Kind of strange that they abbriviated “to” with “2”.

Even stranger that I still got it right. Unless you’re messing with me. In which case, fair play. I’m totally clueless sometimes.

Drag and drop worked on windows 3.1. That was like the whole thing. “LOOK WHAT YOU CAN DO NOW!”

At this point, I’m fairly sure pissing people off is the point with Windows 11. It’s full of AI no one wants, refuses to officially run on most hardware that people already have, despite running just fine on that same hardware UNofficially, dropped support for drag and drop, doesn’t let you move the taskbar.

And thats not even to mention the fact that it monitors you, and reports back to HQ with screen grabs and usage activity.

Oh look, ZorinOS, just one singular distro, had 1.6 million downloads in the past 2 months.

Wait, is there any special thing that happened 2 months ago? Oh right. Windows 10 support ended, and microsoft told its userbase “fuck you, you can’t get support for windows 10, and this computer can’t update to windows 11. This computer is now trash!”

Suddenly all these youtube videos pop up “Is your PC unable to install windows 11? Try linux!”

And these videos don’t try to sway you to one distro or another. They point out a few big hitters like mint or ubuntu. I can’t imagine them specifically naming zorin, unless it’s a zorin centric video. But I’m talking about the flood of “try linux” videos that popped up in October.

And that 1.6 million is JUST zorin. That’s the runoff. I don’t have numbers, or sources, but gut instinct tells me that if Zorin had 1.6 million downloads, Mint must have had like 5 million minimum. Every video always reccomends Mint. It’s probably overtaken Ubuntu at some point as most used distro.

And all of this, every single bit of user loss has NOTHING to do with linux. Users are angrily switching. Not happily. They feel abandoned, and forced to switch.

If Microsoft either extended Windows 10 support, or allowed Windows 11 to be installed on reasonable hardware, this linux boom DOES NOT HAPPEN. This is Microsoft saying “Yeah bitch, money is tight! Go buy another computer, loser! You’ll do what we say, and there’s nothing you can do to stop us!”

That’s when users switched to linux. This is pure hubris from Microsoft. It would be interesting if somehow we could get a combined number of EVERY distros doenload numbers.

Is E2EE end to end encryption?

Did you see how the ceremony went? Trump just grabbed the award like he was the grinch stealing a present. Then he put the thing on his own neck, and stood there like a dork.

“Look at me! I’m the bestest president ever!”

No. You’re a dork, who just created the first ever FIFA whatever award, because you DIDN’T actually win the peace prize anyone actually gives a damn about. You didn’t win the real one because you don’t know what PEACE means. Peace isn’t ramping up agencies who’s sole job is to kidnap people off the street. You’ve done nothing to promote peace in our times. You’re not deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize. So now you’re standing there like a dork.

Everybody laugh at Trump! Look how embarrassing he looks!!! Hahahahaha!!!

Alright, alright. We’ve had our fun, but I do feel the need to appologize.

…The Grinch is actually a pretty solid guy. He gets undeserved hate. An entire town belittles him, and bullys him for being different. Fuck that town! Stand with Grinch!

What? You thought I was going to appologize to Trump? Fuck off! Fuck Trump!

The fuck??? Why would home depot discoursge this??? Get a bunch of day laborers outside, who aren’t affiliated with your company, and it’s only GOOD news for your profits.

Consider this. A new home owner wants to refurbish their kitchen. So the guy goes down to home depot to get some materials. But he also knows there’s some day laborers outside.

So now he’s bought the materials from you, hired the labor from guys hanging around outside your store, and no matter what happens next, you made a sale because you’re known for having day laborers outside.

Plus, even if they do a shitty job, the home owner has no recoarse against you. He can’t sue YOU for shoddy worksmanship. You never hired these guys. All you did was sell the materials, and the materials are fine. It’s the installation that was subpar.

And plus, it’s not like home depot sells a seperate service of installation anyways. So they don’t lose money, they gain sales, and have no legal obligation, and benefit from having an installation team that you don’t pay, and aren’t legally responsible for in any way.

Did you just reply to yourself? And he’s the hot mess???

There wasn’t. They started in 1889 as an illicit gambling company. Selling cards designed for illegal gambling, and intending to be sold to various organized crime organizations. Mainly the Yakuza.

In terms of video games, even with their first console, they had a monopoly on the video game market, and forced publishers to bend over and take it.

Wasn’t until the genesis got popular that publishers had even a viable alternative.

…wouldn’t that be Gods middle name? Jesus was the son.

I’ve always wondered what the H stood for.

Homeboy?

HillthatIdieon?

Hank?

Next? Shit, I’m still under the belief that by 2027, this will become a full on dictatorship.

Oh god. Is this going to be like how you pronounce “gif”?

Is it gif?

Or is it gif?

I…I lost track of what just happened. G stands for…something, I imagine.

God damn. You just made me realize one thing. Yes the republicans are THE problem, but democrats are like an accomplice. We’re having these problems because democrats are just enabling the republicans. Let’s say AOC gets elected in 2028.

If she comes in, guns blazing, and puts trump over her knee and spanks his ass red, then the rest of his chronies will wonder if they’re next.

But if she comes in, gets on her knees and blows him, then they know nothing needs to change, and they should go further. Why not? Even when they lose power they face no consequences.

We need a candidate who shows up to the 2028 debates in July, gets asked what they would do about the corruption in government, and IMMEDIATELY pulls a pistol out, and shoots trump.

THATS who I would vote for.

…fuck. FINE! YES I LEFT MY GYM BAG AT HOME TODAY! YES I BROUGHT MY GYM BAG TO WORK YESTERDAY, AND WENT HOME INSTEAD OF THE GYM! NO I HAVEN’T BEEN GOING AS MUCH AS I SHOULD! HAPPY??? God damn universe nagging me, even on Lemmy! What do you want from me??? I pushed myself into oblivion doing 4 hours of gym every day for 7 months. In that time only lost 20lbs. Then had a mental breakdown, missed 2 weeks, and gained 30lbs even though I wasn’t eating differently. Just not going to the gym.

So I push my body through hell, give up any kind of social life. In the gym every day at 1 am until dawn. And 8 months later lost ground on the scale, and you expect me not to be dejected??? Fuck.

Fuck fuck fuck.

Guess I’m a piece of shit then, right? Even the universe is calling me fat now…

He is the right wing. It was a meme of hate supporting kirk.

See, here’s the thing…

Do I think this former cop should have been arrested over a meme? Well, I haven’t seen the meme, but no. You shouldn’t be arrested over a meme posted on social media.

Now for the kicker.

Fuck him! You know if roles had been reversed, and some left wing guy had been shot, the right wing would have called for not only the arrest, but also the death penalty over a meme. They have no empathy. They’re not acting in good faith ever. They don’t view things differently, but with a good moral compass. They act in a way that is motivated by the idea that whatever hurts your opposition, helps you.

So, he got locked up for something that wasn’t illegal? Oh, ok. Let me look through your past as a cop, and you’re telling me you’ve never treated anyone unfairly, or used unnecessary force against those who did nothing wrong? You’re telling me you have a squeeky clean record?

Yeah…fuck off fascist!

That’s just saying overall revenue is up, but that includes digital sales like subscriptions and mobile storefront sales.

While physical sales are down, the digital sales make up for the loss to the point of actually being a 1% gain.

Yeah. A moderator of fuck_ai is using ai.

The steamdeck is physical software? I thought it was hardware with digital software.

Why would any of that affect physical software? Does steam and gog sell cartridges or discs that I’m unaware of?