• P1d40n3 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 days ago

    In a land where all OS manufacturers use AI, Linux will become the common denominator. Eventually! Revolutionary optimism comrades!

    • alexei_1917 [mirror/your pronouns]@hexbear.net
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      If Windows keeps making itself more and more impossible to use, eventually we’ll have the Year of the Linux Desktop! Microslop will achieve in a few years what we couldn’t in over 30!

      Eventually, it won’t even be that Linux is actually good now, it’ll just be that every other option is unbelievably worse!

      I’ve had this waking nightmare a few times, a world where people are still afraid of Linux even as Windows becomes utterly unusable, a world where people spend most of their time using Windows wrestling with its terminal and still refuse to use Linux because “you’ve gotta use the terminal way too much”, which I think is unfortunately way more likely than “well, obviously everyone uses Linux! Why would you use Windows? Unless you want to spend all day fighting with your computer instead of being productive or having fun.”

    • ReadFanon [any, any]@hexbear.net
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      Turns out that vibecoding is a bad idea when the vibes are off.

      Worse yet, when the very thing that you rely upon to tell you when the vibes are off isn’t capable of telling you because its own self-assessment is based on the very vibes that you know are off, you’re left with the awareness that something is wrong while also getting a readout that assures you that nothing is wrong.

      Image of a passage from a book that reads: "It's as if you have two fuel gauges on your car," the other man said, "and one says your tank is full and the other registers empty. They can't both be right. They conflict. But it's--in your case--not one functioning and one malfunctioning; it's . . . Here's what I mean. Both gauges study exactly the same amount of fuel: the same fuel, the same tank. Actually they test the same thing. You as the driven have only an indirect relationship to the fuel tank, via the gauge on, in your case, gauges. In fact, the tank could fall offentirely and you wouldn't know until some dashboard indicator told you or finally theengine stopped. There should never be two gauges reporting conflicting information, because as soon as that happens you have no knowledge of the condition being reported on at all. This is not the same as a gauge and a backup gauge, where the backup onecuts in when the regular one fouls up."

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    it’s amazing how much has started going wrong on my work laptop in the last few months. I don’t know how much is bad vibes coding and how much is aging hardware. feels like the os going to shit, though

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        This is obviously wrong, Windows 11 is objectively garbage (put it in the Recycle Bin! Lol), but, like, XP actually was the last good Windows. 7 was usable, but after that it just went downhill fast.

        I haven’t actually enjoyed using Windows since XP. I no longer use Windows and all I felt when I realised I hadn’t needed it in months was relief and “why did I put up with that for so long when there was a free and open source alternative?” Haven’t had as many stress headaches since that day, funny, that.

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    I caved and tried upgrading to 11 but my c drive is full and the upgrade failed. Must be a sign.

    In the process I also noticed there’s an extended updates feature for windows 10 that you can sign up for. Provides security updates until October. After that it’s linux time.

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    People claim that Linux has no advertising budget and yet it seems like nobody takes into account the massive contributions that Microslop makes in advertising Linux such as this one.

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    I’m glad I’ve been lazy about pushing updates at work. Im just going to continue not doing it. Thanks Microsoft for making less work for me, and also breaking things so I can blame you when it breaks.