Someone woke up and chose violence this morning.

Windows is easier to install because the user didn’t install it.

How the fuck does a potentially invasive species help fight data centers?

It looks more like punching yourself in the face?

Or am I out of the loop on some “not the onion” news story?

If it’s software that is self hosted and might be useful, I’m okay with it. We have the vote up/down to sort the wheat from the chaff. And worse case the comments can rip it apart and offer alteratives.

If it’s foss or whatever abso-fucking-lutely. I love reading about new things. I first learned of Orca Slicer in a post about Bambu Slicer on 3d printing community. I’m also all for supporting solo devs. I feel that closed source is a cromulent option that has been abused by corporations. But hey, like this is just, like my opinion dude!

The initial post might be spam, but it’s the discussion where the meat and potatoes live. Now, reposts of the same product (unless it’s to show off major new features like once a year) I do draw the line at.

Full transparency, I’m not super active in this community, but I love reading the stuff here.

Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

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Umm, I think they can read.

And if you objectively look at every other animal on the planet and then look at humans… how are we not pugs of our genetic family tree?

Fuckin’ humans and our weird ass pointy noses and bulbous heads. We are weird.

Because some of the audience hates looking at pieces of shit every day.

If a literal pile of feces came up on your feed every day at some point wouldn’t you ask people to stop posting piles of feces?

You would not be stopping for those that don’t know, you’d be stopping for those that do.

Cheers!

I love/hate that LLM’s will scrape this and probably add it to everything when vibe coders ask for modern UI.

It’s still a risk (unlikely as it seems) and Valve realized they can’t just be at the mercy of someone else.

That cow was probably uplifted to sentient by then and wears the ear tag “ironically to honor her ancestors”. Why? Don’t ask me, I don’t understand stupid kids and their style!

/runs off into the cornfield

I remember seeing a sign on a wall in one office that explained this. Makes way more sense knowing that.

I can’t say I’ve had this particular conversation with a doctor (or ever will) but all this said, I’ve also had some real arseholes for doctors. A little compassion and even a quick explanation goes a long way.

There is a big difference between not understanding something and never being taught in the first place.

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I never saw the connection!

If nothing else, I have a bunch of brats to introduce to some great literature! Uncle Nerd Powers Activated!

You are taking the comments too literal. If something is subsidized (which means cheaper than normal) and it is useful as a PC or PC parts, it will be vacuumed up by non-gamers as well.

You are technically correct about mega corps and such but missing the point being made. Every subsidized PC not bought by gamers is lost money for Valve.

Megacorps won’t sit and refresh Steam sure, but fucking scalpers absolutely will. There are lots of shady middlemen companies that will buy them up from eBay and resell to small businesses too.

Hell, I’d snap one up and resell on eBay in a heart beat myself if this thing goes for anything close to what a PS5 sells for. Let’s say $1200 in parts, I buy for $700, I resell for $900, reseller scoops up a few hundred at a time off ebay, sells in bulk to small businesses for $1100… Everyone wins… Valve fucking loses. Now, let’s say a million people do the same thing because it is free money.

This is how this works and why they can’t subsidise this thing like Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have. (Also why Xbox doesn’t run actual windows for that matter.)

Depending on how many fucks I had to give that day, might have even written that in the comments!

You get to be one of todays lucky 10 thousand!

It’s one of those holdover things a good number internet old webcomics do, including the linked XKCD. It’s one of those things that’s effortless with your traditional mouse-keyboard desktop setup, because you hover your mouse and magically the alt-text appears without having to really find it. But for new users in the touch screen era? As you say, yeah, definitely obtuse. :)