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you: theres no such thing as a one true distro. Everybody has their own needs :) and everybody has their own requirements :) and everybody has their own preferences :)

me: what like "i want a computer that actually works and makes sense"

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the problem is i think. if a linux distro was actually good enough, it would annihilate all the other distros. and that would go against the whole point of there being distros. so theyre not allowed to make a distro thats good. they're not allowed to be like "look we're actually gonna do it this time, we're gonna make the one true linux", they'd get tomatoes thrown at them. they can only make a distro thats "okay, but then in 5 years it Goes Wrong and everybody hops to the next popular distro"

oh red dwarf series 2 feels entirely different from series 1

q: if you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be?

a: you already are an animal

- douglas coupland, microserfs

the people replying to this have no idea what i want back is msn messenger and macromedia flash

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@amerika@annihilation.social the phones aren't much better if you see the previous posts!

@mikemccaffrey it says something about modern computing that you're describing something i do today for fun

@jk god i remember how many non-starter projects the allure of a 3d furcadia spawned

all of them pretty much abandoned and mostly link rotten by the time i found out about them, mind

@kwramm unfortunately everyone i know is there and status quo dictates they cannot leave for another platform

@kwramm not even that they all just solve the same problem and don't even offer anything else. if anything slack is a better "product" than discord is because you don't have to pay "premium" to bring in your own emoticons. but then again we already had that on msn messenger decades ago

i didn't mean for this to blow up and with how activitypub works you'll never see this post but hey check out the stuff i do maple.pet

the above viral post was spurred on by not being allowed to send my friends doodles anymore, see: computerfairi.es/@mavica_again

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@mjdxp the problem with trying to do that is that nobody follows you into it and then you're alone in an irc room while everybody else is on discord and for a social creature such as us it's very hard

using computers in 2024 as someone who used to use computers in 2004 is extremely frustrating and depressing

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