I just pretend I can’t speak English.

You are vastly overestimating the technical ability of the average computer user. I don’t even mean that in an elitist/disparaging way, they just don’t care about this stuff because they don’t need to.

I feel like the only person who never got viruses from Limewire. Just don’t run the file called “slipknot_wait_and_bleed.mp3.exe”, it’s not rocket science.

This is how I see vinyl as well. I don’t buy them for the sound quality, I have a huge library of uncompressed digital files for that. I buy them because they’re a nice tactile thing to own that helps support the artists I love. 9 times out of 10 I’m not spinning vinyl when I listen to music, but I will if I want to create a particular experience/vibe in that moment.

As a cyber security engineer, it’s because it hates you. It also hates me. The printer knows nothing but rage.

Yup. It’s the exact same reason that the KKK has ridiculous titles for its leaders like “grand wizard” and “grand dragon”. It’s an old playbook, but why fix it if it ain’t broke?

Oh my god they’re so aggressively lib, I want to throw up.

I’m so sick of seeing “Trump has just signed this insane executive order but don’t worry, what he’s doing is actually ✨illegal!✨”

Yeah, well who the fuck is stopping him them? Because from where I’m standing, it seems like no one is.

Fascism has well and truly arrived in the US and American libs still have this insane idea that it can be stopped by the rule of law and the checks and balances they love so much. Well they don’t fucking work when your opponent ignores them and every bureaucrat in government allows him to do so. When the history books are written, let these people be regarded in the same way as those who thought they could work with or appease Hitler.

Not even surprised. DOGE had the US government fire a bunch of cyber security staff and they’re also no longer monitoring for cyber threats coming out of Russia. I have no doubt at all that we will find out at some point that Russia has had virtually unrestricted access to US government networks. This is all very intentional.

Yeah, the modern internet is sadly pretty cooked. We are well and truly past the golden age.

Try Ifixit next time. If it runs on electricity, there’s a good chance that they have taken it apart and documented how to repair it.

I hate that Discord is being used as a forum replacement because it’s fucking terrible for it. There’s pretty much no way to collate and archive information in a way that is actually useful.

Lemmy is a lot of different Reddits under a lot of different managements.

This is why I’m making more effort to move to Lemmy permanently. The thing is that they’re also refusing to say what exactly will get you banned, and that they can and probably will change the criteria pretty much when they feel like it. This is the kind of shit abusive partners do. They cannot expect anyone to be able to follow a rule that they refuse to define. Personally, I don’t think that’s an accident. It feels more like they’re laying the groundwork to be able to censor whoever they like, most likely at the behest of the current US administration.

The cars I can generally excuse. Most people bought them before the true craziness of Musk was known and I’m not going to expect anyone to buy a new car because of the politics of the CEO, that’s crazy.

Cybertrucks though? Nah, fuck you if you bought of of those low poly-ass shitboxes. You knew what he was when you placed that order.

Liquidate Musk, in a blender, in Minecraft.

Money doesn’t buy taste, as you learn pretty quick after seeing enough rich people houses.

There is nothing wrong with it other than it makes me feel ancient and I don’t like it.

This is gonna be an unpopular opinion here but telling people who have used Windows their entire lives to just switch to Linux as if it’s that easy is entirely unhelpful and makes the Linux community look elitist and out of touch.

Also, who the fuck is going to buy a car that has a much higher than average chance of being vandalised or burnt out?