It’s kind of complicated. I’ve used Linux since Slackware 7 and I still have issues with some drivers.

Sometimes you just already have the hardware. Sometimes the vendor says it’s compatible but it’s not, or you have to compile drivers from a CD. Sometimes it depends on the version of the kernel used. Sometimes it depends on the architecture. Sometimes conditions change and what’s supposed to be working doesn’t.

I don’t think the meme is blaming Linux, it’s just how it is for some people. Some are gonna distro hop, some are gonna compile their own kernel.

Just in case you don’t know, unless it changed last time I checked, some organizations like Comptia didn’t allow computers with dual boot to be used to pass a cert exam.

I’ve seen another “joke” like this when I was on reddit and I had to save it to remind me how most people think it’s funny to drive a multi ton lethal vehicle when they can’t see shit around them.

Do you camp in the wilderness? Because most people insist on bringing their car or their SUV with them.

I make it a point to cycle to provincial parks and use rustic camp grounds, but most of these still have parking spaces. In fact, the provincial parks here literally have a disclaimer on their website to warn people that some camp sites are not accessible by car. You have to tick a box that says “I understand this camp ground is not accessible by car”.

And if people want to go on crown/public lands where wild camping is permitted, then they’re probably gonna use a fucking car.

I’m usually aware of my surroundings even with the headphones. Apparently sometimes more than some people without them. I just remove them when I need to interact with others. If I really needs to hear the crap around me, like when I’m cycling, I use bone conduction headphones.

And if it’s so crowded that I need to hear the people around me not to bump in them, then it’s too crowded for me to be there in the first place.

As a city dweller without a car, headphones are part of the essentials when leaving.

✅ Keys

✅ Money

✅ Phone

✅ Headphones

And probably a backpack.

When I started to use Linux more than two decades ago, Qt’s license was not considered free software friendly. Because I didn’t want proprietary software, I avoided KDE and Qt applications. I know the situation changed after a few years but it stuck with me.

Controversy erupted around 1998 when it became clear that the K Desktop Environment was going to become one of the leading desktop environments for Linux. As it was based on Qt, many people in the free software movement worried that an essential piece of one of their major operating systems would be proprietary.

Plus, it was much easier at that time to have themes and “rice” my desktop using only GTK apps.

So it’s petty but even to this day, I kept the old habit and still avoid Qt applications.

My cynical ass tells me that if we can grow storage devices, the tech is gonna be bought and patented by a giant corporation so they can charge us a hefty price for it.

Don’t worry, car collisions are only one of the leading causes of preventable deaths in the US.

Who cares if you’re blind, you need to go places. Here’s your license. The other shiny dots are just NPCs.

Anything but public or active transit.

Of course. My meat tenderizer connected to the internet has an accelerometer and sensors. For a small monthly subscription fee it tells me how hard I need to beat the meat, and for how long. All powered by AI for my convenience.

Also, the usefulness of AI and how it’s going to replace a lot of jobs is vastly overrated. It can’t even translate most simple instructions without creating accidental poetry.

So far, humans are still needed just to review and correct the work of AI. Unless you want slop. Which can be fine but still slop. And it doesn’t seem to be getting better.

It’s a quote from an episode of the Simpsons. I don’t know who wrote that but I left it verbatim.

Don’t kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow had the chance he’d eat you and everyone you care about.

The great Daria Morgendorffer once said:

“Life sucks no matter where you are, so don’t be fooled by location changes.”

However, because life will suck wherever you are, you can also go ahead and be depressed while travelling. It’ll distract your mind a bit and change the scenery.

I was depressive and suicidal in 2016 but my therapist convinced me to go visit a place where I wanted to go. So I went to Europe and was still depressed. It didn’t cure anything, but it made time pass a bit differently. I remember one time spending the whole day laying in the bed of my hotel room, feeling guilty not to visit the place. But I did the other days and even if it wasn’t much, I’m still glad to have done the trip.

It was difficult to accept but after talking with a therapist, and years of being discouraged every time I talked to her, I made the same realization and stopped telling her about most of my life. Everyone is much happier if we don’t talk about this. Otherwise she will tell me I took all the wrong decisions and that I should have stayed miserable because that’s how it works.

She (and all of her family) is afraid of pretty much everything. So as soon as you can secure a job, you keep it; for life! Even if it destroys your body or your mental, you have a job so keep it! Don’t go to school, it’s just a waste of money. Don’t look elsewhere because it’s not going to be better anyway. It’s even causing conflict in her family because one of her sister is a nurse and is “too educated”. They consider her snobbish.

It’s my mother, I love her, but I can’t tell her anything or it’s going to be worse for both of us.

AFAIK they did that because of GSM interference and the phenomenon mostly disappeared not because those cheap little speakers are mostly extinct, but because the technology used by cell phones changed. In fact, GSM is being phased out in most countries.

Apparently you can also try with Labubus.

One time I was working as a customer advocate in a hosting company and I had one supervisor that never wanted to concede and refund the clients. It wasn’t an issue with other supervisors, I was following policies and he was kind of an asshole.

At one point I told him he was wrong and he replied with the French expression “you will not live on love and water alone”, meaning do what I say or you will be fired and won’t have money to live.

Well, as this happened before lunch break, I went to lunch, wrote my resignation letter and sent it via email. When I got back at the office he was incredulous and asked if I was joking. Nope.

I didn’t have the monetary meams to quit and I had to go back to my previous job, that I also didn’t like, but at least my old supervisor was not such an asshole.

I had the same experience as OP when I tried Matrix a few years ago. No hate on it but it was not easy and I gave up because I already had a simple IRC setup that’s working for me and my friends.

Some IRC clients are now web based and it’s been enough to keep a few of my friends there instead of Discord. We use The Lounge. It can keep a history, display images, videos, play mp3s, and show previews of most URLs. Like, we can simply copy/paste images into a channel and they are uploaded on the server and displayed in the chat. There’s also push notifications and it’s mobile friendly.

Convos also does something like this. Apparently it can also do video chat but I’ve never got it to work.

I’ve recently been thinking about giving Matrix another try but I’m pretty sure my friends are going to stay on “modern” IRC anyway.

Especially Carl. But luckily for whales, Carl is a bastard because he shot a harpoon in the captain’s face.