But your brain should be the best antivirus you have.

True of virtually every OS.

But “only stupid people get viruses” is exactly the kind of trap that catches folks.

Quietly

Arch is a practical joke played on Linux users that got completely out of hand

Don’t let your dreams be dreams

I have a TV from 2019, it surely flies on that.

I’ve got a newer TV from 2021 and it’s great. On an older one from 2015 it surely does not.

Also curious what kind of bugs you are encountering?

Outside the latency, the biggest problem I have is matching shows to their metadata. Anything Disney related (Hocus Pocus, for instance) wants to tie itself to something totally random. Some anime (Frieren) refused to recognize the second season and keeps matching episodes to Season 01 titles/screenshots.

It’s not the end of the world, but it’s annoying and cumbersome. I’ve heard Sonarr/Radarr integration help, but then I’m down a rabbit hole of apps to support apps to support apps.

I just want something seamless and out of the box to organize my digital library, not a second job doing IT work to support a miniature Netflix.

Jellyfin just flies

Idk about “flies”, but it’s tolerable. On older TVs it remains clunky, but usable. Also, definitely has it’s share of bugs. But that’s FOSS for you. I’m not going $750 out of pocket for it.

Kamala lost because her policies were fascism light

Okay, but that’s better than fascism, right? So stop criticizing fascism lite! It’s only hurting the opponents of fascism!

Well… okay, maybe the police and prosecutors that Kamala Harris organized during her time as California AG hurt the opponents of fascism a bit more. But that was before we had a dang Cheeto in the White House. So, let bygones be bygones and focus on the future.

I voted blue but completely get why people wouldn’t

I will be very angry at you anyway. If you upset even a single independent voter on the fence about voting for Kamala, you have committed Word Crime against the cause of the Stopping Trump.

lessor of two evils is still evil

That’s exactly what a Russian would say. I’ve outed you as a nefarious FSB superagent here to bring down American Democracy and turn us into a nightmare hellscape of Soviet Style Communism, which is what Russia is right now.

Under Communism the legislature will be an API.

Please, for the love of god, I am begging you. Read Fanshen

Noooooooooo! STOP SAYING THIS! YOU’RE GOING TO MAKE THE REPUBLICANS WIN!!!

STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP! THIS IS WHY KAMALA LOST!

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!

I have traced your IP Address and confirmed you are a Russian Bot! MODS! MODS! BAN THIS ACCOUNT!

Most Gen A are mostly technically illiterate

That’s just memes made by angry childless millennials. Anyone with kids will tell you how frustratingly talented with technology they can be.

Gen z? Probably not as they’ve mostly know Chrome as having been the best web browser.

Chrome hasn’t been “the best browser” in at least a decade. Even at its peak, it was notorious for sucking up system resources like a sponge.

And that was in the interim period when people were flirting with Opera and Safari on non-Mac machines as an alternative to old-school IE. I remember having to lobby my office just to get Chrome whitelisted (and then doing it again for Firefox a few years later) because using anything but IE was considered “insecure”.

Now it’s mostly won default status because of the Android OS rendering it the default (much like how Edge is the default on Windows and Safari on Mac). Plenty of Millennials/GenZ had to make their way to Firefox the hard(ish) way by knowing it exists and realizing how many gigs of memory Chrome was eating up.

Gen alpha and boomers, no way.

In my experience the number one “I made the jump to <New Browser>” conversion stories has been the end-user experience. Edge cleaned up its act and runs relatively smooth now. Chrome is still a bloat-a-saurous. Firefox has to fight with an increasingly locked-down computer experience. If you’re using a school device or a work laptop and it doesn’t come pre-installed, you likely won’t have rights to download it.

If I had to bet, GenAs are the ones most likely to do a Firefox install simply because they’re the ones most likely to still be out there buying their own PCs for recreational use.

I would give it a coin-flip as to whether the average person could name their current OS. Not sure if I would have to give credit to people who respond “The Microsoft one” or “Google Phone” in order for that bet to be fair.

The next comment was “What’s Linux?”

In fairness, there’s a 70% chance this comment was posted by a bot that was, itself, being hosted on a Linux server.

AI generated code will just substitute bullshit if it can’t get you the right answer

Would be very funny if we manage to eliminate Linux OS distributions on the internet before we eliminate CSAM on the internet.

I’m not holding my breath on either.

glances at the traffic that’s been driven away

shrugs

It’s more often the reverse. You’ll see accounts in hexbear-adjacent servers posting “Why Stalin Was Worse Than Hitler” tier content, getting banned, and then coming over to .world to scream and cry about how they’ve been censored by the mean Tankies.

They are authoritarian left

Oh? What authority do they posses?

If you search the instance for ‘Ukraine’ you will see them saying Russia is the good guy

https://hexbear.net/search?q=Ukraine&type=All&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll&titleOnly=false

shrug

Hexbear banned me just for posting a meme of Bernie Sanders kissing Vladimir Putin with the caption “Tankies ❤️ Dead Palestinians”.

I don’t care how much money they raise. They are monsters. Inhuman, vile, irredeemable filth. Anyone who doesn’t let me post in their community is the worst kind of pond scum.

If Iranian state actors are producing videos of this quality, it may become an existential threat to US Meme Hegemony.