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Toorkit

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    Comment #47206913

    My happiness peaked sometime around 10-11 years old, it's been downhill ever since

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    Comment #46800603

    My CPU can run Windows 11 fine, but what I don't tolerate is full-screen ad pop-ups on my desktop. When Win10 popped up an ad for Win11, I moved fully to Linux the next day.

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    Comment #46357506

    99% of students had cafeteria lunch and I was one of a couple with a lunch box. Teachers in the hallway would see it and get mad until I showed them my sandwich lol.

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    Comment #45526666

    Not just the US, my village in Germany has a limit of 30 kph, people drive through with 60.

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    Comment #45377316

    My bank replaced it's banktown.com url with b-twn.com, I thought I was on a phishing site, but it's legitimate.

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    Comment #45151325

    I asked some really stupid questions on IRC when I first heard of this "Linux" thing as a kid. Good times!

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    Comment #44877106

    Cold Clear Vater

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    Comment #44836766

    Any app/website/program/whatever where one might typically use an emoji usually has a button next to the input for selecting one. So, yeah, I've never needed a dedicated emoji pick…

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    Comment #44494080

    Fritteuse.

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    Comment #44412228

    Ha, I actually had to do this last year while setting up Arch Linux on my desktop. I have to use this wifi dongle, but using IWD to connect somehow only gave me an ipv6 IP. Most of…

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    Comment #44396233

    Not what I said either. That's like saying we're segregating the Linux Mint from the Ubuntu users.

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    Comment #44395619

    Linux is just a base that people stack other software on top of. Audio crash? Pulse or Pipe wire? Then the dozens of desktop environments, each doing things differently, split betw…

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    Comment #44299213

    It's about time they added AI features to paperclips.

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    Comment #43774577

    Playing fine for me, also Firefox on Android.

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    Comment #43745444

    Absolutely. I have a flawless record.

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    Comment #43597575

    I can still remember ads on TV from when I was a kid. Mind worms, embedded deep. And it makes me angry.

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    Comment #42679720

    They also popped open a full screen Windows 11 ad after I closed a game last year. That's when I went back to Linux.

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    Comment #42268297

    "Hey guys, it's time to talk about our sponsor, Surf shark VPN"

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    Comment #42212811

    Then you say "it's a handheld gaming device" and the matter is settled.

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    Comment #42175154

    Those are called Vans.

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    Comment #42134372

    Oh, if you give it the old "pretty please" then of course no one is going to use AI.

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    Comment #42050268

    >Germany is the only country in europe where patriotism is considered right-wing and not seen well Unless it's soccer time, then they're clad in flags and screaming "'SCHLAAAND!"

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    Comment #42040305

    Hear, hear. I totally understand why developers love python, but as an end user I dread seeing the .py extension.

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    Comment #42030811

    On Windows you have to either download the driver updates manually, or install that GeForce Experience thing that keeps them up to date for you.