Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
I stumbled upon this poster while trying to figure out what linux distro normal people are using these days, and there’s something about their particular brand of confident incorrectness. please enjoy the posts of someone who’s either a relatively finely tuned impolite disagreement bot or a human very carefully emulating one:
as in, distro for normal people? (for arbitrary value of normal, that is) distrowatch ranks mint #1, and i also use it because i'm lazy and while i could use something else, It Just Works™
that’s the one I ended up grabbing, and from the setup-only usage I’ve been giving it, it’s surprisingly good
i've installed it for my 70+ grandparents, they had no problems with it at all for a couple of years. (granted they just read news on it) i've used it on a two laptops for a 10y+ now and outside of typical linux problems that require minor configuring (bluetooth and wifi driver related mostly) it all works since day one, batteries included. for a couple of years timeshift is bundled in ootb so even if you fuck up there are backups
there’s a post where they claim that secure boot is worthless on linux (other than fedora of course) and it’s not because secure boot itself is worthless but because someone can just put malware in your .bashrc and, like, chef’s kiss
They're really fond of copypasta:
it’s beautiful how you can pick out any sentence in that quote and chase down an entire fractal of wrongness
and bonus wrongness:
i fucking love when a distro upgrade breaks audio in all my applications cause red hat suddenly, after over a decade of being utterly nasty about it, got anxious about how much pulseaudio fucking sucks
My favorite bit:
What base OS? The
basemetapackage that pulls in a small core of system software packages that are then treated and updated like any other package? What the hell is an EOL? You mean the thing that happens to non-rolling release distros such as Not Fucking Arch?When GNU Scrotum 5.x series becomes unsupported after release 5.56, people running Arch Linux will be happy to know they already have gnu-scrotum-7.62.69-rc1 installed from their repositories. It's the people on LTS Enterprise distros who have to start whining at their maintainers to backport a major version of GNU Scrotum released since the Obama administration.
you’re fucking right! my brain recombined that into a still wrong but slightly more sane claim when I first read it: “what if the packages you installed lose all their maintainers?” and, like, I think the only package manager that sometimes solves for that is Nix, and it solves it in the most annoying way possible (removal from nixpkgs and your config breaks, instead of any attempt at using an incredibly powerful software archival tool for intentionally archiving software (and it pisses me off that nixpkgs could trivially be the archive.org of packaging and it just isn’t, cause that’s not a murder drone))
but no, something about arch being relatively manually configured broke that poster’s brain into thinking that arch of all things didn’t have basic package management functionality, somehow. arch, the linux for former BSD kids too exhausted to deal with compatibility. nah, only red hat knows about, uh, basic software maintenance
how can you mention kernel module blocks and not include pcspkr in your list
v sus
I paid for the whole motherboard, I'm using the whole motherboard thank you very much. ASCII was good enough for the Bible, so it's good enough for me. God included character number 7 for a reason, even if that reason was for me to hear obnoxious buzzing from my audiophile grade piezo beeper.
[tgp-janice.bel]
"hi, please excuse me for the interruption. I want to know if you've heard of our lord and saviour, Quiet Electronics?"