My work uses all browser based apps. They have Linux workstations in most areas and these are set to login and go directly to a Windows 11 server remote desktop.

You get big electricity bill. They get free data to sell.

What’s the downside for them?

Here’s everything you need to know about being grown up: Nobody cares, and you’re on your own.

If you’re a kid and eat a trash diet, skip school, don’t take your medicines… someone will care. As an adult you could literally go outside in your underwear in the rain right now and eat mud and no one will stop you. As long as you’re not hurting other people or breaking their things, no one cares. As an adult no one cares if you eat cake for 3 meals a day, spend all your money on Funkopops and refuse to ever shower or get a job…and as much as kids might think this is a good thing, it actually really sucks.

It’s all meaningless anyway, so my purpose is to appreciate the joy of what is in front of me and enjoy my existence while it lasts.

There are so many bullshit alerts and messages and prompts and popups that come up on my work computer. I do eventually lose interest in reading them.

I’ve just seen a YouTube video about this recently. It was good, worth watching.

Depends on the definition of cheating. Here are a couple of ways in which I “cheat”:

I didn’t have the skill to progress beyond 4BC in Dead Cells, so I downloaded someone else’s save file with all items unlocked.

If I hit a wall in Silksong to the point that it starts to put me off the game, then I look up a walkthrough to see where the nearest undiscovered bench is or where to fine the thing I’m looking for.

For any game if I end too frustrated by a boss, I’ll watch a YouTube video to learn the attack patterns and avoid repeatedly dying to learn them. This is especially true for roguelites where I may have to cross 3 levels to get to a possible chance at a boss, and then get killed.

In FTL I used to copy out the save files to allow me to save scum if I died. The game is a roguelite and doesn’t allow loading saves in case of mistakes of death…so this is a workaround to save scum.

These are private computers for gaming with Steam installed. This will literally be less than pocket change to them. They likely lose more from pirated Windows and secondhand purchasers of Apple products.

The amount of money tech giants lose will not be affected for a long time. The main achievement for Linux right now would be to get a foothold, to make it known to the public, to normalise its use. The big change will come when organisations start moving to Linux (which you would think would be a priority considering the fact that it is free and more secure).

I respect you dude, whatever your age. Even the very young deserve respect,this isn’t age gated.

It’s a bit of a cultural thing in some ways. A bit of a privilege/necessity thing as well.

I would find it unimaginable to pay my parents rent, charge them rent or charge my kids rent. We’ve never struggled to survive financially. My parents never even held me to doing chores, etc. I can see the logic of everyone living together contributing to the household(through money or chores or whatever). But my area of upbringing and family always treated childhood as immensely protected and solely for learning and playing(same for my peers, no matter how well off or poor they were). The lesson was always there to look after yourself…so as soon as I left home at 18, I had no problem with doing my own cooking, washing, scrubbing my toilet, budgeting/saving, etc.

She left the note 3 days ago and I’m still waiting for her to come home from work to show her that the game works fine.

This is likely not going to be a welcome comment on Lemmy, but here goes anyway: I would not have been able to stick with Linux without AI and I would recommend you use that.

It’s really difficult going through tech support steps with people online (all commenters are looking for more information and would have to guide you through multiple steps). AI has the patience to put up with absolute beginner questions.

Now it’s important to know how to use AI and not think it knows correct answers to your short questions. Claude had worked best in my experience. Primarily you should use it in this way: feed it a detailed description of your problem. Give it all the context of what hardware and software you have and exactly what you’re trying to do and what’s not working. Then it will give you an answer with some idea of where the problem might be. Then you should go and do an internet search of that identified problem to find a solution (not just take in the solutions AI gives you, although you could try initial simple solutions, but you may break things if you just go pasting commands into console without understanding). This is what AI is most useful for, pointing you in the direction of the cause problems… Not being a know all oracle. Paste in a detailed log output and it will interpret and tell you where the problem is, then you must go looking for solutions from a reputable source.

There’s a lot that sucks about AI, but I wouldn’t have been able to adopt Linux or set up my self hosted services on my home server without it; and I’m grateful for that.

If you over fill the tires enough, you can drive on water. If you reach 100psi, you can fly like the movie Up.

You chew the corn to a pulp, yet it comes out whole again. You can’t explain that.

Seinfeld playable character…I’ve waited forever for this.

Hard to explain that tab I’ve had open for 8 months for something I’ve been meaning to read.

In a couple of generations all memory and signs of your existence will be wiped out anyway. Enjoying what’s in front of you now and doing the good you can for the few people you can affect is easily enough.

1080 is quicker to download an easier to store than 4K. There is a difference between them, but it’s not a huge deal if youvd got good quality full HD. Leaves me plenty of space on my home server for other data hoarding.

Pixel art has my pixel heart.

'98 is best.

2015 is second best.