‘natural rights’ okay so why are they right(s)?

is there public awareness that isn’t advertising?

yeah I’m usually the ‘I will make your machines stop using you’ friend. which is probably why I’m so bitter about people putting up with this shit.

your gf is kind of a tool and needs to crack or replace her TV.

I’m pretty sure the corporate property rights say you’re not allowed tho.

so maybe laws are fucking stupid and you do it because if basic human dignity or something?

well, they just picked up one follower.

if you don’t steal it, it never existed.

I will, however, still play it if I can pirate.

I’m a little stricter. I do not buy shit with unacceptable DRM.

I’ll buy games. the thing is: I won’t stop myself from enjoying it just because they don’t want my money.

oh yeah that could happen, but just to be sure…

you don’t own it til you pirate it.

if they wanted money, they wouldn’t have added DRM.

photoshop. AutoCAD.

try cinnamon with mint on a ‘live USB’ so you can try before installing. and see if your ram is broken, or if windows is fucking you for cheaping out on the license.

its a fork of, downstream, tears out a bunch of the annoying shit and has different ux.

…burned out?

lots of versions of windows limit the amount of memory they recognize.

the only thing Linux can’t play is drm’d shit, and rootkit anti cheats. find a pirated version; bet it’ll run.

me?

okay so sometimes you need to run a twenty year old game made for another OS or cpu architecture

which… weirdly, easier in Linux than win7; Linux has better backward compatibility with windows than windows. was like three clicks to install.

but sometimes that game uses broadcast UDP packets for LAN multiplayer.

and this is where our problem comes from, because broadcast UDP packets are deprecated, and also most modern routers don’t love them, I don’t think.

so, I needed to find a way to manually readdress outgoing UDP packets from broadcast to a specific set of multicast addresses, which…

also, some issues running USB as serial for some exotic peripherals. and by ‘exotic’ I mean ‘I don’t know for sure the PC is the problem; I might have soldered this wrong’.

also some issues in qubes, but that’s literally all virtualization, and not a distro for anyone who hasn’t both been using Linux for a while and considered the cost of making their apartment a Faraday cage.

a few issues with bare arch, which is the ‘do everything from scratch 0 automation bleeding edge tech nerd, no, seriously you need to manually download a file system’ distro. don’t use arch if you don’t know what youre doing.

then you know destroying these fucking things is self defense.

if its only a dick joke in German, they come off as way more competent in English.