And be theatric. High five the cashier, over-compliment them, get a bunch of friends to dance with them. Then by the end, be happy they offered you a discount.

You’re almost asking to be in an environment where you’re surrounded by 386 computers, PDAs, CRTs and beepers.

We’re sadly stuck with the way capitalism has enshittified technology to where it is almost unavoidable and the only options we’re down to is how much of ourselves we limit the access to that stuff. We’re also stuck with just going second-hand shopping because almost no company wants to go back to the way things were unless they want to market ViNtAgE or ReTrO throwbacks which even they sometimes shit all over those models.

For once, I am not seeing comments where it’s just an endless chain mixed with the responses of some dude’s alt and people who run a joke right off the treads. I’m seeing just responses. Actual thoughts. Even if the thoughts are shitty i.e argumentative and illogical trolls who bait, they’re still somewhat thoughts.

I don’t see a lot of “DATS WHAT SHE SAID!” followed by “AND HE SAID” followed by “AND THE CAT SAID” on and on. That’s the kind of trash you’d find on Reddit, even on subreddits where the news is reported.

Moderators that actually moderate. Now there’s still a disagreement with how things are moderated and that’s case by case. It’s not strictly a Reddit or Lemmy thing. It’s an internet thing. But, moderators on the Fediverse in general, seem to be more responsive and a little more logical than any Reddit one ever. Reddit mods, go on power-hungry blazetrails where they just ban and ban based on THEIR interpretations of the rules and not the general rules already set in the community they mod in.

Baldur’s Gate 3 is still a bit of a recent game, even if it’s a year old. Normally games like it, take about 3 - 5 years before we start seeing drastic sales.

Now games that are over 10 years old and still being 10% off? Fuck out of here with that.

What’s getting annoying now is that they’ve been tossing in like packs for freemium games. Gross. That’s not a game, guys, that’s an attempt to get us to spend more money if we’re to like this EXP/Skin pack you’ve given away.

It will exactly be a repeat, for sure. It’ll be like the new inaugural routine, where a portion of the population will rise up for their murderous conman and try to overthrow a government. So long as he’s alive.

It’s still funnily ironic how this is the party, the GOP, that told Democrats in 2016 to just “accept it”. But when it was their turn to, no, they start an insurrection.

His voterbase are the ones in the back.

Even if someone doesn’t regularly use computers, it doesn’t hurt to gain some experience in communicating in ways you’re not used to. Like, I don’t like ‘typing’ on a mobile phone. The interface is small, customization is limited and you’re prone to constantly make spelling mistakes. But I adapted and can at least now type on mobile half the speed I can on a keyboard.

Generational gaps need not apply. This is simply just a learning thing that is applicable to all.

Everyone all denial about diseases and serious illnesses until they get it. Unfortunately, during the pandemic, some of those who did get COVID and denied about it, still downplayed it like it was just a simple cold. Until you know, some of them actually died because of how much they didn’t anticipate the probability of getting it.

How would the mainstream view it?

A hip cool new thing that they’re just knowing. Probably intimidated too.

How would software support improve?

Borrowing ideas from already successful ways of supporting software done in other fields.

How would gaming look like?

Probably a huge deal breaker for some. If they know they can’t run 100% of the games they acquire on an OS, then that’s it.

Which country will become the first Linux majority? India? Seychelles?

India. It’s projected to grow at 25.2%

How many local governments would start adopting it?

Not many.

What year do you think it will happen in?

If it took Linux 3 decades to finally get to even 2%, I’m betting it’ll take another 3 decades or longer.

Meanwhile at Epic…

“Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh”

I believe it’s just obnoxious trolling users who’ve been banned multiple times from Reddit now come flooding here to pull their shit again.

When you block someone, you can still see that they replied to you. I don’t want to know of their existence period, that’s why I’m blocking them and they shouldn’t have a chance to respond to me period. It’s not blocking if they can reply to me and I still see a notification that they did.

5,000. That’s really my sincere answer.

I roll my eyes at the dishonest bad faith takes people have in the comments about how people do the same thing behind the wheel. Like that’s going to make autopiloting self-driving cars an exception. Least a person can react, can slow down or do anything that an unthinking, going-by-the-pixels computer can’t do at a whim.

I don’t call them garbage. I call them traitors. That’s who the MAGA crowd is. A bunch of treacherous traitors.

Our founding fathers would’ve worked overtime, rallying and rounding up millions of these traitors to be drawn and quartered. Because, aligning with an obvious dictator wannabe isn’t bad enough, it’s the fact that they’re aligned with the values of a newfound Axis Party between Russia, North Korea and America (under Trump).

So, they’re traitors.

She’s a weak candidate considering that:

She’s not the Bill Clinton that built America back up through the 90s that H.W Bush and Reagan ruined and prior to the Monica incident.

She took away all momentum from Bernie Sanders, who people did actually want. This was 2016 so it was a chaotic mess where SJWs existed so they were more about “we need the first woman president to make history!” without caring that Hillary was the corporate representative side of the Democrats. Something we absolutely did not need.

So she’s no Bill Clinton and Bernie Sanders was taken away from us. Now we were down between a rock and a hard place between Clinton and Trump. Sure, the popular vote might’ve been in Clinton’s favor. However I still to this day think that we just had no choice ultimately. Same venue with Biden vs Trump.

Mostly former Democrats who’ve fallen from grace, got hit on the head the way down and now endorse him. Like Tulsi Gabbard.

This is why I want a woman president so bad. Clinton was a weak candidate but Harris is stronger. Once Harris wins, the misogynists and incels will all lose their minds. So will the bigots and racists. It’s like one stone, hitting multiple angry hateful birds in one win.

I want to see it. “GUD DAMN WOMUN NI…HOW DARE SHE WIN HGUHFSGHSG!!”

GOP Reaction: “Our thoughts and prayers…”