Spyke
kbin.melroy.org

Exactly, that means it hasn't infected my entire system and is constantly connected and phoning home about my computer usage and browsing habits all day. I can just play Skifree and Minesweeper and not worry about a damn thing.

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finkratreply
lemmy.world

Why modernize 3.11 when you can modernize OS/2 Warp instead?

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finkratreply
lemmy.world

Yes, it's their OS from around the time. Was pretty good, worth playing around with a little, WinWorldPC has images if you're interested. It can run I think Windows 3.0 as well inside the OS if I remember right?

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lemmus.org

Now introducing UbuRecall! Do you remember what you clicked on yesterday?

We do!

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festntreply
sh.itjust.works

make it film everything constantly but you have to pay to go back (time machines are expensive)

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It may of pissed a lot of people off. Yet people wonder why I have such a strong dislike of Ubuntu.

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Yep, Unity DE had ads. Then people revolted and Canonical eventually got rid of them and also switched to base Gnome with some extensions.

It definitely happened, I saw it in real time on my install of Ubuntu. But they learned their lesson on this one, I feel.

Not sure why there are some who think this is still a thing, though.

Side note: I’ve not run Ubuntu as my desktop OS I’m quite some time, opting instead for Garuda as of late and have seen no ads thus far :)

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sh.itjust.works

Can you download package with ads for linux? It would be great pair with activate-linux.

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Gregorreply
gregtech.eu

I must get the package as soon as someone makes it

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and then install kde with windows 11 theme and post it on a subreddit about windows saying youre moving to linux

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lemmy.world

But they told the FBI to fuck right off with their bullshit! Listen Tim Apple is one of the good ones. /s

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lemmy.ml

LPT: In NixOS you can fix this by adding

environment.systemAds.enable = false;

to your configuration.nix file 😎

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lemmy.world

Just observing more than anything but this is the same kind of shit people say to leave windows because of.

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Uristreply
lemmy.ml

It is a joke, there are no ads. I just wrote a fake command in the Nix syntax.

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I mean...

They have GUI system upgrades, this is kind of a pain in Debian

Okay, now I updated 12 laptops from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 and...

  • it always hangs at "swap deb Thunderbird with snap", like, always. 12 times.
  • the wallpaper is gone after the upgrade, every single time
  • there are like 10 buttons to click
  • you need to be a sudo user (the updater shows but just vanishes when being a nonsudoer!)
  • on 2 machines some random repo issues caused a silent error. Needed to apt update in the terminal, fixed
  • there are tons of snap packages, and all are outdated, yay! Installing those on a sudo account causes them to fail on the nonsudo account.

Damn this is bad. And this is like, the best of the best distros?

Doubt that. Fedora Atomic has way more potential, while only being user friendly as uBlue.

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pawb.social

Every couple of years I think to myself "Ubuntu can't be that bad, can it? I must be misremembering. Surely it's just some combination of my memory exaggerating how terrible it was and my lackluster Linux skills, which have since improved. Everybody still recommends it as a beginner distro, right? Why'd I stop using it?"

And then I download Ubuntu.

And then I remember.

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It works great as a quick and easy WSL module if you need to quickly patch the kernel of your embedded Linux device at work 🤗, well, maybe it would have been just as easy using just debian, to be fair 🤔

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sh.itjust.works

Ubuntu is very much NOT the best of the distros anymore.

I’ve been using Kinoite on one of my daily drivers, and so far I’m loving it.

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slrpnk.net

I mean I could list you at least 5 things that kinda suck on Fedora Atomic. But yes the core principle is so much better.

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I don’t mean to imply it’s perfect, but as a relatively popular distro to use as a daily driver, I’ve been happy with it overall.

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Multiple reasons why this is not a good option.

  • no fwupd
  • no flatpak
  • still requires sudo
  • mint uses XOrg and is very limited
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lemmy.world

an alternate timeline, where Linus didn't make Linux open source, got rich off of it, and sold it to IBM.

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BonziBuddy! He was the best! Almost as good as the dancing baby.

And in case anyone is wondering...

BonziBuddy:

Dancing Baby:

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BonziBuddy! I had completely erased that from my brain. Whoa!

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Montaggereply
lemmy.zip

I daily drive it, and a lot of idiots lie about it because of minor philosophy differences. It's sad.

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Agreed. I was inspired to make this masterpiece while reading the comments on my previous meme.

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fedia.io

I feel like the choice of time of day (24hr clock) for the screenshot might have been an attempt at being prophetic.

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fedia.io

This is one of those situations where explaining why I said what I said, when I said it, in the way that I said it, and bring into question whether I could have worded any of it better takes way more time than a glib aside. Something adjacent to the Bullsh*t Asymmetry principle, if not an instance.

Anyway, I was trying to encompass those folks who tend to set their system time to 12hr, and wasn't really saying anything one way or the other about whether the person who made the screenshot (OP it seems) generally has their system set that way or not. It was more pointing out that having it be 24hr (or leaving it that way) makes the time look a bit like a year in the not-too-distant future (2028), and thus could form part of the date that is otherwise displayed.

It could be that the whole thing is a coincidence, but I was pointing out that it could have been part of the joke.

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Unrecognized option '--joke'
Try '--help' for more information.

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