"i don't use woke communist propaganda!"
sent from linux"
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It's wild to me that someone like Linus has the time and mental capacity to compose these. It's kind of nice to see that you can act like an unemployed Reddit mod no matter your other responsibilities. I too like to act that way occasionally.
When people are just the dumbest sometimes you need to unload. The weight of being a genuine person wanting to better this fucking disgrace of a world takes a toll.
In those moments, they're the personification of all the hate and ugly that your existence is against.
Indulging all the time yeah get the neckbeard and fedora ready... sometimes though
Least angry Linus post
Anger is strongest when you care about the subject of the anger
Why would linus give a shit about right-wing swamp life?
x11 fork guy was saying some anti vax shit or something in the kernel discussions and I'm sure he's not the only lobotomy-right-wing commenter. Lob-right for short.
Makes me proud to push Linux professionally.
In shocked and appalled that the guy who maintains the free os kernel might be a dirty commie. I use arch btw.
sob
I... I use arch.
i wanna use arch but my daily driver is a macbook pro with intel silicon.
Is it one of the more recent ones, i.e. one with a T2 chip? If so, T2 Linux might be for you. Got Arch running on a 2019 MacBook Pro this way. The WiFi kernel module causes quite a few issues, so it's a bit of a pain to install and even after that, WiFi will stop working occasionally, but reloading the kernel module helps if that happens. Definitely far from perfect, but still somewhat usable.
I think it's also possible and easier to install on older MacBooks without the T2 chip, but not sure since I have no experience with those.
I’ve got a 2012 Mac book pro with arch Linux running great on it, other than some jiggery with the WiFi driver.
If it’s intel, it is totally a non issue that it’s a Mac, other than the ones from around 2012 need a couple of extra commands to get WiFi connected in the instillation image boot , and an extra package needs to be specified for instal to make sure it will be able to connect afterwards. Ethernet works without any jiggery or pokery.
Can confirm, arch runs fine on my 2014 macbook pro too. Does definitely require some adjusting to get there, but if you wanna use arch that's a given anyway. Gnome desktop has decent multi touch support for the trackpad out of the box IIRC.
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asahi! fedora is fiiiine
That would be for Apple silicon, not intel.
ah.. i read "silicon" and nothing else
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This is one of the most heartwarming things I’ve read in weeks. Linus is a treasure.
Wait, you can get an atheist ID card?
In some countries, your religion is on your national id. See, for example, Indonesia or Thailand. Greece had it until 2005.
In some of these cases, you could literally have government id that says "Atheist".
But it is largely a figure of speech. It means you not only identify with a group, but publicly identify with a ground.
In Indonesia, IIRC, being publicly an atheist is technically legal, but will get you killed, and nobody would convict your murderers. Atheists are seen there the way paedophiles are seen elsewhere.
I once had a coworker react to my atheism like that and I was so proud of myself for saying in my second language “what good does your religion bring when you would treat me like that for my beliefs while I treat you well?” It actually seemed to sink in, at least for all of our other (religious) coworkers who were, uh, forming a circle around us.
Jesus fuck
I don't ever see it being helpful in life to register your religion.
In countries that collect church taxes on behalf of the church, it can be necessary to officially de-register your religion to avoid paying taxes to the church.
A lot of churches/temples are membership-based. You can probably still attend sermons and the like in most cases if you're not a member, but they won't let you have a wedding, baptize your baby etc. in their temple.
It's mostly in death so people put you in the right cemetery.
I would worry more about being rounded up depending on your id and who's in charge than being put in the right place.
I know that the Satanic Temple has membership cards you can buy. I'm sure there's probably other organizations out there that do as well.
What paltform is he on?
That's mastodon
Akkoma actually, but same basic thing.
I remember when this was forat curculating I found him and his post on mastodon.
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He's not gonna sugarcoat it, ever. Hell yeah.
When was this posted? Or is it not at https://social.kernel.org/torvalds ?
I was able to dig it up:
Hmm.. I can see the thread in mastodon, except for that specific comment. Everything is visible if I visit social.kernel.org in Firefox though.
Thanks.
I found morgthorak (as their post was deleted).
(Offensive Language Warning) https://mk.gabe.rocks/@morgthorak@poa.st
I figured "Is Morg that bad? Maybe Linus is overreacting, or there's missing context?" Ohhh boy. I can't even quote their posts without violating Lemmy's rules, but its openly white supremacist and crudely homophobic.
But it is kinda... morbidly fascinating to peer into that sort of community. I haven't heard some of those slurs since high school.
Oh, a user from poa.st. Figures. A year or two ago I spent a while looking at Fediverse block lists and that site was one of those that got frequently blocked/defederated. Because of all of the Nazis, apparently.
(Actually pretty weird that they even attempted to federate with Mastodon in the first place. Most of the Nazi shitholes just install Mastodon without federation, get blocked by the rest of the Fediverse just as a precaution, and then they run out of money and disappear quietly and the admins abscond with the donations and the users pretend nothing ever happened)
Well, that isn't much worse than most right-wingers. What I call concentration camp fetish (and pedants fuck me over for it) is very popular.
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A few years ago.
Holy based
o7
*Acided. See how stupid you sound?
what
Edit: ah, acid is the opposite of a base. He's very acided :3
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