• papertowels@mander.xyz
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    5 hours ago

    How this same conversation can sound to non-technical folks:

    “my boyfriend left his dirty socks in the living room AGAIN.”

    “Well maybe you should switch boyfriends”

    “…what?”

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      43 minutes ago

      “you are constantly complaining to me about your boyfriend and he doesn’t seem to listen to you. Why are you still with him?”

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        4 hours ago

        Are we really going to start enlightened centrist memes over Linux?

        I say this as someone who daily drives Linux on their framework laptop, who self hosts jellyfin, home assistant, searxng, ollama, etc.

        For a lot of folks, their lives don’t revolve around computers. I know that folks on Lemmy tend to skew more towards that computer lifecycle, but we gotta recognize that we’re out of the norm in that regard.

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          3 hours ago

          So what? I’m tired of shit aimed at the lowest common denominator and won’t comment as if I need to appeal to or be understood by those who can’t be bothered to learn a bit about things that play a major role in society.

          They are tired of hearing about linux? Well I’m tired of hearing about whining about windows, plus I blame their inattention for enablong the enshitification in the first place because windows would be much better if more people were willing to look at alternative options. A lot of shit would be better if that were the case.

          Though usually I don’t bother engaging at all and only really engage when there’s pushback saying it’s hard (I found it less effort overall than installing windows and getting it to a state where I don’t hate interacting with it so much), or these kind of arguments that imply because it’s not as accessible a lot of people, it shouldn’t be brought up or something?