unfortunately even indie games often require at least midrange hardware, like dedicated graphics cards.

i had to refund peak because it doesn’t run well on my computer, which only has intel integrated graphics, even at the lowest graphical settings…

2022: haha look this thing is writing greentexts about bottomless pits!

2026: the job i am studying for is now essentially a gacha game

Wait, the guy who… smoked crack, I think? Doug Ford.

close, that’s his brother! who is the current premier of ontario, much to the chagrin of everyone.

the one who smoke crack was rob ford, and he was mayor of toronto.

hot take, good. the usa should pay for the crimes it committed against iran.

of course it should have never committed the crimes in the first place.

you’re right, but the solution is not to give everyone the inalienable right to drive, it’s to redesign the city such that people who can’t drive can still live in it fully (i.e. build public transit and walkable/cyclable path of ways)

because it’s a class divide, not a generational divide. capitalists fucked the world, not boomers. and now it’s still capitalists fucking the world, not gen x & millennials.

are you aware of which party has a majority in canada’s parliament right now

jdpon don strikes again by helping south africa’s decolonization efforts 🫡

/j

disappointing but not that strange. we love to criticize the usa all the time, but when they want something, we kneel and start licking the boots…

isn’t it fun how every major operating system is vibe coded now

windows is an unstable mess, macos’s new ui is the most broken it’s been in decades, and linux is getting one new vulnerability per day. the future is exciting!

i think that’s true of most people in any generation, honestly. gen alpha isn’t uniquely tech illiterate in my experience, look at all the stuff kids are doing to bypass age verification!

there’s also that all of gen alpha are kids or teens, of course most of them are gonna be less knowledgeable about stuff than adults lol

hmm, if it’s an x86 chromebook i’m assuming you could install linux on it like any other x86 device… not sure tbh, i’ve never done this 😅

if it’s ARM, then postmarketos may be your best bet, it’s typically used for phones but they have many laptops supported as well. maybe yours would work!

i’ve seen stuff like crouton, chrx and galliumOS which are all projects that are supposed to help run linux on chromebooks, but they’re all abandoned as of now so i wouldn’t recommend them.

thank you! ^w^

this phenomenon can be seen in a great variety of communities

that’s a good point. i’m talking about the foss community because it’s what i’m part of and i see it coming most from it right now, but tbh i’ve had car people give me some shit for not knowing some car knowledge i’m assuming are pretty basic to them lol

if they are, it’s not much more than “that thing they heard of sometime”, i don’t think the layperson really considers them as alternatives to what they’re using.

i remember, when i first switched to an non-chrome browser many years ago, my friends kept asking me if stuff like google, google drive or google classroom (which our school used) still worked on it. many people don’t know the difference between google chrome (the web browser) and google (the search engine)!

tbh, i realize that me using “condescending” in the title kinda implies that experts would underestimate, that’s usually what that word means

is there a better word for this? i meant it in the sense of foss nerds being all “if you still use google chrome in 2026 you’re an idiot and deserve what happens to you” to people

internet “”“leftists”“” when the billionaire ceo owns a company whose employees make a product they like:

nah, CEOs definitionally make their money by exploiting other people’s labour. fuck them all even if they’re not successful at it.

there have always been some who cried wold every time new technology has become available, like calculators and computers

and they kinda have a point, really. people got worse at memorizing stuff by heart when writing was invented, and people got worse at mental calculus when calculators when invented.

but they allowed many things that were simply not possible. a calculation that takes me 2 minutes in wolfram alpha could take hours if not days to solve by hand!

ai, meanwhile, or at least the ai we’re sold, does not offer significant advantages (at best it saves a few minutes), at the cost of making us worse at thinking, a skill that is absolutely essential to have… and of course, that’s the point. the tech oligarchs want us to be dependent on their extremely expensive products.

even without that there are people who will be forced to use this, like kids of religious parents