Like manual breathing, or feeling your tongue always touching your mouth, I am now acutely aware of the position of my balls.

That reminds me of my previous job at a factory where a business critical database was maintained as a single Excel file with 15000 rows and 200 columns, and now all of my bones are in attack position.

In other words: Sweeney still can’t get people to use his inferior service. I can’t wait to see him cry about Valve’s alleged anti-competitive behaviour yet again.

Wish I could just wire money straight to Remedy. Best I could do was buy Control again on GOG and consider my seafaring soul free of sin.

Not the glorious return of the Hyper key I expected, but I’ll take it.

I started with Manjaro. Unfucking that system has taught me more than any “stable” distro could. It’s all a matter of determination.

Welcome to the party.

Not bad, but still far from parity. Interestingly, the line break is rendered as the correct <br> tag, but is visually identical to a paragraph break.

I think that link does the same as the direct link icon with the fediverse icon on Lemmy. I can’t figure out the mechanism it uses, though. The HTTP request is just empty and sh.itjust.works is displayed immediately. I expected at least a 301 redirect or a script to execute location.replace() but I can’t see anything.

As for the image, the embed mechanism is probably different on Mastodon and doesn’t translate at the moment. (I don’t even know if they support standard Markdown let alone the Lemmy flavor)

Let me see…

Looks like that would be a mixed result. Still, I commend the team behind the interface for getting federation to work.

…maybe it’s better that the Windows source code remain closed.

At the same time, I’d love to see the developers of the world glimpse at that eldritch cognitohazard and collectively go insane.

The reply on masturbated.one (the Mastodon instance) has an embedded image with the reference. It’s strange that it didn’t make it into the Lemmy comment.

Let’s not pass judgment on an entire nationality based on the crimes of their head of state and his hand-picked government officials. Otherwise I’d have to ask you if you’re ok with Americans, Chinese, Koreans, et cetera flooding in, by the same standard. Double edged sword and all.

If you mean “Russians” as in “Russian-speaking monolingual”… that would be a valid point. I’d like to keep the community as primarily English, but might not be able to keep foreign language posts and comments out. I’ll have to think about it, and I’m open to input regarding languages.

My comment federated back to them. Linux memes have infiltrated The Masturbated One.

test comment, please ignore

Is that what substrate cooling means?

Dammit, I should’ve made a “no politics” rule…

I can’t believe you forgot to mention the worst offender.

Packaging.

For some reason, Linux insists on the asinine practice of hypercentralisation where you’re only allowed to install programs from a single approved website. The rest of us are living in 2025 but Linuxists seem to be stuck in 1984. It is literally baked into the system (with a healthy dose of trademark infringement (I mean, Pacman? Seriously?)). Besides the obvious restrictions on user freedom, it would only take one bad actor to call into question the safety of the whole walled garden. Trust is the user’s prerogative. A truly open ecosystem would let the user decide whether to get their software from Microsoft, from a third-party Russian website, the seven seas, from a lost-and-found USB stick, whatever.

(also, I don’t want to be That Guy, but not having a large language model baked into the kernel for optimal performance in 2025 is fucking stupid)

Some people seem to get off on calling others mentally challenged for freely made choices that they disagree with. This comic mocks them.

some developers “hope” the next installment in the GTA franchise will be priced at $80–$100

Management are NOT DEVELOPERS.

Executives are NOT DEVELOPERS.

Shareholders are NOT DEVELOPERS.

Low voltage: “Oh no, there is a tiny spot of corrosion on the contact surface, I think I need to lie down…”

High voltage: (rips line of coke) “I’M GONNA MAKE MY OWN WIRES WITH BLACKJACK AND HOOKERS!”

CEO: “Why do we even employ 60 testers when our software have always been mostly bug-free on release and patched within a week?”

The QA who spent the last three weeks pressing the same button 4000 times in different situations:

The Witness (A tanú in Hungarian) is a fantastic satire film about the life of the common man under Soviet socialism. It’s required viewing for our literature classes. Watching it before learning more about the Soviet Union and Europe, and after, you pick up on completely different nuances of life at the time.