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They say the average person swallows 3 spiders a year.

I think we’re safe. I think WE don’t swallow any spiders, but she’s swallowed millions. So it skews the curve.

I’ve read that just installing arch is a whole ordeal in itself.

You’re talking to a guy who won’t touch terminal because on 6 different occasions I’ve bricked a whole hard drive just by using sudo apt update/ sudo apt upgrade incorrectly.

And you expect me to understand ARCH???

Are you high?

I didn’t try to use sudo apt install hardinfo, but the software store will find things from flatpack, snap, a few others.

It did not find hardinfo.

Well…it didn’t. It told me hardinfo would need 3 dependancies. Then said it wasn’t going to install them.

It listed the 3 dependancies it needed, but said they will not be installed.

Did you try installing the dependencies?

I have zero clue how to do that. I don’t even know what file extention they would be, or where I would get them, or what step 1 would be to installing them.

In windows, any decent program will say “this program needs these dependancies. Would you like to install them?” And I hit yes.

In linux it says “This program won’t install because it needs these dependancies first. We won’t help you install them. You figure it out.”

So instead of just using apt – like every introductory tutorial to Ubuntu and its derivatives leads off with – you chose to do it (effectively) the Windows way that you’re familiar with where you hunt and peck around the Internet for an install file.

Because in 20+ years of off and on using linux, I’ve never once gotten apt to install anything. I have however fucked up my whole system by doing sudo apt update/sudo apt upgrade.

I avoid terminal like the plauge.

You didn’t have the dependencies, and it told you which ones to install. Why does it need to tell you why it needs them?

I didn’t say I want to know why it needs them. I’m upset it tells me that it tells me it needs them, and then says “they won’t be installed”, but won’t tell me WHY they won’t be installed. If the program needs those dependancies, just install them. Instead it juat says “we know you need the dependancies, but we’re not going to do that”.

The problem with linux is the rough edges. It’s SLOWLY getting better.

2026 linux I find to be BARELY usable as a daily driver.

2006 linux was just trash.

In both cases, power users may have a different experience.

I tried installing a program called “hardinfo”. My ZorinOS software store didn’t find it through flathub.

So I googled it, found a .deb file, which my Zorin store loaded up to install.

Then I hit install, and it spits out a message like “Software was not installed. Requires these three dependancies, which will not be installed”.

Didn’t tell me why they didn’t install. Just said “Hardinfo needs these programs. Good luck figuring it out asshole!”

Ok, it may not have said it in those EXACT words…but you get the idea.

That being said, I recently booted up my old Windows 7 machine, and…I have no idea if the OS was always this slow, or if it’s gotten slower due to being SO out of date. It felt sluggish. And it theoretically SHOULD be faster. I have 16GB of ram now instead of 8GB. And it’s running off of SSD instead of a 5400rpm HDD. Theoretically it should have a huge speed boost.

Maybe I’m just used to a lighter OS after using it for this many years.

“Appears to be hacked”

Has anyone considered the fact that maybe construction workers just hate ICE too?

votes for you in the next election

Hear that guys??? It’s time to get serious! No more joking around!

So a jew, a catholic, and a muslim walk into a bar…and things were pretty akward from across the room.

Some of them. I’m not a fan of poison ivy, or geese.

People are just as fake as AI

Whelp, this is my life meow

FTFY

…why does this gif exist???

God dammit. Your post made me realize the obvious answer.

Gail. You e-mail Gail.

Welp. I suck at life.

No no no. That’s not how rhymes work.

You text Lex, and e-mail a female!

…yeah, let’s see YOU find a name that rhymes with “e-mail”. Not so easy, is it?

C’mon now! Don’t do that. Don’t be that guy. Don’t be the person who thinks he’s making a funny joke, but is in fact wrong.

Everybody knows Jeffrey Dahmer targeted loners who had few if any connections, because it would be easier to prey on their lonelyness. He only killed 1 at a time, and if he waited until he had 8 bodies, the first few would have already began to rot! You gotta cook human flesh right away! Otherwise it spoils…

One time I was sitting in the living room. Kitchen is to my immediate left on the other side of the wall.

I’m watching tv, and then from in the kitchen I hear a duck. QUACK QUACK QUACK QUACK QUACK.

I’m so confused. I don’t have a duck. Why is there randomly a duck in my kitchen at 2am???

So I jump up, run into the kitchen where I see my cat who turns around like “OH HIIIIII!!!”

No duck.

So I start looking in cabnets. In the oven. In the fridge. I walked down the hall and checked the bathroom. I checked the closet.

I looked everywhere for this duck. I’m not crazy. I heard a duck. It was very close, in the kitchen. I heard it. I know I heard it. Where did it come from??? Where did it go???

Finally I gave up. My cat just looking at me losing my shit for an hour. Just looking at me like “You ok???”

So finally I just sat back down on the couch and wondered if I was losing my mind.

…never did find a duck.

I know this doesn’t relate to your comment per se, but we’re sharing cat stories. My cat didn’t steal chicken. My cat stole sanity.