Can we avoid using the space tourists for memes?
Unless we're ridiculing them, obvs.
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2025
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I mean, it kinda is to me, the base meme image isn't of them being in space or doing any of the "tourism" parts, but of them being "so grateful to be on the ground" because they couldn't "handle it"
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I'm pretty sure this is making fun of those twats
They were not space tourists.
They were cargo. Marketing material for Jeff's rocket-powered overcompensation that just happened to need oxygen to stay fresh.
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Uh, isnβt that what this is?
Agreed, this was my first thought. We do not need to make these monsters into a meme. Let them go back into non-existence.
If anyone wants to listen to a 40 minute rant about it, always recommend Angela Collier.
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I one time left a job where everyone had Linux workstations and went into a finance job where developers were using windows. It was the strangest thing I've ever seen.
To begin with, the PCs were highly restrictive. You either had to rely on a shitty service to request software to be installed, or had to beg for an admin account to install anything. This took days if not weeks already on onboard.
One works with interfaces that hide the actual process. No one actually understood git. They just know a few sequences of buttons. They ask me all the time when they want to do something other then add,commit,push and have no idea about even the status command. They pull up some shitty cli tool, usually within an IDE, and they act as if I'm some sort of genni or know some black magic when I type "git status", or do things like stash, or solve a conflict.
The lack of automation possibilities, or scripting, or the fact that so many things have to be done by clicking around interfaces means that everything is super slow. There is friction everywhere! On top of this you get apps freezing or crashing randomly with no information of what happened. Somehow the PCs are so incredibly bloated with company spywares that despite the fact that they are suppose to be Lenovo Ultrabooks with a lot of RAM, SSDs, and a good CPU, they run like a 15 years old laptop with a half broken hard drive.
Horrible, just horrible.
Ah you must be the new hire at my firm, welcome!
Was helping a friend install Windows on his new PC this week and my god it was such an awful experience. Just looking at the start menu had me in tears.
Must not be a good friend if you installed windows on his PC.
A decent prank though.
My boy! Look how they massecured my boy!
Sionara, lean windows 7 start menu
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Literally me after using my moms Windows 11 Laptop for 10 Minutes.
I come home and just turn on my laptop and look at it when I get home from work. Just to remind me that there's better things in the world.
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I have had to use windows for like the last two weeks and the taskbar crashes and freezes constantly so I put a bat file on my desktop that kills and reopens explorer.exe also if my bluetooth headphones disconnect while my mic is muted it refuses to unmute... I have to reboot. This is what people say is a "it just works" experience.
It's so funny how you can crash the whole Windows desktop by mounting a network share, disconnecting from the network and trying to access it.
Found that at a previous job where technicians would frequently connect and disconnect from networks. Also, it's impossible to unmount such a share from explorer or PowerShell. Only the old CMD tool works
No one has more problems on windows than a linux-first user.
Every thread like this has people that can't seem to get windows to do the bare minimum, but I have yet to have a single hiccup in months. I don't get it. This isn't even a "linux bad" comment, I dual boot and enjoy my linux install as well, the only "problems" I have on there are from being new to linux.
I'm wondering if some of those issues are just simple annoyances that Windows users are used to putting up with. Because I had lots of those before switching to Linux that I didn't think were fixable.
The only time I had my windows install be completely unbootable was when dual booting. The rest was always an issue.
It's even a work pc, there's a thread on the microsoft forums detailing how common the problem is.
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My new job issued me with a sweet ass workstation laptop... With W11
Upside is that the IT dept has about zero awareness of the governance part of cyber security. The laptop has an unlocked bios and coworkers have had no questions asked when their domain joined machines didn't check in for years.
So guess who's about to swap the ssd and roll the machine for a debian based distro. Just need to figure out drivers for the nvidia rtx 1000 ada GPU
Why canβt Windows just work? Itβs such a frustrating experience
Same with Android after having to endure iOS for a few minutes
WHERE THE FUCK IS THE BACK BUTTON??
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If she's an astronaut then I'm a gynecologist.
And a plumber.
Subtle flexing but ok
Those titles are interchangeable.
Every three months for about 30 minutes Iβm forced to use windows in a VM. Itβs so awful dealing with the pop upβs, forced updates, and background bullshit that I feel the need for a shower after.
I have my Linux laptop open at work next to their windows machine and the difference when I switch between them is ridiculous.
Me after every workday.
I'm in this picture and I don't like it. Fuck my work computer
I can feel this image as I've been working on macos due to regulations for years and then going back to linux full time was orgasmic. Its crazy how much better dev experience on Linux is.
Can confirm. I am on this image
Literally finally let my windows partition upgrade to windows 11 last night. It took like 3 HOURS to do. Then I shrunk the partition way down and clean installed my Bazzite dual boot over the extra space and that took MAYBE 15 minutes. I use Windows MAYBE once every 6 months or so. Linux has just been the better experience for 99% of my computing and even gaming needs.
Yes but wouldn't you like to sign up for an outlook account? No? Sorry that wasn't a question, this full screen window has no X and you will comply.
... unless you do the thing that skips it, but man that's an awful experience.
Winderp has unskippable ads and begging for paid subscriptions even in their card games now. Can't even play Solitaire in peace. It's just a deeply enshittified OS.
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If Linux was introduced to me a lot sooner and I wasn't such a jackass that had to play video games on my computer, I would literally have switched a long fucking time ago. I've used all operating systems at this point and Linux ecosystem is far better. What you can't do on Linux is shit I don't even want to do. Most of the time.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed player here with an Nvidia 3000-series GPU.
Gaming with Steam, GoG (Heroic Launcher), and even disc games installed with Bottles has been a smooth experience with VERY few if any tweaks or fixes needed.
Except for VR (where Monado is making strides!) we are THERE. I'd highly encourage trying it out these days.
Unless you gotta play the latest AAA hyper-competitive monolithic server games with kernel level anti cheat but...at that point might as well have a burner PC. X_X lol
Even then some work! Marvel Rivals works on Linux fine!
So does Helldivers 2 but that's cooperative.
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Fr tho, I had to use my brother computer for printing and it's such a god awful os
I can't watch Disney plus in the browser on Linux, which kinda sucks. Fuck Disney, but also, anybody knows how to fix it? I tried changing the user agent override, but that didn't work.
I can watch all the stream services from Linux you should enable DRM.
VM Windows. Downsides: obvious. Upsides: you can give it a funny name, like, Mousesoft Cheesedoughs Disney-bution.
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Wait wat, grovelling and eating grub and dirt? /s
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