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  • The thing is a little simplistic: Linux is perfect if your job is coding, working with enterprise web UIs, sending mail and/or using Office Suites, which to be fair is like 90% of office jobs.
    For the other 10% use cases, Linux isn't just ready yet because, for example, the company that produces analytic equipment doesn't even bother to acknowledge the existence of Linux for their data log software. And then there is Adobe. Adobe are just a bunch of cunts.

  • One thing doesn't exclude the other

  • I remember the first time I tried Krita and clearly thinking "Wait, is this a community project?!?"

  • Who is the employer? My mum?

  • In Italy we have the chinotto, which is a fruit from the Citrus family that is too bitter to be eaten by itself, but we make a soft drink out of it that is simply perfect.

  • Shitty people are like gases: they occupy all the available spaces.

  • The moral of the story is that boobs can stop wars

  • I spent the last 10 minutes of my workweek on this site.
    Thank you.

  • Big tech companies run out of new users to exploit and they end up collapsing (since in a capitalistic model you either grow or you're doomed). With these companies going down, all the internet infrastructure goes down, unable to fight simultaneously the power shortages due to unavailable resources and the continuous strike of workers who cannot afford a livable wage anymore and civil wars in a world where natural disasters are more and more frequent.
    With the internet down the society as we know collapses.
    Now social media is people telling stories around a campfire.
    Those who say dumb mean shit get slapped hard in the face.
    Humankind's healing process begins.

  • It usually goes "Cool! That band is gonna... Oh it was last week... Fuck..."

  • A romantic comedy starring Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts. πŸ€” πŸ€”
    And probably Margot Robbie because she has to be in every cast of every movie ever

  • It would be less funny if there were no downvotes

  • Everything: from 8am to 5pm I'm a steaming ball of anger that struggles to act polite while planning small acts of office terrorism.

    but the thing that bugs me the most is the general absence of people that "just do their job".
    There are a lot of people that do fuck-all and a lot of people that work their lives off and both of those groups expect you to walk at their pace. I'd like to meet more people in the middle.

  • Edit - I corrected a few errors here and there: If you are willing to read until the end, you deserve proper structure and grammar

    Director's Cut:
    I was dating this girl back in university. It was the sort of relationship that, looking backwards now, we were more friends than partners. But I liked her, she liked me and we both wanted the best for one another. And at the time we were invested in making the relationship last, more by stubbornness than by commitment.
    Back then she had this friend that was really close to her, they had a nice chemistry going on and those sort of things. I did not worry about it since he was also in a relationship and jealousy has never been my thing.
    But I liked to joke about it, saying to my girlfriend things like "if we ever leave each other, I know you'll end up with him" or "you two will marry for sure one day".
    And she always got mad when I did that.
    But a weird kind of mad. A "whoa dude, take it down a few pegs" kind of mad. A "what are you not telling yourself?" kind of mad.
    And she always stressed how I could be not wrong, how my whole judgment system was wrong and my whole brain was WRONG.
    This was taken to an extent where she started to get mad at me every time she got out with him.
    One night we were in a fight and she brought this thing up just to say again how I was wrong. That time I just calmly said "at this point I know I'm not".
    She left without saying a word more, shoes still untied and crying in frustration.
    She called me the next day saying that she was sorry, she apologized for how she overreacted and such, just like she apologized a million times before that.
    I was numb at this point, I had rough months with my studies, quite a few familiar issues and I didn't want to be in a relationship anymore. So I just told her "I feel like taking a break" and hung up.
    Seconds later I messaged him "Dude, this is your chance". He didn't answer.
    He broke up with his girl the week later and the month after that they were together publicly. Rumors say that he even broke his engagement to do so, but I'm not 100% sure it's true.
    She never really talked to me again because she is a really prideful person and I get really snarky when I'm right.

    Fast forward a whole year, one day I'm back home from work, I switch on my laptop and start scrolling through social media: I see a picture of them.
    He's in a really elegant tuxedo, she's in a white dress, people throwing grains of rice at them. Everyone's happy.
    I open the fridge and crack a beer, thinking "feels good to be right". I try to smile but I can't.