God isn’t real, so you haven’t spoken a single word of truth in this thread. And if he is real, then he’s a right piece of shit for all of the terrible things he does and allows. I’d rather role the dice with the big man down stairs who is only there because he loves me too much.

Religion is a cancer.

Growing up on a small town in Iowa, I would leave my car unlocked and windows down during the day. I lived rural and we never locked our door. Now there’s been more development near my mother’s house and she locks the door at night and when she’s not home. Someone down the street about a mile away had someone break into their house. Unfortunately for the perp, the home owner heard, grabbed a golf club and gave the dude a shiner and a titlists face tattoo.

Now I live in a larger metro area and keep my doors locked all day. I truly wouldn’t need to because we have a pretty safe community, but my wife grew up in a worse place so it’s more habit than anything. We also have dogs they could potentially pop a door open and get out, so extra piece of mind.

Router QoS. Set the router to prioritize your traffic based on IP. What are they doing that’s consuming the bandwidth? The only times it’s been an issue in our house has been when I’ve switched media with no speed restrictions. Past large and fast downloads, if you have high speed internet, the pipe shouldn’t be congested. Otherwise, be confrontational then escalate if behaviors don’t change.

Fuck Netflix.

I’m curious how this works in action. If you use a VPN provider that doesn’t do logging, and inherently you’re traffic is encrypted via that VPN, what are they spying on? That’s kind of the whole purpose of running a VPN in the first place.

If they happen to somehow see the unencrypted traffic, I hope they enjoy sifting through ass loads of torrent data. Good luck, shit bags.

It was like that when I got here. Also that crunching noise you heard and sparks you saw were a typical poop for me.

There’s a difference between discussing something and speaking as an authority on a topic. I have a coworker who parrots the saying, “seek to understand before seeking to be understood”. Nobody understands everything about anything. Having conversations and learning from them are part of gaining knowledge.

AI is the most rushed to market product I think I’ve ever seen in my life. It makes Cyberpunk’s release like like a polished gem in comparison. Yes, things evolve over their life cycle for better or worse, but none of this other things have been so ingrained in everything, cost even a fraction of LLMs, both monetarily and environmentally, it sucked as hard.

AI is a different monster. A shitty shitty monster.

I remember reading that. My brother is in the AF, and through some system, they can get gear like Garmin Fenix watches that does GPS tracking and uploads to their cloud and can be synced with Strava. It’s wild that stuff like this isn’t strictly monitored to prevent this exact scenario.

So by “windows supports backwards compatibility” you mean you have to bypass Windows in order to use it? That’s a hack, not compatibility.

You can think piracy is a positive, but the fact that you have to do that in order to use the OS isn’t a win.

Anti cheat is malware. It has broken Windows installs. I’m not in the habit of installing malware on my computer intentionally. Just the ability to do so is a net negative to Windows.

Do you think Linux doesn’t have forums, videos, and is also scraped by LLMs like Gemini?

Ubuntu, Mint, and other distros are very simple to use for average users and it just works with a load of pre installed, open source apps out of the box. No need to buy private software or go out, find, and download alternatives. It’s easier to install than Windows, and it doesn’t make you bypass the OOBE in order to create a local account. Only power users would know the steps in order to do so and they are also the ones knowing the implications of using a live account. Windows by default stores you private bitlocker key in Azure and has given that over to the government to bypass you private data. That’s not a thing with Linux.

Linux doesn’t have rewind malware either.

People that can’t tell when an obviously fake show is fake are idiots. Who changes their views on life from watching HIMYM? Yea, Barney is a misogynistic turd, but he often gets what’s coming to him and has many redemption arcs throughout the series. The whole point of the show is a man who found love, while also showing tight relationships, both friendship and love, throughout. There’s regret , sadness, and happiness. Anyone that cherry picks and is influenced the bad stuff are people already like.

Every not childrens story whether in books or visual media has an antagonist. Siding with them is telling of the person who does so.

Linux runs all apps for Linux and many apps for windows. Windows doesn’t run any Linux apps.

KDE has a beautiful interface that both lets you customize damn near everything and doesn’t push ads in the OS.

Linux doesn’t need antivirus in the same way Windows does because it’s inherently more secure and a smaller attack vector.

Linux is free, and your point about pirating Windows is dumb AF. It’s $120 for the base version legally.

Linux runs almost every game that doesn’t have kernel level anti cheat malware with proton.

Linux supports more hardware than MS by far. Try running a 10 year old CPU on windows 11. Nvidia isn’t ideal on Linux, but it also works and updates are built in with kernel updates. Bonus, you can cherry pick updates if desired.

The Arch wiki is better than anything MS has to offer in regards to documentation and there are forums everywhere for help, with real people, not copilot generated slop. Each major distro, which means you have options, also has well developed forums and support.

As mentioned, Linux also has backwards compatibility, but better.

I run Arch and also never crash, and that’s one of the most “unstable” distros out there. Something like Debian makes Windows look like a beta project.

Your arguments sound like they are from someone that’s never used Linux, only read aged forum posts, and has to rely on piracy as positive note.

Extra bonuses for Linux is that it’s faster by almost every metric, a fraction of the size and resource consumption, actually free, not shoving AI shit into it, truly customizable at every level, and doesn’t steal all of your private information.

They’re fictional shows. I like the characters because I know it’s fake and think their dumb interactions are funny. How are these making people worse? Is this like violence in video games causing school shootings?

Measles and Covid were spread by the Internet? I remember hearing a bunch of misinformation spread in TV broadcasts. I remember RFK changing the vaccination recommendations. I remember reading far more factual information online than false on both of those topics. The nature of pandemics is they kill people. Shitty people can’t be bothered to listen to reason, even though they were told and showed the facts. The Internet is just one medium that information is disseminated, but the bigger factors are the likes of FOX news and other 24/7 news stations.

The Internet has arguably saved now lives than it’s taken. You have to remember the Internet is also the backbone that hospitals and researchers use to share data and research. social media and bad/malicious journalism has had a terribly negative effect, but that’s a subset of the entire Internet. It’s like saying electricity is bad because it provides am infrastructure for bad things to happen, placing the blame on the infrastructure rather the individuals (or corporations) that are doing the bad thing.

Roads, vehicles, and traffic negatives aside, the engineering in all of this is quite crazy. Not saying it’s a good thing, so nobody come after me about defending cars and stuff, but the strength and design is intriguing.

I found value in shitting on people buying them. $0 monetary gain, but at least $10 in schadenfreude.