Comments by "DefaultFlame" (@DefaultFlame) on "The Lunduke Journal" channel.

  1. Time for a lawsuit/police report!
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  2. I think the "share private search queries" is a very disingenuous way of saying "use other search engines," thereby "sharing" the search queries.
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  3. Woke 101.
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  4. It's so funny seeing Rusties get their panties in a twist whenever anyone criticizes their precious baby.
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  5. . . . Fucking hell . . . I love AI, ML, and LLMs, but for fuck's sake, you don't have to cram it into everything, especially before the technology has matured properly yet.
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  6. The other two are . . .? Edit: I'm genuinely curious.
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  7. "They are nuts!" "No, no, no, that derogatory. Call them bananas." Edit: Does anyone else find heavily Chinese (or Japanese for that matter) accented and partially broken English to sound charming, or is that just me?
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  8. Only merit.
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  9. Won't help when shareholders dump the stock to avoid loss.
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  10. It's hilarious seeing all the Rusties pop out from under rocks as soon as there's any criticism of their precious baby.
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  11. What did you switch to? Is there an alternative that isn't Chromium or Chromium based?
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  12.  @Sinivaal  Won't they be bound by this as well? Or do they not have to comply with Mozilla's terms as a fork?
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  13. I hope five years is all it takes to dig our way out of this insanity hole, but I doubt it.
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  14. I despise Chromium with every fiber of my being.
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  15. I've seen pictures that were supposed to be of the actual dead moth. That's why I believed it.
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  16.  @skilletpan5674  "Usque ad dextram" according to Google translate.
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  17. I'd have gone with "incompetence"
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  18. Waterfox for me now.
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  19. "Everything is political." - A certain extremist political ideology
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  20. Remember that Russia, Germany, and Italy in the 40s were also leftists. Don't confuse left or right with good or evil. Top-down authoritarian censorship is evil regardless of the political leaning.
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  21.  @sniglom  That may be, but it's still hilarious. You don't see this response for any other language, only Rust. JS, C, Java, Python? People who use them will just join in on shitting on them. Rust? "How dare you say that about my precious baby?!"
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  22. sigh . . . of course . . . Waterfox or Seamonkey it is.
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  23. I wish it was the year of the Linux desktop. Not because I love Linux but because I now hate Microsoft as much as I hate Apple. If learning Linux was less of a pain (and there was more compatability with standard distros) I would have started years ago instead of recently. Documentation, tutorials, and "explanations," at least for Debian, is not newbie friendly. It's written for people who already have a good understanding of Linux, at best it has very technical explanations and thus always turn into an extensive wikicrawl to understand the terms used to explain the terms used to explain the terms used to explain the terms used in the explanation of what you need to do. At worst there is no explanation, you're just given a barely memorizable command with half a dozen mystical modifiers. It will usually fix your problem, but you have no idea why and it basically turns into an arcane spell you cast, the components of which you have no idea what they do or why they are there beyond "fix this one problem."
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  24. I'd be interested to hear all the salacious details.
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  25. I asked, "What is Bryan Lunduke's favorite operating system?" and it answered, "Bryan Lunduke, a well-known technology writer, podcaster, and advocate in the open-source and Linux communities, has often expressed admiration for various operating systems over the years, particularly those that are unique or prioritize user freedom. He's known for his fondness for Linux, with distributions like *Ubuntu**, **Arch Linux**, and others being mentioned in his work. However, he also appreciates older or niche operating systems like **Haiku* (based on BeOS) and **Plan 9**, as well as systems that offer a minimalist or unique user experience. His "favorite" might vary depending on the context—sometimes it's Linux for practicality, sometimes retro or experimental OSes for their charm or innovation. If there's a specific source or time frame you're referencing, let me know, and I can tailor the answer more closely!" With the follow up question, "What is his opinion on Windows 11?" it said, "Bryan Lunduke has not publicly provided an in-depth review or detailed opinion on Windows 11 in recent commentary. Historically, he has been critical of Microsoft's operating systems, emphasizing concerns over user data privacy, heavy system requirements, and the forced integration of services like a Microsoft account. Based on his general stance on technology, he would likely view Windows 11 with a similar critical lens, particularly regarding its more restrictive features and increased emphasis on cloud and service integration."
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  26. Bingo.
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  27. DOS bros represent! (I fiddle with it on 86Box. Reminds me of my childhood in the 90s.) Also, too few choices for text editor, picked notepad because it's the only one I use regularly out of the choices. I use Pulsar (successor to Atom) or an IDE for coding and OpenOffice for basically everything else. (Not that I write much code.)
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  28. Go Woke Go Broke is a lot more evident in the entertainment sphere.
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  29. Some can, if the company remembers that it's a possibility while finetuning. Claude is fine with stating uncertainty or ignorance.
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  30.  @ordinaryhuman5645  I don't think anime looks like kids. But that drawing does look 12.
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  31. "Burgers?"
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  32. I've been looking into Linux plenty, as I am in the process of learning (currently Mint, previously Debian), and I've never heard of or seen OpenMandriva mentioned before. Well, I've got a new distro to download and add to the collection. (I've been downloading a lot of distros to try out later at some point. Mostly lightweight ones out of curiosity.)
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  33. "the name of this individu is not worth commemorating in a version of Notepad++" Proceeds to commemorate Elon's name in a version of Notepad++ Someone, please make it make sense.
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  34. If you haven't been paying attention, they have been actively destroying everything they can get their claws into for more than a decade.
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  35. "going"? A bit late to the party, are we?
