But thats my point. Android and iOS WILL be steaming piles of garbage. But they’ll be about the only options. So it’s either use them, or get left behind socially.

Games will be left to consoles.

Linux MIGHT survive in a zombiefied way with the steamdeck, but 99% of people will never change distros.

And corporations don’t care about giving you options for form factor.

Linux people just don’t get it.

You keep viewing this as a binary option. Either the people use Windows, or they use Linux.

Then you make the connection that “Linux operates this function better, therefore it’s the better choice, therefore people will choose it.”

But that’s not true at all.

What I predict is a total collapse of the home PC market. So people won’t be running Windows or Linux. They’ll be running Android or iPhone/iPad.

Most people don’t do the things you do with computers. They don’t need it. They open a browser. They laugh at cat memes on facebook. They check their email. Maybe watch some youtube.

So if google can provide all that with a tablet, or cell phone, why sell PCs at all? Do all the computing offshore, in data farms, and you just connect to the cloud.

This in turn would actually make Linux adoption plumet. No one can install Linux on their PCs, if no one has PCs, because stores don’t carry them.

You think it’s not possible? Ask someone in the 90s if stores would ever stop selling CDs, and nobody in the future would own their music. Yet here we are.

Thats what the corporations want. You don’t own hardware, you don’t own software, you don’t own your house, you don’t own anything. You have no rights. You pay the corporations for them to allow you to exist.

Thats where everything is headed.

Republicans are running a movie theater. Except they run it like a Boulder Colorado movie theater showing The Dark Knight Rises.

You have GOT to be careful with those titles! This made me think something happened today. A 3rd murder.

This is in reference to yesterdays murder.

At first you think he may just be naive of how tarrifs work. Which is still true, but it doesn’t explicitly label him as maga.

Then he says this…

How does this benefit me?

And there it is. The selfish attitude that tells me he voted for this exact outcome without a clue what that outcome actually was. Just voted for his team, and didn’t bother with the details. Oh well. Have the day you voted for.

I eat a lot of cheese. My shit is already backed up.

Here’s my guess, and I could be completely wrong.

All the governments use 2 sets of computers. The first, is a closed network used only internally. Open source, connected as a network, but NOT connected to outside neteorks. This uses closed source OS that they themselves develop. No backdoors. Highly secured.

The second set is what you know. Windows 11, backdoors, easily spied on. Intentionally left open, because that’s their way to spy on the other countries.

They leave this open, to let themselves be spied on, so that they can spy on the other side. Neither side realizing they’re both doing the same thing, and both sides just getting mostly useless info.

Then, to throw off the trail of it being useless info, they occasionally allow a juicy bit of info into their windows computer. Just so it’s not obvious that this isn’t the real info.

I have zero evidence, and came up with this theory after reading your comment. So I could be very wrong.

To be fair, we haven’t ruled out the possibility that these assholes are all robots. That facebook guy has never once passed the turing test. I have never seen his face and thought “now THAT looks like a human!”

Maybe thats why they feel ok killing. I feel ok in linux going to the task manager and killing all the tasks that eat up my ram (hello firefox, and your 53 processes). But then the processes come back.

It also explains why we suddenly have a push for AI. They just want a brain, which they clearly lack.

As a can drinker, that’s the reason I call them “Crrrsppppclick glug glug glug”.

Oooooooh, depending on year, I bet that was just shortly after his death. Which is why his name would have been topical at the time.

There it is

I kinda love the jablecloth! Everything except the name.

God dammit…I hate that was actually a good pun.

I have zero clue who the Puerto Rican president was in 2017. But as an American territory, why wouldn’t America have some responsibility? Even if it’s just sending aid money to hire contracted help.

Nah. I remember being smarter than some adults in the 80s. For reference, I was born in 1983.

I told them Reagan was a bad president! Much better to have Super Mario and the Ninja Turtles as running mates.

Please share those flaws with the group. We may need to know soon…maybe next week.

"All men are created equally…just uh, ya know, please forget the families of slaves that we, the founding fathers, keep in our control.

Uhhhhh, no. That will work temporarily.

Then they send in the tanks.

That tracks.

I remember being let down that the world saw 2013…