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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • V0ldek@awful.systems
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    2 months ago

    Iā€™m not really in on distros and related drama (strong ā€œjust fucking use Debian stableā€ camp), why did Red Hat get told to fuck off from the kernel?

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      I started a job in the last year that really forced me to play around with different distros and sometimes building them. Pretty much my entire experience is ā€œabandon ubuntu, just use debianā€ and wishing other people would do the same

      (Pretty much my entire reasoning is that snap fucked up my dev environment so bad I rage installed debian)

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        Ubuntu has been a reasonable Debian for our corporate purposes of late, and we have those vital legacy systems running on fucking 14.04 that nobody is going to pay to reimplement sanely that we are currently lining up to pay Canonical for hyperextended tick-box support while we also put them in a concrete sarcophagus with a 30km exclusion zone

        but some of the snap-based distro nonsense has me worrying