I just realized that I've already blocked both of the mods at some point in the past. The community looks really dead without their posts.
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2025
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Lol don't give them any attention. It's the same 3 people who didn't get loved enough during their formative years and cannot distinguish between good attention and bad attention
All three of them are Lunduke.
But lunduke doesn't hate Linux. Only the fact that women are using it.
Meh. I have no issues with novelty accounts/ projects that are taking the piss.
the one and only mod there was practically the only poster.
it was honestly sad to see how much anger they harbored against a platform that literally doesn't care.
Some of those posts are decent jokes to be honest. Some are just desperate/scare tactics though.
I thought it was a satiric thing - is it meant to be seriously?
If you satirically make a community about the Earth being a triangle, users who actually believe it will pop up eventually.
The owner once said they were not a meme community in a post. Empirical evidence disagrees.
I'm not sure. Some posts legitimately seem like Linux users making fun of themselves. Others really seem like people who have an actual grudge against it.
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In A UEFI World, "rm -rf /" Can Brick Your System
efivars are made read only by the kernel. That firmware bug (!) was worked around in the kernel years ago.
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.rst
Specifically in 2016: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ed8b0de5a33d2a2557dce7f9429dca8cb5bc5879
uefi is cringe anyway, reject uefi and return to grub in the system firmware
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How is this not a joke community, like the Lunduke videos?
I thought the same at first, then I started to think the main person was just trolling, now I'm pretty sure they're actually serious
Well, Lunduke is making hour long nuanced content just with baity titles. And he doesn't spend a portion of his days on banning people and sending snarky comments. This is mostly shitposting, ragebait and wrong factual claims...
Microwaving any of your computer parts can brick them.
I accidentally ran rm -rf / on my work MacBook once. Proper backups and patience with yourself are far better solutions than recommending to let Microsoft infect your computer.
Quick glance AFat that place and wow. Talk about people completely and utterly missing the point
Yeah, I know I can be annoying when I tell people for the 100th time that they should install Linux, but I wouldn't have to say that if they didn't get their computer hacked / full of viruses / full with Microsoft bloat and spyware they want removed and come to me to fix that shit on each of those occasions.
Its all one person. Literally 98% of the posts are one butthurt dude, who then goes on to complain that linux users are annoying because they make it their whole personality.
The thing that he doesn't understand is that he cannot ascertain my "entire personality" by simply seeing the facets of it I show in linux forums.
Furthermore, I would argue that creating and singularly sustaining a salty "fuck linux" community puts OP pretty far up the list of "linux is entire personality," even if "anti-" it's still likely more than most of us tbh. Like I say, all I know of them is from that comm so I'm sure there's other facets to their personality I'm not privy to, I'm just saying, who is really more obsessed, the guy posting in forums and sometimes recommending it as an alternative when people complain about windows, or the guy who runs a whole ass hate community dedicated to it? Ironic, really.
It just gets sad when you remember the dude running it isn't doing this for satire. They generally think it sucks.
I thought it was satire at first and thought, how long before they start going after stereotypes? Then I saw it was just that one person and thought damn someone misconfigured their backups and lost their job.
Wait... Is that community run by Gerald Holmes?
http://www.l8r.net/geraldholmes.freeyellow.com/ (a 25 year-old, very likely satire site)
I think PC gamers in general are annoying regardless of what OS they use. I say this as a Linux PC gamer.
I agree...I Linux game in Arch btw.
Noob distro, all the true Linux gamers use LFS.
Oh, the irony.
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They forgot sudo. Also, why not throw in a -v flag to see your dreams die in real time!
When I first messed with Linux circa 1997, I had just installed it and learned how to edit fstab to mount my windows drive automatically.
I couldn't figure out how to start X, though, so I booted into windows and asked in EFnet #linux.
The advice I was given was 'rm -rf /'.
I hadn't yet learned about non-privileged accounts.
The correct command was 'startx'.
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I’m not even all the way switched over and I got my only comment deleted. I apparently broke the rule about only being allowed to hate.
Who did this? The mods themselves? I mean they're entitled to do whatever they like in their community... within instance rules... Or is this some intervention by someone else?
Only the mod posts there anyway. Locking the community is a mod power.
But I guess the admins can overpower any mod, so it could be them as well?!
One of the reasons I dont like local moderators being perpetually in charge of some communities. We should have a way to vote out unwanted mods. Or at least have term limits.
On the flip side, if I create a community for some really niche thing that I want to discuss with others, I don't want an irrational mob of users kicking me out of my own community that I worked to grow.
Mob mentality on social media is also a real problem. People see downvotes and continue to down vote a comment without even reading the whole thing, automatically assuming a user must be an asshole if everyone else downvotes them. Oftentimes, it's just something people don't want to hear, but is true.
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This entire conversation is solving a problem that's already been mostly solved.
If you don't like an existing community, whether because of the mods or whatever, you just create a new one. This was common on Reddit (e.g. GameOfThrones vs FreeFolk vs ASOIAF), and extends further. If you don't like !Linux@lemmy.world, you can create !Linux@lemmy.ml, @programming.dev, @lemm.ee, or hundreds of others.
The community will respond accordingly. If you run a better ship, people will find it and respond accordingly. The only real hurdle is fighting inertia. The mods of the existing community will probably not take kindly to anyone mentioning any alternatives.
Sure everyone can make their own, except that there is a big threshold to actually get people moving. So unless something really but and bad happens, nobody cares and just stays. See Reddit -> Lemmy and how that did not happen apart of a small group of people.
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