I wouldn’t say that viral videos are memes, they are viral videos. But their content can become a meme, which could be a quote from it or some kind of content shown in a different context.

E.g. the Area51 Naruto runner is a meme, but the report where he appears is not.

Question: Isn’t what you describe in the first paragraph the very definition of a meme?

I push my fingers into your…

What do you mean, not safe? I always thought “do not use in your ear canal” was just a joke they wrote on the packaging. Like, actually good one, what else are you gonna do with it?

Well, basically everywhere else except Russia, I suppose?

Seems like a cheap excuse, the law doesn’t say specifically that.

But, of course, manufacturers like to lock down their devices as much as possible. And such laws play into their hands.

You are optimistic. When the US supremacy and economy collapses, it will take the rest of the world with it, I’m afraid. At least The West™, but every country will feel it.

Since when is this the case?

I thought it was one of the original peepys at first.

Kannste machen, aber zumindest hat Google Trump noch keinen Goldbarren geschenkt, meines Wissens nach.

Es gibt noch weitere Alternativen: Gebrauchtes Gerät mit LineageOS und F-Droid oder z.B. ein Fairphone mit /e/OS.

Username totally checks out.

Sorry, good write-up, but what’s wrong with your S-key?

Hey, just out of curiosity, which Debian version did you install and when?

The Trixie release shouldn’t mess with your sources at all, just because 12 is being moved to oldstable, you shouldn’t have to do anything.

You wrote that you run a headless server, so when you command an update, it lists you all obsolete packages with a request to run autoremove. Did you miss that or update some other way?

Worst case, if you got a new kernel (200-300M) every week and never removed old ones, you’d end up with 10G obsolete data a year. That’s about what I usually see with old Windows update files in the disk cleanup utility.

Not great either, but at least in the default configuration, Ext4 leaves a 5% reserved space, so that files can’t fill up your partition and make it unresponsive. Windows doesn’t do that…

You’re pointing to my colleague?

What’s this from?

Maybe, I can’t really comment on what she did or “deserves” for it. I just know she made some transphobic remarks in the past, which is messed up. But there’s still a difference between someone with a twisted world view and Trump/Putin who actually incarcerate and sponsor torture of people.

However, the discussion was on whether something is “harmful” or not and you may actually argue that her BS doesn’t physically “harm” anyone either, if you try to make that point.

Not trying to defend her at all, but I seriously doubt those are actual examples of the things being said and even if, all of this would cause a regular person psychological distress (or “harm”, even if not physical).

I don’t know how Bulesky’s TOS are worded exactly, but it feels a bit like that whole “Guns don’t kill people, I kill people. With guns.” motif.

Well, the recovery argument really only checks out when there are recent restore points made and a recovery partition is present, which is not the case in every or even most Windows configs, otherwise you’re SOL anyway.

Often times even those failed on me when Windows had shat itself and told me it can’t fix the issue and needs a restore medium, on which I then manually had to /fixboot and /rebuildBCD from the console. That’s not any more feasible for the average user.

I think installing Linux is definitely a hurdle, but you could usually find someone or a shop to do it for you or help you.

Otherwise, with all the new random prompts and welcome screens in Windows, I think any Linux system will stay out of the users way much more and let them work on their stuff without distractions.

Sure, Linux troubleshooting is bad for the average user, but you can also get help with that and Windows forums are bloated with trash replies and not any better quality-wise (same with Android nowadays, unfortunately).

Real talk now, I know there are use-cases where Windows is mandatory unfortunately. Video editing and civil engineering/architecture are two good examples.

Maybe switching to Mac is an option, but whether that’s any better is debatable.

However, most people I know that suffer from these issues are in neither field of work and aren’t necessarily even hardcore gamers. Yet they don’t even want to try anything else.

I’ve also had some difficulties fully switching to Linux a decade ago, but nothing that couldn’t be solved or I couldn’t abstain from (e.g. modern games, back in the day).

All it takes is the will not to be bullied by a corporation at home every day.

Oh, now I understand. They were just missing a comma between “off” and “lemmy”, super sweet! :)