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alexei_1917 [mirror/your pronouns]

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  • Genetically modified tobacco plant produces cocaine in its leaves

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  • This isn't exactly a "Simpsons did it", but...

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  • Gabital - Fantasy Capitalism 101: #52 Job Interview

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  • That's probably true. Tbh, I'll boop almost anything, but it's difficult for someone that has a face that's mostly snout to not be boopable.

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  • Gabital - Fantasy Capitalism 101: #52 Job Interview

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  • Great, you made her look even more boopable. And more huggable.

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  • Gabital - Fantasy Capitalism 101: #52 Job Interview

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  • It makes me want a snake hug so bad. She's adorable and hug shaped. And her snoot looks so boopable. Must boop the cute snake lady's cute nose.

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  • NSFW

    Commentary on British politics (CW: Incest)

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  • Funny that Britain is doing this. One of the last countries with a monarchy. Because, well, y'know, monarchist nation-states trying to prevent incest are being rather hypocritical knowing what the aristocracy used to get up to.

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  • HOLY MOTHER OF FUCK ARE THE DEMS BEYOND USELESS!

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  • That is a good point. But the military force was needed to engage in their early imperialism and gain the economic advantage, and it reinforces their apparent rights to all of the resources they take from their colonies that supposedly aren't such, and they're falling back on it because it's always been the true core of their global dominance.

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  • "Linux sucks." "Every OS sucks, mate. It's a matter of using the option available to you that you hate the least."

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  • That tracks. But damn, do I ever think "wow this sucks" when I have to deal with Winblows.

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  • DSA socdem after AOC calls for a return to Atlantic Imperialism and Zohran calls to remove homeless encampments and defund libraries:

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  • Every. Bloody. Time.

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  • Which distro is closest to 'GUI/UX for everything, absolutely no CLI' approach like Windows or Mac + and just works (ie passes LTT Linux test)

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  • Yep. I love doing wacky or interesting graphical shit to make my computer look neat, but I also like for the important stuff to be stable day to day for common tasks. Which is why Debian based distros are the best ones.

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  • HOLY MOTHER OF FUCK ARE THE DEMS BEYOND USELESS!

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  • That's all American exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny ever was. America can do whatever it wants because of overwhelming military force. That's always been the only reason they can do the crazy things they've been doing since the fucking Thirteen Colonies.

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  • Which distro is closest to 'GUI/UX for everything, absolutely no CLI' approach like Windows or Mac + and just works (ie passes LTT Linux test)

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  • Yes, that does track. I do not like terminals regardless of the task, I'm very much a visual type with anything Computer. I'm just saying, terminal junkies will do stupidly inconvenient things just to have done the thing in a terminal.

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  • furry @hexbear.net
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    I hear you fuzzballs like paws?

  • HOLY MOTHER OF FUCK ARE THE DEMS BEYOND USELESS!

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  • When even the British monarchy is facing more consequences for their actions than your oligarchs, you know your country has a problem.

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  • Kelly - Pepper-wrongi

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  • Hahaha, yes! Down with Pizza Hut!

    Yes, I am still mad about their role in Gorbachev's nonsense, how'd you know?

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  • Which distro is closest to 'GUI/UX for everything, absolutely no CLI' approach like Windows or Mac + and just works (ie passes LTT Linux test)

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  • Every OS sucks.

    Linux sucks with a whole community behind it and no consistency in GUIs.

    Mac sucks expensively inside a walled garden.

    Windows sucks and blows and spews AI slop.

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  • Which distro is closest to 'GUI/UX for everything, absolutely no CLI' approach like Windows or Mac + and just works (ie passes LTT Linux test)

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  • I'm probably the same as you. I like computers, I like technical stuff, a command line is intimidating but not scary, I don't hate troubleshooting and fixing my own computer when I inevitably break something (well, I hate troubleshooting less than I hate trusting anyone else with my computer), and I got into Linux for political reasons (one, freedom and community are important to me as a communist, two, I don't feel comfortable using products from US companies, if I can avoid it, at this time) and went with something based on Debian.

    The difference is that I'd never used Linux before when I found out it existed and was already thinking that it'd be nice if I could ditch Windows because I really don't want to rely on US corpos anymore.

    Yeah. If you don't want to treat your computer like a project car, you want it to be like a reliable mom van, you want Debian based stability, not the cool bleeding edge stuff.

    Though, I will say, a spare computer to tinker with and bleeding edge stuff does cost less than most mechanical projects. (My dad has multiple project cars. My mum yells at him about it in front of the rest of the family. At least he does tend to sell them for a small profit when he gets them running smoothly, he likes doing the project and making money off it more than he actually likes any of the busted up cars he buys as projects. My mum mostly just doesn't like all the space they take up.)

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  • Which distro is closest to 'GUI/UX for everything, absolutely no CLI' approach like Windows or Mac + and just works (ie passes LTT Linux test)

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  • Many of which don't even have a CLI command.

    Anything that can't yet be done in a terminal, someone will eventually figure out how to do with a CLI or at most a TUI. Because terminal junkies are weird and because Linux lets you do that kind of thing more than any other OS does.

