Count Regal Inkwell

Nerd|Furry|Linux User|Ace|BiRomantic|Taken <3

Leftist with an incorrigible love for fancy aesthetics (mostly Renaissance Italy/Victorian England) that might be incorrectly read as a monarchist because of that.

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  • Ah yes. The great tyranny of checks notes digital payment processing

    You know, we already have this in Brazil. The countryside has not, in fact, been burninated. In fact, last I checked we’d been schooling the first worlders on how to actually handle fascists.

    Oh and we never had to bend the knee to MasterCard’s forced purity rules because our digital payment system isn’t privatised unlike yall’s.

    You need to lay off the shrooms, mate. They’re fucking with your mind.










  • I know I’m very late to the party and any comment in a thread with 200+ posts is like yelling at the void.

    BUT

    My experience with Windows has hardly been “it just works”. In fact it has been a history of decades of tinkering and messing around with it to try and get it to do what I want.

    The only difference is that Windows obscures everything, so when something breaks it does so quietly. Meaning you might not notice… Or. More likely. It’ll just crash out and you don’t even have an error code to google.

    This isn’t to say that Linux isn’t a balancing act of constant maintenance. It is. Just… The Windows experience was never “better” for me from that angle. And… On some level, I enjoy all the tinkering. I think all Linux folks do.




  • Exactly at 0

    Stepping back and looking at technology as inventions and the stuff they do and the ingenuity that goes into them, tech is dope. And even useless tech is fun as a toy.

    But for Capitalism Reasons, whenever some new technology gets announced my first thought, by necessity, is “okay cool. How are they gonna use this to fuck us over and/or to kill people here in the global south”

    Because the answer is not, has never been, and never will be “they won’t”. There is ALWAYS a knife under the pillow with capitalism.