“I use Linux as my operating system,” I state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. He swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision. “Actually”, he says with a grin, "Linux is just the kernel. You use GNU+Linux!’ I don’t miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "I use Alpine, a distro that doesn’t include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. It’s Linux, but it’s not GNU+Linux.
The smile quickly drops from the man’s face. His body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth and drops to the floor with a sickly thud. As he writhes around he screams “I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT’S STILL GNU!” Coolly, I reply “If windows was compiled With gcc, would that make it GNU?” I interrupt his response with “-and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. Even you were correct, you wont be for long.”
With a sickly wheeze, the last of the man’s life is ejected from his body. He lies on the floor, cold and limp. I’ve womansplained him to death.
I currently use a ZTE Blade V Smart/ZTE 2050, which cost me 150€, pretty cheap, but still very usable (bought it a few years ago so that exact model isn’t worth it anymore, I had generally not absolutely terrible experience with ZTE phones before, tho). I also have a newer phone that I don’t use for no reason, a Xiaomi Redmi Note 11, which cost me 200€.
What are your ‘defaults’ for your desktop Linux installations, especially when they deviate from your distros defaults? What are your reasons for this deviations?...
Swapfile instead of partition so I don’t risk losing my data if I don’t have enough memory (haven’t checked out ZRAM yet) Welp that changed quickly, ZRAM looks insane
GRUB as bootloader, also a separate install for every distro, kinda just out of fear that I’ll break it somehow
The “I have two sides” meme. On the left side is someone who looks like a Palestine* terrorist, with the bottom text “In real life”. The right side has the bottom text “Discord”, it’s the right side of the same image.
Get the boat (feddit.de)
hey - trying to switch from Chrome to Firefox, what are your recommended extensions and/or quality of life addins, etc?
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It's so annoying (telegra.ph)
Ackchyually, not every Linux is a GNU Linux
Some examples:...
Lemmy, recommend me a good budget Android phone please
I need one for general purposes only, NOT for gaming, so I don’t really care about gaming-related features....
decided not to storyboard the meme this time (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
I had to downvote both of them so they’d be balanced
Do you utilize a dedicated AV like Bitdefender when sailing? Or do you still trust Windows Defender to take care of the higher risk while doing this?
What the title says, and that’s pretty much it. Do you or don’t you?
Red Hat paywall?! How the Raleigh giant divided the open source community. (www.newsobserver.com)
most normal instagram comments section (sh.itjust.works)
I won’t download your stupid app (lemmy.world)
Almost every time... (endlesstalk.org)
Your chosen desktop Linux defaults?
What are your ‘defaults’ for your desktop Linux installations, especially when they deviate from your distros defaults? What are your reasons for this deviations?...
8 Websites Linux Users Should Have bookmarked (itsfoss.com)
Old but gold (i.imgur.com)
imgur.io/rjTa5tH?r
oh no a kid somewhere is saying 'rizz' what will I possibly do (i.imgur.com)
I thought this meme was funny though...
just when you don't think about, bääm! a German. (feddit.de)
Lose either way (lemmy.world)
What are some companies that deserve to be boycotted to death?
So far my list includes Comcast, EA, and Nestle. Tell me yours, and I’ll help out.
Privacy friendly Ubuntu antivirus ?
Hi, would you know an efficient and privacy friendly Ubuntu antivirus ?
Do yourself a favor (slrpnk.net)