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  • I left r/movies many years ago. I found that any new release movie under discussion was heavily policed by promoters and marketers with masses of bot accounts to downvote critical comments. So, one example was Alien Covenant, which was a stinker of a film.

    I saw it on release, and the review posted at r/movies gave it a big thumbs up. But I'd seen it and I knew it was an awful film. So I said so and got downvoted like thirty times. Everyone who had seen the film and told the truth were bombed with masses of downvotes. Everyone who promoted the film got masses of fake up votes.

    This kept happening for so many new releases I just gave up on the sub. I can't be alone there.

  • I'd argue girth matters more than length. But please, let the banana spider that bit me inject thin banana superpowers.

    It's just a request!

  • I would like to be able to extrude fresh, delicious, bananas from my ass. Difficult and uncomfortable, I'm sure. But I'd never go hungry again!

  • Fix the design flaws first. Especially broken incentives for toxicity and lack of moderation tools. It's too big already right now.

  • I'm old enough that my doctor shoved a tube the size if a garden hose up my ass and cut off six polyps from my large intestine. A suppository a day keeps the death away? Yeah, sign me up.

  • I use a Kindle lefy in permanent airplane mode. Manage it with Calibre and don't buy any content from Amazon.

  • And I JUST canceled Prime before this announcement.

  • Way back in the days when kuro5hin was still a thing, folks created an endless reply chain with nothing more than, "You sad bastard!" And it went on for months until it fucked a table in their sql server and Rusty (admin) had to step in and fix it. Then stop it from continuing.

  • No. Not at all.

    386BSD was extremely limited. Originally, it only had support for the 386DX series. At the time, I had a 386SX. The kernel would not boot. So, I had to install on a friend's computer, download a source patch for the kernel, recompile (which took forever), and then burn a working boot disk for the 386sx.

    It came on 50 floppies. Didn't have X11. Didn't have working SLIP (ip over serial, before PPP). Had a shit sh.

    Linux came on a bootable CD with everything and as long as your hardware was compatible, it just worked.

  • I've been running some form of Unix since 1985. Transitioned from 386BSD to Linux in '93. The last version of Win I bought was in Win 3.0 in 1991. It was horrible.

    That said, Win has the apps and is perfectly reasonable as an OS now. Where it's unreasonable is the privacy invasion and use tracking. I mean, a keylogger by MS? No.

    Linux is a PITA. But it don't spy on me.

  • This.

  • Not if you want compute for rendering or training.