For context, this book came out the previous year: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/140

it’s still a market, and “free” is still a price point

Dude Socrates was convinced that reading and writing would ruin everyone’s memory who grew up with it. Whining about <innovation> somehow handicapping the next generation by making them “too dependent on technology” or whatever and couching it in reasonable-sounding terms is as old as language, and time always makes fools of those who indulge in that sort of masturbatory delusion. You’re just jealous we had cooler toys, own it.

edit: replied to wrong user

who the hell calls rugby “rugger”? that’s even worse than “soccer”.

1. This is foosball.

2. The sport with the egg is “gridiron football”, we call it “football” for short for the same reason other countries call association football “football” for short, it’s the most popular variant here.

3. We don’t call it “American football” because that’s not what it’s called, you lot say that because of point 2. Nobody is going to say “European football” because that’s not what it’s called either.

4. The word “soccer” was imported from the UK (seriously that word is british as hell, you really think we came up with that shit?), and we use it for reasons outlined in points 2 and 3, and also because “european football” is inaccurate, tiresome, and stupid sounding.

5. This is the first and only time I’ve ever heard of rugby union football being referred to as “ruggers”, I never thought I’d read a dumber-sounding word than soccer but you’re just full of surprises today. For some reason i was imagining one of the replies was the same person, this was in error.

yes.

For the curious, the image is from the movie Automata starring Antonio Banderas, which is more or less an extrapolation of I, Robot’s premises in a PK Dick style post-apocalyptic setting. Worth watching IMO. wait nvm i looked again and it’s K2SO lol im high

i’m only picking at you because you’re being an ass

and yet it drives you mad to no end that someone doesn’t like your favorite DE and “idk bro it works fine for me skill issue git gud son” doesn’t change their mind. please continue entertaining me for free thusly.

actually, why would you expect someone to change their opinion based on how a bunch of nerds talk down to them for speaking their experience?

i think it’s funny how bent out of shape everyone’s getting over a meme and you sound salty af to me but go off

ok boomer

this has to be a joke, i just tinkered with it for a couple weeks to check in and most of the extensions i tried either just broke things or didn’t work at all.

i take pride in my jank, and am up front about the generally poor quality of my user experience.

people are literally saying shit like “fight me” and screaming demands for specifics like my stupid meme about being generally disappointed with a desktop environment is a support ticket or something

ITT op posts a meme to make light of their frustration and a bunch of neckbeards take it super fucking personally that it’s not formatted like a support ticket

jesus that’s a dramatic take. why are you all so emotionally attached to a piece of software? go outside.

fam it’s a shitpost not a bug report or support request. calm down. it’s just generally janky, random shit breaks without any apparent rhyme or reason to it and there’s no apparent way to fix it aside from breaking everything else i use by switching to wayland.

ITT fanboys pretend they’ve never seen a hiccup out of the buggiest Linux DE in existence.

let’s be real here, what about plasma isn’t janky? for 10+ years every time i try it nearly every part of the UI is bugged in some way, no way in hell all of you never have issues.