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Haha, very fitting and a great quote from a great show.

This comment just gave me a flashback to one of my first big business trips from almost 20 years ago for some training in another state.

I got fettuccine Alfredo (or linguine alfredo or whatever version that place had) at whatever nice restaurant we went to and they brought that shit out in a punch bowl!!

I remember it was good, I ate a lot, and that it didn't feel great after. I cannot remember if I finished it though. There's gotta be no way, but I do know back then at occasional large meals (everything from Thanksgiving down to business trips) I would eat like 3 times what I will now.

Hell yes! Mint 4 life!

I am convinced that I will try Arch or similar some day in the future simply because of SteamOS switching over to being based off of it. But for now, I develop software for embedded Linux systems all day at work. When I get home it's either family time inside or it's playing "engineer turned farmer" in my back yard. Literally digging in the dirt and building stuff out of wood. Feels good man.

My first reaction to your reply was that post-scarcity utopia is a bit broader in scope than having a decent streaming platform with existing technology.

But nah, you're right. It's the same greedy bullshit preventing something resembling a post-scarcity world that prevents tech products from staying good.

Unless they are free, of course. In both ways!

My first reaction to your reply was that post-scarcity utopia is a bit broader in scope than having a decent streaming platform with existing technology.

But nah, you're right. It's the same greedy bullshit preventing something resembling a post-scarcity world that prevents tech products from staying good.

Unless they are free, of course. In both ways!

The Dunning-Kruger effect is probably at least partially responsible for most of the world's ills.

And our stupid brains are wired to see confidence as capability. I guess there's an evolutionary advantage to organizing even if you pick the wrong leader.

I think the YouTube model is more of the high tech future of entertainment that was promised to us. It's one subscription to a massive service that has entire channels dedicated to whatever niche subject you are after.

Unfortunately, that great idea of a project got purchased by Google a very long time ago, and it is well into the user-hostile enshittification phase.

You know, now that you said that, thanks to the "if you aren't growing you're dying" business culture our business owners and executives have become more like farmers of businesses rather than stakeholders and caretakers.

Enshittification is the harvest!

The goal is not to create a good business. The goal is to force feed and fatten it up until it is right at the point where its legs will break under its own weight the next time it stands up. Then you start to harvest, consume, or sell every bit of the grotesque thing you can before you either sell it cheap to some sucker up in the mountains or watch it die at your feet.

But to be fair, I do know actual small-time livestock farmers. Cows and horses. They care way WAY way more about their animals than sociopathic MBAs care about their organizations, employees, customers, human families, and so on.

unlicensed streaming is the predominant source of TV and film piracy, accounting for 96%

96% from streaming? Wow, really? That's almost nothing being contributed by boring old-fashioned downloaded media from things like bittorrent and that other one that's totally not worth talking about.

You guys might as well just ignore those ancient, decrepit download services. What a total waste of your valuable resources! There are so many people out there with jailbroken Fire Sticks! It would be such a waste of your time going on a wild goose chase after imaginary evil communist nerds who buy mechanical hard drives and download "free" software that's been pre-approved by their communal repository authorities.

Server browsers and dedicated servers are subjects that make me want to start with the old man "back in myyy day" style comments.

I saw somebody mention CS, which is a good one, but for me the peak was in Quake 2 because of personal circumstances like getting into overclocking and then moving to a university network connection when modems were the norm at home.

Certain servers running certain mods were awesome late-night hangouts. I have a few really fun memories of all of us coordinating to do goofy stuff rather than play whatever the game at hand was. Then somebody new would join the server and start wrecking us until we caught their attention with the text chat and got them involved too, lol.

You come across as a friendly uplifting troll just looking for laughs, and I am here for it.

I see it the same way you might give a loved one an occasional ribbing for something they have an ongoing hangup about, or even once yelled about several years ago.

It sucks for him and his recognition that "Linux" is such a good name that people use it for the entire OS. But the dude is basically still a hero. Anybody who helped really get the FOSS/GNU/Linux movement going is. We have a huge amount of the tech world that runs so well on free and open software, plus it's well beyond the critical mass where it isn't going anywhere and will be an option permanently (barring some event that also, you know, ends civilization).