Steve Dice

Lowest level rep: We at Shopify do not support Nazis

Shitty journalist: How about Kanye specifically? Do you support him?

Rep: Uh… I guess not?

Headline: Shopify says they don’t support black artists.

First, it’s true. Secondly, it matters a lot because there’s no fool proof way to update through the CLI that takes into account all of the software delivery methods that exist today so you could do use dnf to upgrade daily and still have old flatpak or viceversa. That’s exactly why Fedora recommends updating through the GUI.

Either reboot it or let it die. If I wanted to make the effort to dive into such an convoluted world, I’d get into LotR. I will never understand everybody’s fascination with decades old franchises with impenetrable lore. Nothing against Star Trek specifically, I’m just tired of seeing media and thinking “Oh, that looks interesting, I’d like to get into that” just to find out there’s a backlog of 47 years of world building I have to catch up on before I get to enjoy it. This is why I never got into Dr. Who, Star Trek, LotR, Warhammer, WoW or One Piece.

Fedora discourages updating through the CLI.

I spent more than I’d like to admit wondering “what the fuck is a wel relation?!”

lol love how you just assumed the call center is in India

What I (and the people working at those call centers) would give to lead a life as sheltered and priviledged as yours.

“well akshually” comments are poorly received everywhere.

She definitely got fracked.

He recently visited Mexico and stayed at Palacio Nacional (the Mexican president current residence). There was no negotiation, talk, conference or any kind of diplomatic visit scheduled. He just came and stayed at our president’s home. Petro, you dawg.

A billionaire’s and a dictator’s puppet flinging shit at each other and pretending they’re winning while the people get caught in the middle.

Controller as in “the thing that controls”, not a gamepad.

A couple of figures of speech from Mexico that I find equally nonsensical:

Simón: Means yes.

Nelson: Means no.

Mátala(o) (kill it): to finish a drink or a snack.

Jalar (pull): To go somewhere or agree to a plan. You may also hear its long form “¿jalas o te pandeas?” (do you pull or do you bend?) meaning “are you coming or not?”.

¿Se va hacer o no se va a hacer la carnita asada? (Are we doing or not the carne asada?): It means “Is the plan still on?”

Chapulinear: There’s no literal translation for this one but I guess it would be like “grasshopper-ing”. It means seducing a friend’s partner.

Tirando el perro (throwing the dog): Flirting.

Arma la vaca (build the cow): Gathering money for a small collective purchase.

Huele a gas (Smells like gas): To leave. That’s kind of like an advanced figure of speech because it comes from Fuga, which in and of itself is a figure of speech meaning “to leave quickly”. It literally translates to “leak”, as in a gas line leak, because you’re supposed to leave in a way that mimics gas leaking from a pipe. So, when we need to leave but not as quickly, we don’t say “leak”, we say “smells like gas” implying there might be a leak.

Here’s a modern one:

Quesadilla: Means “that’s so sad” because it sounds like Qué sad (illa)

I wouldn’t bother with LTSC. Just install Enterprise/Education and disable feature updates.

I love irony.

lol thank you so much

Yeah, it’s definitely the owner’s fault. That doesn’t change the fact that the underpaid schmuck always tries to blame the customer for not leaving a tip.

Someone make this into that Gru meme:

1. Slap a 25% tarrif on goods coming from your 3 biggest economic allies
2. Economy will strengthen due to American consumers preferring American made alternatives
3. There are no American made alternatives
4. There are no American made alternatives

Select “Custom” and type 0.00 without breaking eye contact. Be careful, though, that 0.00 can quickly turn into 8.88 if you’re not looking.

I remember one time I was arguing with some guy about I don’t remember what but I left to do real-life stuff and didn’t check Lemmy for like 2-3 days and came back to find him arguing with someone else and being adamant that I created another account just to make it seem like more people disagreed with him. Some people prefer to make shit up than to face that they might actually be wrong.