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it is 2025 and i am manually typing a 446-line basic game from a book

if all ALL you ever do is browse the web and edit libreoffice files then you will have no problem at all and ABSOLUTELY those people could and should switch to linux (and even then i fear they may run into more issues than if they were using windows)

but to say that linux is a fits-all solution to people who don't want to poke under the hood on a daily basis to get their daily driver merely working, is fucking annoying

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i want Linux pundits to try installing and using a Linux system for a whole month without ever EVER touching the terminal ONCE and then try to tell me Linux is ready to be a desktop operating system

It's crazy how advanced the graphics software on Symbolics LISP machines were in the 1980's before SGI kind of took over that space.

#Retrocomputing #LispMachine #ComputerGraphics

what i don't understand is if youtube insists on bigger thumbnails with less columns then why does it still serve the lower resolution thumbnails so they look like garbage blown up like that

disappointing to hear that james channel is a hogwarts legacy player

cloudflare is a net negative on the internet even before you get to the fascism

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thinking about how maybe shoveling our entire world through one chokepoint that also MITMs our TLS was a bad idea

it's real cool how the few times i actually get a message anywhere it's transphobes calling for me to kill myself

does anyone want to send me nice messages or

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