skribe

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[–] skribe@piefed.social 21 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Jump where? The alternatives currently require a small selection of hardware; are expensive; don't offer the same level of service; or all the above.

[–] skribe@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

I'm in Singas, and there's a Danish canned pork (luncheon meat) that we buy on occasion. It's cheaper and better tasting than spam.

[–] skribe@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago

Clancy had the Soviets use a similar tactic in Red Storm Rising.

[–] skribe@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

Yup. I think I've only visited twice since I signed up. There's no reason.

[–] skribe@piefed.social 12 points 2 months ago

I had it for more than 5 years before abandoning it. I still got ads. I'd complain and YouTube would tell me it was a rare bug, or my browser, or the phase of the moon. They'd promise it'd never happen again and it still kept happening. I suspect it was a test to see what they could get away with.

Others in the comments have similar stories.

[–] skribe@piefed.social 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

You occasionally still get ads, even with premium.

[–] skribe@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

GenX. I used IRC back in the early 90s, but by the mid-90s I'd moved on. Probably to ICQ. I can't recall.

Then, in the mid-noughties my millennial work colleagues were going crazy for Mirc. I was shocked to discover it was just IRC with a pretty face but all the same issues that caused me to leave it 10 years before.

And it's still going. Although, no longer flavour of the month.

[–] skribe@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago

Mint works reasonably well out of the box, but there are always edge cases (weird hardware/missing drivers) that can throw a spanner into the works. Hopefully as Linux becomes more widely used, we'll see hardware manufacturers release drivers and keep them up-to-date like they do with windows and Mac.

[–] skribe@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

Not without proper insurance.

I've been using Linux since 93 and I love it. I'm confident enough to support my family's machines, but there's no way I'd offer more than basic advice to a stranger, let alone a group of them.

[–] skribe@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Ignoring the missing features, is stoat a better experience for non-techies coming from discord?

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