I got up to 125 in my car one early, dry Christmas morning. Nobody out, a clear couple miles ahead with no emergency turnout for cops to hide in, decided “let’s see where I get uncomfortable”

Turned out, right up to 110, my car felt solid, at 125 it started getting squirrelly and I decided the exercise was over. Dumb, yes, but nice to know how far you can push it in dry, ideal conditions.

my friend, I want to impart something on you. I write this with the sincere hope it changes your mind.

The average user of a computer does not want to even think about the operating system it uses.

Most people, myself included, want to work on our computer, not work on our computer (which is why I use Mint). An operating system should be the software version of a motherboard – an invisible plinth upon which all the other things you actually care about, sit. In a hardware context the things you care about are all the components plugged into the motherboard – your GPU, CPU, RAM, storage devices, and so on. In a software context, this is email, web browsing, video games, and office software, the programs the average user actually gives a shit about. Notice: Nowhere in that list does it say getting up into the systems guts via terminal or command prompt or whatever flavor of blinking cursor you prefer. Most users just want their programs to run and to never think about the underlying system, and that is okay. Not everyone needs to be technical, and shouldn’t have to be to use a computer and reap the full benefits of using one. I choose to be because I’m a fucking spaz, but that doesn’t mean someone who doesn’t want to be should instead be condemned to inferior offerings from the likes of Microsoft and Apple. If Linux were, indeed, the best – as Microsoft seems determined to prove via Windows enshittification – then it should be, ideally, just as easy for nontechnical people to pick up as Windows. If it isn’t, that’s a problem with Linux that is yet to be solved, not a problem with people.

Fortunately, my experience using Mint for the past year has been largely exactly that. It’s very close to that ideal, if not already there – I’ve had a few very minor issues, but, nothing I was unable to fix via a quick internet search.

I say all this in the hope you’ll understand, if you want Linux to take off, it needs to be accessible to the average idiot. It must be, because I don’t know if you’ve seen the news, but we are not cumulatively getting smarter.

you know, normally I’d agree with your point, but not when the offending parties are actually deliberately disruptive jackasses whenever they show up. Hexbear is insufferable. that’s not a critique of their viewpoint, that’s a critique of their behavior. If you come into the sandbox and kick sand in other kids eyes on the regular, don’t be surprised when nobody wants to play with you. It’s a lesson you, they, and most others should’ve learned before middle school, and it has nothing to do with what political ideology they follow.

Ah, the chicken and egg problem of the modern age.

fair enough, I only switched to Linux last February. I do remember it being an absolute pain in the ass in the mid 2010s, I’ve tried linux a few times over the years. But insofar as now goes, on Mint, the terminal is much the same as the command prompt or PowerShell in windows – nice for power user functionality, but generally unnecessary for the average user.

I mean, legitimately, unless you’re doing power user things, you don’t really need the terminal. And if you are doing power user things, then find me a Windows power user that has never used the command prompt or powershell.

sure looked like a concession to me, sport. also, “homophobic”? Lmfao. We were talking about animal fetishists, not gay people – further, I’m gay. Wanting to fuck your own gender is a recognized (and in some places protected) sexual orientation, wanting to fuck animals is not. It’s okay, I still forgive your stupidity. Better luck next time, champ.

I accept your concession. bye then! better luck next time!

The entire reason for furry porn is that the furries are more human than animal

really? then I have a wild concept for you, something even more human than furry porn: actual fucking human beings, you brainlet. If you were attracted to humans, you’d beat off to humans. by virtue of choosing to beat off to furry porn, you are clearly attracted to and therefor fetishizing animals. that isn’t “a weird puritanical view”, that’s simply an evident truth to anyone with two brain cells to rub together. But it’s okay, I forgive your stupidity.

so IDK what your goal here is other than yelling at people different from you.

I’m supposed to have a goal? that’s news to me. All I did was answer the question that some of us dislike being associated with animal fetishists, in response to someone else asking why a linux user wouldn’t want to be associated with them. At which point you promptly got offended on behalf of all animal fetishists and tried to spin it as being something other than what it is, and I don’t care to indulge your fantasy. If you want to delude yourself, that’s your problem, but nobody else is obligated to play along, least of all me – and if you don’t like it, then find another hobby, my guy, preferably one that isn’t disgusting. c:

feel free to keep being a salty degen though, too, it is funny to watch.

You are smb who calls people watching loli porn pedophiles.

… yes, because the definition of pedophile is “someone who is sexually attracted to children”. It doesn’t matter if it’s fictional or not, the definition of the word makes no distinction, so why would I?

also, hey, fun hypothetical while we’re at it! would you let someone who beats it to loli, babysit your children? Because I sure as fuck wouldn’t. Being fictional or not is irrelevant.

“definitely not an animal fetish”

oh so it’s all zoophiles making all the furry porn on sites like furaffinity, not furries? how strange! it would seem that furry communities have, in fact, a disproportionately large amount of zoophiles making pornography that fetishizes animals in their community. Y’all should probably do something about that! After all, it’d be kind of weird to beat it to porn featuring animals instead of porn featuring human beings if you weren’t, yanno, attracted to animals.

or, y’know, it is actually an animal fetish. But I’m sure you’re totally unbiased and thinking objectively, given your instance. lmfao

it isn’t, but I forgive your stupidity

some of us dislike being associated with animal fetishists, you see

I choose option 3, violence. PopUpOFF, AdNauseam, CanvasBlocker, and Bypass Paywalls Clean. Fuck you, fuck your ads, and fuck your tracking. Please eat shit and die. 🙃

Whenever I encounter that while trying to view something in private browsing (to avoid it tainting my recommendations), I go out of my way to use an alternative frontend just to spite them.

That’s because they aren’t pro-life, they’re pro-birth. After you’re born, unless your parents are rich, you can fuck off and die in a gutter for all they care.

“Life is a sacred gift” but housing assistance or healthcare for all is a bridge too far? Lmao.

Please, the true connoisseur already has their perfect porn downloaded locally and kept in an innocuously-named folder.

what kind of sick degenerate doesn’t watch their porn in fullscreen? Are they really beating it while going like at that tiny ass viewport? Why? You could study each individual hair on someone’s taint in full screen, so why limit yourself?

edit: wait, forgot it’s 4chan, of course they’re a sick degenerate or masochist of some stripe.

see, I don’t negotiate with terrorists, so I use PopUpOFF and Bypass Paywalls Clean. Also AdNauseam, TrackMeNot, CanvasBlocker, and SponsorBlock to round out the “fuck you, fuck your ads, and fuck your tracking” suite.

Hostile consumer practices becoming ubiquitous? Become a hostile consumer.

clown down.

legit you cannot convince me this wasn’t trolling, and the fact so many people haven’t been able to tell, for so long, is deeply funny but also somewhat depressing. I blocked them almost as soon as I encountered them. It reeks of bait turned up to 11, like an edgy 16 year old just heard about the concept of making your own pronouns and went “ok how can I make this as stupid as humanly possible to fuck with people?”.