• msmc101
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    Christ a bit of paranoia would do modern internet users good, I still remember when it wasn’t normal to have every single piece of identifying information online and readily available for anyone.

    • @[email protected]
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      Isn’t that pretty much a thing of the past? This meme is maybe true for Facebook, but most sub 40 people don’t use that anyway and the “public diary” days are also pretty over. Sure, you can stitch together a lot from geolocating Instagram posts and LinkedIn information, but it’s not like it’s the searchable database Facebook was in 2012.

  • @kinsnik
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    Mac owners have money? more like had money

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      The key is to have that infinite money glitch, aka be born rich and have parents that stay rich

  • @Dicska
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    And then there are the (multiplayer) gamers. It’s great that I can play SO many more offline/single player games than I used to on Linux, but I can’t help if the ones I like to play are all unsupported (and probably will be for a looong time).

    I would have switched to Linux about 20 years ago if it was possible, but unfortunately, developing exploit free, stable anti cheats for competitive multiplayers on multiple OS’s is a nightmare, and I get why most developers resort to picking the currently most widely used one. It’s just a shame because otherwise I prefer Linux over Windows in many aspects.

  • Julian
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    515 hours ago

    I think the real thing we need to do to attract windows users is have tuxkart installed by default.

    • madthumbs
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      -54 hours ago

      Or maybe stop treating it like a religion that needs converts and only appeals to conspiracy theorists in the long run when people realize the lies they were fed about it.

      • @[email protected]
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        225 minutes ago

        There’s no point in reasoning with these people, they are criminal scum supporting an operating system made by and for criminals and trying to normalize it despite all the problems with it so people stop being suspicious of them. The biggest underlying problem is that they are criminal scum to begin with.

      • @[email protected]
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        249 minutes ago

        I went from not owning a proper computer for nearly a decade to exclusively using mint for work, school, and gaming emulators. Works flawlessly, everything’s pretty intuitive, zero issues whatsoever. Maybe my use case isn’t crazy but for the average joe, Linux works just fine. What lies was I fed?

  • IHeartBadCode
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    194 hours ago

    In all fairness paranoia is important in things like finding someone trying to slip a backdoor into xz. Going by the most recent Windows 11 update, Microsoft seems to be “we’ll fix it in production”.

    • lemmyng
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      124 hours ago

      Well it wasn’t so much paranoia as obsession. The person who found it wasn’t paranoid, they just went “Why is my connection taking a quarter of a second longer than it used to? This is unacceptable!!!”

      • @[email protected]
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        22 hours ago

        I mean, small things like that add up, you want your stack as optimized as possible

        A quarter of a second here, another quarter there, and suddenly it might take 2 seconds longer for a connection to form, which matters a ton. A lot of work in the modern web is going into reducing latency

      • @[email protected]
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        74 hours ago

        Technically they thought they might have introduced a bug that caused the delay / a regression and set about investigating it. Pretty sure it was a Microsoft developer too.

        • @[email protected]
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          Pretty sure it was a Microsoft developer too.

          Indeed it was, a PostgreSQL dev by the name of Andres Freund.

  • @[email protected]
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    12 hours ago

    I’m a windows user and I don’t deny anything. I’m just too lazy to switch to Linux and I need the full functionality of Teams for my job.

  • kbal
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    33 hours ago

    Windows users have regrets

    Mac users have stockholm syndrome

    Linux users have a computer

  • andrew_bidlaw
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    95 hours ago

    Haven’t tried Kart (and MarioKart too). How fun is that for a couple?

    • madthumbs
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      155 hours ago

      There are much better kart games out there like Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed, or Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled. Tuxkart does have a lot of user created tracks and you can make your own, so there is somewhat a draw for that.

      • @[email protected]
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        135 minutes ago

        Sonic all stars racong transformed is so peak, i played it on me moms ipad when i was little.

        • @Sanctus
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          14 hours ago

          Nightmare Kart is like playing Mario Kart for the first time again, or Chocobo Racing. Gave me nostalgia for a game I never played before.

    • @[email protected]
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      Tuxkart is really great! One of the really good FOSS games, it has multiplayer and it even supports the wiimote :)

    • @jqubed
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      Mario Kart can be fun depending on how your partner is with video games in general and how you are as a couple competitively. Overcooked can also be a good franchise as a coop game but I’ve also heard in some languages it’s referred to as “divorce kitchen” so your mileage may vary.

    • @[email protected]
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      44 hours ago

      If you’ve consistently only bought products from one company rather than buying the best product available, and never even bothered trying something else, then yes, you do seem to.

      • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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        34 hours ago

        I’ve used both of them, both professionally and personally, for some time.

  • @[email protected]
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    Linux

    Have time to make everything work before doing anything

    Also I live in a river in Egypt bitch, guess which one first one guess doesn’t count and you can’t repeat guesses and only possible answers allowed…

    Also there’s a camera recording everything I’m doing at all times that’s somewhat accessible to hackers.

    • @[email protected]
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      First guess is “the Nile” second guess is “denial” , third guess is Sinai. Also, what the hell is that, an AI catcher?

      • @[email protected]
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        I don’t know man. I was really bored and being silly and sucking at it.

        The idea is that there’s only one river in Egypt. The Nile and denial was what I was going for, yes obviously, but that’s not a river in Egypt. Egypt the denial isn’t just play on words and then I kept on going because that’s how I communicate