The webcam being stuck on sounds like a Microsoft “feature” that would accompany “We’ve made updates to our EULA” that you’d be forced to accept to start Windows next time. 😬 Lol

trying to disable the stock ticker (?WTF?)

Geeze I should have invested in “?WTF?🔺” years ago. Look how ?WTF?🔺 is everywhere now! Especially the tech industry. 😭

That would be super rad but I don’t think something like that exists yet. (Would be COOL to be wrong though!) The best I would think would be how many headsets let you look through the infrared cams.

I’d guess Steam Frame might be the best bet right now just because it’s Linux-first and open, and I think it offers an upgrade for color passthrough cameras.

The first time someone used the phrase “horny jail” unironically and wasn’t slapped into the following week

Maybe I’m incorrect but I always thought this came about because people went so ridiculously in the other direction where their dopamine-receptors were completely captured by pornhub, that it was a polite way to bop them on the nose for being a gross gooner in completely non-sexual contexts.

Like anything amusing on the Internet though, it simultaneously started to mean everything and nothing at all, I guess. Lol

“Microsoft Windows: Why wait? We broke it for you.”

then if you do fix it a damn update breaks it again!

Just fixed a fairly common issue with Windows Update on my wife’s W11 machine. Stuck at 99% forever. All you need to do is terminate the Windows Update process and try it again, or delete a cache somewhere.

Want Windows’ “official” advice if you’re “having trouble”?

Try reinstalling Windows . 😂 ROFL

Plus the bloat and spyware, ick.

I was also quite unnerved when the “location data” task item came up on startup, and listed Windows Explorer as using it for a second. Sorry what? Wtf does Explorer need location data for?

So happy to go back to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I want to convert some family members’ computers too when I finally get a chance for it.

That’s my holdout too! But then Windows forcibly removed support for WMR to paperweight those anyway, so…

What headset do you use? They just ported the Oasis driver to Linux for WMR devices (I have a Sumsung Odyssey+) and I can’t wait to try that!

There’s also the “Envision” project that streamlines getting all the drivers and builds and stuff going for various headset software on Linux. Some have better results than others. :)

Some really good guides here, and there’s also a (hrk 🤢) Discord called “Linux Vr Adventures”

https://vronlinux.org/

Sounds pretty rad actually if one is packing a halfway decent processor! :) Thanks for enlightening us!

You’re right, I’ve learned to love flatpaks for certain things. The sandboxing can be a little reassuring and I’ll definitely reach for it if I’m getting dependency-hell from a core package and just “Need it to work without spending a weekend on it.” :p

Ah that’s really cool! Sounds a lot more approachable than I thought. I’ve always heard it talked about like a flex distro for after somebody graduates from “installed Arch, no-installer” academy. :p

(Another thing I need to try again. First time failed hahaha.)

That’s actually pretty reassuring! I was under the impression it was a huge flex haha. I’m curious how much practical speed you gain from compiling everything to your specific architecture. 🤔

“As I’ve taken to calling it”

Now I just wanna know whether GNU is Guh-noo or Juh-noo or Gee-en-yoo

Still buffering, give it a minute. It’s gotta squeeze through the tubes.

Honestly as a not-used-Gentoo person recklessly throwing around my opinion on the internet…

It sounds like either it can be “Really optimized and crazy performant if you know what you’re doing.”

Or “It’s a fun hobby because you think operating systems are fun.”

Personally it seems cool except I think I’d start to burn out fast if every package install means having to read compilation instructions and edit configs.

Maybe because my experience compiling stuff is always like “What’s your problem this time?! Okay where do I find that package version?!”

EDIT: I love all the educational, reassuring, and enthusiastic responses. This is what makes Linux cool. :D I should give Gentoo a try…

I like making mine look like “XP if I got to make it do what I want and have things like dark mode.”

I just miss the era :)

Yo Cowbee 👋. I was speaking more generally, if I’m being honest referencing a funny meme I remembered that went like

“My cat after a nap | Greek Philosophy”

“Oo biiiiiig stretch” 😂

I’ll fully admit right away you’re more studied on all things communist-theory than I, but if you want my opinion, I think the always-controversial “Dictatorship of the Proletariat” phase was a reach that seemed to say “This is a really difficult problem and idk it’s the best I’ve got right now. Ship it!”

I understand he was being somewhat poetic with his word usage, but even then I think he had to have understood not only how easily that could be misinterpreted, but also how much the mechanics of it relies on perfect variables, like a grand unified revolutionary worker class that are all aligned for the common good.

I mean hey, I’m a Christian Anarchist personally. Will I get to see that society where everyone loves thy neighbor and mutually cooperates in love? Probably not in this mortal lifetime, but I think it’s a great goal to strive for. So I’m no stranger to lofty ideals! Haha.

But as we’ve seen, revolutions are messy, and Marx’s words often got heavily twisted to justify a new ruling party that says “Now WE get to wear the boot!” Who have no interest in a fair society once they get to live in the palace and make the rules.

From a purely poly-sci perspective, I think this is where the USA’s founders were brilliant, in setting up 3 branches of government chosen by and consisting of The People, whose job it was to look over the others and say “HEY, that’s not what we’re doing here. No king stuff. Cut it out.”

…of course, that quickly went to crap when the 2 party system happened. But at its core, I still think it was a good idea. (Minus the “people” being landowners only thing.)

But I don’t entirely blame Marx over it: It seems humanity will always have a percentage of shamelessly sociopathic grifters who crave control, and large groups of distractable followers who just want to be told what to think to avoid responsibility for thinking for themselves.

This is a HARD problem to solve.

When the first gets overwhelming access to sway the second, even the best devised political systems will come under immense strain. (Modern example: Facebook)

So I guess I just saw it as a bit of a stretch that he assumed the Proles would majority unite in each others’ favor to suppress the tyranny of the ruling class, as exciting as it would be. I’m sure even back then, the working class has a bit of an infighting problem.

Sorry I could usually be a LOT better with words, but, as a working class myself without ownership of land nor meaningful means of production. . . I’m kept quite busy. 😂 Thanks for hearing me out in any case!

I feel it’s like reading many philosophical works.

You’ll read some bits and go “Wow that’s a profound observation!”

And then turn the page and be like “Lol that’s a biiiiig stretch, my dude. You couldn’t have been serious.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it”

— Aristotle

Huh. I was thinking r.34 🤔

There is the old adage “Nobody got fired for going with Microsoft”, and it is real.

Unless you’re in game development, or any other industry they invade lol.

Never go with Microsoft to a secondary location. Never get in Microsoft’s car. Don’t even talk to Microsoft.