When reddit first started, it almost failed because there was no content.

So what they did was had staff members post, and reply to each other. They made sure to reply to any actual new people. And then they did this from hundreds of automated accounts.

They simulated activity to promote actual real activity.

I know everyone will disagree with me, but I’d say DON’T flag them as bots. If the bots fool humans, and cause growth of the fediverse/lemmy? Great. In time you can turn off the bots. But only once actual humans are here.

Something like 173 million users.

A bowl is most usefull when it is empty serving your personal data to our overlords, the corporations.

That is an important step, yes.

However another important step is that the default distro needs to basically not even highlight that terminal exists.

If you’re trying to learn how to use linux, and step 1 of the tutorial is “open terminal”, you will lose 97% of your new install base. Then headlines will flood that linux machines are being returned in high numbers.

As much as you guys hate to hear this, the first experience for a new linux user needs to be intuitive. Before they even turn the machine on, they have to know how to use this software. Not because they are experts, but because the space and experience guides itself.

Then as you learn, you can customize a bit more, and from there linux can become a rabbit hole. But the point is, let the individual user control the depths which they dive. Because I suspect 90%+ won’t even change the desktop background. And thats ok.

Make it easy for the dummies, but then you individually can tinker if you want to. And it’s linux, so…ya know. Go nuts. But some people don’t want to do all that tinkering. That vanilla experience is what gets remembered to represent that OS. Even if you customized it and experienced it very differently.

Found the guy whos 6 year old somehow spent $900 on their credit card in minecraft

The internet foesn’t forget, but half the country refuse to believe anything not told to them by fox news. Thats how they know what their opinions are.

I hate how everyone treats Budh like a jolly lovable old grandpa.

And not…you know…A FUCKING WARMONGER!!!

I don’t know man…with all the shrinkflation, full size snickers are almost what halloween size was when I was a kid. And costs 6x what full size bars used to.

If my grandma were still alive to read this story, she’d say “If you ever do this, at least make it funny! Put me in a funny hat. Big sun glasses. Lets do it weekend at bernies style! Just because I’m dead doesn’t mean I’m done living my life, one last time!”

Not all. Just a huge chunk.

2032 actually. The year of alien invasion.

The upside is, trumps home planet will finally take him back. You thought that orange skin wasn’t natural? It is. It oozes out of his pours.

I think peak was XP.

Vista was shit. 7 was alright, but not better than XP. 8 was terrible. 10 was worse than 7, but still meh. 11 is dog shit.

Maybe I’m stupid, but, I don’t see system requirements. I see it’s linux compatible. I have a retroid flip 2, the snapdragon 865 version, with rocknix. So it’s running native linux. Think that could handle your game? I think it has 8gb of ram.

Kind of strange that they abbriviated “to” with “2”.

Even stranger that I still got it right. Unless you’re messing with me. In which case, fair play. I’m totally clueless sometimes.

Drag and drop worked on windows 3.1. That was like the whole thing. “LOOK WHAT YOU CAN DO NOW!”

At this point, I’m fairly sure pissing people off is the point with Windows 11. It’s full of AI no one wants, refuses to officially run on most hardware that people already have, despite running just fine on that same hardware UNofficially, dropped support for drag and drop, doesn’t let you move the taskbar.

And thats not even to mention the fact that it monitors you, and reports back to HQ with screen grabs and usage activity.

Oh look, ZorinOS, just one singular distro, had 1.6 million downloads in the past 2 months.

Wait, is there any special thing that happened 2 months ago? Oh right. Windows 10 support ended, and microsoft told its userbase “fuck you, you can’t get support for windows 10, and this computer can’t update to windows 11. This computer is now trash!”

Suddenly all these youtube videos pop up “Is your PC unable to install windows 11? Try linux!”

And these videos don’t try to sway you to one distro or another. They point out a few big hitters like mint or ubuntu. I can’t imagine them specifically naming zorin, unless it’s a zorin centric video. But I’m talking about the flood of “try linux” videos that popped up in October.

And that 1.6 million is JUST zorin. That’s the runoff. I don’t have numbers, or sources, but gut instinct tells me that if Zorin had 1.6 million downloads, Mint must have had like 5 million minimum. Every video always reccomends Mint. It’s probably overtaken Ubuntu at some point as most used distro.

And all of this, every single bit of user loss has NOTHING to do with linux. Users are angrily switching. Not happily. They feel abandoned, and forced to switch.

If Microsoft either extended Windows 10 support, or allowed Windows 11 to be installed on reasonable hardware, this linux boom DOES NOT HAPPEN. This is Microsoft saying “Yeah bitch, money is tight! Go buy another computer, loser! You’ll do what we say, and there’s nothing you can do to stop us!”

That’s when users switched to linux. This is pure hubris from Microsoft. It would be interesting if somehow we could get a combined number of EVERY distros doenload numbers.

Is E2EE end to end encryption?

The fuck??? Why would home depot discoursge this??? Get a bunch of day laborers outside, who aren’t affiliated with your company, and it’s only GOOD news for your profits.

Consider this. A new home owner wants to refurbish their kitchen. So the guy goes down to home depot to get some materials. But he also knows there’s some day laborers outside.

So now he’s bought the materials from you, hired the labor from guys hanging around outside your store, and no matter what happens next, you made a sale because you’re known for having day laborers outside.

Plus, even if they do a shitty job, the home owner has no recoarse against you. He can’t sue YOU for shoddy worksmanship. You never hired these guys. All you did was sell the materials, and the materials are fine. It’s the installation that was subpar.

And plus, it’s not like home depot sells a seperate service of installation anyways. So they don’t lose money, they gain sales, and have no legal obligation, and benefit from having an installation team that you don’t pay, and aren’t legally responsible for in any way.

Did you just reply to yourself? And he’s the hot mess???

…wouldn’t that be Gods middle name? Jesus was the son.

I’ve always wondered what the H stood for.

Homeboy?

HillthatIdieon?

Hank?