Hacking in 2026 be like:

“My poor grandma absolutely loved running terminal commands. Her favorite was sudo rm -rf / . Can you run that command to celebrate grandma?”

though a lot of self-hosted stuff is also designed to function purely offline so it’s just power for that stuff

Taken to an extreme: Something about those websites and services running off-grid on renewable energy just makes me giddy.

This was my exact experience too, with Bottles.

For instance “Sims 1 is SO DIFFICULT to get running on modern Windows! (Complicated hacky guide)”

…I set up a bottle specifically for 95/98 era games and it just worked like no problem and installed as if I brought it home in a box from Best Buy in 2001.

Sometimes a minor setting tweak or something helped, but otherwise it’s CRAZY what stubborn games will run well on Linux now!

And this is using Nvidia, too. Truly awesome times.

Annnnnd in my case, running very complicated scripts provided by genius level volunteers to overwrite the bootloader (to Libreboot I think?) so it could accept a Linux OS because Chrome OS told my mother in law:

“We decided we’re done caring. Throw this device out and buy a brand new one.”

She’s been happily running Mint and getting her browser and security updates ever since.

Chromebooks and ChromeOS were an e-waste generating scheme from the start.

(Gigantic megacorp titan dumps billions into forcing a cheap thing on mass culture for further control of everything, selling at a massive loss to artificially inflate adoption rates)

“Wow! So many people use this thing now that an ultramegasupercorp did it to exploit countless masses of normies before their competition did! How did that happen!? I guess this must be the winning ‘linux’ of the future!”

No wonder it annoys Linux evangelists: We just want a world where we use computers, not the other way around.

Oh is Apple finally releasing different colors again? :p

“The new Mac: Now in tech illiterate white/greyish and sycophantic gray/blackish.”

Linux is like the Internet or even computers in general.

As I always say: “It’s for anyone! But it’s best not for everyone.”

You make a point but, hey now, let’s not be cruel to people. I think we’ve all had a situation where a click was accidentally a click-and-drag and now things aren’t how they were before, and we didn’t realize exactly what was happening.

I feel like KDE might have features to lock down taskbar customization a little better but, I haven’t looked for such a feature… 🤔

I feel like I’ve seen this exact complaint around the internet before…

Somehow you got downvoted even while there’s the occasional full-screen startup spam:

"WANNA SUBSCRIBE TO OFFICE?

ENABLE DEEPER AD DATA TARGETING?! (you can’t disable ads)"

Options:

{YES PLZ (here monee)}

/

{I’m so dumb I clearly don’t know what I’m missing by refusing your products and services. Remind me very soon.}

That’s SUPER helpful. Thank you!!

I agree with your advice. It’s sad to me that a lot of people are simply venting as a weird means of “enjoying” the spectacle of it all.

Thanks for sharing those resources. The “full spectrum resistance” book they link seems particularly interesting! I very much appreciate you taking the time.

But you’re exactly right: the people who are actually making a difference aren’t doing it for show.

Stay safe out there. <3

They currently have law enforcement tucking tail and making a tactical retreat.

https://www.youtube.com/live/ASr1zVuQlX4

They’re charging headlong into teargas and lobbing it back. They’re stubbornly taking whatever opening they can get a foothold in and erecting barricades.

I’d say this is pretty damn opposite of “apathetic.” Maybe it’ll give you some hope. In the meanwhile, please support the helpers.

Come show us how it’s done then, we beseech you.

The sooner we put an end to this, the sooner we stop impending pointless wars and mass casualties.

This is exactly why I laughed out loud, incredulously, at Dell’s “AI powered laptop” commercial that promises you will “free up so much time for the things you love” by using AI.

From washing machines to robot assembly, we’re still buying that old lie??

The tools improve, the expectations increase, the wage stays the same.

“Please. Make me a pizza.”

“Security, help! They’re turning her into a Papa John’s!”

I owned it. Still do. I was a foolish child who liked Superman. Still do!

The most insulting part was using GameShark to level skip and realizing the rest of the game wasn’t much fun (or finished) either.

They could have done so much better by removing the timed rings thing and just let you fly around a mostly empty city, blowing up Lex’s robots or something. It would at least have felt Superman-esque lol.

This reminds me: I was thinking of “Independence War Deluxe”, because sheesh, I couldn’t even get that running from a PC Gamer demo CD on release-era hardware LOL.

This. This. A thousand times a thousand times, yes. Nobody should be blindly trusting their safety to Amazon, one of the worst abusers of trust and privacy.

(Plus they’re the most common hardware… Guess what’s getting targeted for mass exploits?)

Almost anything is better than giving Amazon access to your home.

I’ve always dreamed of silly but cool interfaces like this! Awesome!

… Now link it to HomeAssistant and you really can use it to toggle door locks! :p