Did you just type the word “slash”?

Perhaps hoping Guns N’ Roses shows up.

And enough times to give himself repetitive stress injury, by the friggin look of it.

You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It’s that simple."

–2nd Amendment, Constitution, United States of America

“defensive shots”

Translation: emptying an entire magazine into the now-unmoving, limp body of the innocent human being you and your baby-dick friends executed publicly with a single bullet to the head, because you were tired of him struggling whilst you were ruthlessly beating upon him.

Annnnnd in my case, running very complicated scripts provided by genius level volunteers to overwrite the bootloader (to Libreboot I think?) so it could accept a Linux OS because Chrome OS told my mother in law:

“We decided we’re done caring. Throw this device out and buy a brand new one.”

She’s been happily running Mint and getting her browser and security updates ever since.

Chromebooks and ChromeOS were an e-waste generating scheme from the start.

(Gigantic megacorp titan dumps billions into forcing a cheap thing on mass culture for further control of everything, selling at a massive loss to artificially inflate adoption rates)

“Wow! So many people use this thing now that an ultramegasupercorp did it to exploit countless masses of normies before their competition did! How did that happen!? I guess this must be the winning ‘linux’ of the future!”

No wonder it annoys Linux evangelists: We just want a world where we use computers, not the other way around.

Oh is Apple finally releasing different colors again? :p

“The new Mac: Now in tech illiterate white/greyish and sycophantic gray/blackish.”

Linux is like the Internet or even computers in general.

As I always say: “It’s for anyone! But it’s best not for everyone.”

You make a point but, hey now, let’s not be cruel to people. I think we’ve all had a situation where a click was accidentally a click-and-drag and now things aren’t how they were before, and we didn’t realize exactly what was happening.

I feel like KDE might have features to lock down taskbar customization a little better but, I haven’t looked for such a feature… 🤔

I feel like I’ve seen this exact complaint around the internet before…

Somehow you got downvoted even while there’s the occasional full-screen startup spam:

"WANNA SUBSCRIBE TO OFFICE?

ENABLE DEEPER AD DATA TARGETING?! (you can’t disable ads)"

Options:

{YES PLZ (here monee)}

/

{I’m so dumb I clearly don’t know what I’m missing by refusing your products and services. Remind me very soon.}

The first time I experienced a DVD menu and chapter selection without having to rewind was just “Woah.”

Nope. Too vintage! Those are old enough to be haunted now. O_O

(Well, dang, so are N64 cartridges so…)

Fun fact: if you add some hisses and pops and a little bit of compression to CD audio before playing it, some people (me included) will say it sounds better.

This sounds fun. I wonder if there’s an explanation for why that is?

Lo-Fi ALL THE THINGS!!!

I’m so torn. On one hand, cool! These things are still seeing use and stay out of landfills!

On the other hand, always a bit frustrating, this cycle of things no longer produced suddenly coming back into style with enthusiasts, and everyone trying to hustle it to get rich quick on eBay.

I was always taught to be a bit scared about potential burn-in if playing games on our projection TV…never seemed to actually have it happen though. 🤔

That’s SUPER helpful. Thank you!!

I agree with your advice. It’s sad to me that a lot of people are simply venting as a weird means of “enjoying” the spectacle of it all.

Thanks for sharing those resources. The “full spectrum resistance” book they link seems particularly interesting! I very much appreciate you taking the time.

But you’re exactly right: the people who are actually making a difference aren’t doing it for show.

Stay safe out there. <3

Woah, that’s some educational stuff right there! Thanks for sharing this! I’m gonna look into it more now. :D

They currently have law enforcement tucking tail and making a tactical retreat.

https://www.youtube.com/live/ASr1zVuQlX4

They’re charging headlong into teargas and lobbing it back. They’re stubbornly taking whatever opening they can get a foothold in and erecting barricades.

I’d say this is pretty damn opposite of “apathetic.” Maybe it’ll give you some hope. In the meanwhile, please support the helpers.

Our ancestors certainly didn’t rush headlong into Hitler’s machine guns and artillery for… whatever the hell this is.