I do a lot of work setting up computers and laptops for people, mostly getting software they need installed and setting up ad blocking so I don’t need to come back later on and clean up a million viruses.

Lately, I’ve been offering a discount to people that allow me to get rid of windows entirely and install Linux, with the option to reinstall Windows for free later. I’ve had several people take me up on the offer, especially once I explain what Recall is to them. Only 1 has had me switch it back, and they needed to use some super niche piece of software that I just absolutely could not get running with wine no matter what I installed, and I suspect that it has something built in to make it not run on non-windows systems.

Basically, just explaining Microsoft’s security nightmare in a way that your average person can understand (and I mean a real average person, not the average person as people on Linux forums see them) has gotten over 2 dozen clients to switch over to Linux with minimal issues.

Also windows borking like 5 peoples SSDs certainly helped!

I’m always surprised that Deezer is still around. Who on earth is still using it?

Also, fuck iHeartRadio. Not for their royalties, but for buying up tons of local stations and stripping them of anything that made them even remotely worth listening to. Fuckers bought the only station in town that played any amounts of metal and turned it into yet another top 10s station

So uh… How much you want for it?

I wouldn’t be surprised if we’ve already passed that for new content. I can’t search for anything nowadays without it being clearly AI written garbage, especially for guides for video games.

At least when someone on GameFAQs made some shit up it was a human being looking to troll you, not some statistical bullshit machine trying to generate page views for ad revenue

Really wish I could just use jQuery selectors in vanilla js. I don’t need the rest, I just want $ selectors

10/10 for their marketing team honestly

An AWS employee, I see

Yup, Marxist-Leninist.

Unfortunately it’s also home to the largest OSS communities

It’d be a damn shame if the hacker were to sell the phone numbers to mortgage brokers. Those assholes will never stop calling and emailing you, and they have a million phone numbers so they’re nearly impossible to block

I’ve hosted IRC servers on a windows XP laptop that were more resilient and reliable than slack lmao

Easy - IRC worked way better and was way less miserable

I’d much rather have to use windows than shittier android ChromeOS

I mean, it doesn’t seem like an improvement jumping from Microsoft to Amazon. Still a massive POS company

Man, I just got my personal website running on GitHub pages last week, and I’m too broke to host it elsewhere and too lazy to host it myself

Unfortunately Taler still needs a lot of maturing, but having a distributed payment system not running on that horrendous waste of time and energy that is the block chain is promising!

I’d love Valve to spend their extra billions on opening a payment processor. Fuck the big 3.

And the uBlock Origin is mandatory. The ads on those sites are insane

Just recently converted myself! It’s soooo much better than it used to be. I used Ubuntu as a daily driver several years ago, but I absolutely had to dual boot windows because getting any games running was a massive pain in the ass. Now I just slap a proton build on it and go on my merry way!

I’ve only had issues with some software that needs to attach itself to steam games, such as Archipelago, but I’ve been able to figure them all out so far!

Fuck, guess I’m switching back to windows!