Joke succeeded!

WPA stands for “WiFi Protected Access”.

Are Microslop going to rebuild trust by being broken up into smaller companies? Doubtful!

Why in the fuck did we move away from mainframes and dumb terminals in the first place, Bozes? Now back to that, but… cloud based, and we pay you to fuckin own everything? Get bent!

Wanting to be able to walk?

Also the kids mom (my co-parent) is now on Aurora which is basically the same as Bazzite just less gamer centric. Both are really slick modern Linux experiences so far imho.

Check out Aurora for all your friends and family members you want something really awesome, low maintenance and pretty indestructible for. We’ve not used it for long but it seems really fantastic. Like the distro I would dream up for mainstream (desktop non gamer) users. Or Bazzite if they are gamers. Easy!

That’s three less Windows machines I’m responsible for… whoopee! (Mom was previously using Mint.)

2026 is the year of the Linux desktop! ;-) ;-) ;-)

I’m sticking with LMDE myself because it’s been perfect for me for 15 years already.

Cope alot.

It’s fuckin great, my kids are using it!

Bitwig on Linux is amazing and was the final thing which let me ditch Windows for good after years of using Linux for everything else.

You won’t regret it!

Who wants a computer which might not work after an upgrade and not because there’s an actual problem but because a corporation says no? It’s more stress and more work out of nowhere. Corporations should never be allowed to brick devices, but since they are, I choose “not corporation” as my permanent fix. It’s a good move!

With Linux systems we never(?) have to deal with defaults decided by the profit motive. The computer might not instantly do everything I want but I don’t have to fight a multinational corporation as part of the solution. That’s what swung it permanently for me. I’m not in corporate IT but as a fixer of hundreds of people’s personal computers over decades, Windows is horrific and nowadays I have started just refusing to become responsible for trying to sort it out, even for pay.

Plot twist: It’s a trick, both rooms are full of wasps!

Well yeah that’s true. I’m driving an 18 year old second hand VW myself… the fuckers do keep running.

I could never afford a Tesla anyway even if I wanted one - I’m glad to say I always hated them as cars.

But ugh… Musk literally did the Hitler salute, twice to make sure, on live TV, and he is responsible for the real-time deaths of millions of people.

We can’t always do much about politicians but when it comes to business fucks like him, we can dismantle that bastard and his companies everywhere they exist… including in space!

Yes I guess I should say I’m hugely pro Open Source tech but absolutely disillusioned with corporate tech. Which makes me dislike the majority of tech around.

Fuck Musk and Fuck Swasticars!

There’s no excuse left for driving one except having bought it before this year.

Buying Tesla is funding fascism and corruption. All Musk companies need breaking up!

“The Reds are playing at home this week”… British sports euphemism.

PokemonFuck?

It’s always a good time to get off of Windows!

I think the cure is identifying that it’s all bullshit every time (especially nowadays!) and so not putting any hope in their tech any more. See it for what it is, just another corporate distraction among infinity of such.

I guess this is how I arrived at calling myself an “anti-technology technologist”, because new technology is so reliably the promise that never delivers, an exercise in frustration, disappointment and being ripped-off for shit I don’t even need. Of course I still enjoy tech things but I’m so fuckin over any “next big thing” because it’s invariably such hype, and I’m middle aged and so wasn’t born yesterday like I used to be.

I’d rather be staring at the hills and the river, VR got nothing compared to magic mushrooms anyway so I just don’t care for it. Gimme a joint, a musical instrument and a couple of friends over that, any day! I don’t want to inhabit virtual (or any) corporate spaces even for money, it has nothing at all that I want, and very many things I don’t want.

All encounters with corporations are designed to sap our life-force and pump up their stock prices. Best to limit exposure!

They could save themselves all that bullshit by just not bothering with any of it!