The problem is that M$ likes to ensure that their stuff saved as docx won’t render properly when opened on libreoffice. Fonts, headers, position of tables, many things can look out of place because fuck you for not using MSOffice

Bandwidth isn’t free, though I guess the amount of bypassers register as a cost in dimes in that regard

The irony is that said systems that successfully block access are how many websites worked as far back as the late 90s, with “member exclusive” areas.

Gurl, he’s hitting on you!

I’d actually pick my dad, having studied law he’d have a hell of a fun time thinking about how to circumvent the equivalent of a wish’s EULA.

You’re still a long way from being a real Trombone Champ

Do I get the power without possible strings attached? I’d totally be down to be a genie like in Aladdin, so long as I could choose my first “customer”. Having to live inside a itty bitty lamp would definitely suck, tho.

Roasted peanuts goes good with most salty foods. Crush and sprinkle it on top of some beef or chicken for a nice, tasty crunch.

Very old comment, but my 2 cents: sorting by extension instead of MIME type. I don’t want my jpegs, gifs and pngs mixed up when I tell PCMan, Thunar or Dolphin to sort by type. It annoys me to no end that something Windows has had since at least 95, most distros’ default file explorers don’t.

Yeah, lovely conversations about how jews control the world, how non-whites are destroying the world, how “certain people” being genocided wouldn’t be bad

I’m not 'murican, so 🤷‍♂️

Could be the current vice president, whoever it is

“Powerful graphics cards? Psshhh, who’ll ever need those?” - Intel, from 1990 to 2015

Fuck Plasma!

Message courtesy of the XFCE gang

To all the people pointing the many inconsistencies of Linux/specific distros, I recommend The Unix Haters’ Handbook

I wonder why glass back is so popular (…) How is glass back not a design flaw?

Because Steve Jobs. Seriously, many stupid “but it’s pretty”, as well as several anti consumer decisions (hard to repair, glued parts), can be traced back to Apple and Steve Jobs. Couple that with every fucking manufacturer wanting to emulate Apple, especially Chinese ones, and everything in the smartphone world makes sense.

Your loss, buddy. Olives taste great and go great on several foods, like pizza, rice, spaghetti, tacos, salad.

Weirdly enough, I didn’t like them back when I was small, like up to 10yo or so.

No selection, copy or paste working yet, but looking good thus far

Sticky notes, but they accept markdown and mermaid syntax

Option 2: a Windows XP Paint clone. Seriously, all the paint clones you can get on Linux, like gnome paint, just don’t work properly

I mean, “tech wise” is incredibly generic. Electricity itself is pretty much essential and something I’d have a hard time living without.

As for more recent tech, the internet. I can “live without”, but a lot of stuff I do for entertainment and self education needs it. There’s also the discovery, finding out about new stuff that interests me, that’d be much harder without the internet.

Even if you removed several sites, if the 'net was something like it was back in 1994, there’d still be enough content and people around to get good amounts of information back and forth, plus file sharing.

As for time saved, just think about trying to discover, not even acquire or read, just know about, some 2 or 3 books in an “obscure” subject, something that your circle of contacts is unlikely to know anything about, that local book stores probably won’t have. Same applies for games or media that said circle of contacts are unlikely to know about. Basically, you have to take the dive and explore and, depending on what you were looking for, you’d come empty handed, or have to contend with a “better than nothing” alternative.