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  36.  @kras_mazov  🤡
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  37.  @kras_mazov  Oh, don't think I agree with you for a single second just because I'm not so blind I can't see evil for what it is, regardless of the costume it wears. Communism is an inherently authoritarian and censorious ideology. Saying it's "never been tried" is as disingenous as it's possible to get, commie.
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  38. @ I didn't insult them. I just said that they're hilarious.
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  39. @ I am not attempting anything. I just said that I find it amusing. Maybe you should spend some thought as to why you thought I was trying to insult them?
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  40.  @dirlrido2522  I am not debating anyone. I suggest you take a long look at why you get your back up so easily.
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  41.  @dirlrido2522  I am certainly not complaining about a source of entertainment. I'd prefer they keep at it.
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  42. Unfortunately the crazies are running the asylum. These power hungry tinpot tyrants actively worm their way into any position where they have even a shred of power to manipulate and demean other people. These people get into these positions by playing on people's sympathies and feigning actual virtue. Once there they impose these insane and arbitrary standards on those below them.
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  43. I'm sure there's some, I fiddle with it on 86Box.
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  44. Why do people who use the blunt instrument and grain hervesting implement not get the same treatment as people who use the windmill of peace? They both were used to represent equally disgusting ideologies. (Names changed due to youtube instadelting my comment, twice.)
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  45. Lunduke: "Unless 2024 ratchets it up a a notch [...] it can survive anything." Linux and FOSS 2024 & 2025: "Hold my beer."
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  46. Lol. What a fucking joke.
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  47. Ban everyone who values traditions and conserving things No one steps up to keep the community going Surprised Pikachu face
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  48. Only in that they all have a common disgusting ideology/religion.
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  49.  @ordinaryhuman5645  You would have a point, except that the character does look like 12.
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  50. @MatthewCenance It's a fork of their source code. Mozilla has nothing to with developing Seamonky.
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  51. @Sinivaal I hope so. I really don't want to go with anything Chromium.
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  52. You alright? Might want to get that cough checked out.
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  53. They did give them back, eventually, but they had deleted various files for some unknown reason.
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  54. Ok, the Mint one was just funny. Bryan "He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named"
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  55.  @probablyyourneighbororsome8412  Well, I got lured in by being told that it's so well documented, long running, and supposedly having a lot of support. All of that is true, but no one mentioned that all the documentation, support, and even video tutorials specifically labled as being for beginners (and this applies to Linux as a whole, not just Debian) aren't for actual beginners but for people who already have a few months of daily driving Linux under their belt. For an actual beginner the "explanations" given in documentation and in tutorial videos, if any, amount to gibberish. You just end up chanting memorized incantation at the terminal, hoping it fixes a problem you don't understand using a solution that's might as well be in Mycenean Greek as far as you are concerned. Not to mention the hell of the initial setup and trying to get Nvidia drivers to work, failing, trying to fix it, somehow managing to break the boot process so the GUI doesn't start automatically, and then having to figure out how to even start the GUI from the terminal interface. Having to enable non-free software is one thing, it kinda makes sense, what with the whole FOSS thing. Having to manually add sudo privileges to the administrator account on a fresh install (by editing a freaking text file via the terminal) makes absolutely no sense to me. What use case would that even be for? After reinstalling to fix the GUI-does-not-boot-automatically problem, failing once again to properly install Nvidia drivers, and later another reinstall to fix another problem I gave up on Debian and switched to the other Distro I had been considering, which was Mint. I like Mint. It's smooth sailing, you can use the terminal if you want but (mostly) you don't have to. My only complaint is the removal/disabling of su in the terminal. Took a reinstall to figure out that I hadn't somehow broken it and that it wasn't actually implemented in Mint. (I know I can probably get su working in Mint. Linux is customizable, yadda, yadda, but that's above my paygrade currently.) I'd gotten used to GNOME (despite the Win 8 flashbacks the start menu gave me), but Cinnamon feels like home. (Yes, I know you can change desktop environments, but remember that this was my first time, first distro, and first environment.) Installing the correct drivers was as simple as pressing a button and it just worked. I don't understand why Linux and the Linux community have to make everything so difficult for actual beginners. (As opposed to beginners who have started getting their feet under them.) I remember learning the basics of using MS-DOS and Win 3.11 as a kid on my own by mesing around with it, with no internet to help, no manuals, and no one to give advice. It took a day to get the basics down. They say that they want people to use Linux. They say that every year will be the year of the Linux desktop. They sure don't act like it. I'm sure there are actual tutorials somewhere out there that are aimed at actual beginners, that genuinely teach absolute beginners how to use Linux, but I haven't been able to find them. All I've found are tutorials labled as being for absolute beginners that don't actually teach you the hows and whys and people that tell you to "put in the effort" and "with just a few months you'll get the hang of it." Of course anyone can learn anything with enough effort, but you could, you know, also put in the effort to make it easier to learn? I wish there was a Bob Ross of Linux.
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  56.  @folksurvival  Updating is a thing.
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  57. I'm going to see if I can get my 86Box on there. (86Box is a very accurate system emulator for older x86 systems. Accurate as in hardware conflicts, compatability issues, hard drive configuration . . .)
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  58. These are the actual fascists, and them removing themselves is a great thing. Politics have no place in open source software. These lunatics ruin everything they are a part of because of how they treat other people. Also, there are definitely leftists that agree with you and think these people are a travesty, I should know, I'm a liberal socialist according to most political compass tests I take. (When they don't peg me as a conservative.)
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  59. Bingo. This is clearly an attack, not well-meaning but incompetent people.
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