Hon the girls. I respect their decision. The treatment of Palestinians is almost certainly just genocide at this point.

Ireland is not antisemitic. We just sympathize with people who are made second class citizens in their own home since we know how that feels.

Fuck Discord when it’s used in lieu of a forum, documentation or proper support channels.

I personally only started to become interested in Blizzard while Overwatch 1 was in its prime. I have so many cherished memories of playing with my friends every night when I came home from work.

But since about 2019, there has been no excuse for the absolute shit show that Blizzard has been.

The whole thing of Blitzchung and his comments about the Hong Kong protests being shut down

The sexual assaults and bullying culture that was pervasive there

Then Jeff Kaplan leaving

Followed by the absolute sham that Overwatch 2 is.

Plus all the shit that has been revealed about Bobby Kottick

Not to mention how they’ve basically abandoned Heroes of the Storm, and StarCraft since Overwatch and WoW were more profitable.

I fucking abhor and detest what this heap of poxy shit that whole organization has become. I do hope that maybe the Microsoft acquisition will improve things, but they’ll have their work cut out trying to repair the reputation there.

This got worse the more I read. What the actual fuck is going on over there.

When I saw then that there was a non compete clause for 3 months, I literally yelled out loud, “oh for fuck sake”

At this stage, just fucking burn Blizzard to the ground. This is fucking atrocious. The Blizzard we all knew and loved is long gone.

No other company worth a damn would think this is acceptable practices in a fucking professional environment.

Quadruple the reasons not to buy it.

Wasn’t the end of the world but I didn’t like Apple not shipping new features etc, just because they wanted me to buy a new machine.

I switched to Linux in 2018 because my lovely to use MacBook stopped getting updates despite being a perfectly capable machine. It really sank in for me, how much Apple relies on planned obsolescence etc. I switched to Elementary OS and was fascinated by how it worked. That was nearly 6 years ago and now I use Linux on fucking everything.

I have come across times when I’ve needed Windows but I can usually just set it up in a virtual machine temporarily. However the times when I need Windows are becoming increasingly rare, thank fuck.

It’s been absolutely phenomenal in the last 6 years to see how far the Linux and open source eco system has grown. My Steam Deck (Steam OS 3), Jellyfin server (Ubuntu) and even my Starlink (OpenWRT) Internet connection are all great examples of that. And I hope it continues.

Or like how Google has a doodle for international women’s day but never international men’s day. Not to be dismissive or insensitive to women’s issues, but I’ve seen boys and young men talk about how little things like that give them the impression that their thoughts and feelings are not valid.

There are ofc men’s issues still like how the overwhelming majority workplaces deaths are men or how more men die from suicide than women. Men are more likely to be homeless than women etc

The sexes are supposed to compliment one another. Not compete against one another. We can acknowledge that there are issues for both sides while still being sensitive and respectful.

Brits never use the term marijuana. They’re familiar with it from American media etc, but they call it Cannabis in UK and elsewhere.

So like getting out on parole in the US?

I think it’s funny how Middleton is included in this map when it’s basically a suburb of Cork now.

RSS is fucking amazing.

I use Feeder on Android and QuiteRSS on my laptop and desktop. I use it for everything from local news and tech news, to YouTube subscriptions. It’s great. Forget social media with enshitification and profit driven motives. RSS is all you need.

Okay.

That’s such a great point wtf

It sounds like a nice topping on a bagel

XFCE for me thanks

Me neither lol. Ive lived my whole life in Ireland for context. I’ve seen and heard smoked salmon plenty of times but never lox

Hail Satan.

Every cyber security and software dev that got fired over the past year: fucking sick, where do we sign up.

Pulsar text editor after I found out Atom isn’t going to get updates anymore.

I know there are other text editors, but for small, less complex tasks like editing .ini , .txt or .desktop files, something like Pulsar is just perfect. It’s open source and works across Linux, Windows and Mac. For those times when you’re VM needs a file edited lol.