Ok everybody. You heard them! Everybody talk about discuss.tchncs.de! Let’s ALL form opinions and talk at length about them!

Unclear if AI bot, or insane person having a stroke.

I get the rest of them, but why is “gay republican” there? I’m not saying he isn’t, but why is being gay one of the insults?

People want access to the defederated instances, on lemmy.world.

People don’t want to switch.

Because nothing has changed?

I don’t care how advertisers feel. I’ve been telling them for decades that their ads have zero effect on me. That it just pisses me off.

When I go into a grocery store, I have a list. If it’s not on that list, I’m not buying it. The list was prepared weeks ago, and added as I run out of things. Doesn’t matter if you show 100 ads. I’m not paying attention. Even though you paid money to show the ad, I still didn’t see it. What difference does it make if I’m alive? Either way I didn’t see the…uh…what were you selling again? It was a commercial for Jesus? See, this just shows how little I pay atttention to ads. I saw the superbowl, and I’m fairly sure one of the commercials was for Jesus. I’m unclear how one would buy Jesus, but that was the ad.

Tell ya what advertiser industry. I’m going to do your job for you. I’m going to make sure every single person pays attention to every ad you ever put out. Are you ready for this? Here we go.

The screen fades in from black to a closeup of some tittys. They’re bouncing around, and women are moaning. Then they start moaning “OOOOOHHHH, YEEEAAAAHHHH BUY OUR PRODUCT, BUY THE PRODUCT! OOOOHHHHH!”

Remember, tittys are still bouncing. You put the product in the center of the screen.

You just made a billion dollars!

Found the appropriate response.

Hold on …

Are you saying all software hosted on github is infected with copilot? Or am I misreading the situation?

Yes, but you are the minority.

I dated a girl over the summer, and we were watching youtube videos in bed.

My phone has revanced, and it kills all the ads.

Then she shows me one of her videos.

It was…oh my god. Do you have ANY idea how awful the vanilla youtube experience is?

And thats just how most people watch it. They just watch youtube, with the official app. Ads and all, and are fine with it.

So even if all the fediverse minded people quit youtube in unison, it would still be less than 1% of their viewership.

No lies detected.

Do it, do it, do it, do it!

We need legislation with teeth

He said, while living under a dictatorship.

That’s about the size of things, yes.

I’ve read that just installing arch is a whole ordeal in itself.

You’re talking to a guy who won’t touch terminal because on 6 different occasions I’ve bricked a whole hard drive just by using sudo apt update/ sudo apt upgrade incorrectly.

And you expect me to understand ARCH???

Are you high?

I didn’t try to use sudo apt install hardinfo, but the software store will find things from flatpack, snap, a few others.

It did not find hardinfo.

Well…it didn’t. It told me hardinfo would need 3 dependancies. Then said it wasn’t going to install them.

It listed the 3 dependancies it needed, but said they will not be installed.

Did you try installing the dependencies?

I have zero clue how to do that. I don’t even know what file extention they would be, or where I would get them, or what step 1 would be to installing them.

In windows, any decent program will say “this program needs these dependancies. Would you like to install them?” And I hit yes.

In linux it says “This program won’t install because it needs these dependancies first. We won’t help you install them. You figure it out.”

So instead of just using apt – like every introductory tutorial to Ubuntu and its derivatives leads off with – you chose to do it (effectively) the Windows way that you’re familiar with where you hunt and peck around the Internet for an install file.

Because in 20+ years of off and on using linux, I’ve never once gotten apt to install anything. I have however fucked up my whole system by doing sudo apt update/sudo apt upgrade.

I avoid terminal like the plauge.

You didn’t have the dependencies, and it told you which ones to install. Why does it need to tell you why it needs them?

I didn’t say I want to know why it needs them. I’m upset it tells me that it tells me it needs them, and then says “they won’t be installed”, but won’t tell me WHY they won’t be installed. If the program needs those dependancies, just install them. Instead it juat says “we know you need the dependancies, but we’re not going to do that”.