• gerdesj@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    My wife uses Arch (actually). She calls it the internet, when she really means Facebook. She knows it isn’t Apple but it gets a bit vague after that!

    The last time I had to fire up the Mesh Central client to sort something out on her desktop from work was around three months ago. Every couple of weeks I ssh into it, update it and schedule a reboot for 03:00.

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    1 year ago

    Personally, if you can’t tell me if you are running Windows or MacOS, I don’t really want you downloading my software

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    1 year ago

    There are some tech illiterate people, who use Linux without knowing it, because their child set it up for them.

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      1 year ago

      Absolutely one of my favorite james acaster quotes! His whole Netflix special, “Repertoire” is just fantastic

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    1 year ago

    I literally bought the wrong version of a game called Heretic on Amazon in the early 2000s because it “had a cool penguin on it” lmao

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    1 year ago

    You mean, there are still websites that don’t auto-detect what OS you’re running and make you actually choose?

    • m00b0mph@lemmy.sdf.org
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      I actually hate it when a website does that, especially when it doesn’t let you download the application you want because your OS is not compatible. For example you wanna download some windows software to run it with Wine/Proton and the website detects you are running linux and does not let you download. I always need to spoof my User-Agent string to get access.