workings of modern tech.

One-handed locking my PC as I leave my desk with Windows-L.

I see it as anybody too young to remember a world that wasn’t connected 24/7, somebody who in their child/teen years that didn’t make heavy use of the phone attached to the kitchen wall to contact friends. Someone who’s never had to seriously use dialup Internet or an 8/16 bit computer.

This will be the (fifth?) time Microsoft has tried to implement virtual assistants. And they are still exceedingly inefficient at it.

Wow. I mean, if they are trying to stop the “gay agenda” from spreading, they just went about it in the most dipshit way possible. I think I’ll watch it now.

If you aren’t suffering hair loss, dying your hair is probably the greatest thing you can do to take at least 10 years off instantly if you’re well into a graying head. Gets harder to maintain with short buzzed sections though, especially on the sides.

Yup. I remember that. He had a wakeup call when he nearly died during an OD.

The makeup does a lot of heavy lifting. If you’ve ever seen zoomed in closeup shots of their faces, yeah, the age definitely shows.

Also, people that are still active and running around on a stage do still give off youthful vibes. I was shocked when I learned Trent Reznor of NIN is in his 60s now. He still performs like he did in his 20s. Gotta keep moving if you can, never stop. Once you stop moving is when you start dying.

There’s an entire step between trying to figure it out yourself and resorting to an LLM which is probably likely to tell you to shove cheese into the USB ports. Regular web searching. Forum and social media posts. The distro’s wiki itself or other such resources. You know, the stuff the AI originally sucked up, mashed together, mixed around, and spat back out.

The acronym kinda sounds like an STD.

Congratulations. It’s come a loooong way. Long live Konqi the cyberdragon.

It’s okay, you can find alternative install media here: https://distrochooser.de/en/

Eventually the tankies calm down when they get a little older and just become libertarian socialists when they finally realize how fucked their hero regimes were and break through the bullshit.

There was an idea I read about, sorta along the same crazy track, (might have been Popular Science or something like 25 years ago) where they came up with an idea for a jet that didn’t use traditional control surfaces like ailerons, but rather line the wings and fuselage in thousands of tiny flaps that would all be precisely computer controlled. It would be able to basically mold and shape the airstream around itself to make precise movements.