Don’t ask TF2 player how they feel about this meme

Oh cool! Let me just spend three weeks crawling through wiki articles, setting flags in the config files, and patching out 15 different issues with various drivers then installing 20 dependencies compiling them all from source.

Hyperbole, but yeah no thanks I’ll take the L on some optimization and 2gb of storage space and some wierd file system locations for files to load a flatpak if old stable doesn’t cut it. you might want to be careful recommending gentoo to people they might not know better. Most Linux nerds don’t want to open that can of worms, but good for you if it works.

No, the word your looking for that fits the definition given is ‘selfishness’. Just about every living organism on the planet instinctually puts themselves and their own continued survival as #1. Do you think all animals and plants and micro bacteria and viruses evil because living things compete for resources instead of sharing while singing cum-bai-yah in perfect harmony?

It sucks that people care about themselves more than others but that’s not evil its a natural aspect of being an individual organism trying to navigate a harsh sometimes cruel world. Adknowledging that aspect of living things without retrofitting it into some definition morality is important to understanding reality.

You might be able to argued a true narcicist psychopath who cares about nothing but themselves and couldn’t care less if everyone else dies as long as their comfort is maintained is evil but that’s a nuanced position that required more than 15 seconds to type.

Spend a few minutes thinking up a proper definition of evil or copy paste one from someone who has.

People love symmetrical patterns and proper ratios our brains seem to be fine tuned to noticing and examining them for information and correlation. Theres a billion theories as to why, nobody really knows. Me I personally think that the universe in totality is somewhat conscious and has a deep appreciation for the fundimental abstract truths baked into the concepts of symmetry and higher levels of complexity forming beautiful tapestries of order. As we are higher complexity beings spawned from the universe we inherit this appreciation that lead to the creation of life and our awareness in the first place.

I use gimp for pixel art for game textures and to make memes. It has tons of features that nobody knows about becuase they’re fucked by horrendous UI. But theres never been anything I needed to to but couldnt after looking up a tutorial on the internet. Valid points against gimp but lets not pretend people used to photoshop arent also kind of stuck in their old workflow habits and unwilling to relearn new software UI.

Theres photogimp but it hasn’t been worked on in a while.

Also also, most people who use gimp on linux probably did so on a stable distro like Mint installing with default package manager. This means their experience with gimp is from a terribly old outdated version. Flatpaks have some issues but being able to easily install the most current version of software like gimp or kdenlive is night and day difference.

Lemmy isn’t a political party, its a decentralized platform for communities and peoples of all kinds. Theres a left leaning bias for people who like unions and stuff but youll find plenty of communities for the far right and everything between.

The real reason you see this only here on lemmy because you’re actually free to give such a hot take without being instantly banned by a centralized authority. Maybe you’re so used to supressed and sanitized corporate run discussion fourms you forgot what people are actually like when they are free to express themselves. This is just the darker side of humanity unmasked. The suffering common people wishing death on their ruling aristocracy who just sees them as cattle and not caring if their bloodlines die with them has been around pretty much forever.

Okay but why Cat Tail PhilosophY?

Oof bad guess. my daily driver is a used t460 made in 2015 running Mint. I said that used librebooted thinkpads are a great option to inexpensive preinstalled Linux machines. Are you sure you replied to the right person? Or are your reading comprehension skills fucked? Either way better luck next assumption

Except all those Linux specific privacy/modularbility orientated PCs are expensive as hell with base models starting close to 1k last I checked. They’re aimed at the demographic of cushy tech nerds making bank tapping at a keyboard who care about opsec or right to repair and can comfortably afford dropping 1k on a new laptop without thinking twice about if that money has better uses.

I and many others who don’t live in economic lah-lah land will NEVER be able to justify 1k spent on a laptop just because it has physical kill switches or modular parts and preloaded with a good Linux distro. These companies need to touch grass and come down a couple hundred dollars to the 400-500$ range then we can talk. Until that day comes, the guy selling librebooted thinkpads on eBay running popos or mint is the better option for those who live with the reality of not having a lot of money.

Maybe ‘infinite branching timelines’ like many worlds interpretation style makes more sense? Now were talking about all the parallel timelines of our universe with the earth and life intact where humans and cats exist on planet earth.

You always have the option of partitioning some free space on your hard drive and dual boot windows along side Linux Mint until you’re 100% confident in erasing windows from the drive. When I first got started with it years ago I had similar fears that something would go wrong with the process or there would be driver issues or I wouldn’t be able to start my favorite software. So I dual booted windows on my laptop for about a year until I realized I hadnt needed to use windows at all.

Hell yes! Scream it from rooftops with your menthol laced breath. The celestial calendar fortold that 2025 would truly be the year of the linux ™ the time is now!

Why yes, I am using Mint, btw. Thank you for noiticing!

Lets get this party started!

What do you think so far?

Redditor chud behavior: gets bothered by a single downvote, edits comment to ask why they were down voted turning into a rant about the NPCs and sheeples who disagree with them. Subconsciously worried about karma points and awards.

Lemming chad behavior: Gets 20 upvotes and 10 down votes, happy 30 people reads their thing and glad to have put a controversial opinion into the world that might make someone think a new way.

When will you learn? When will you learn that your choices in process management software have consequences?

I like to imagine there are infinite universes with slightly different starting conditions/cosmic constant values. Lots of them are non-starters for living observers because their fundimental forces didnt match up right to condense matter into stars after the big bang. Some universes like ours turn out to be goldilocks that balance the forces just right to for matter to assemble into structure and complexity.

Then for each particular universe theres an almost infinite amount of possible spacetime trajectories for matter to structure itself into from beginning big bang to ending heat death. Each unique possible state the universe could choose to become through probability as it progresses in time becomes its own branching divergent timeline, so like many worlds interpretation.

So no I don’t think they are the same thing. There are infinite universes with different seed values, and each one of them contains their own set of infinite possible timelines acting out all possible states that universe could experience given its constraints.

Now what about two separate universes with almost identical starting conditions that happen to share an almost identical timeline that leads to your birth? Are your near-copies the same you experiencing different universes, or just seperate clones?

thanks for sharing it was a great watch! Here’s one of my favorite gen alpha branrot speech parody videos

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o-n5qVwn-Xc&pp=ygUOY29sdW1ibyBnaWFubmk%3D

“We did your mom, in every timeline and parallel universe where you were born too just to flex.”