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I was never really into the offspring I keep forgetting they exist

Oh I get it now.

Is this blink 182?

So energy intensive though. There has to be a less wasteful way to do proof of work

Patents have gone too far. I just want to stream Spotify to my home speakers; I shouldn't need proprietary bullshit to do that

As a longtime Linux user who unfortunately daily drives Windows, this is my main gripe. Windows has killer apps.

And I've bought shitty hardware that didn't work with windows on it, but I've also had hardware that works correctly on Windows but not on Linux, because of the hardware manufacturer's lack of support.

It's too bad that laptops that are 100% compatible with Linux are always sold at premium prices.

Total Annihilation is so difficult to run on any semi-modern Windows system, and it's not even that old... right? (Cries in 1996).

On the other hand you can still play it using modern actively-maintained engines.

But yeah I'm not sure how to evaluate this criticism of maintaining compatibility with unmaintained software, because I know that Windows prioritizes backwards compatibility a lot, but I thought Linux also famously did (don't break userspace; any bug that people depend on is a feature, etc).

If there's anyone that truly loses here it's apple and Mac.

I still use Ubuntu and like it. I get that snaps are centralized under canonical, but aside from that it still feels like a good community that I've interacted with for years, with a great LTS distro.

For the average person wanting to get started I still recommend Ubuntu. Does that make me stuck in 2008?

I bought a Chromecast Audio right before they were discontinued, trying to get in while I still could. It's the only way I cast to a wired speaker system from the 80s that works reliably.

I loved the convenience but I will not go along with their cash grabs. I will not buy their new product because they took away the old one that was still working.

Did anybody ever go as far as to click a link and see what kind of virus it was?

I have a cheap wireless hygrometer in the house.. I don't know which chip gives it its capability. I just know ESP32 is the most common one.

What do you mean