Just a geek, finding my way in the fediverse.

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  • Not at all. It’s more of “I’m used to windows, change is scary”

    There are still some things that are win/mac only and if you’re heavily invested in them it can be hard to migrate to Linux based FOSS alternatives (or, VM/WINE/etc). But, most “normal” (non-geek) people aren’t keen on throwing away all of their experience on one specific application to learn a new, different, one… Regardless of feature parity.

    I haven’t looked in several years, but noob friendly CAD is one example. I ended up using browser based ones since I couldn’t find an easy offline one. “Easy” is the key here - there are pretty great FOSS CAD suites, they just aren’t super friendly to stupid people (me).

    Though, that may have changed, if you’ve got recommendations please let me know.





  • Mine are named after the penguins from the Madagascar movie : Skipper, Private, Kowalski, and Rico.

    Unfortunately there’s only four so I often supplement with a suffix. For example, I’ve got an old windows laptop kicking around that is “rico-w”

    … I should really commit to a naming scheme with a wider array of options.






  • Yep. Haven’t used windows besides poking at other people’s machines and trying to figure out wtf is going on in about 20 years.

    I’m just as clueless as you bud, but I’ve got a bootable Linux drive I can plug in. Come on, you know you wanna… It’ll be great, you’ll love it. It’s free





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    6 months ago

    Last time I had free time and was looking for a new game someone told me “Get Control. Just get it. Trust me.”

    My trust was not misplaced. It’s one of the best games I’ve ever played.

    Edit: Later I tried AW1 and didn’t really care for it much (mostly because i sucked really bad at it) until I started using “all guns” cheats so I could play it like a horror/action. Then I enjoyed it.




  • Might vary by locale? Around here (South US) it seems like every single store has their own rewards/discount/whatever system that requires your phone number but it’s not necessary for the transaction… It’s just an extra info grab.

    Sometimes the user facing POS/credit card reader will let you handle it (enter/skip) but many places rely on the salesperson to ask and then enter it or skip.

    But, I also don’t get around much so my experience is limited.


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    7 months ago

    Same.

    Cashier: “What’s your phone number?” (For the store tracking/rewards/whatever)

    Me : “Don’t have one!” (As I remove the credit card from the case on the back of myphone)

    Nobody has questioned it once. They don’t want to ask in the first place but are forced to.