Yeeeaaaaahhhhh…you might want to sit down for this…and never pay attention to anything our government, or big business, or small business, or television, or radio, or the internet, or advertisements, or your partner, or or your dog has to say.

Yes, especially your dog. If your dog starts talking to you, it’s just peanut butter in his gums, and your buddy throwing his voice. Also, you’re either on drugs, or really stupid if you thought your dog was talking.

World is full of liars. Even out in space. Neil Armstrong said while walking on the moon that it was one small step for man. It wasn’t a small step. It was a regular size step. And it wasn’t a giant leap for mankind. If anything we’ve regressed as a species.

Pretty soon crows will be the dominant species. You ever see how smart crows are? We’re getting dumber, they’re staying the same. Eventually they’ll catch up, and eventually lap us.

That’s why I befriend all the crows I meet. We have waged war against those pesky sneaky seagulls. Oooooh, how we hate those laughing birds!

Viva la revolution!

I really really wish general society had brains.

I’m not preaching anything new here, that people who know what a fediverse wouldn’t already know.

That being said, never buy roku anything. This isn’t new. It seems every 3-6 months I read a new headline where roku shits all over their customers.

And I know I know this. And I know you know this. However I also know we collectively are like 3% of society. Walk into any target or walmart or best buy, and you’ll see walls and walls of tv’s. And 90% of them say they have roku built into the menu. Well, WE know not to buy that tv. However, everybody else still buys it, and then complains 2 years later when their tv is bogged down and slow and they need a new tv.

I really wish it were legal to stand in these stores, and anytime someone tries to buy a roku, or roku tv, I could just beat the shit out of them with a tire iron. In my mind that seems like a perfectly justifiable response. But apperently thats “assult” and I would be “deranged” and “psychotic to even think that was ok”.

Pssshhhh…

Wait…wasn’t their union pushing for something like 1.5M?

Ok, so then the CBS headline is just false.

Can’t “plan” to build 200,000 houses, if they’re already built.

When rapists and pedophiles are literally in charge, the time to chill is OVER!!!

I’ve already made a rule. I am not going to work any job that tells me when I can pee, or that I’m not going fast enough.

If all of you would do the same, they wouldn’t be able to demand that of you either.

See, what we should all do, is just stop buying ANYTHING.

Watch the shares of every single company collapse. Watch the great depression 2 start for the rich.

Because lets be real, for the average working man and woman, we’ve been in a depression that gets worse and worse as time goes on since the 80s. Now lets let it affect the rich too.

No. Thought costs upbringing. If you’re raised by a restrictive parent, you don’t think for yourself.

If you’re raised by a parent who’s not afraid to let you fail for yourself, you get an oppertunity to think why you failed, and how to not fail next time.

For every critical thought you have, something in your past taught you to think.

Wait…cbs headlike 400k. Alternative link headline 200k.

…whaaaa???

Ok…but how easy would it be to arrest a man who’s already a known pedophile and human trafficer of children, already has 34 convictions but hasn’t seen the inside of a prison.

How easy would that be?

THEN FUCKING DO IT!!!

Luckily 10 minutes after you posted that, another commenter posted the full article in plain text, in the comments here.

You’re trying to appeal to ethical discrepencies with trump??? Oh…oh I have just a whole lot of bad news for you…

…so much bad news…

They’re also targeting children. They kidnap entire families. Kill the adults, but the kids just go missing. Let that sink in while you remember which president currently controls ICE.

Isn’t Motorola the new msnufacturer for those GraphineOS phones? And now they do THIS???

Kinda makes them feel less trustworthy to install a security based rom on.

C’mon, microsoft. What are you DOING with your life???

I’m no linux apologist. I BARELY understand what I’m doing. If ANY task needs terminal, then that task just isn’t going to happen for me.

All that said, it’s time to switch to linux. And for anyone asking where they should start with all these distros…Mint. If you’ve never used linux before, start with Mint.

Now I’m a bit of a hypocrite for saying that, because I’m on Zorin. There’s nothing wrong with Zorin. It is perfectly fine as a starter distro if you’re coming from Windows. It’s almost equal to Zorin in usability. Mint has one edge that cannot be overlooked for newbies.

Userbase.

