Dang it, yet another boycott I can’t participate in because I already wasn’t buying the thing in the first place.

I’m too lazy and set in my ways to switch away from apt.

(I also used Gentoo, many years ago when I could actually be bothered.)

Don’t call copyright infringement “piracy,” either.

Since AIs are trained on copyleft code, either every output of AI code generators is copyleft, or none of it is legal to use at all.

As a matter of general principle, I agree with you. That said, I never opt in to writing public reviews on store websites to begin with, both because I don’t care to give free labor to for-profit corporations, and more importantly, because disclosing my consumer preferences is already a privacy risk in and of itself.

I don’t care about benchmarks; I care about compatibility and errors. The specs that would matter to me would be things like CPU architecture, which team made the GPU, and which Linux distro they’re running. Maybe number of monitors/resolution/framerate/use of freesync or framegen, too, since that can affect glitches.

Not just inscrutable, insatiable too.

I see how it exists for “Diablo II: Resurrected,” but how do people who own the original version of the game get it?

(Not that I plan to pay Blizzard any more money – I’ve been boycotting them since not long after Diablo II came out the first time – but I still gotta ask for curiosity’s sake.)

GUIs are great for ad-hoc stuff, but fail when you need a precise record of what you did, e.g. to be able to repeat or automate it.

I usually use [K]ubuntu because I always try to install Debian first, but it ships with kernels so outdated that it rarely “just works” on the not-particularly-weird hardware I throw at it. That’s understandable when it’s missing drivers for my AMD 9070 XT GPU on launch day, but not so much when it’s missing drivers for the Intel AX101 wifi chipset that got released 3.5 years before. (I’ve also experienced weird installation failures with Debian related to the partitioning and/or bootloader, but I don’t remember the details of those right now. Point is, Ubuntu is – unfortunately – more reliable to install without tweaking or troubleshooting, in my experience.)

Jeez, that’s a lot of stuff. I tried to copy it into a spoiler tag (so the post wouldn’t display too long), but it won’t even all fit in the Lemmy comment length limit. Apparently it’s 1439 items, the only one of which I’ve previously heard of is Baba Is You.

Man, I miss calling it “getting Slashdotted.”

It’s not a backup unless you can restore from it.

yt-dlp gets blocked more often than Firefox + ublock Origin for me.

Inside you are two old ladies. One of them is Sophia and the other one is Rose.

Not being into sports is one thing, but not being into John Candy movies is inexcusable.

and all their other tripe

Not sure if generic insult or if you’re talking about actual tripe.

I’m not sure I’d call any part of the process of making pemmican “frying.”

Excuse me, but that’s pan frying. Your meme is invalid.

What fucking “service?” Software running locally on my own computer isn’t a goddamned “service” to begin with!

Also, fuck off with your bullshit assumption of bad faith.