Well that was quite the unexpected little treat! Wasn’t clear where it was going at first but was well worth just riding along with the feel of the setting until it all came together in the end. Great short story! Thanks for sharing it!

If that’s available in print I need to pick it up. If it’s not I need to call a local copy shop.

No, if you knock it over it holds nothing you useless prat! God dammit this is why we can never have anyone over! Ten years. Ten. Years! I kept thinking, maybe this is the time you’d be able to- to- fuck it. It’s not worth it anymore. I’m done. I think I’ve been over this for a while now, but it’s real now. You can be here, with your cans and your beans and your fucking shit mess everywhere! Without me.

No, it’s fine. It’s fine! You just go do exactly what you want. What you’ve always done. Just without me now. It’ll be even easier for you. Goodbye.

If you have some solution that doesn’t involve time travel, the world is all ears. As always, the only options available are to do as much as you can where you can, and realize you’re up against a tide of people who aren’t going to put in that kind of effort.

If you really think the the situation is that dire and that the solution is so obvious and easy that it justifies the kind of snark you’re displaying, it reflects more on you than anyone else that you’re here shitposting instead of taking the direct action you think is so critical and obvious. If you’ve got the answer, go and prove it.

At least 1 and 2 are, I can’t speak for any past those as I haven’t played them.

Plus, in the remaster of 1 they have a setting so people can play duplicates of the characters, so no more “arguments” about who gets to be spiderman thief.

Sure, and that’s just as valid points against them as well. For my part at least, none of this is meant as some sort of death knell, or direct damning evidence that some software is some sort of terrible piece of garbage.

I just refuse to believe that someone would literally be entirely incapable of comprehending any of the reasons people dislike systems to only be capable of engaging with the criticisms in bad faith.

That only has impact on the security risk surface exposed for your own install and for troubleshooting on your own machine. The maintainers and other coders on the project still have far more space, complexity, and features to cover.

It’s not a death knell by any means, but still a valid cause for concern.

As someone who designs systems as part of his job, “it violates Linux philosophy” is a perfectly valid reason to hate something as critical and low level as an init system.

I think “hate” is a strong word, mind, but following consistent design patterns and constraining scope matters. The problem is that it’s one of those things that doesn’t tend to matter until shit hits the fan.

The scope creep exponentially raises the efforts needed to properly test, troubleshoot, secure, and just generally work with the project code. The unique design creates rough edges for integrations with other pre-existing systems and tools, while also raising the effort needed for troubleshooting when something goes wrong.

There’s also the whole “Chesterton’s Fence” aspect to a lot of it, where the project runner’s overall attitude has been dismissive of existing conventions and separation of functionality.

There’s a lot of perfectly valid reasons to dislike it. That said, I think full on hate is extreme for an aspect of the overall Linux “system” and “user experience” that most users never interact with. Like having an opinion on the order your BIOS handles things in.

Controlled opposition anyone? Reminds me of some of the anecdotal shit that happened around Occupy Wall Street

I, uh, definitely would have worded this with more care, but if anyone believes their side is somehow immune to corporate interests funding or manipulating drama and outrage? It’s dumb to think that the rich sociopaths would uniquely mess with one political side while leaving another completely alone.

Nothing to do with any side being right, wrong, better, or worse. Everything to do with rish assholes being rich assholes.

For #1, it absolutely is possible, but the technique has changed over time. You pretty much have to look it up every time, and check older methods until you find the way that works with the version you’re using. Last I checked you needed to disconnect any NICs, then hit one of the F keys during setup to get to the command prompt, then put in a specific command, then reboot into setup again. Been years though.

For #2, Command Prompt doesn’t because it’s still the same shit it was from the 90s. They have an open source program called Windows Terminal that supports tabs, multiple environments, most of the nice stuff you’d expect from a good Linux Terminal, but they don’t include it by default so you have to install it yourself.

#3 and #4 are pure bullshit. 1 and 2 are as well, but at least they have reasonably reachable workarounds.

How can purity go above 100? Is this concentrated cocaine? Supposed to water it down first or something?

For what it’s worth, they’re referred to as directories by command prompt and PowerShell (effectively the new Windows command prompt) tools as Windows as well.

Nice fuckin model!

You’re telling me the Spider Sense doesn’t go off for pee getting on yourself?

Man, your videos never miss, do they?

Not being able to instantly fit a voice, appearance, or avatar into the binary cis genders makes me intensely uncomfortable and unable to enjoy online video content, and I’ve never stopped to question why or given a creator a chance to grow on me because I can’t handle being made the slightest but uncomfortable during my brainless binge watching habits!

But none of that matters if the content is good, that’s what I always say. If the content is good it doesn’t matter who delivers it, that’s what I always say. Unless they make me in any way the slightest bit uncomfortable, that’s what I always say. There’s never any practical reason to seek out creators from unique or minority perspectives because if they’re good they’ll just rise to the top naturally, that’s what I always say. Individual uncomfortableness with the unfamiliar could never effect outcomes on a large scale, that’s what I always say.

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Yeah, seconding the other person. At least give them 11 LTSC. And instead of worrying about activation, just use MASgrave to activate it and they’re golden. It’s a real activation as far as MS is concerned.

I’d have to guess it’s something weird with how they’re using web fonts or something. Looks fine on my end.

I mean, we can think both are inaccurate and that it also doesn’t really matter, right?

I wonder how much of this is really hacking, and how much of this is just properly identifying the location of open cameras. There are a terrifying amount of cameras just open to the whole internet.