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We’re living in a cyberpunk nightmare

Ubuntu provides CUPS as a snap package. Does that change anything in that particular case?

I don’t know if that’s a good idea.

How would you go about implementing the infrastructure for that?

Maybe don’t do a fucking Holocaust if you don’t want to be criticized for doing a Holocaust.

Trump would tell Netanyahu to nuke the place and he’d fucking do it. It would be a catastrophe the likes of which we haven’t seen since WWII.

As in, this provides Israel even greater latitude on their quest to start a hot war with Iran, without dramatically increasing any threat to their military bases and government buildings. Well, at least not from ballistic missiles.

That’s also a very good point. It’s like shielding a bully while they continue to bully other people. While I wouldn’t mind seeing that bully getting smacked by the other people they oppress, I also don’t want to see more people dying either. However, I know Iran has been targeting military targets and not civilian ones. So…

Anyway, this is all just fucked up and I want to see an end to this senseless violence and death, and I want to see Israel getting what they fucking deserve. That is the whole country should cease to exist in terms of land and borders and the land be returned to Palestinians after what they fucking did.

Ah ok. That makes sense then. I wasn’t informed about that system. Thank you for telling me.

Yuck… That’s fucking disgusting. I feel physically sick reading this.

They’re telling Israel to slow down with the attacks and sending weapons and soldiers at the same time.

Right???

I haven’t figured them out yet 😅

Internet access was more complicated back then. If you didn’t have a second computer or couldn’t dual boot into a working OS it was a big problem. And there wasn’t a lot of Linux users back then either.

Oh yeah. Ubuntu really simplified everything.

My first distro on my own PC was Mandrake. I don’t know how many times I had to reinstall it because of my fuckups.

Two years later I was compiling my own kernel with the source code of special modules that I had downloaded for my NVidia card that had composite video input.

I’ve never had to compile a kernel since Ubuntu. I completely forgot to be honest.

😂😂😂

Wow. I had this on my removable hard drive for our operating systems class in college back in 2000.

Maybe, but they provide the software without DRM and with the option to get an offline installer.

(I just learned Steam does that as well apparently but with extra steps.)

You have the right to your opinion.

But there’s no need to go around insulting people.

Interesting. I’ll check that out. There’s a few games I would like to keep a backup of just in case.

Yeah moving forward I’m going to buy on GOG.

Sorry. I just got so, so fed up with Microsoft’s bull shit recently that I just went ahead and got rid of it.

I’ve been dreaming about this possibility for 20 years now and it’s finally doable.

They had something really good with Windows 10 but over time they made it worse and worse. Adding “features” nobody wants each update like Copilot and advertisements.

Also Windows 10 was supposed to be a rolling release and the last Windows we’d ever install. Then Windows 11 came out and it’s the worst Windows OS they have ever made in my opinion, and that’s including Win ME.

My comment, even if it didn’t bring anything to the conversation, I think reflects that a lot of technical users on here have started doing. Migrating to Linux and laughing at the problems that Microsoft keeps creating for their users.