Yeah. I don't mind snap at all for cases where a better package doesn't exist.

What made me give up Ubuntu was how it railroaded me into snap versions of packages that work better, for me, as native .deb installs.

the thing people dislike about that is that you're silently moved from an open system to a closed-source one.

Yeah. I didn't realize I had fallen for it until I tried to automate a system rebuild, and discovered that a bunch of the snap back end seems to be closed and proprietary.

And a lot of it for no reason. Reasonable apt and flatpak alternates existed, but Canonical steered me to their closed repackaged versions.

FUCK IT, I BUILD FROM SOURCE CODE FROM SHADY GITHUB REPO_*

I feel seen.

Fundamentalism is, at it's core, about having a simple formula for dealing with a complex and scary world.

That sounds harmless, until my desire for simple answers rolls right over my neighbor's human rights (and it frequently does).

I don't mean to excuse anyone, but I honestly think we will see less fundamentalism as we reduce our overall exposure to sources of subtle brain damage (lead paint. Etc).

I don't want augmented reality.

I want a face mounted terminal overlay to go with my keyboard pants, and display my todolist, and occasionally allow me to SMS with my friends with my phone in my pocket.

I realize it's not what most people want, but I have the virtue of not caring even a little bit how (much) stupid(er) this will make me look.

The audience for this technology exists, but we're huge nerds.

Somebody needs to make and sell us this thing, and we will test it for them while figuring out if there's a use case for normal fashion conscious people.

And yes, we almost all wear glasses, so make it a clip-on or something.

Dang. That's quite the cast.

This could be so good or so bad.

This is just begging for a kernel memory space access joke...

So one of the two things Windows is good for - acting as a terminal for remotely accessing better operating systems, is getting a new name that obscures exactly that most useful use case. Yeah, that tracks.

Microsoft must be feeling the need to shore up the walls so their remaining users can't leave as easily.

(Sarcasm/Serious: Let's say 50/50. I am actually aware that some people have other uses for Windows.)

Spike is awesome. I need them to make a lot more Avenue 5. I'm holding out hope that it'll get the Red Dwarf treatment.

"You're just contradicting everything I say. That's not an argument!"

"It can be."

"It isn't!"

Ouch! I'm not here for "getting hit in the head" lessons. I thought this was the room for an argument?!

Yeah. It's worst for the most recent movie, because we're always afraid the latest bad movie is the last one we will get.

For example, I probably don't need to hate Pacific Rim 2, so much, and I might stop if we get some better sequels.