That is 10,000% people who don’t do creative work especially professionally. I am fine with gimp and darktable versus anything Adobe/paid but I also barely use them lol. I would be back off Linux in a heartbeat if I honestly couldn’t use something I needed even though I prefer it.

People fixate on certain lyrics and kinda ignore the rest of the song.

I knew someone who swore "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen was a dirty song because two lines could be interpreted as innuendo.

It is a song influenced by seeing a report about a suicidal jumper, but repurposing the idea into a positive one. Basically, it is saying that instead of a suicide jump someone should take a leap of faith and improve things.

Even Nathan Poe would be amazed at the speed that that devolved into nazi comparisons

But some of the posts are hilarious lmao

I use Mint btw

wow the ratio on those posts

Wow, are we the baddies? This guy must have a really bad time in the Linux communities.

I suspect that person would also justify littering in order to "ensure street cleaners don't lose their jobs"

Shopping cart theory strikes again

Not just kids, a lot of adults are annoying as hell too.
But Kids should be free to learn so for me it feels like they are allowed/have the right to be annoying

Listen, I just hate kids man. It’s probably my most consistent thing since I was a kid. Fuck kids. We should just be growing adults out of a vat, it’s 2025 for fucks sake.

because I think ~~Americans are generally very intolerant of kids in public spaces.~~ kids running around and screaming in a restaurant is fine, actually

Don't go to other threads and lie about your conversations, dude, they're public!

I agree, but also I think there’s a line between “kiddo getting excited or having a hard time in a public space” vs. “this kid is being neglected by their parents in favor of phones, and/or not taught general manners and human-to-human respect” because their parents are also inconsiderate of other people.

A child having a meltdown in a grocery store, or bouncing around a park or making excited commentary at a movie theater I can easily forgive. Ignoring and letting a child run off unattended in a restaurant where a server can trip and get hurt is a problem. A kid getting antsy happens, but you also need to let them know why they should be mindful in certain environments.

That said, there needs to be more openly kid-friendly spaces in the US, since they need free space to let off energy and develop their minds freely.

Oh yeah you're that dude who was commenting on my meme about kids being annoying in a restaurant. I didn't feel the need to comment there because I had thought "person doesn't realize that few people have problems with well behaved kids or understand that people know that kids OCCASIONALLY act out.". But it looks like you're doubling down.

First, did you see anyone complaining about kids on playgrounds? Play places at fast food restaurants? Public parks? No? That's because those are places for kids to be running around. Restaurants where adults are trying to relax is not for kids to be running around. Full stop. There is no "but". YOU need to teach your child that their actions affect those around them.

Secondly, YOU choose to have children and where you take them. If you take them to a place where you know they have the potential to inconvenience the people around them and they do, then you are inflicting them on others and that makes you a bad parent.

And lastly, I can't even remember the amount of children who stayed at their table, where maybe a little louder than would be necessary but ultimately settled down, or were well behaved and well mannered. But I do remember that the parents of those children were usually well put together and maintained people who seemed to have control over their life. An unruly child who was running around the restaurant is usually a symptom and not the problem.

I remember that one. It was a weird thread. We had people saying they let their kids poop on the floor, and others that only let their kids out of their cages for special occasions.

Of course, those were exaggerations of the extremes, but it got very heated.

Having read through the other comments I think this is the winner. This person needs to read a book. What a wild hill to die on.

based

Most people don't even know what its supposed to mean

It's all true, but I can't prove it

So just a mix and match of partial truths about multiple Ancient Greek philosophers?

That's not that ridiculous. If you're frequently playing new games at launch (probably a bad idea for different reasons), then latest drivers often contain optimizations and fixes for specific games.

lol, I remember when I started playing No Man's Sky, I made a post on reddit pointing out that more recent nvidia drivers fucked up the game's framerate big time, like, if I was standing still and moved the mouse around, the framerate would tank. With a previous driver (416 or older), the whole game was butter smooth. I kept playing with that driver until the game had an update that forced you to have newer drivers. Performance was still shit.

I do out of habit and 99% of the time it has zero downsides and occasional positives. It only borked a game and required rolling back one time that I can remember.

I have a friend who is far more careful about doing their updates because they have frequent problems. Not sure why we have such different experiences.

"Installing my driver" is a cultural relic from old Windows days where it wasn't automatic; one needed a CD/Floppy or whatever to get your printer or ATI card working. It was good practice. Hence tons of "driver cleaner/updater" kind of shovelware exists to capitalize on that mindset.

...These days, Windows update (or the Arch/CachyOS package repos in my case) auto-update all my hardware with zero fuss. IDK why so many stray from that, unless they encounter a bug that was specifically fixed in an update.