Lost_My_Mind @ Lost_My_Mind @lemmy.world

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"What should I do?"

"What do you think you should do?"

"I think I should ask my therapist for advice on what I should do."

“You’re either with us or against us!”

The WWE used a very very similar slogan for "The Nexus" in 2011. Now, if you don't watch WWE, the important thing to know is that they had a reality game show in 2010. They put 8 rookies who had never been on WWE and paired them with 8 current WWE wrestlers to mentor them. Then every week the rookies would get eliminated 1 by 1 until the final rookie got signed by WWE.

Well, at the end of the 8 weeks, all 8 of them just showed up, and invaded. They destroyed the ring, attacked ring personel, and caused chaos. They were treated as an invading militant force that all wore armbands. Not exactly nazi style, but also, you could make the arguement it was nazi influenced in concept, but not in style.

They used phrases like "The only easy day was yesterday" and "You're either Nexus or you're against us".

And every week they were portrayed as a group of militant bullies who destroyed peoples lives and took what they wanted.

Kind of fitting that life is imitating art right now. Nazi inspired militants trying to recruit through fear tactics to go to war.

Never heard of either of these projects.

Time is the only thing that will be a minecraft killer.

40 years ago, Super mario bros was the most impressive most popular game ever. Now, today, it still exists, but would you even BEGIN to play Super Mario Wonder in the same catagory of pop culture influence as Super Mario Bros 3?

There will come a day when minecrafts users become too old to care. But it won't be because another game does it better.

Improvements don't kill a culture. Apathy kills culture. Minecraft is less of a game and more of an entry in pop culture.

I don't remember writing this....or having that account!

You're using a messaging app that was built with the express intent of being private and encrypted. You're asking why you can't have a right to privacy when you use your real name as your display handle in order to hide your phone number.

Yes, it does hide your phone number, by using your screen name as your identity.

If you then use personal details as your screen name, you can't get mad at the app for not hiding your personal details. That's not how this app works. That was never how this app worked.

Chatting with your friends and clients isn't what this app is for. This isn't facebook. There are other apps for that. This isn't that.

I love flatpak. The problem is how fractured Linux's installation system is. As the end user, I don't give a fuck where it came from and where it is installed. I just want it to work, and be available.

That's part of the problem. Everything is all over the place.

Edward Snowden.

I'm sure this is a witty remark, but I'm just out of the loop here. I know Arch is a distro, but I don't know the culture enough to "get" the joke.

And if you read what I said, YOU'RE USING IT FOR THE WRONG PURPOSES!!!

Someone should buy truth.social and make it redirect to something trump's base hates.

Or you could....you know.... NOT use your name as your screen name. That's like buying a hammer and complaining that the nail remover side isn't efficient at removing screws. Well.....yeah. You're not meant to use it that way.

Dammit.....I was going to make a similar joke! Except I was going to make it WAAAAY more creepy, weird and jntense intense by describing the feeling of kneeling bent over in front of your sun window, one hand jerkin that cock, the other hsnd wrist deep in your butthole massaging the prostate, just in time to squirt all over your own face.

All while knowing that you're doing this in the sunwindow. Knowing your neighbors can see you the whole time.

But noooooo! You had to make the joke first! Hmmph!

No. Not me......I'm mainly in the second camp. I just don't want to deal with... gestures to everything .....all this.

I mean, if you're using your name as your username, you can't really complain that Signal doesn't let you be private. That's on you.

Should it also handle RPM, pkgtool, pkgsrc, nixpkg, Portage, Homebrew, PyPI, NPM, CPAM, CLTN, CTAN, .jar, and software installed from source via ./configure; make; make install?

If those are all ways to install programs, yes.

See....this is a small example of what I mean when I say that Linux needs to be naturally intuitive to the human brain on where/how things work.

You didn't even know this was a thing, but your human brain just said "This download goes HERE!" and so it was.

In general, Linux lacks this. This is a great example of Linux doing it right, and it makes me want to try KDE now.

I just wish there was an all in one program manager.

Did you install a program with terminal? You can manage it with program manager. Did you install a flatpak? You can manage it with program manager. Did you install an AppImage? You can manage it with program manager. Did you download a snap? ......go fuck yourself.

Jokes about controlling corporations aside, installing and managing programs on Linux is a NIGHTMARE.

I want to install 7zip. I go online, find the terminal command, I install it....and terminal tells me it's already installed on the latest version.

It's not in my start menu. I don't know what linux's equivilant of "C/Windows/Program Filesx86/" would be. I have no idea where this program is, or how to launch it. So I search for it within my start menu. It finds a txt file, and thats it.

This story doesn't have a current happy ending. I still know it's installed, but I don't know how to find it, and I don't know how to run it. It also makes me wonder what other programs I have installed that I don't know about.

And yes, I conceed that this is very much a "me" problem. But linux was sold to me on the idea of "you can customize it to work however you want it to run!"

Then he showed me his windows and said "see how they wiggle? Thats not standard. I customized it to do that. You don't have to have that, but you can if you want.

I don't want jello windows. I want all my programs all in one place, and all in the start menu, listed alphabetically. I want a center where I can push a button to update them, or mod them, or uninstall them, or even open them (if for some reason the start menu wasn't working for some reason). I want it all in one centralized manager app. Call it whatever the fuck you want. But it should handle wine exe installs, flatpaks, sudo apt-get install, AppImages, and.....sigh, yes, even snaps. If you can install it, this manager should handle it, including being able to click a checkbox that says "add to start menu". You can uncheck it if for some reason you DON'T want a program on your start menu, but it should give you the option.

Yes I just ranted about Linux. I'm having Windows as an option stripped away from me, because I don't support corporate spyware. I don't support Apple either. But I don't understand a lot of Linux. I don't get the structure.

But with this post, it's easy. Drag, and drop to the place. Thing works. Human happy! That's how Linux grows. Make it idiot friendly. Or at least make a distro that is. I'm on ZorinOS, which is SUPPOSED to be beginner friendly. I can tell you it is NOT. But I've tweaked it so much over 6 months, that this is what I'm using now. Even though I'm still clueless.

There was a point in the 1980s where PC games fully allowed and encouraged you to copy your games for backup purposes. They even had some companies who gave detailed steps explaining how.

What ended up happening is you owned a PC, your buddy owned a PC. You made two backups of the game. One for you, and one for your buddy. Now between the two of you, you buy half the games, because you buy one, your buddy buys a different one. And now you both have two games.

Now multiply that by however many friends you knew who owned PCs. You might buy 1 game, but own 15 games.

By the 90s, PC game makers did a 180, and were now trying to prevent archiving of their games, but it was too late. Laws had been written to allow for backup of personal data. Yes, you WERE breaking the law by giving your buddy the backup, but they couldn't prevent you from creating the backup.

And in a pre-internet world, how would they ever even know you made a backup?

Emulators ARE 100% legal.

It's the roms that are illegal.

Than the intern? I mean...yeah. probably.

......that Linus and Bill kiss? Will they or won't they?