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    [–] [email protected] 99 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    "I use Gentoo sir and my DE is i3, I brought my dotfiles if you would like to see them"

    "Son, it's great to have you here. HONEY IM TAKING STEVE TO THE OFFICE!"

    [–] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    I3 ??!!!??111 That’s bloatware OUT OF MY HOUSE

    [–] [email protected] 40 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    Any gui rendering is bloat

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    Really, the metric we should be looking at is (f+a)/b where f is some subjective weighted measure of functionality, a of aesthetic value and b describes the bloat.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    No, (f+(0.5*a))/b.

    Aesthetics should never get as many points as functionality.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago
    1. That's a personal preference. Many people do care about aesthetics and I don't think invalidating their taste is fair. Hence, if you wanted to add factors accounting for that preference, you'd have to define some additional variable for it.
    2. If a is a subjective measure of aesthetic value - as it must be, since taste is a subjective thing - you might as well include the factor already.
    3. If a is normalised against some fixed scale, but bloat (having effectively no upper limit) is impossible to normalise, it would be more reasonable to increase f instead in order to model the fact that a larger distro may also come with more functionality.
    4. You don't need the extra parentheses around 0.5*a
    5. We're both fucking nerds and I love it
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    [–] [email protected] 88 points 5 days ago (11 children)

    Pfft, Linux users don't date. We're all virginal, paranoid shut-ins.

    [–] [email protected] 52 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    The trick is securing a marriage before using Linux, if try the other way around it doesn't work.

    [–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    Shortly after getting my steam deck and seriously learning Linux past tiny personal servers, I got divorced

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

    I know correlation ≠ causation, but I really want to believe your relationship was ruined because your wife was sneaking out in the middle of the night to use Windows

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

    I don't know. I'm pretty sure one of the many ways you can end a marriage is installing Gentoo and saying "I'm just gonna go and compile my kernel." to your significant other, then go to your computer and just never be heard from again.

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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

    A lot of us are also disaster trans lesbians :3

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago

    I don't date because women are proprietary.
    You can share them with the community, but you can't modify and use them in any way you like.

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    That's what Anthrocon is for. Once a year is enough.

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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    I dated and married.

    I love the story of how I met my now-wife. It was on IRC. When I was trying to start to meet women, I never would have guessed that that would be how I met my future wife.

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    [–] southsamurai 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Yeah, ikr? My wife won't even bang me, and I'm fairly sure it's part of a global conspiracy to make my balls explode

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

    i have the same situation. i figured i could have sex with someone else then, but other women seem to also know i use linux because nobody else will bang me either. and i doubt it's my looks, mom says i'm handsome, so it has to be the linux stuff.

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

    sudo touch wife

    southsamurai isn't in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

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    [–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    you there, what distro do you use?

    distro? why it's arch linux, sir

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

    "Run and buy that turkey in the shop window and I'll give you a shilling!"

    "For what reason do you want a turkey on your Arch Linux, sir?"

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    For a while the deepin desktop's looked pretty cool. It got old quickly though and it doesn't seem like they are innovating as much.

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    [–] [email protected] 38 points 5 days ago (5 children)

    First time seeing hate for deepin. What's wrong with it?

    [–] [email protected] 108 points 5 days ago (8 children)

    It’s by a Chinese company, and collects telemetry on its users via Umeng+, which is a Beijing-based analytics company. Even though it’s open source, the code is large enough that it’s hard to tell if there is anythinf compromising in there from the Chinese government, and/or whether/what data collected by Umeng+ is making it to the Chinese government.

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

    So I guess the backdoor is buried DeepIn the code

    [–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    It's unfortunate, because I really like the DE. Real stand out. If it were more trustworthy, it'd be my first choice.

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    [–] [email protected] 44 points 5 days ago (16 children)

    First time seeing hate for deepin. What’s wrong with it?

    Western concerns about connections to Chinese government

    Radware's head of threat research has commented on concerns about analytics collected by Deepin, and whether these are sent to the Chinese government: while the CNZZ analytics service has been removed, analytics are still collected, now by "Umeng+".[29] According to cybersecurity lawyer Steven T. Snyder, due to the sheer size of Deepin's codebase, it is impossible to really scrutinize all the code comprising it to be sure the Chinese government doesn't have backdoors.[29] The project does remain fully open source allowing anyone to review, modify or change the code to meet their standards.

    [–] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago

    due to the sheer size of [the] codebase, it's impossible [...] to be sure [it] doesn't have backdoors.

    Meanwhile Linux and systemd 4rbnv4-3566887808

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    [–] [email protected] 35 points 5 days ago (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Get back to me when you use a real distro, the Hannah Montana distro is the one true distro.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

    Nah, it's obviously Nyarch Linux

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

    Nah, TempleOS.

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    [–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago

    I just continuously google "how to reinstall grub", never get a chance to login

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Please explain this for a DOS/Windows user?

    [–] [email protected] 87 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    Windows? You have exactly 10 seconds to get the hell out of my house!

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (5 children)

    I mean, I dual-boot Mint now. And at least you don't come after me for DOS, because that would get me defensive..

    [–] [email protected] 42 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    it's a Chinese distro that looks very pretty but pays a heavy performance penalty

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

    Of course ~~the~~ there is also the stigma of Chinese government telemetry embedded in Deepin

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    [–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago

    OK, you have 20 seconds

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    [–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Deepin is a desktop environment (windows is the desktop environment for the “windows” os) deepin runs on Linux. There are other desktop environments like gnome and kde. Which are open source. Deepin is a Chinese gov de

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