EVERYONE uses Mint, which means there’s going to be a broader range of support. There are times I wish I had started with Mint. But I chose Zorin when I was new, and now my heels are dug in.

That being said, YOU should use Mint.

Ugh…I can’t believe this is where we are in this world. Where I have to reccomend linux, while still not knowing what the hell I’m doing.

Anyways…use linux. Fuck microsoft. It’s the only way to take back OUR hardware. They want to go full greed mode? I’m now using software which they don’t make a dime on, and never can. As much as I hate the structure, I can’t say anything negative involving bloat, or spyware, or anything else that I classify as “modern day bullshit”.

sigh Just use linux.

You’re placing a lot of "if"s in there, and treating them as if they’re already true.

If you put enough roadblocks in the way these kids will learn same as we did.

Roadblocks to what? To using a pc? What makes you think kids WANT to use a PC at all? Is the roadblock getting to access the internet? Because there’s no roadblocks for that. They have cell phones. Thats what they know the internet as, and they’re accessing it just fine. Is the roadblock privacy? You think kids who take out their cell phones in public, and record them and their friends, and anyone walking by in the background, as they dance the newest trendy dance, to upload to tiktok, are worried about privacy?

And yes, I do think everyone lives in a bubble. Some people live in the same bubble. Most people live in multiple bubbles.

Did you know the Cleveland Cavaliers have lost the first 3 games in a 7 game series against the NY Knicks? Probably not. I live in Cleveland. It’s all anybody in this bubble is talking about. I don’t even like basketball, but right now everyone in the Cleveland sports bubble is losing their shit. I imagine outside of Cleveland nobody gives a shit.

Your bubble seems to be linux. You think linux is more prominant than it is. Right now desktop linux is at a 5% highest ever user base. It has nothing to do with people ditching windows. It has nothing to do with privacy concerns. It has everything to do with Valve making huge progress towards gaming on linux. People are taking their old “not good enough for windows” pcs, and suddenly their gaming lifespan covers more.

Because again. Nobody is saying linux is bad. What it does, it does well if you know what you’re doing. What I’m saying is nobody cares about any of that until they have a desire to use a pc, that isn’t windows. Most people are just ditching pcs completely because for watching youtube, and browsing facebook, and recording tiktoks, why do you need anything more than a low end cell phone? Why buy a pc during a time when prices are sky high, when they get what they need from the thing already in their pocket?

You think kids don’t know how to download and install linux?

Yes. I think most kids don’t know how to download linux. Just the same as I think most adults don’t know how to do it. It doesn’t matter if it’s actually easy. That’s not the question. The question is if people know how to do it.

Just the same I don’t think they know how to download a non-google based browser.

It’s not about difficulty. It’s about desire to do so. I’ve heard pancakes are very easy to make. I have no desire to make pancakes. I’m 42 and have never made pancakes. I know there’s eggs and flour, and a bowl. I’d have to learn. And to learn, I have to want to learn. And that all goes back to having desire to learn.

Necessity is the mother of innovation. And right now, 90% of the population do not give a damn about which os they use. They just call it “the facebook machine”, and it’s their cell phone.

Desktop across all platforms is dying. Windows 11 sucks. The ram costs are making everything unobtainable. The vast majority don’t even know there is a different way. They just pull out their cell phone, check their tiktok and whatever else, and they go about their day.

At this point three people have desktops. Gamers, hobbyists, and people who need them for work.

So yeah. I DO think most people have zero clue that you can install linux from a usb. I also think most people have never heard of linux.

I wish I still knew where this comic was. It was two geologists, and they’re discussing how the common man must surely know of the starter rocks that everybody knows. Then they start listing a bunch of crystals and rocks nobody has ever heard of before. And they say “oh, and obviously everybodys heard of (insert rock you’ve never heard of)” and his coworker says “well obviously”.

Completely unaware that what seems common to them is completely unknown to everyone else. I really feel like about 30-50% of linux users have that mentality about PCs. They have a PC. They find Linux easy. Therefore it IS easy, and everybody on earth can use linux.

For some of you, you don’t see the failure of that logic, while the rest of you are cringing right now.

I thought linux came out around 1992?

Well, think of the bigger picture. After 3-4 generations, there won’t even BE consultants to clean up the mess. No one will know how to code at all. It’s ALL going to be AI.

I’d like this guy to run for city counsil.