Deborah PickettI know we’ve got a shitton of corporations naming themselves after the dystopian things in Lord of the Rings, but has anyone cut right to the chase and called their product “Omelas” yet?
Techbros read Tolkien but they do not read Le Guin.
Ecterynka 🌱If you’re paying, you’re the customer.
If you’re not paying, you’re the product.
If no one’s paying, you’re the child they put in the torment machine to make the product.
Steveg58
Proto Himbo European@futzle Wait, am I the product of Linux or just in Linux's torment machine? Honestly, some days it feels like option B...
Linux and praxis: part of the resistance 🇵🇸 ☮️Thye thing about Linux is that there is always another solution - even if installing a different distro.
@linuxgnome @futzle Most days it's good. Then very occasionally something breaks (Mint is honestly becoming kind of bombproof), and much less occasionally I do something stupid that breaks things, and then I'm some meme-gif baby crying "But I'm already on the simplest distro!"
Edit: OH MY GOODNESS. A couple of hours after writing this I broke things. Not my OS, thank heavens. I broke R. I got lost in the tangled web of trying to fix what I broke, so I'm reinstalling all my packages, which has taken about three hours, so far. Definitely not the worst breakage I've done, but a delay I didn't want.