It’s a meme, hence why it’s ridiculous.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/throwing-car-batteries-into-the-ocean

I agree that Linux Mint is closer to what the vocal Linux desktop community would like to see, but Ubuntu is anything but abandoned. Where I work, both my coworkers (excluding myself) and customers are either using RHEL or Ubuntu. That’s it. Sure, everyone on Lemmy and Reddit swears against Ubuntu and has no need for plain-RHEL, but a lot more of the non-vocal Linux community is using Ubuntu. I prefer Pop!_OS, but that’s besides the point.

Source: Ubuntu is anywhere between 4th and 6th place on these charts:

https://distrowatch.com/dwres-mobile.php?resource=popularity

And it has come a long way too. In fact, I just donated since it’s struck me how solid of an experience it’s been.

I love this graphic because it’s a reminder to self-proclaimed “gamers” that mobile gaming has been doing laps around “real” gaming for over half a decade now, with no indication of the trend changing. Yes, mobile games are typically lower quality and more predatory, but it’s undeniable that the average person who plays video games now is just a regular person with a phone.

Again, if you’re already that far down the rabbit hole, anything that tells you, “No, you’re wrong” is going to upset you. That includes a shadow ban, explicit ban, or somebody just telling you that you’re wrong.

If you think I’m wrong and you think shadow bans especially push people towards being alt-right and believing conspiracy theories, then I’d love to see a study that says so because that’s what would likely convince me.

So, you’re suggesting that shadow banning has caused the rise of the alt-right and their conspiracy theories, which implies that they wouldn’t exist without shadow bans.

Or they already exist and are in such a fragile state that even an explicit ban makes them upset (which it does.)

I'm pretty sure anybody who develops anything in the jailbreaking scene can tell you that Apple's source code is not open to the public.

I would hate snaps a lot less if Ubuntu just stopped trying to force me to use them.

I think a lot of people buy Macs because they think the only other choice is a computer running Windows.

I know this is a slightly different category, but Snapchat's UI is absolutely the worst- far worse than all of these. It's my go-to UI to pick on.

Oh, this reminds me of the company I'm working for right now.

"You want this promotion? Great! You're qualified and we'll have you do this project first to see if you like this work."

"Really? I have almost no experience with this programming language, but okay!"

Does project

"Actually, you're not qualified enough. Sorry!"

A week later one of the devs on that team apologized for the situation (not that it was their fault at all.) But still, what BS that all was.

Have you met Windows admins? 😛

In fairness, I’ve seen some Linux admins become completely hopeless as soon as any GUI appears.

… I am, though.

I guess it depends on habits, then. I use them all the time. Not as much as folders, but enough that I would rather the 2 have the same behavior.

People will be damned if…

1. They are forced to do something for an additional 10 seconds.
2. Their opinion is wrong.

Which is just another, less convenient way of turning a single click into two, no?

That figures. I was going to say, this seems like a bit too much money. Neither person who signed it is dead and while new copies of Halo CE aren’t being made, they don’t seem to be THAT valuable, considering millions of them were made.

Because they don’t care who owns what platform. They care that they’re different and only some of their friends are on one of them and not the other.

Because many more people are concerned with where their friends are and what’s cool.

Thanks, I actually thought my comments weren’t great at all in this program, so I’m glad somebody thinks otherwise. 😅