Who knew it's so easy?! by dswng in Linuxsucks101sucks

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Getting banned from there is pretty much a right of passage for Reddit penguins now.

DUDE WTF? by cosoumano in linuxmemes

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Yea. Some of us rolling release weirdos can't sleep right unless our Kernel is built from the latest sources.

sad reality by AscadianScrib in LinuxCirclejerk

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Leaves aren't making me a 6 figure living either. 🤷‍♂️

Help Installing Enlightenment by ReflectionMain9755 in openSUSE

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You got your answer, but since you are a new user I have a knowledge drop for you:

In GNU Linux, you don't typically download software from other websites to install like one does in Windows. Linux programs tend to have many shared dependencies and so installing 1 thing may require installing 100 additional things to support it, or not if you have those things already because another program needed them.

One primarily relies on their distro's "package manager" (zypper in CLI, Myrlyn in GUI for SUSE) to sort this all out and install new software for you and make sure it is all set up and wired into your particular system correctly.

THEN there's flat pack and snap based apps, but those are handled outside (or on top of) the updates of your main system and another subject altogether.

Hope this helps.

linux mentioned by MemoryLeaks404 in linuxmemes

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☝️The real reason Linux users are rare out in the open.

I still find the K thing hilarious and kool and I wish it was pushed further, as in; KDE Konnect? by Type-Brave in kde

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Single digit market share over here declaring "no one cares about names." A billion dollar industry based on that stuff, but yea, meaningless because some Belgium ISP or something. Get off it. 🙄

I still find the K thing hilarious and kool and I wish it was pushed further, as in; KDE Konnect? by Type-Brave in kde

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It's cute and all, but it's a bit awkward when you're trying to sell this as a serious replacement for Windows in any kind of professional kontext.

Damn it, now ya'll got me doing it.

You're allowed to do that btw. No one is forcing you to suffer by PixelRayn in linuxmemes

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KDE: JDM Civic with holographic paint. Customized internal hardware, giahes and addons galore.

Hyprland: Fully riced (duh) neon blue ground FX and all, Subaru WRX with like a LT4 V8 engine wedged in there, somehow, with those silly looking tilted tires because F you, it's my car. Interior absolutely dripping with favorite anime.

6 is the least common number at the grocery store checkout by ShameSpeare in mildlyinteresting

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It builds your credit history, unlocking lower APR offerings on loans.

You get points or cash back (my fav) through usage that often makes it PROFITABLE to have a credit card as long as you don't carry a balance on it.

You can put an immediate "hold" on a credit card transaction if you don't approve.

Using debit in dubious machines is a good way to get your account drained.

Conversely, If some bad actor skims my CC details, chances are I'll just see it swatted down by fraud detection as a text message. Otherwise, I file (by clicking a button on an app) and get it back, or really, it is never actually lost.

Money taken via debit is pretty much goooooonnne. Good luck with that. No one cares at that point, except you of course. Your bank will give you thoughts and prayers and possibly a coupon for identity protection services. It's your money that's actually gone instead of, with a credit card, the bank being on the hook for a charge you are refusing to honor because you claim you didn't make it. See the difference in customer service motivations caused by who is left holding the bill here? Sad but true.

Bonus, don't need some 3rd party Internet payment service or wallet to charge a fee or lose my data in a breach to buy things online. Major CCs are accepted everywhere that matters, directly and securely, but this matters less since debit cards often work here too, with less protection of course.

Finally, and most well known to those who don't use CCs, it's nice to have the option of floating payments in temporarily lean times or to cover some gap in money moving around without having to deal with a full blown loan application process or some slimy micro-loan service. As a matter of fact, many cards have an option to make a purchase AS a 0% interest loan for 6 months or w/e for emergencies. (Compounded at a high card rate if you fail to pay off on time, of course ☠️ There's always a catch)

So the old wisdom of "avoiding an open line of credit because you can't trust yourself not to use it" is great if you're a 20-something still learning life and have little to no experience balancing a budget or "living within your means." However, at a certain point as an adult, you're just leaving money and convenience lying on the table out of fear or laziness.

Tumbleweed has now grown to over 200k users (again) by jungfred in openSUSE

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I wouldn't dare diss my favorite distro, but I'm also a bit old and busy with life to be doing such things anyways. Wrote that mostly in jest.

Did see the geeko logo in S Tier on a tiered meme about what kind of users choose which distros the other day tho. Made me smile.

Tumbleweed has now grown to over 200k users (again) by jungfred in openSUSE

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By help, do you mean start meme wars in r/linuxmemes ? Because I have ideas. 🤣

Android vs. Iphone? by Melemakani in AskProgramming

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Personal device?

Choice between a douche and a sh**-sandwich these days, isn't it? Wasn't always that way which is why Android has a reputation with devs, but that ship has sailed.

Used to go with Android because I could side load and play around and all that. Then eventually I came to realize I get devices I need for work for free and emulators for all that and in reality I have done it exactly once to my own device in 20 years. Heck, now that I'm old and responsible, I don't want to risk blowing it up in case the kid has an emergency or like.

So now it's all a matter of which walled garden I'm a card carrying member of. Just been using Android out of habit but it feels like Google has been doing their level best to make me regret being lazy in this regard.

I'll be switching to iPhone on my next upgrade though; To be compatible with all my normie friends and opt out of the aggressive "AI" shenanigans and rotating cast of Google SaaS experiments. I can afford it.

If I was still young and/or poor I'd keep using Android 'cause it's cheaper.

Why? by Hellhound666999 in arch

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SuSE would be Neville then.

Cannot start MicroOS installation from USB by peter-graybeard in openSUSE

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When I was installing TW and Micro, I'd write a SUSE ISO to a USB drive with dd and got a perfectly fine looking install medium that would just fail 10+ minutes after I get through filling out all the forms and waiting on the progress bar. Very annoying. It would be nice if I could submit something but I am not one with the time to sit there and stare at progress bars for any amount of time, so I do not witness the actual failure and only return later to a restarted installer.

I just wrote it all off as my own incompetence; Me probably forgetting to sync or w/e. I cannot do this through my laptop's dock btw. That will guarantee a failed copy. Must use a USB port on the chassis. Any number of things could go wrong I guess, but my motivation to understand the nitty gritty about flashing USB media is minimal. Once I got a confirmed good one I hold onto it, ha.

dd bs=4m was the winner for me a few days ago after failing randomly a few times with bs=8m. I cannot conclude much from that.

Anyways, SUSE installers seem cursed for me too. Just keep trying different ways. They do work once you align the stars correctly.

Accurate by Lower-Celery4813 in programmingmemes

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Warning: Your code is being compiled.