Same here. The only socials I have beyond this are Strava, a few Discord communities for tech support-type stuff and YouTube comments if that counts.

The Reddit API exodus was the canary in the coal mine for me. My entire technical/social life changed for the better after that.

Nickelback'd.

This is probably the least harmful tinfoil hat on the internet.

Honestly, I don't get why people are so aggressive towards Sxan. If it bugs you, just block them and be on your way. The first time I saw the thorn it was a curiosity. Once I knew what the intended purpose was it was easy to just shrug and move on. I've actually gotten used to it now and its not an inconvenience at all to read.

Constantly harassing someone because they fancy the use of a non-standard character in their comments is ludicrous behaviour, especially since we all have the tools to filter posts/users from our feeds at will; a few clicks and you never have to worry about it again.

Go ahead and be a pessimist all you like. No need to embroil others in your misery. Honestly if you really don't care then why toss shit at someone about their character, as if you're some paragon of virtue? Pick a fucking lane and stick to it.

Those are some broad brush strokes.

I read this and immediately felt my salivary glands activate.

Its an extreme event for the average person. Lots of folks are unaware of the danger of overhydration. Combine that with local races where people might be doing their first attempts at longer distance and this starts to become a problem, especially in hotter climates.

Every year there are people that sign up for races with no prior experience thinking "meh, I could run a half marathon". Guess who shows up with a ton of water, no food, and no electrolytes. The same folks that think they could take a bear in a fight. 🙄

LiveUSB of any distro should be up and running in 2 mins max.

Have Win 10 and was a Windows die hard since I was a kid.

Been running Linux on another drive as my default boot for a year and a half in anticipation of this horseshit and was only hesitant to delete Win because my Fanatec sim racing hardware wasn't supported on Linux.

Welp, turns out hid-fanatecff is a thing. Installed the kernel driver and boom, working Fanatec peripherals. Even my Moza shifter is plug-and-play.

Bye bye Microsoft.

4x4 Off-Road

Has never seen anything but paved roads its entire life.

Straight to jail.

This is how its done. I hope this sparks a FOSS revolution.

Not caring about digital privacy.

Fuck both of these companies. Never used McDicks app in the first place. Spyware bullshit.

Maybe if they made their content affordable more people would consider paying for it. Their prices are ridiculous.

Its not just notifications. Its also them watching entire videos at high volume in waiting rooms, ads and everything. That or its endless scrolling and completely unrelated audio blasts chained together doing literal psychic damage to everyone around.

It drives me fucking NUTS. The worst part is they're the ones that will be the first to complain about kids these days being glued to their phones.

Honestly, as a newbie to Linux I think the ratio of well documented processes vs. "draw the rest of the fucking owl" is too damn high.

The rule seems to be that CLI familiarity is treated as though its self-evident. The exception is a ground-up documented process with no assumptions of end user knowledge.

If that could be resolved I think it would make the Linux desktop much more appealing to wider demographics.

That said, I'm proud to say that I've migrated my entire home studio over to linux and have not nuked my system yet. Yet... Fortunately I have backups set up.

He says as he conveniently ignores the existence of Boston Dynamics.

Tbf a mile isn't a long run at all. Maybe 10 minutes? Good wake up for sure.

Honestly, I've always thought the best use case for AI is moderating NSFL content online. No one should have to see that horrific shit.