zalgotext

joined 2 years ago
[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

Lol brother, you were the one that introduced the context of "new Linux users".

Linux community: why don't more people use Linux?

I'm not whitewashing anything, I'm not being elitist. The only thing I'm trying to say is that if the Linux community wants to attract more users, we should absolutely be turning up our noses at WSL, like Homelander here in this meme. Because it's a niche tool, not something a new Linux user should be daily driving.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 3 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Saying "don't use WSL as your first Linux distro" isn't gatekeeping though, it's just good advice.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 4 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

How?

Encouraging the use of WSL to new Linux users is asinine. It's a niche tool with a shitload of bugs and caveats, not something that should be widely used as a daily driver. It's not "shitting on" anyone to tell them they shouldn't be using WSL as their daily driver distro, just like it's not "shitting on" someone to tell them not to use a hammer to drive in a screw.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago (6 children)

One of the main points of using Linux is so that you don't have to use Windows. Like I get WSL is useful in certain scenarios, but it's whole existence is basically counter to why the majority of Linux users use Linux.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Nah, absolutely not. Putting a profit incentive on the news is how we end up with how the news currently is - reaction-bait with the sole purpose of driving engagement and views to generate ad revenue, instead of actual, unbiased, honest journalism.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Please do yourself a favor and look further back than 7 years into their discography, I'm begging you

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The trilogy? No there's like 15 books in The Wheel of Time series

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

I do love my Ma and Pa

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Lmao I'm not upset dawg, just matching your nitpicks with more nitpicks

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The variance involved in converting cups of flour to grams is much greater than any gravitational variances caused by elevation or location. So that's sort of irrelevant here.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Grams are a measure of mass or weight. I assume we're talking about measuring this flour here on planet earth, within the effects of its gravitational field lol

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago (9 children)

184 grams is a touch high for "a cup of flour", but I'm not gonna check your math, and the comic probably wanted to use "close enough" round-ish numbers. The weight of a cup of flour is usually somewhere between 120g and 145g, going by the conversions used by major baking recipe publishers like King Arthur, Cooks Illustrated, Washington Post, New York Times, etc.

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