win8 made us realize

Bruh you were late. Vista sucked, 7 sucked, they were shit since XP. Sure, I kept using it until 10 because I was afraid linux still didn’t work, but XP was the last time I was happy with computers until I installed Fedora.

Here’s mine, and the exact opposite of another “unpopular” opinion here which is upvoted:

Guns.

First of all pandora’s box has been opened in the US and can’t be closed, there’s 600,000,000+ in private hands with no registry to know where/who and trillions of rnds of ammo and everyone who has any of that intends on keeping it. “American gun owners” actually end up being a larger army than most countries militaries, you’re just not going to be able to short of finding a way to Infinity rock (or whatever Avengers sucks) them out of existence.

Secondly, good. I’d rather people be able to defend themselves if need be than not, be that against forces foreign or domestic, or against the crackhead down the street with a knife. All the way from the improbable fighting our government, or red dawn style fighting a foreign power on our soil, to the more likely Black Panther style activity and defending against your average deadly threats, or even just hunting for food in the event of a small/large catastrophic event that affects supply chains (if you can’t get food at the store because of a natural disaster or something, at least food is walking around, it’s just more work). It should never be your first resort, but you shouldn’t exclude it from being your last resort.

I expect it won’t be straightforward to view the data as well, it’s not just gonna be a folder full of jpegs.

Source?

Tbf, I (and I’m a random third guy not the guy to which you’re replying, for clarity’s sake), also doubt it’ll be a folder of jpegs…but I think it’ll be fairly trivial to exploit whatever it is, and it’ll take way too much storage (storage cheap now, whatever, I know I’m old but I don’t use cloud and I’ve got other shit to spend money on than HDDs or SSDs, which I do also need as a pirate/data hoarder and don’t want to waste space on).

I don’t understand what use case you can have by asking Microsoft what porn you were watching at 2 am of February 19th.

Well you see I have my browser set to delete history on exit because of security so this would override that and keep the history…that I…deleted… Wait…

Lmao idfk why people would possibly want this either.

My airpods and fingerprint reader (framework 16) work fine on Fedora, sometimes it just be like that.

Frameworks have all AMD options too, just a heads up. I have one and it runs great!

Running a framework 16 with FedoraKDE and before that a 4gb ram 2015 toshiba satellite (in 2024) running Fedora (regular Gnome) and haven’t had one of these issues. Most issues I have had were caused by me, every now and again I run into a regular old bug in something and half the time that gets fixed pretty quick.

I wish I could help, but we just have opposite experiences unfortunately. That said, because of this I don’t think it’s “linux,” or I’d likely have at least similar experiences.

OH for a while I did have a bug where VLC would stutter playing video and nobody had a fix, so I uninstalled/reinstalled VLC and it works now. Idk, I’ve had shit like that happen on windows too though, it’s basically the software version of power cycling hardware when it acts up.

Well good to hear the Polish are stable.

Can someone hack this “bloc” and release all their private chats? Like, work and personal, conversations about their giant hemorrhoids and all.

I’m on the email list, myself, lol. Also just picked up a copy of Zippy #3, sitting about 5ft to my left just waiting to be read.

And someone else clarified “burning” as in sensation, not fire, that makes more sense! Still wondering how that managed to break skin but the burning I understand now lol.

Ooooohhhhhh ok I thought you/they meant like singed lol, that makes more sense!

Were the stix still wrapped or did you dump the powder, and where did the burning come from in an air rifle?

Character limits are a bitch to be fair. What’s wild to me though that you seem to think abbreviations were invented alongside texting by today’s youth, not y’know ancient Greece using IMP for Imperator on their coins and shit.

Sure, they got more popular in the late 1800s in English, but I don’t think you’re that old to be calling 145yo people “kids” lol.

Yes lmao, where you been? People want to be offended now to the degree where they look for things that aren’t really offensive but they can use it for sympathy likes.

Maybe I just have tuned my ability to notice it from years of “nothing is ever good enough” parents, teachers, and employers, but it’s literally the same mechanism that made my mom say “well a B is good but you need to be getting As. (And later) Well that low A is good but you need to get it higher.” Or my boss just always saying “faster faster” no matter how much “faster faster” you go, so I now just say “you got it boss” and continue at my pace instead of breaking my back just to hear “faster faster” again in response like he’s some kind of weird Gull that gained the ability to mimic human speech it can’t comprehend. It all comes from the same place, plus a dash of clickbait.

Go for a popular/“beginner” distro (basically mint or fedora or fedoraKDE, or Bazzite for gaming) so you can search up anything you need, and before you install anything test it all out with the live boot disk you created; keep backups and don’t be afraid to fuck up, at worst you reinstall and you can script much of the set up process; and do not be afraid of the terminal, learn its secrets, watch a “bash beginner” and “linux terminal beginner” video or a few on youtube and follow along like it’s a class, you’ll be fine.

That’s it, you’ll have specific questions later, but for now that’s all you need.

Tempted to put this through let me google that for you just to be smug, but here’s the direct link instead since I’m sure I’d also need to click the results for you. Do I need to read this to you too?

https://windowsreport.com/disable-keylogger-windows-11/

Not even my claim, yet I googled it for you. Guess the burden is on a third party who happened to know this common knowledge already.

And for linux step 3 usually doesn’t works because your local techy is probably someone who just knows how to google and paste into cmd the terminal.

This was sorta my fault, but I’m counting it. I have been flashing meshtastic devices recently and flashed two just fine from fedora (just had to DL ungoogled chromium because fuck chrome but librewolf can’t access serial ports so…), tried to flash a third from my friend’s windows PC and it just would not recognize it in the serial monitor, tried for like an hour being dumb, then I remembered drivers exist, downloaded one set of drivers, couldn’t install lord knows why, downloaded a second set that finally worked on a reboot and got it flashed.

I understand that sometimes you still have to install drivers on Linux too, but can we stop pretending you don’t have to on windows? What’s more while I was in there and edge wasn’t using my serial port my friend said to install a chrome based anyway to try, and I had to find the damn download pages instead of using a package manager, philistines.

Well “just some questions” isn’t particularly accurate either, that form gets submitted to the FBI, who runs an instant background check on you and makes sure you’re not a prohibited purchaser (felon, dishonorably discharged, IVC, too young), so it also weeds out those people.

What, were they surveiling you until they find out you’re gay and then “no looksies?” They’re surveiling all of us (and I for one am goddamn sick of it. Surveil that assholes!)