A lot are still doing that and haven’t moved up

(Please at least use SFTP!)

ADHD executive dysfunction be like, until the deadline is looming

At least we put them on pretty 3D animated carbonated beverage advertisements for Christmastime for a while, that must’ve felt really nice until you consider that humans are exploiting your cute and cuddly experience to increase shareholder revenue due to sales of an unnecessarily sugared beverage made with tropical fruit seeds

Humanity: having an obesity epidemic

Polar Bears: “increased fat stores?? D E L I C I O U S”

Never enough, that’s a shareholder-beholden corporation for you. Parasitic-ridden creature devouring everything in sight to feed its parasites.

Execs: “Why was Xbox third place this generation?!”

Product Managers: “Uuuh idk let’s check Reddit”

Reddit: “Well first there’s not much in the way of AAA–”

Exec: “THAT’S IT! FIRE OUR INDIE STUDIOS! EVERYBODY MAKES AAA RIGHT NOW!!”

Dude we literally have that unix_surrealism comic there’s at least some love for BSDs here

There’s a lot of us neurodivergent folks in tech because it suits our needs better than a lot of other fields, and a lot of us just love technology

We’re more prone to being LGBTQIA+ than neurotypical folks, scientifically documented

Makes sense tech would have more trans folks as a result, we pad the numbers a lil bit

This is of course a generalization and actual ND/LGBTQIA+ presence is going to vary based on job, location, how insufferable management is, etc, and not all NDs are LGBTQIA+ and vice versa.

Better give us a really fucking good Elder Scrolls 6 if you’re gonna pull this shit

If it wasn’t for those rascally penguins I would be flat broke trying to afford the latest system requirements for Windows 12 or a mediocre MacBook instead of a $120 5 year old Dell Latitude, how dare they!!

Left brain urging me to write “that’s a lie those are scissor switches”, right brain just going awwwwwwwwwwww

That’s it, I’m only using epoch from now on, that’s enough of your time zone shenanigans

Run, Mongolia

Run for your lives

Yeah yeah shut up Jack nobody cares

Poor Tux, it’s a rough life

You sure your laptop isn’t splitting graphics to an Nvidia DGPU? Usually it’s flawless unless I’m using Ubuntu specifically

I actually am okay with the appearance, but there is just way too much emphasis on doing things that the user base doesn’t care about, instead of actually fixing bugs with the product and solidifying it. Which, okay, I guess some folks are fine with that, but being the most popular distro, why try to drive so much innovation at the expense of stability?

I just revisited it a short while ago on hardware that had actual 16.04 compatibility confirmed by vendor back in the day and it was a battery hog and a call tracing dumpster fire on 23.10. Then I switch to Debian 12 and not a single problem. I don’t get it.

The Canonical cycle:

Canonical solves a problem nobody was experiencing or needed a resolution for

Canonical pushes problem resolution as a major component of Ubuntu

“Resolution” impacts Ubuntu use negatively

Users get the pitchforks

Canonical kind of mitigates the issue somewhat but not completely

Canonical goes back to thinking about problems nobody is having

Repeat ad nauseam

“Why doesn’t this just work I never had this problem on Windows!!” leaves no necessary information to troubleshoot

Vs.

“I have this specific and obscure workflow I use with this one package nobody has heard of, I perform XYZ action and after I ran pacman -Syu I’m seeing that the application is segfaulting and leading to this call trace…”

Five page dump of dmesg

“I mapped this to line 748 of the Linux-Zen kernel source file can somebody help explain how I can work around this?”

No responses for eternity, thread archived

Ubuntu 8.10

I don’t like Ubuntu anymore but I loved it then