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  • "Linux sucks." "Every OS sucks, mate. It's a matter of using the option available to you that you hate the least."

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  • Omg that sounds adorable! 😍🐧

    It is. It's really cute. I have to admit, a little fluffy thing to pet and squish that's always on hand does serve a good sensory purpose. I initially just got it because I wanted a bigger and easier to grab zipper pull and penguins are cute and iykyk, but it's actually useful, not just cute and a community in-joke.

    Yeah, that does track. Honestly, that's just any broad community centered around a thing that respects user freedom more than other available options, you're gonna get the far left and the far right involved. You just see it more with Linux because there's so many people involved that the politically extreme groups seem larger. But that's the price of freedom and liberation. If we can use a thing like that, then there's also going to be annoying right-libertarians who use it for political reasons.

    For me, I had never used or even heard of Linux before the combined political pressure, hyperfixation sparked when I found out it was a thing, and just general dissatisfaction with Windows after so many consecutive duds and stinkers, made me try it just to say I'd used it once, and then I just didn't see a reason to stop using it.

    And tbh if Windows 10 had been good, not just less bad than 8, and if 11 hadn't been a third stinker in a row, maybe I wouldn't have been so willing to try something new. So I guess I also have Microslop to thank for this.

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  • "Linux sucks." "Every OS sucks, mate. It's a matter of using the option available to you that you hate the least."

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  • Yep. "Well, I like this little goober."

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  • "Linux sucks." "Every OS sucks, mate. It's a matter of using the option available to you that you hate the least."

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  • Indeed. There's a stereotype that commies use Linux for a reason. (Which causes a lot of trouble in the broad political tent that the FOSS world inherently is, but your average not that technical anti-communist nut job doesn't know about it. My dad would question my brother three times about his potential interest in this stuff before he'd think to ask the Stalinist who obviously only has a little stuffed penguin on her purse zipper because they don't make teddy bears that size.) I'd like to say I got into it initially as a political protest action, or that I was fed up with Winblows and its privacy and security issues, and those things are true, I even got distro recommendations from a commie site a lot like this place, in a political community rather than a technology one, but honestly, I'd gotten hyperfixated on Linux and I had to mess around with a few distros myself to satiate it, and if you've known a few neurodivergent people, you know that some kinds of hyperfixations just get worse when you try to just ignore it and do nothing about it.

    And then the mystery and hyperfixation was gone, but I still like Linux better than Winblows. It's just a better choice for me. It's an opsec decision that costs me nothing and a political protest against corporate monopoly that I enjoy and doesn't feel like Complicated Party Work or something out of Lenin's pamphlets, it's just making a choice I'd prefer anyway. Sometimes I really like the "it's about FREEDOM!" attitude that comes from the commies and the right-libertarians who use it equally, sometimes that feels like you people are all ten years old in a bad way, but I get it and it's neat. Plus, I get a genuinely more pleasant computer experience out of it. More personal benefit than I get out of most things I do for political reasons or nebulous "freedom".

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  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    "Linux sucks." "Every OS sucks, mate. It's a matter of using the option available to you that you hate the least."

    www.cs.earlham.edu /~skylar/humor/Unix/os-suck.html
  • Slop. @hexbear.net
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    "Anti-War-Ism" caught in the wild. Local shawarma place. The food's really good, though.

  • badposting @hexbear.net
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    Huh. Are those even a thing? I kinda want one. Sorry General Secretary, no peaceful rest for you, your comrades still want cuddles.

  • Main, home of the dope ass bear. @hexbear.net
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    What is a hexbear? Can I hug it?

  • Cute @hexbear.net
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    HexCat?

  • GNU+Linux Humor @lemmy.ml
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    Someone's true story that proves the XKCD. Young folks, talk to your parents about Linux, before someone else does.

  • GNU+Linux Humor @lemmy.ml
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    How is a computer like air conditioning?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    alexei_1917 [mirror/your pronouns] @hexbear.net

    So, which DE is the best one?

  • technology @hexbear.net
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    At least Grandma's cookies are yummy.

  • technology @hexbear.net
    alexei_1917 [mirror/your pronouns] @hexbear.net

    Well, every couple weeks it feels even more like a virus, with the reports of yet more broken shit and AI slop.

  • memes @hexbear.net
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    At least the vampire only wants a bit of blood.

  • memes @hexbear.net
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    Marx was always right.

  • FULLCOMMUNISM @lemmygrad.ml
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    Funny costume party idea: Stereotypical vampire getup, claim to be dressed as a capitalist.

  • FULLCOMMUNISM @lemmygrad.ml
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    They're like rats. Unfortunately you can't just sic cats on them.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Which one are you?

  • technology @hexbear.net
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    Windows 12 will work even worse than the original Windows 1.0 did. And MS fans like my dad will think it's awesome.

  • Main, home of the dope ass bear. @hexbear.net
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    Lib instances when they get sick of us.

  • Main, home of the dope ass bear. @hexbear.net
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    I know that rent is expensive and winters are cold, but stop squatting in basements, guys!

  • badposting @hexbear.net
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    Conspiracy theory: Transphobia centered on public bathrooms was started/is propped up by the people who make the fixtures for public bathrooms.