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[libreelec-official]

I've arrived bitches, bros, and nonbinary hoes

[duncehat]

[what-even-is-thiss]

My computer just randomly stopped running Bluetooth and even digging into the internal files and forcing it to run the software isn’t working for some reason.

[amorphousmassofflesh]

My child just randomly stopped eating, and even hitting them and yelling at them to eat isn't working for some reason.

[what-even-is-thiss]

You know I’ve cycled through like ten different snarky comments I could make in reply to this but frankly this comment (even if it’s some kind of joke) is so out of the ballpark from what I’m talking about that I fear your fundamental understanding of what im referring to isn’t even in the same zip code as the reality of the actual situation and I don’t know how to properly be funny in response to this because I’m so genuinely baffled.

[kde-plasma-official]

have u tried killing and birthing your kid again?

[libreelec-official]

Have you tried opening your child's skull and kinda just moving some shit around?

[systemdeez]

I finally switched to the furry web browser (firefox).

[libreelec-official]

I prefer Librewolf because it has options for privacy focused anti ai search engines

[gnu-xp]

Whenever someone is rough with their electronics, you know they're either incredibly incompetent or incredibly competent

[kde-plasma-official]

sometimes the beep-boops need a little slap

[1nvalidsyntax]

I slapped my computer and it moaned. What do I do now?

[kde-plasma-official]

Kiss it

[libreelec-official]

Slap her more

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

that girl running Plasma, you gotta find the Klitoris

[ubuntu-official]

We're combining Windows and Linux to create an operating system that no one wants. It's called Winux.

[libreelec-official]

All the difficulty of Linux and all the shittiness of Windows

[pipewire-official]

we should stop using w*ndows command line arg notation for our tone indicators and instead use far superior unix command flag syntax. so instead of /j and /s its -j and -s

[schpeelah]

Tone indicators are based on closing tags, originally they were like </sarcasm>

[pipewire-official]

wait. really???

[kde-plasma-official]

good to know but to circle back, what about changing them to windows path syntax, instead of /hj we do \hj

\j

[libreelec-official]

I'm still alive btw, I've just been busy

[fruttymoment]

One of the funniest tech shit for me is the fucked up weird file types that entirely confuses your phone so much that it asks you shit like 'Open file with : Google Docs, Plague Inc., WhatsApp, Office 365, Clash Royale, Cash App, Spotify'

[libreelec-official]

Fuck the obscure ones, my phone does that with RAR files

[foone]

A fun thing about computer skills is that as you have more of them, the number of computer problems you have doesn't go down.

This is because as a beginner, you have troubles because you don't have much knowledge.

But then you learn a bunch more, and now you've got the skills to do a bunch of stuff, so you run into a lot of problems because you're doing so much stuff, and only an expert could figure them out.

But then one day you are an expert. You can reprogram everything and build new hardware! You understand all the various layers of tech!

And your problems are now legendary. You are trying things no one else has ever tried. You Google them and get zero results, or at best one forum post from 1997. You discover bugs in the silicon of obscure processors. You crash your compiler. Your software gets cited in academic papers because you accidently discovered a new mathematical proof while trying to remote control a vibrator. You can't use the wifi on your main laptop because you wrote your own uefi implementation and Intel has a bug in their firmware that they haven't fixed yet, no matter how much you email them. You post on mastodon about your technical issue and the most common replies are names of psychiatric medications. You have written your own OS but there arent many programs for it because no one else understands how they have to write apps as a small federation of coroutine-based microservices. You ask for help and get Pagliacci'd, constantly.

But this is the natural of computer skills: as you know more, your problems don't get easier, they just get weirder.

[sreegs]

you know you've made it when you're googling problems and ending up with 0-9 results

[manyblinkinglights]

#you don't actually have to be good to have these problems#you just have to be obsessed with a micro-issue that no one else cares about

[teratocybernetics]

[lfs-official]

And this is why my computer crashes when I let it sit for too long. Not only am I introducing new issues with the way I want to do things but all the old issues I introduced while learning and trying to fix problems 8 years ago are still there.

[libreelec-official]

I mean is it really an issue if sometimes if I leave my computer in sleep mode the monitor resolution drops down to like 12 pixels total? I don't think so

[nixcraft]

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

:q

[katie-official]

not a problem on nano! and if you know the keybinds, you can set up an alias with --nohelp!

[ed-official]

keybinds? help? pathetic. nonstandard. this is all you need for text editing:

[rubylang-official]

@emacs-unofficial

[kde-plasma-official]

or you could just

[libreelec-official]

Imagine being German

[my-dailydreams]

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

This picture is NOT CUTE

they are making her use Window 8. unimaginably cruel

[libreelec-official]

At least it's not Windows 11. I'd much prefer to use Windows 8

[cerulean235-deactivated]

Support a Class Action Lawsuit of Tumblr for its Discrimination of Transfems

I have created a Discord server to, well, do what is in the title of this post. Please join to support this movement, and please reblog for reach. I will not be able to do this on my own.

Check out the Transfem Tumblr Class Action Lawsuit Organising community on Discord – hang out with 2 other members and enjoy free voice and

If you cannot or do not want to join this Discord but want to support, please DM me instead to see what you can do.

[cerulean235-deactivated]

If you were affected by the recent ban wave or any other moderation action, please either join the Discord or message @transfeminist-action to let us know! We are still working on the lawsuit, we have not just gone down quietly. We've starting speaking with lawyers at this point, and have monthly meetings available to anyone on the server to help guide our progress.

If you can't join the Discord, please follow the linked blog instead! We are setting up monthly announcements and more on that blog. We also have a Bluesky account by the same name if you wish to follow that instead.

[jackiefour]

Okay, so according to this post, @staff says they're listening to us, so...

Sound off, Tumblr! How do you feel about the latest update to the reblog and notes?

Hate it. 👎

Like it. 👍

Voting ended onMar 19

No nuance. Go ahead and reblog the crap out of this.

[i-suggest-transing-your-gender]

Discovering you're trans but being unable to come out is kinda like how in the last unicorn the unicorn becomes aware of mortality and human feelings and then has to go back to being a unicorn knowing what all that feels like

[libreelec-official]

Unfortunately for y'all this is my trans blog as well so you have to put up with my bullshit

[cartoonrival]

im completely addicted to Open Link in New Tab

[cartoonrival]

if Open Link in New Tab is wrong then baby i dont want to be right

[libreelec-official]

If you middle click then you can open link in new tab faster