Aren’t those things like $700?

That’s why I wish they’d release a concept like the Raspberry Pi, but for fully realized mini-pc’s. The thing I love about it is I could have 10 SD cards all sitting in a box. And I slide one in, now my raspberry pi is a retro gaming emulation machine.

Then I turn it off. Slide a different SD card in. Now it’s a pihole.

Slide a different card in, now it’s home automation.

Any new distro you want to try, slide out the sd card, slide in a new one. Your old distro is saved exactly how it was. Just slide it back in, and it’s exactly like you left it.

No commitment.

And the hardware is centralized. So if the distro is built for the raspberry pi, you KNOW it’ll work. The downside is, it’s a rinky dink little arm machine.

A lot of the time I’ll “get” jokes. I don’t find most of them funny, but I get the joke. Then someone will accuse me of not being smart enough to get the joke. It’s like “no no, I got the punchline…it’s just not funny.” Then I get insulted that they think I’m dumb.

With your joke…yeah…I actually am too dumb to get it. Part of me thinks Lemmy had some script error, and part of me thinks you’re making some script based joke…in any event, give that joke some wings, because it just flew over my head.

You mean, THIS LINUX???

Everybodies aunt at thanksgiving:

“I should be fine. I only trust the facebook with my information. Oh, did I tell you? We have 33 more cousins we didn’t know about. I found out on 23andme.com. All of them want to borrow money.”

I’m on Windows 7. When I saw Windows 8, I said “Guess I’ll wait until windows 9”.

When I saw Windows 10, I said “Guess I’ll wait for Windows 11.”

When I saw Windows 11, I said “Guess I’ll wait until Windows 12.”

Now I’m saying…seriously, did NO ONE else notice they skipped Windows 9??? It went 7-8-10-11.

The dork side, you say?

Me: Hmmmmmm, maybe it’s time for a new PC. Lets see what’s out there.

Stores: Windows 10 and 11

Me: Nevermind!

Me: Debian? Fedora? Why are you making up words as if I speak other languages you made up???

I want to order a taco. Not the ingredients for a taco.

It’s 1993, right?

Never heard of this guy, but I have a desire now to check out his music. He’d be sickened by life in 2025.

I’ve seen the V1 software as an android app. I have not seen the V2 as an android app. This despite them claiming the keyboard is compatible with Android.

I’d love to be wrong though. That would make this all so much easier.

I’d just grab a converter cable, plug the cable into my tablet, and be done with it.

I can understand hating WOW. I can even understand not getting into WC3. But how do you enjoy WC1, but lose interest at WC2???

That’s like saying “A hamburger is good, but I just can’t into bacon double cheeseburgers.”

8bitdo keyboard

You can use the software to record macros. Then program the keyboard to execute those macros on any button, or those 2 big accessory buttons. You can even connect up to 8 of those big buttons to one keyboard.

But it all requires this software to program.

I can see my house!

I mean…those aren’t lost sales exactly…but I’m sure Nintendo still doesn’t like it.

Well…yes and no. I agree with the overall message you’re trying to convay, but will come back on the small details.

The rich feel that they should be entitled to the best healthcare, education, housing, ect. And I think they do. However I also think that’s true of the poor as well.

Not only should we all be deserving of the best life, we should also be increasing what that that means. Improving what the best is, and yhen THAT then becomes what we all get.

If a rich person gets cancer, or breaks their leg, or whatever. I feel like saying they DON’T deserve the best health care is obscene. Not because they’re rich, but because they’re human.

Same with education.

Housing it’s a bit more broad strokes, as “best” in this catagory is a little less defined. There’s a youtube video by ryan george where he looks at rich people houses, and mocks some of the homes features. Some of these houses have things for the sole purpose of wasting money. Like a 19 foot golden statue of a man throwing balls in the air, with a matching water fountain, so the water being sprayed up looks like it’s part of the force he’s throwing the balls.

That’s just money spent for the sake of spending money.

I forget who it was, but there was some movie star in the 90s. Maybe Jim Carry, but maybe someone else.

In any event, when they asked how he was able to get his star power noticed, and achieve the things he had in movies, he replied “I was stupid, I made mistakes, and I failed. Repeatedly failed. Everybody in this business has some stupid commercial, or failed play that they look back on relieved that those days are behind them. But the thing is, when your family is rich, and can support you failing, you aren’t afraid of failing. You learn from your failures. Your failures get you noticed, and that’s when you get oppertunities you haven’t earned. Just by being in the business, and having a safety net without fear of failing. There may be 1000 more people more talented than I am, but I’m MUCH dumber, and also not afraid to take the leap. Because if I fall short, it’s ok. I still live in a mansion, and have no way to actually be affected by my failures.”

I’m paraphrasing, but that’s essentially what was said. I remember being 11, and thinking “Wait, he’s saying that the only reason he’s sucsessful is because he was born into a situation where even if he fails, it’s not going to affect him? But that means those other actors who are more talented won’t even be seen, and we’re being deprived of better performances. Simply because if they fail, they’re homeless. So it’s smarter for them to take a factory job and be stable, than make a high risk gamble and likely be homeless.”

I can’t say for sure that’s the day I became cynical, but it’s definately a motivating factor. Essentially being taught from an early age “There’s in groups who can’t fail, and out groups who the system is stacked against. Fall into the wrong group just by being born, and you’re going to have a hard life, and that’s by design.”

You’re measuring Bluesky with a different measuring stick than they are.

You’re measuring it with the “This is decentralized, and therefore not connected to corporate interests, and never can be” stick.

These journalists WORK FOR the corporate interests you left twitter (or maybe never had an account) over. They are measuring the stick by “These current users are just MAGA users in a cult”.

As long as Bluesky doesn’t start shifting right wing MAGA, it IS different for their purposes. It’s just their purposes are not YOUR purposes, and therefore they can still say that it’s different, and not have that be a lie. Doesn’t mean it’ll satisfy you any.