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    [–] Crow 131 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    If I want to break my computer I should be able to break my computer!

    [–] darthpenis69 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    That's right! By worshipping the almighty penguin he gives us the power to make our expensive computers into useless novelty items.

    [–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Look, if we want to spend 6 hours rebuilding our MBR/GPT, bootsector, and efi partition from scratch, using our grandfather's butterfly, we should be allowed to. Insert angry xkcd here.

    [–] darthpenis69 13 points 1 year ago

    There's always a relevant XKCD, isn't there?

    This reminds me of my favorite (slightly off topic) https://xkcd.com/705/

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Although honestly, these days we could probably do it in about 2 minutes, blindfolded, with our hands tied behind our backs. Damn, the tools have gotten better, haven't they?

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    This is a fact and a half. Ihave been using linux on and off for a headless Minecraft server. Vanilla Debian. Yesterday I decided to load up the latest Ubuntu lts, to run stable diffusion. My first end user linux install in ages. And it was a 15 minute seamless experience. From boot ISO to running a normal functioning desktop. Add another hoiur and stable diffusion was up and running. A far cry from building slackware from, from source, in the early 2000s. It truly is amazing when we consider what has been achieved.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Don’t worry, there’s still Gentoo and LFS if you’re a Linux masochist.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    That could be fun. I am just amazed at how far the ecosystem has come. Just for kicks I tried getting steam up and running and got fallout 76 running through their compatibility tools in no time i knew the steam deck pushed that along, but did not realise exactly how far it has been pushed. Itay be time to give it a run again as a daily driver.

    [–] Jeom 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    task managers creator added a function to kill the entire pc. but people reported it as a bug and someone else at Microsoft removed it

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

    Dave Plummer is a fricking legend!

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    I also use youtube

    [–] dufkm 8 points 1 year ago

    Trying to de-bloat KDE feels like a game of chicken. Whichever K-application I try to uninstall, I get a prompt asking me to confirm if I want to uninstall a plethora of important-sounding kde packages. It gambles on me not knowing which "kde-[...]" packages are vital for KDE Plasma to run, so I don't take the chance on uninstalling the email client, multimedia programs etc.

    [–] ricdeh 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I mean, yes, it might sound a little bit silly, but it is actually simply about the right to make use of the tech you own in the way you see fit, which should be a fundamental freedom AND right. It's the Windows users that look ridiculous from any sane perspective, though I try not to judge people based on their choice of OS lol

    [–] ssorbom 2 points 1 year ago

    Except if you try to use dolphin file-manager as root .... fail. I'm still annoyed at Martin Graeslin for forcing that change.

    Yes, I know it is simple to patch out. But that would mean I need to recompile dolphin after every update, and assume responsibility for keeping any metapackage that uses it up to date too. Blegh.