• slacktoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
    652·
    1 month ago

    I know this is a joke but I genuinely get annoyed by people who seriously believe this.

      • Sunsofold@lemmings.worldEnglish
        5·
        30 days ago

        Unfortunately, people like that are an outsized problem wherever they exist. The extremes are often the most visible parts of a group, especially in the world of algorithmic relevance. If you really want to see whatever your group is achieve cultural success, those people are counterproductive.

      • slacktoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        30 days ago

        I dunno how many are there but there were a lot of them at some point. Maybe I just ignore them now, but outsiders of the clique don’t know that even we don’t take them seriously.

    • Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.world
      1·
      29 days ago

      I mean I do reserve the right to get annoyed when I’m asked for help because windows messed something up and they want it fixed in windows.

      In that cases while perhaps a little less polite and more over the top than I would phrase it the meme’s end at least is valid in my opinion.

      I also very quickly get frustrated when people fail to follow the instructions with a program.

      • slacktoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        29 days ago

        I just say I don’t use windows anymore so I can’t help you from the windows side of things.

        And not following instructions are something that needs to be undone slowly. I tend to just point out the instructions they missed and how they could have avoided the whole ordeal if they read that. Unfortunately you need to teach (or unlearn the windows habit) people that in Linux there’s no BS next next next where there’s no useful info given.

        • Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          28 days ago

          I just say I don’t use windows anymore so I can’t help you from the windows side of things.

          And yet they come back again and again :(

          I think the rest I would agree with, I’m just impatient with that.

          • slacktoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            28 days ago

            and i just repeat that and be like i cant help you, i will probably make things worse (shrugs)

            and i get that, at that point i would just say nothing cause thats better than a negative impression. just imagine a 3 yr old and be like they dont know any better.

          • Matriks404@lemmy.world
            4·
            29 days ago

            I think at least few years ago it was much better for laptops if you cared about your laptop’s battery life (on Windows). Not sure how it’s nowadays, or if it works the same way on Linux.

            I think in the end, if you need Chromium-based browser and want something that is supported by bigger corporation for some reason, you need to decide which company you hate more and use competitor’s product.

  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
    24·
    30 days ago

    This isn’t the original image and that sword doesn’t really look like it goes with that scabbard. Did someone recreate/enhance the image with AI?

    The original:

    • Sigilos@ttrpg.network
      21·
      30 days ago

      Yup. It was designed as a troll to get sword geeks to comment about the inconsistency and then call them out on it.

      • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
        2·
        29 days ago

        I see what you did there. Would that I were a sword nerd. I was just googling the original because I couldn’t remember how it went and noticed it had an entirely different dude in it.

  • wpb@lemmy.world
    20·
    30 days ago

    I’m kind of surprised at the number of people taking this post seriously.

  • Hyphlosion@lemm.eeEnglish
    19·
    29 days ago

    While y’all were beating your chests over PC operating systems, I was simply browsing lemmy on my phone.

  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
    16·
    1 month ago

    Excel is basically a bunch of CLIs.

    :'(

    Also GIMP skills, not to be mistaken with gimp skills (tho there is some overlap in users).

  • MTK@lemmy.world
    14·
    30 days ago

    Yeah? No looking it up, give me a bash script for a ping scan of a subnet with a 24 bit mask.

    • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      30 days ago

      #!/bin/bash

      ping 255.255.255.0 > checker &

      sleep 5

      kill “$!”

      grep unreachable checker || echo ‘255.255.255.0’

      ping 255.255.255.1 > checker &

      sleep 5

      kill “$!”

      grep unreachable checker || echo ‘255.255.255.1’

      ping 255.255.255.2 > checker &

      sleep 5

      kill “$!”

      grep unreachable checker || echo ‘255.255.255.2’

      …

      Did I do it coach? 😭

    • gens@programming.dev
      2·
      30 days ago

      nmap -sn x.x.0.0/24 I think, was a while. Pure coincidence how I know.

      Edit: no, it’s one less x because 16 is the middle.

    • ihawk@programming.dev
      2·
      29 days ago

      #!/bin/bash

      for i in 0…254; do ping -c 4 10.0.0.$i &; done

      wait

      Throwing that many background tasks at once is a little risky, but awesome

  • fullovellas@lemm.ee
    13·
    30 days ago

    Why is everyone so sure that W10 support ending will have its users stampede towards Linux? I think most users don’t care about support and will happily run an outdated OS. They’ll probably switch to Apple if they are concerned with that. Am I being too pessimistic?

    • Piatro@programming.devEnglish
      7·
      30 days ago

      It doesn’t help that win10 support ending doesn’t mean your device will immediately die. It means that you’ll probably face some kind of consequences at some point in the following year and years to come, which is too hand-wavey for most people.

      • fullovellas@lemm.ee
        3·
        29 days ago

        Yeah some people for sure will come to Linux, and that’s good. Maybe that PewDiePie video (as much as I don’t like it) will have some impact too.

        The biggest hump is probably video games, even I do most of my gaming on Windows. I guess Valve is making really good progress there, but I don’t think we’ll see mainstream Linux native game development any time soon.

        Also, sounds like there are some cool people at your university!

    • HellsBelle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      29 days ago

      I ran XP for years after, Win 7 until 2.5 yrs ago, and bumped my current laptop back to 10 immediately.

      Soon enough I’ll be changing it to Mint tho 'cause shit is real out there now.

      • fullovellas@lemm.ee
        2·
        29 days ago

        Heck yeah! I hear a lot of people go to Mint as their first Linux distribution. I don’t know what the experience is like now, but it’s probably good for newcomers. I think EndeavourOS is another good one. Right now I’m fully invested in NixOS, but it’s not beginner-friendly at all. I think it’s the best OS out there right now, though, so feel free to check it out!

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      29 days ago

      I think most users don’t care about support and will happily run an outdated OS.

      This is precisely what happened every time a previous edition of Windows met end of support, with most users only moving to the current version by way of buying a new name-brand PC because their old one either finally broke or, more likely, because it became so loaded down with malware that it was subsequently unusable.

      The majority of home users are non-nerds who only barely tolerate their computer at the best of times, click off error messages without reading them, and are quite likely to ignore any pleas from Microsoft to upgrade or buy a new computer as long as the prompts are dismissable and don’t go as far as fully locking them out of using their machine.

      These users will overwhelmingly have a “go to the store and buy it” mentality; they will not migrate to Linux. Rather, they will march to Best Buy or go to Amazon and buy a new PC with Windows 11 already on it, or maybe a small subset of them will work themselves up to being angry enough to switch to a Mac.