The libre difference, where immediately upon starting up, your desktop manager throws an Oops!, and it shows the current power consumption in the status bar despite having no idea what the current power consumption is.

Huh. Neat feature.

^{(i’m gonna do something evil)}

Sounds like you’d really like Nix.

The second one isn’t valid syntax in any programming language I’m familiar with. What does it do?

why would you call it anything other than the ternary operator

If apt-get detects that a package you told it to install is also available as a snap it’ll silently install that instead and you have to edit the Linux equivalent of the registry to get it to not do that

Zoophiles are disgusting, sure, but I think we were all happier not being reminded that they exist

Canonical wants to be Microsoft so goddamn bad they can taste it

All of you are wrong.

It’s here.

(Actually, no, scratch that. Not even I am insane enough to suggest that one in earnest.)

obligatory PLASMA RULES GNOME DROOLS

so like the autopilot in Elite Dangerous. will it get you there? sure. will it get you there fast? …not exactly.

…either an empty string, a single character, or the same sequence of characters repeated more than once?

WHEN YOU CAN’T AFFORD STREAMING ON AN NFL PLAYER SALARY, PRICES ARE TOO DAMN HIGH

You know what? I’m gonna Sonarr and Jellyfin even harder

does the rest of gen z not know how to torrent? i thought everyone did

ohhh nooooo, who could possibly have seen this coming

not like that repo was getting constantly vandalized as people realized it contained copyrighted code that the winamp owners didn’t have the rights to which the project managers were halfheartedly playing whack-a-mole with

i’m a linux user do i look like i have sex

FFmpeg has FFV1 which is lossless

mmmm no that’s a perfectly reasonable thing to judge people for

For god’s sake – people who don’t hear their own voice in their own head are “just moving from one impulse to another”? People require an inner monologue, as opposed to seeing things in their imagination or what have you, in order to be capable of conscious thought? Are we seriously at the point where we’re saying “anyone who doesn’t experience the world the same way I do is no better than an animal”?