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Chemical Wonka @discuss.tchncs.de

1mo ago

Penguin hole

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Dude, you're getting a dell ...
- And plugging highly suspicious USB drive into it...
  
  Reminds me, back in like, 2007, Nine Inch Nails did a promotion for their new album where they left "mystery" USB drives with media from the "future", themed from album, in public areas at their shows. People couldn't wait to find them and jam them into their computers to piece the story all together.
- And Ubuntu at best.
- What's wrong with dell?
  
  same thing that's wrong with every brand name.
  Man, I thought the dude did something really bad but he just got accused of buying weed imagine getting cancelled over an accusation
  
  That was they're slogan back in the day.
- Bruh dell maintains dkms in linux (kernel driver management thingy)

Talk to your kids about Linux before someone else does.
- Sex PSAs are nothing in comparison

Ubuntu logo is a trinity but you're not getting laid
- The rest of us should just do what the transbians do and sleep with each other.
  L4L, must have showered and touched grass within the last 24 hours.
- Closest you’re gettin’ to any action this weekend is givin’ the dairy cow’s teets a good scrubbin’.

some mf gonna grab both and dual boot
- Hi I'm some mf
  Day 1,095 of begging Autodesk to put F360 on Linux so I can ditch windows
  I know, they won't, but I'm gonna keep asking anyway
  
  Hey, same boat. I've tried FreeCAD and Ondsel (which is supposed to be a more intuitive version of FreeCAD)... But they are both so unintuitive that it drives me nuts and I just boot into Windows when i want to design something functional to 3D Print.
  Luckily Blender works great on Linux for less functional designs.
  
  I feel you

Why are both of the USB drives red?
- Because choice is an illusion.
  
  Both are Linux.

"How come my typing fingers hurt?"
"you've never used them before."
- Fingering the rabbit hole?

You take the green USB, it's Ventoy.
You click the wrong option in the list, and suddenly it's GParted.
- Ah, shit, TempleOS.
  Yes, I have TempleOS on my drive, why not, it's just a few MB.
  
  I look at the cool elephant whenever I'm feeling down
- Plot twist it was really clonezilla.

How come with bsd it's more of a dig your own hole sort of adventure?
- It's the price of stability™
- Pot
  Kettle
- Depends on how fond you are of shark attacks

Until you find out about snap
- Linux Mint: The Better Ubuntu (tm)
  
  I found that Pop!_OS (another Ubuntu fork) worked better with Nvidia crap out of the box. They both seem pretty good.
  
  Never heard of it. If its so good you would think someone would be talking about it.

People that chose the "red" drive ... Once you install Ubuntu a mysterious shaman will once again introduce you to the red and blue choice, ... well, I mean, not exactly, it will be just a giant bag of mixed ~~pills~~ drives for different distros and the ominous warning be like "you only really need to take one, but there is no actual limit".

I cannot even download Windows 11 ISO on my network, I am (my ISP is) blocked by Microsoft. So, problem solved, it's just red USB.
- How did that happen?
  
  Microsoft blocks people from downloading stuff all the time for unknowable reasons. You have to either reset your IP or go through customer support to fix it. I did the latter and they did not tell me why I was blocked in the first place.

Take the red USB and it always ends with you deep in a forum and the terminal app.
- at 2am on a work night
  
  PTSD triggered

"Corporate wants you to tell the difference between these two..."
This comment brought to you by the anti-snap gang.
- Good luck with fighting dependency hell!
  
  Also, stop slobbering over shuttlecock. Centralized repos run by big corporation is not free as in libre, it's free - as in free to rug pull you into a SaaS model.
  "But you can make your own!"
  If you modify the client and if you recreate the backend to actually make snaps. It's in essence proprietary technology posing as open source.
  Also, I do use flatpaks on my NixOS to get packages directly from vendors and not from some wannabe app store. Yes, Flathub allows vendors to post directly.
  Even though the FreeDesktop dependencies are big, it's still much more free than snaps.
  
  Bish, I use NixOS. I have defeated dependency hell by sacrificing storage space to just say "fudge it, give me ALL THE DEPENDENCIES!!! Rip off their ELF heads!!".
  We are not the same.

I use the exact same usb stick for my Ubuntu installs. 🤜

*You stay in Wayland.

Love the technology field hand writing
- It's rare, it's bad, but it's also adequate and it does the job.
  
  Like my code, it's ugly but readable

TempleOS is the rabbit hole usb.
- If you get caught using that ...

Don't call it penguin hole 💀💀💀💀💀
- Cloaca

“What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with your computer. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.”

That red USB looks exactly like my Linux installer one, recently upgraded to Mint 22!

What about bsd

you're going to walk into your cave, and find your power animal

You too could find out the dev left out a space in an rm command in an install shell script

But when he took the red pill he was relegated to eating a bowl of snot as his only food and living in a hellscape and had to fight a never-ending war whilst still having to regularly go back in to the matrix he was supposedly escaping. I mean I guess, great, for humanity but it doesn't make picking Linux sound like a great time if you're going to use that analogy.

I couldn't pick red if I wanted. Something happened with the USB when I flashed it and most of its space was unusable so I could use linux. And the fact I can't use games with anti- cheat, I don't know if that changed though
- You can play most games with AC. There's only a handful that don't work. Kernel-level AC, for example, obviously won't work if they don't release a Linux version (which you should probably avoid installing). There's also some Chinese games with their own AC that isn't supported yet, and that's a choice they've made.
  
  Game pass cloud works in a browser on linux too.

Aw did your mum buy you a Dell for doing well at school? 😂
- Wow, why do you feel the need to be rude about it.
- Do you get laid by being an asshole on the internet?
- Dells are reliable and high quality machines, sure they're no Thinkpads but some of them are business quality and they're all better then HP or Asus
  
  Latitudes and then XPS are the business-class, I think. I have a couple XPS Studios that have long outlived their usefulness. Integrated video, that's why they survived the bad BGA era. ;)
- I'm not a fan of Dell either, but it beats many other brands.
  This only counts for their business machines, though.
  
  *only if it's a business machine as far as I know. A friend who's working for a company selling those B2B keeps telling me how often they get XPS returned, apparently modern variants just keep failing. Latitudes on the other hand seem almost indestructible.

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