One of my professors in college demanded the class turn in a video production assignment as DVDs.

… This was in 2018

I was the only one in the class who even had a DVD burner (… Because I’d used it some years prior for PS2 games piracy and it was still in my storage box)

So the class bought a spindle of DVDs and I spent an afternoon burning everyone’s assignments to DVDs.

No idea what would have happened if they didn’t have a pet ultranerd like me. Like, did teach expect 'em to go and buy a USB DVD burner just for that?

Yes – And it sucks balls.

Some people in a different department of the company do work with Linux. And some get Macs.

~/Brojetos (anything relating to making stuff, writing, drawing, video creation, programming, etc., professional or personal)

~/temp (a non-hidden temp folder with a script that wipes it when the PC shuts down or reboots, used for downloads and such to prevent the “downloads folder is an abomination” problem that plagues any computer after a while of usage)

~/AppsGames (appimages, applications compiled from source and not installed to system, personal use scripts, wineprefixes, non-steam games)

aaaand ~/OtherAminals (for stuff I want to keep but have no idea where else to place)

Ubisoft games (and anything with a similar vibe)

Perfectly competent, comfortably boring, you miss nothing by skipping it but if you’re bored it helps.

The exact kind of Content ™ the word “slop” is supposed to describe.

Ah yes. The great tyranny of checks notes digital payment processing

You know, we already have this in Brazil. The countryside has not, in fact, been burninated. In fact, last I checked we’d been schooling the first worlders on how to actually handle fascists.

Oh and we never had to bend the knee to MasterCard’s forced purity rules because our digital payment system isn’t privatised unlike yall’s.

You need to lay off the shrooms, mate. They’re fucking with your mind.

Brazilian-made game mentioned

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I know I’m very late to the party and any comment in a thread with 200+ posts is like yelling at the void.

BUT

My experience with Windows has hardly been “it just works”. In fact it has been a history of decades of tinkering and messing around with it to try and get it to do what I want.

The only difference is that Windows obscures everything, so when something breaks it does so quietly. Meaning you might not notice… Or. More likely. It’ll just crash out and you don’t even have an error code to google.

This isn’t to say that Linux isn’t a balancing act of constant maintenance. It is. Just… The Windows experience was never “better” for me from that angle. And… On some level, I enjoy all the tinkering. I think all Linux folks do.

🙄

Roko’s Basilisk cultists when a minor brownout kills god:

itautec

reproduto(…)

points Brazilian

I’m more curious which is Stallman’s poison of choice

The “Shut the Fuck Up Gringo” whale.

I have a better one:

About all politics. No exceptions.

Signed: Brazilian.

I’d have to relearn a bunch of shit.

Don’t feel up to it. I’m so used to my setup.

Even using SteamOS (“Arch but we modded it to be sorta kinda like an immutable distro but not really”) miffs me more than it should.

Darling you need to lay off the shrooms

Good.

Musk should have been shoved into more lockers as a kid.

“The whole universe is mostly knackered, babes” – 15th Doctor Who (2023)