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  • Sort of. If you're not port forwarding, you can only connect to those who are, if you are port forwarding you can connect to everyone who is and everyone who isn't (that is currently connected ofc) so you get a bigger pool to search through.

  • Yeah it's so bad. Like, as in "he's a terrible person" but also the lyrics are just flat out bad. I know he's rich as a one hit wonder and all, but I think one of the wildest things is did none of his team say "Yo Don, this song fucking sucks" really?

  • Don Mclean wrote a song about his ex wife who divorced him for abusing her, it's called The Meanest Girl and the lyrics are laughably childish. I can't hear American Pie the same after this tbh, and he deserves to have this song stain his reputation just because I had to hear it (and y'know that whole abuse thing) so I post it every time he's mentioned.

  • Yes but you don't have to learn anything, except you still have to learn what GUI tools they even are and how to use those just like you'd have to learn how to run MAS. Since idfk what he's talking about but I can open up powershell and paste

     
        
    irm https://get.activated.win/ | iex
    
    
      

    And click 1 and hit enter, it looks like it'd actually be easier for me to use powershell for whatever the hell he's talking about too. Hell I probably already have GoodUSB scripts to do it all anyway.

  • Mostly you can't, glad that one runs!

    The issue though usually (just for clarity's sake) isn't that the games don't run, usually they'd still run fine, but the DRM is often kernel level and nobody on linux wants that, or the DRM just doesn't work on linux (fault of DRM company), or everything works but they'll still ban your acct for playing on linux because fuck you (looking at you Destiny).

    The things that don't run now aren't usually linux's fault, it's the company/DRM every time.

  • Tbf my mom doesn't know how to install Linux, true, but she also doesn't know how to install Windows. If you give her a bare metal laptop with no OS I would have to install either for her. If linux came preinstalled (say she buys a Framework and chooses Fedora), and she wanted to switch to windows after not liking it, I'd have to install it for her too.

    She also doesn't know that she can "search" inside her emails to find something, we're not exactly talking about people who know how to do anything on a computer, so what, do you think I don't have to "provide IT support" no matter what OS she runs? At least with linux I'll be able to help instead of trying to figure out windows fuckery after not using it myself for years now.

    As to the iPhone users, yeah they make fun of me too because they're stupid, get good and turn it back on them like I do, "of course I don't use iSpyOS, I use GrapheneOS like a smart person, get good scrub." Those capitulating to the peer pressure are no different than them buying into the marketing, that's part of their marketing.

    The Church of Linux can't save everyone's digital souls, but that doesn't mean we have to stop telling people the good word from the books of Torvalds and Stallman.

  • Or just get good, iPhone users make fun of me all the time for using a non-iPhone, but I just flip it back on them,

    "What? Of course I don't have an iPhone, I don't like spyware. I use GrapheneOS. Sure 'your UI is so good that babies and the elderly can use it' well get good scrub."

  • Also easier to work on than most guns.

    Also just a note:

    high use among right-wing folk,

    Is because

    it's the gun everyone has...they work. Customizations and spare parts are cheap, effective, and widely available. So are good magazines, which are typically a shockingly difficult part to design well and the place where many otherwise decent guns fail. .223 Remington has one of most varied supplies of ammunition on the market, ...also easier to work on than most guns.

    Of course lol. This "the right wingers like it so boo" mentality some (not you ykwim) have is bonkos, they also like water y'know?

  • You joke, but carry and purchase laws were literally created to stop black people from carrying or purchasing X locally "restricted" item, but over time some areas stopped using them that way and got more permissive about it, some areas started making it harder for everyone so at least it isn't racist but fuck everybody, and some areas still use what laws are in place for their intended purpose (see: North Carolina recently took away their pistol purchase permit requirement, but before they did 60% of denials were to african americans.)

    It very well might be no guns for gays/trans, it would just be worded differently as "concealed carry permits" or "purchase permits" that "require review" by the local authorities including your social media as many advocate for or medical history (that one may be harder because HIPPA but would be called "mental health checks" officially, requiring you to sign a waiver when applying for the permit.) Or by using all that data that people who "have nothing to hide" are freely giving to companies that sell it to the NSA, "sorry our database says you visited the local gay bar 'buttchuggers' a whole bunch, we don't think you're morally fit to own firearms and have denied your request." It could happen. Will it? Who knows, but they did it to a different group before and could very well do it again.

    On the plus side they can't fuck with their own base too hard, so we probably don't have to worry about some of that any time soon like the mental health checks. Anything already in place like CCW permits however can safely be abused, and blamed on the democrats if anyone in their base even cares (as they won't be further affected by abuse of the existing laws than they already are.)

  • They're joking, referencing the propensity of companies of late to try and sanitize the internet so people have taken to censoring memes and comments like that, even with words that aren't curse words (thus the existence of words like "unalive" and "sewerslide" to reference suicide.) So much so it has creeped in here from their users and stolen memes as well now.

    Though "American?" Iirc TikTok started this mess, and American companies are probably hopping on board now but I don't use anything but lemmy and masto so who knows.