Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

  • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I stumbled upon this poster while trying to figure out what linux distro normal people are using these days, and there’s something about their particular brand of confident incorrectness. please enjoy the posts of someone who’s either a relatively finely tuned impolite disagreement bot or a human very carefully emulating one:

    • weirdly extremely into everything red hat
    • outrageously bad takes, repeated frequently in all the Linux beginner subs, never called out because “hey fucker I know you’re bullshitting and no I don’t have to explain myself” gets punished by the mods of those subs
    • very quickly carries conversation into nested subthreads where the downvotes can’t get them
    • accuses other posters of using AI to generate the posts they disagree with
    • when called out for sounding like AI, explains that they use it “only to translate”
    • just the perfect embodiment of a fucking terrible linux guy, I swear this is where the microsoft research money goes
    • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      3 days ago

      as in, distro for normal people? (for arbitrary value of normal, that is) distrowatch ranks mint #1, and i also use it because i’m lazy and while i could use something else, It Just Works™

      • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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        3 days ago

        that’s the one I ended up grabbing, and from the setup-only usage I’ve been giving it, it’s surprisingly good

        • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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          3 days ago

          i’ve installed it for my 70+ grandparents, they had no problems with it at all for a couple of years. (granted they just read news on it) i’ve used it on a two laptops for a 10y+ now and outside of typical linux problems that require minor configuring (bluetooth and wifi driver related mostly) it all works since day one, batteries included. for a couple of years timeshift is bundled in ootb so even if you fuck up there are backups