happy cake day!!

why you gotta be so rude about it? like we’re forced to live here, your bragging doesn’t help anyone

Sidenote, the modern web is so fucked because how am I supposed to teach a kid that I would trust the random website “paper.wtf” I have never seen before with literally “meow” randomly above their article MORE than businessinsider.com which is like at the top of every search result

so you’d pay if there was a free trial?

I’ve gotten that before too

you can do things that only someone with you+2 years experience can undo

this is such a fire line. I once shared how I nuked my first distro by deleting all the dependencies of VLC while trying to reinstall VLC… then someone replied “wait wouldn’t just running the ‘install VLC’ command reinstall all the dependencies and get it back to normal?”

where was that person like a year ago 😭 I wasted so much time just to give up in the end

I wish I could close or move windows around with my brain. It would be so nice.

just marketing I assume. duo has always been a weird marketer

I feel like a historian reading hieroglyphics trying to understand this 😭

Also, most school laptops are old. Someone did this at my school and got charged (iirc) $175 since it was the really old kind

laptops > raspberry pi imo. Having a screen is SO useful. I just got an old laptop to watch YouTube and mp4s on my TV without ads. Way better than the slow ad filled Roku OS

Hi there, I’m currently in highschool. You don’t understand how school laptops work. There was a court case where a school laptop was recording from a child’s home - it actually happened.

Also when you shut the screen it doesn’t turn off all the way. I’ve had times where I shut the screen, out it in my bag and 45 minutes later on my Bluetooth headphones I’ll head the windows notification sound.

And just for clarity, do I personally believe that they are spying with audio/video? probably not tbh.
Do they track EVERYTHING you do on the laptop? yes. Very obviously yes.

my coolest data hoard (im not insane, I only have like 3tb, mostly of games) was the doom 1993 files.

me at 2am tinkering with my computer had an emotional connection to another computer nerd back in 1995 at like 11:30 at night who was packaging doom files that through dozens of exchanges made it’s hands to mine.

Wonder who it was and how they’re doing now…

sorry, that was Cthulhu’s spool :(

ok but like if I don’t have music and noise cancelling earbuds I will explode

do we even know?

didn’t 4chan do that once?

that’s one hell of a thumbnail image

accidentally deleted every dependency VLC requires instead of deleting VLC. Absolutely recked EVERYTHING on my PC.

I deserve it for trying to remove the best video player 😔