Haiku OS! Backwards compatible with an OS that was abandoned in the early 2000s and was never popular in the first place! Zero ports! Use it for web browsing or something idduno!

Ah, a shaggy dog story, those are the best.

I’ve minimized my short form video consumption and reliance on Youtube for entertainment for this very reason. Podcasts are great to listen to when I’m doing chores

Steam is a nice service but good god the glazing needs to stop. On Steam you do not own your games.

Replace the steamdeck with a SBC handheld and this is me.

Linux will never become relevant on the desktop until its has better spyware support.

“But I am more than happy to root around the registry and make changes to obscure variables that will be reverted in the next update”

“No, you don’t understand, Linux is not desktop ready, I know that because I installed Fedora back in 2008 and it was kinda wonky.”

You don’t even have to install it to try it out, just boot from USB into live mode.

Self-Hosting? What happened to saving things onto a hard drive?

I endure Windows on my work computer because it’s not my computer. I also don’t like when people complain about solvable problems and contribute time and money to a company that should have been forcibly liquidated in the late 90’s.

tl:dr use Linux or I will crawl into your bedroom and suck your toes while you’re asleep.

any practice that restricts my personal freedom in any way is bad

Yes? I don’t want to live in a world where giant companies decide what I can and cannot see. And big companies are bad, they act as pseudo governments that aren’t accountable to anyone, we used to break them apart before they started buying up politicians and political power.

Madness? Buying a new computer every 2 years because the OS vendor is on cahoots with hardware manufacturers is madness. This is rational usage of resources for your benefit.

I still remember the bad old days of stale repositories and compiling from scratch. Never again.

The other day I wrote I like snaps and shot more rope than Spiderman.

I actually like snaps ducks

Why? So that we can spend the next week recompiling the kernel? (This is a joke, please don’t spam my inbox with distro holy wars)

Watching people realize this toejam eating weirdo was right about everything makes my day everytime.

Now only if there were a nice alternative to Android. I might get a Fairphone with Ubuntu touch.

Hwaet is witþ þe þorn?