I literally bought the wrong version of a game called Heretic on Amazon in the early 2000s because it “had a cool penguin on it” lmao
So not the fantasy shooter based on the Doom engine? :(
Oh it was we just had to return it and buy the right one haha the shareware copy held me over for a bit longer
Heh, nowadays Shadow of The Serpent Riders is the only version worth having these days, unless you’re a glitch hunter.
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Self actualization has to start somewhere.
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Penguin people for sure know theirs
And they’ll tell you about it every time.
I use Arch.
I use NixOS, btw.
Man of culture
i use multiple os.
I use even more! (j/k)
Insert GNU/ LINUX Copypasta here. To feed the meme: I use Pop!_OS btw
There are some tech illiterate people, who use Linux without knowing it, because their child set it up for them.
80% of people using Android.
You’re being generous.
98%
Or their sibling (e.g. my sister).
As if apple users had no fuckin clue
Worked in a repair shop long enough to know that a whole lot of mac users just know they bought a “better computer” without any idea of what an operating system is, someone showed them that the photo they took on their phone magically appeared on their computer and that was all the info they needed to pay 2 grand for it
My mom is tech illiterate and I buy all her devices for her. If I gave her a Mac she’ll just use it without knowing what OS it is.
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Oh, look! I have a weird windowzzzz with a weird dock! Is it windows 12!? /s
weeeeelllllllll …
(jk)
Kid named Chromebook
cries in un-Linux-able chromebook (I can only do smth like crouton on it)
un-Linux-able
Damn, that should be fucking illegal
I know, it’s so annoying because a WM would run so beautifully on it and then I would actually enjoy using it on campus/on the go to edit documents
Does anyone really not know if they have an apple or windows device…?
Not if you are on Android phone.
I think you mean a “Samsung”. Because like 50% of people using Android have no idea that they are.
I think you mean a “Pixel” because most Samsung customers only care that it’s “Not an iPhone”
For the past decade or more, people have been asking me if my phone is “iPhone or Samsung”, USB micro/C are referred to as “Samsung charger”, and I’m pretty sure no one knows what a Pixel is, though that may just be because the big carriers don’t offer them where I live.
That’s pretty disappointing, because Samsung is a terrible company, with a bad UI, and creepy privacy practices.
Sure, but Samsung has a massive advertising budget, and that’s what is truely important. It means it’s what people know.
Yes. I have helped people install software over discord and they don’t know what a OS is.
Some people are very braindead you know
I don’t know, it sounds a bit Linux circle-jerky to me but then again a lot of people are indeed very clueless, true!
I wouldn’t say braindead. They just don’t care (because all they need a computer for is to read emails and use a text processor) or haven’t had the time to learn yet (every known fact must be learned for a first time at some point in your life, which means there is a time in your life where you don’t have that knowledge yet (ie. the time before you acquired that knowledge)).
My aunt in her late 70s probably is only distantly aware. I wouldn’t be surprised if she turned her tablet around to check.
I’m sure my grandma does not give a shit
I do Linux research for a living and I barely give a shit.
I got my grandma a chromebox for easy updates and minimal tech support. I get a call from her probably once a month when a random tab she got to through Facebook puts her browser in full screen and says she has a windows virus. Sometimes she calls them but is smart enough to not give a credit card. Every time she calls me all scared and asks “I don’t have Microsoft right?” lol
Not sure grandma would be visiting this site
You’d be very surprised
Sometimes they can afford to not know because they have a relative who can manage the device for them. In which case they really wouldn’t be installing software on their own really.
You would be surprised at how many people cannot even change the volume on their tablet.
You would be surprised at how many people cannot even change the volume on their tablet.
If that number is more than 0 then I would be very surprised. There are buttons on the side for volume and volume buttons have been standard on devices since at least the early 80’s.
Had someone ask me why their phone didnt make noise or vibrate when they recieved calls the other day. They were pressing the volume down button with the unlock button to get the screen to turn on/off. So it would slowly mute the phone and take the vibrate off once muted.
