Dude is all over the place and I kinda love it. From his teardown of capitalism, his insight on how music streaming platforms take advantage of musicians, to making spacey dream music with an antique model train control board, to an in depth analysis in how cicadas make noise, and now becoming a privacy activist and amateur white hat hacker. It’s crazy
I feel like Earthsea is appropriate for middle-school-aged kids (so like 11-14ish), right? Maybe our definitions of “grade schoolers” is different, but I was trying to give examples for a wide range of ages
The world building is weak because Rowling is a bad fantasy writer, not because it was written for grade schoolers. There are tons of series aimed at grade schoolers with incredible world building - Redwall, Warrior Cats, Earthsea, just to name a few, all have way better world building than Harry Potter.
She didn’t embrace gay people, she used them as a prop for profit, to generate buzz, to get people taking about her and her books again. She did the exact same thing with black people when she tried to claim Hermione has been black the whole time, after a black actor played her in the Cursed Child play.
JK Rowling has always been a terrible person, and it shows in her writing and her actions if you look a bit more than surface-deep.
Hell yeah another clit stick user, there are dozens of us!
Self censorship makes a platform more attractive to an advertiser
Probably loot boxes since it more directly targets children
What? No, not even close. What do you do that makes you think it’s normal to see the words women/woman 1500 times a day?
Also, did the typo hinder your ability to understand the comic? I don’t think I even noticed it until I read your comment complaining about it. I can’t fathom why someone would care so much that they feel the need to point it out.
There’s tons of irregular plurals in English.
Because English is tricky, inconsistent, and sometimes downright stupid with its seemingly arbitrary spelling rules, especially with plurals
It’s all variable, and highly dependent on the languages you use, the types of applications you develop, your personal workflows, what you learned with and got used to as you were learning to program, and a myriad of other factors. Painting in broad strokes, like what the meme is doing or what you’re doing, is almost never correct. There’s always nuance.
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microsoft locked and limited conversation to collaborators
It was enshittified into that. A decade ago, it was a perfectly fine option for people that wanted a more convenient, hassle-free way to share and collaborate on code
So you’re reduced to playing semantic games and trying to claim I’m a liar. You’re continuing to mischaracterize the difficulty involved in installing things on a Linux system. You’re evidently walking back your claim that there are distros/package managers that lack a graphical package manager. Your only example of a desktop distro lacking a graphical package manager out of the box (but still has the ability to install one) is Arch, a niche distro intended for advanced users with Linux experience. And you continue to stubbornly refuse to elaborate any of your points unless I pull it out of you.
Suffice it to say, I’m not convinced. Have a great day, I’m no longer taking part in this exhausting conversation.
It is miniscule, objectively. Generously, less than 2% of personal computer users have an Adobe license. The alternatives aren’t inferior, in fact in some cases (blender, DaVinci Resolve), the “alternative” I listed is actually the industry standard used instead of the comparable Adobe product. There are multiple ways to make it easier to transition away from Adobe products, and you keep just conveniently ignoring the fact that cloud versions of most Adobe products are available. It’s a bad example, and does nothing for the argument you’re trying to make.
Can you share some distros/package managers that don’t have a GUI available? You originally claimed there were distros where a graphical package manager wasn’t an option. Are you walking that back now, or can you actually substantiate that claim?
Can you share some distros intended for desktop use that don’t come with a graphical package manager?
I’m sorry you found Nobara’s package management tools confusing. Is that the experience you’re basing this whole opinion on?
Obviously Adobe products aren’t going to be found in a Linux package manager. Not sure why you’re even mentioning it though, because
Can you share some distros/package managers that don’t have a GUI available? Every flavor of Linux I’ve used in the past 5 years has had a GUI for the package manager, and 9 times out of 10 there’s a shortcut in the taskbar or on the desktop by default after installation.
My gaming PC is running PopOS. When I was on version 22.04, I used PopShop exclusively to install and update my software, and it worked great. Since upgrading to 24.04, PopShop has been replaced by the Cosmic Store, which is even easier to use. Both were pre installed and pinned to the taskbar out of the box.
I have Nobara installed on another desktop. I forget what the package manager GUI on that one is called, but it was very similarly easy to use, and it was also pinned to the taskbar (or whatever the KDE-taskbar-equivalent is called) out of the box.
Hell, even Arch has options for graphical package managers, they just don’t come pre installed, obviously, since it’s Arch.
I turn it on, I click the program I need to use, I use the program.
If the program isn’t there, I open the software manager, I search for the program, click install, and open the program.
It’s really that easy.
You’re beginning to sound like a broken record now though, because the only things you’ve brought up are
I’d love to continue this discussion if you want to bring up anything else, but if this is all you have, I’m not gonna waste any more of my time with you.
I didn’t simply dislike your reasons. Your reasons are invalid, untrue in 2026.
I’ve been using Linux at work for well over a decade, and at home for at least 5 years on my gaming PC. I have watched and experienced various Linux distros going from poor Windows replacements to very serviceable Windows replacements.
On my home gaming PC, I have only run into two issues that I used a terminal to solve. And one of those I could have solved with a package manager because the solution was just to reinstall a few things that had gotten corrupted.
Again, I recognize and accept that there are some things Linux still can’t do. But my whole point is that’s ok, because it can still function as a replacement for Windows without those things, for a huge chunk of the people still using Windows. It’s weird that a person that’s used a Linux laptop for the past 3 years doesn’t recognize that.
The few reasons you’ve given haven’t been true for at least a decade, and you’ve declined to give any reasons in our thread. Be honest, when’s the last time you directly interacted with a Linux PC?
IDK, that sounds like a fun twist to me