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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've been using both for a good while by now, Linux is good but damn I know that's a sacrilege but I still like Windows.

Granted, I heavily customized my Windows install, made all the adjustments I wanted and threw out most of the nagging garbage and my locked down work computer is definitely worse.

Windows just... works most of the time, and it's fluent and does what I want.

At the end of the day, most of the direct user interaction with an OS "directly" is task bar, start menu and file manager. And for all of these things, there's a lot that annoys me on Linux. In Windows, I'm very happy.

Just to give one example. I like the individual entries in the taskbar to fill the entire width dynamically. If there's one entry, it fills the entire taskbar, you get what I mean. On Windows, that's a registry tweak. On KDE, that's basically impossible. Like, I'm sure somewhere in the source code for the panel there's a way to rewrite that, but frankly, that's close enough to "basically impossible" for me.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

The meltdowns are something else.

On one smaller sub that participated in the blackout people were seriously accusing mods of rigging the votes to stay closed for longer. Of course nothing actually indicated that, and neither did they present any evidence, they just couldn't stand not getting their content.

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

We've seen this spiel a few times, companies want to move to the cloud and then don't because it's ridiculous and plenty of things are just fine on local machines.

I don't lend this any more credence than all the "we'll all be gaming in the cloud in 10 years" crap when stuff like GeForce Now was popping up.

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

Why wait until it becomes a problem? The_Donald literally started as a joke brought over from 4chan. It grew and over time it basically went from "too small to do something about it" to "too big to do something about it" (to Reddit admins at least). Why even give these people a platform? We don't have any reason to give them space to grow.

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

If you step in shit everywhere you go, look under your own shoe.

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

If you're getting downvoted everywhere you go, maybe your opinions are just shit.

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

Do you really think "woke" is synonymous with "gay" and "Jew"?

No. Are you a farmer with too much extra inventory or what? That seems like the best explanation for your army of shitty strawmen.

No, I don't think that and I didn't say that. I mention these as examples of other intolerant groups.

I don't think your... questionable beliefs should impact my experience on kbin.social. I find myself wondering what other... unusual beliefs you harbour.

Ah yes, not providing a platform for hategroups is a "questionable belief" to you. Terribly sorry about that.

If banning a group called "antiwoke" is "impacting your experience" then feel free to be salty about it. You don't have a place here then and I'm more than fine with that. Go be a shithead on the internet somewhere else, you're not welcome.

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

I have a pair of Porta Pros that I take everywhere nowadays, it's actually kinda nice to hear your surroundings and I really don't listen at high enough volumes that others can even notice. They are great!

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

Yes, in the same way I "don't like" magazines called "antigay" and "antijews".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Again, terribly sorry that I'm not going to be naive about it.

People joke about leopards eating people's faces for a reason. We don't have to act like these leopards eating people's faces are worth letting in because this time they totally won't eat people's faces even if they have done that every single time they have been let in anywhere else.

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

Oh we're replacing a shitty strawman with another one now?

Yes, congrats. If I repeatedly say they shouldn't be given a platform that's pretty much the same as me saying we should ban them.

That's really not the point. The point is that you are trying to claim that I want to ban anyone who disagrees with me when what I am saying, also quite explicitly, that we should ban people who are intolerant. Those are certainly two circles in a Venn diagram with some overlap, but two seperate circles nevertheless, and I'm only advocating for one of them. (The intolerant one, just to be very clear.)

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