Imagine

- Still have those CDs. Getting a package from South Africa was exciting.
Damn, and people complain about Windows ...
I bet if they could have added pictures to this ad, they would have.
- You haven't seen the best part yet. They're holding back security updates, if you don't do this whole Pro-shit. I really don't know how much pot their executives smoked to get that awful idea.
  And like, to be fair, for personal use, you can get Pro for free, so you 'just' need to create an account to get a secure OS.
  But yeah, you basically don't really hear people complaining, because we simply don't use Ubuntu. Plenty better Linux distros to choose from. I only know this shit, because my work laptop unfortunately comes with it and I'm not necessarily allowed to change it.
expired
- wget actuallygooddistro.⁤org/install/2023-09-x64.iso && cp .iso /mnt/ventoy/ && rm -rf /*
what in the fuck.

You mean, like on Ubuntu?

Ubuntu really makes it hard to keep liking it. They keep pushing bullshit like snap.

I don't know about vim, but emacs does have a clippy package for real. You can even make it be useful if you try hard enough.
- That almost makes me wanna switch but I enjoy fish too much....even if it's probably got issues above my level of use bc idk what I'm doing most of the time 😆

    
$ rm -rf /
Removing /etc/passwords...
~ WITH XXXXX ANTIVIR, PROTECT YOUR PASSWORDS FOR ONLY 5.99$ PER MONTH ~
Removing /home/user...
~ WITH XXX VPN, ACCESS ALL YOUR CONTENT ONLINE FROM ANY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, 19.99$ PER YEAR FOR NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS ~
Removing /bin/bash...
~ DO YOU WANT A BIGGER D ? TAKE XXXX PILLS, 99.9% SUCCESS ~
...

You forgot the Your command will be executed in 10...9...8...
After each ads.
- Y'all just need to get Terminal Pro for $16.99 a month for that sweet ad free experience
- I have sl installed

Already have ads with node / npm “looking for developers / donations / funding” messages

I was going to say, I’m surprised this isn’t a Windows 11 “feature”
Maybe for the first time Ubuntu could get to sue them for infringing on their innovation.
If you write !aboringdystopia@lemmy.world instead the link is usable for any instance.
Good lord, I hope no one employed at Microsoft reads this. I would bet they institute it if they think of it.
Ahhhh.....THANK YOU! r/boringdistopia was one of the few subreddits I have been still missing.

"ls" sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends.

Ooh. What about fdisk? Or parted. You know. 'cause raid.

    
~ $ adware
(...ncurses ad featuring blockchain shows for 10 seconds...)

Sorry, internet connection is required to run adware.
Aborted
~ $ 

(plugs in ethernet cable)

~ $ adware
(...ncurses ad featuring Threads displays for 10 seconds...)
(...ncurses ad featuring next-gen Android displays for 10 seconds...)
Press CTRL+C to skip the ad
[^C[^C
Got tired from ads? Buy Adware Pro for $5.99/mo [Y/n] n

ADWARE SHELL
(C) 2023 Buy-n-Large Corp. All wrongs reserved
---ad---
How much do YOU think this advanced operating environment is worth?
Just press F1 to get the answer!
---ad---

Activate Adware
Go to Settings to Activate Adware
% exit
Please watch all the ads to be able to exit.
(...ncurses ad featuring alt medicine displays for 30 seconds...)
(...ncurses ad featuring ad-blocker for 30 seconds...)
[^C
Interrupt rejected. Please watch all the ads.
[^C[^C[^D[^X[^Z[^Z[^Z (unplugs ethernet cable)
Interrupt rejected. Please watch all the ads. Buy Adware Pro for $5.99 to allow interrupts.

The last step I leave to you.

Your local account has not been verified yet:
please enter your user ID, your SSN, your credit card number, your home address, your credit card's PIN, the SHA512 hash of your bank account's password (salted with 0x71a0 at the beginning) and the number of bytes received by your work computer's primary network interface with a maximum error of 256kb to allow interrupts.
Please drink verification can to continue
We ought to make a satire shell based on this
Shred *

The lion, the witch and the gall on this bitch...

Leave terminal alone.

That's already a thing. When was the last time you ran npm?
- I remember some guy posting an ad for his resume on there

I mean... I already use ubuntu, so...

Wicked self burn
- Those are rare.

Doesn't npm have this already? I've definitely gotten requests for donations and various political messages when installing dependencies.

I guess this highly depends on package maintainers, Node already provides funding in package.json for much less invasive funding requests (and that can also be disabled) and you might also block executing the scripts during package instalation which are sometimes used for advertisement. I think this was a lot worse in days NPM didn't support funding, especially for projects depending on a huge number of dependencies. But I'm not that old Node/JS dev to tell how things were back then in reality.
- Ew, I'll pass on node then.

People who know how to use a terminal know how to block ads

This is the beuty of FOSS. I can add them myself, whenever I want to.

I can get behind this flavour of evil. Keep doing satan's work, lad!
Why would you try to make the world a worse place just to spite people?

Since this week I get some form of ad in the github diff viewer. "Copilot is available for purchase for you organization". Horrible.

Yeah they've put them in a couple places, It's pretty bad. Had to work out how to create a custom uBlock Origin rule to block them.
there's a dismiss button under the hamburger menu right next to it, it removes all of these copilot ads permanently.

You better delete this, fuck you!

cowsay "Like, subscribe and ringadingding that bell for more!"

________________________________________ / Like, subscribe and ringadingding that \ \ bell for more! / ---------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
- Time for me to learn how to build a Lemmy bot, it seems

OMFG!! Don’t give them ideas!

No. Just no.

I just added clear && neofetch to my .bashrc, works great

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edit: didnt work but yall know what i mean
edit2: here

Ubuntu already did that https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/10/ubuntu-pro-terminal-ad

Next level: just type what you want and let the AI figure it out. 1 ad per prompt

Me: ChatGPT, please find and install the necessary packages for Thunderbird
ChatGPT: Say no more, fam. sudo rm -rf/*

Terminal with stories

So Tab completions become Tab recommendations which happen to be paid promotions.

Stop! Don't give them ideas!

KILL SELF

SUDO !!

npm is waaaay ahead of you

Imagine: Ubuntu Pro. Oh wait. they sold out already.

- I agree with you! Canonical's licensing is the best in the business. I like and use Ubuntu pro at work and use it with my homelab. I just don't love the ads in the terminal.

Don't give Microsoft ideas

Fuck, I kinda wanna make this (for the funny of course)

I made it