They would have benefited from the buttons not being less than half an inch away, and possibly on the opposite side. (Not sure what kind of phone it was, it was a cheaper device it seemed.)
This reminds me of that time where my mum entered the fastboot menu on her phone by mistake. She panicked and I just told her to restart, making sure she holds only the power button this time. It also reminds me of the first time I got into my first smart device (my Tablet’s) bootloader by mistake. I was 10, my parents had just bought me the tablet like a week ago and I was at my grandma’s so I understandably panicked a lot. But of course, no damage was done.
Conversely me, the first time I did this on my Galaxy S2: H A C K E R M A N
Now phones lock bootloaders, to protect others from making the same mistake you did.
Isn’t that so nice of them? /s
Usually you can still enter fastboot, just not do anything except factory reset, or flash signed firmware.
That /s is carrying so much of that comment. I’m running a custom ROM, BTW.
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I wish SrGrafo was on Lemmy.
I don’t
Same. He’s got some suspiciously weird posts and a lot of his comics are kind of low-brow.
i never found a lemmy server that didnt have performance issues. so i wont be on lemmy either , spins when i try to create an acoount.
Where you at then, kbin?
Is this now Microsoft Chat?
Jesus Christ, did Microsoft rename Lync again?!
They are.
does it not tell you where someone is posting from on … checks username … KBIN? the fuck are you doing mate?
Using Jerboa which doesn’t show instance unless you click through to the profile 😅
I’m dumb lol, I use KES and it displays the domain unless their on the same domain (?) so I didn’t see anything after their username and figured I’d ask
Some third party apps don’t display the user’s domain by default.
I don’t know if they fixed the bug, but it only spun for me when the username I entered was already taken.
Me too, then I could block him now instead of having to wait
Absolutely one of my favorite james acaster quotes! His whole Netflix special, “Repertoire” is just fantastic
I’m in this picture :)
youre a penguin?
No, a gnawed apple
indeed!
You mean, there are still websites that don’t auto-detect what OS you’re running and make you actually choose?
I actually hate it when a website does that, especially when it doesn’t let you download the application you want because your OS is not compatible. For example you wanna download some windows software to run it with Wine/Proton and the website detects you are running linux and does not let you download. I always need to spoof my User-Agent string to get access.
The correct solution (as with languages on websites) is to auto-detect but then make it super easy and obvious how to change if the auto detected version is not what the user wants.
Also if any web developers out there are reading - don’t use the user’s location to determine the language/region they want, and especially don’t force it. I have no idea why so many websites do this but those responsible deserve to permanently have small amounts of sand in all their socks.
yeah it’s really annoying all my devices are in english but my native language is german so sometimes it’s in english and sometimes in german
How do websites choose a language by location? What about countries that have more than one official language?
Yeah, I’m saying they shouldn’t, but plenty of them do. They use geoip or location services to work out where you are and then use that to send you to the local site or the site in the language that they feel is appropriate for that location.
If you’re really lucky they then make it difficult (and sometimes practically impossible) to switch.
Besides the problem you’ve highlighted for countries with multiple languages, you also have immigrants, people on holiday, multilingual people, VPN users… And it’s not great for your SEO either.
I hated when Spotify forced me dutch language, glad I got my account deleted.
The kind of website that distributes linux stuff is going to know most linux distros ship with Firefox set up to not report OS
Does librewolf do that too? I didn’t realize that was a feature of firefox
Librewolf reports as Firefox on Win 10.
Huh that’s interesting, thanks
And this is why stats showing how prevalent Linux users are on a site are pretty useless.
Because an oddball browser based on Firefox says it’s Firefox? I don’t really follow the logic there. No one gave an example of the OS being wrong in a UA string
No. Because the firefox based browser shows linux as windows to refuse some tracking
Not by default but configuring it to lie about your user agent is dead easy
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Hmm. If only it could all be done client side somehow, like maybe there should be a client side programming language for browsers? How cool would that be?
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Arch btw ;)
Penguin People
Penguin People
I’ll have you know I’m and Arch Oligarch tyvm.
