This can now be considered funny since the attempt was thwarted. Phew! Lol

I don’t really get forests where I live, but that sounds straight up unsettling if not terrifying!

I was laughing early thinking this was depicting the future, where the “funny old man gibberish” was the Roblox “oof!” because a Zoomer was getting punched lmao.

For a sec it felt like a deep commentary on how the flow of time is always cruel. BUT ANYWAY more on topic:

I both miss the Yahoo! Messenger days and also feel incredibly weirded out knowing how like, nothing was encrypted back then. That’s something I simply can’t imagine not caring about now. :|

Children of Men Guy

Ah I was gonna say Boromir. :p

I was scared to click that link but now I can’t breathe 😂

Most of which probably park that van in their 5-car garage between shoots. 😂

LOL Fixed it.

Thought the implied sexual joke (involving an animal even) might get someone dragged into HR if some manager or tattletale coworker happened to be lurking, so thought I’d play it safe. :p

I haven’t posted here much and thought “Well if someone was viewing this at work, the implied bestiality joke (and language) might get them into trouble with puritanical management.”

But I’ve been assured it doesn’t cross a line, so I fixed it. :)

Fixed. Thanks for the clarification. I also thought the implied bestiality joke might get someone dragged into HR if the wrong dork happened to shoulder-surf them so thought I’d play it safe. :p

As a fellow Community Fact Checker with “just trust me bro” accreditation and zero accountability for accuracy, my sources and friends all seem to agree with this assessment as well!

This news is of course, unsurprising, given Mark’s recent and infamous “Oh, Llama” controversy, experts agree.

(Sources say the llama has so far declined to comment.)

“allegedly”

“Hnng hnngyeeess, the Eeevil Council are French! Nyah hah! Nnggyah! Power me up, babyy! Nggyah hah!”

–Betty

Steak. Lots of steak. I f**ing love steak. "

–Commander “We’ll bang okay?” Shepard

Dr. Stone is just SO GOOD.

I don’t think they were claiming it was “too PC” so much as just movie industry trends. Like executives don’t see money in stupid-funny comedies these days maybe? I do wonder myself at the reason why.

Impractical Jokers do be funny guys though. :D

I just miss silly spoof movies.

I feel like those " (genre) Movie" films were such weak throwaways and the silly parody movie quietly just died shortly after. Especially when everything wanted to be an “adult comedy” or a “dramedy” (ughh!)

You don’t really see that fun absurdist trope-poking humor of Kung Pow!, Airplane, Monty Python, or Austin Powers, anymore. Spy movie spoofs were such a great time. :)

A TV show called Angie Tribeca did this SO WELL. It was such a great cop show parody full of silly wordplay and puns and unbelievably ridiculous scenarios.

Yep, this. Thanks for saying it!

Some of us want to use technology to do all those nice lofty things like send cat memes and connect with our friends with only as much “administration” is necessary to protect it.

I think they’re kinda close nowadays but you’re right, it’s primarily a Linux application, snd I personally find it to be a much smoother experience. :)

It still runs plenty admirably on Windows though.

3D artist here! (And have been paid for it, so grain of salt that I’m not some legend from a AAAA studio but I’m not a poser either)

Blender is practically made for Linux. It’s fantastic. Using Blender Launcher has been a game changer too!

I’ve seen some threads about Affinity working. With strides with Proton and such, it might be getting there. :)

As the other user posted, DaVinci is also Linux friendly.

I’m not techy enough to do Linux either.

Well, you’re already on Lemmy, and if you’re using those programs you listed, you’re more than techy enough. A lot depends on the distro, but there’s plenty of friendly ones!

Currently I’m on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, and love it. But Fedora, or maybe Pop!_OS or Mint might also appeal to you, depending on if you need/want the latest updates or a bit more solidly tested apps. (I like my new shiny features hehe)

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is technically a “rolling release” but they do very good package testing, so my experience with NVIDIA on it has gotten WAY better, after some hitches in the past, where I simply rolled back and waited for a better update while I used the current system. Every time that’s been Nvidia’s fault. The system is crazy stable.

If that scares you though, but you like chameleons, there’s OpenSUSE Leap, which hangs back a little for more stability. :)

…Installing Linux can be a little tough for beginners though! But there’s lots of good guides, and YouTube stuff and friendly community folks to help you there. Weekend project! Once you’ve done it once, you’ll have it. :)

My big lifehack for you is this (because I spent way too long geek-diving over this): Install with BTRFS as your file system, and install a program called Timeshift to handle “snapshots” you can roll back to if an update breaks or something. (Like Windows system restore) With BTRFS, snapshots can be made that only store differences, rather than exponentially taking up space with multiple literal copies of your whole system.

An awesome perk of OpenSUSE is that it does this automatically, and you have the option of using an earlier saved snapshot at boot time. :)

All these options have “app stores” but trust me, the command line isn’t as scary as it sounds to just search for software and update stuff! :)

Highly suggest playing with it on a VM or a spare hard drive and trying to do some tasks in it little by little. I like my Linux Blender experience MUCH better, personally.

The KDE desktop environment also feels super familiar and intuitive to Windows users, and has GUI options for tons of customization.

And goes without saying regardless of anything else: back up anything important to you. :p

Linux is really fun to play around with because it feels like it’s your machine, like getting to paint your bedroom walls and put holes in it and hang up shelves as opposed to renting a gray box you’re not allowed to mess with. I think you’d dig it. :)