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When WSL2 first came out, some losers on /g/ were cheering that it would "make Linux obsolete". Four years later, I think it's safe to say they were kinda missing the point. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

[–] amanwithausername@vlemmy.net 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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[Miracle of the word wide web meme template]
"Thanks to the miracle of windows subsystem for linux..."
"...I can use the Linux terminal from the comfort of windows"
[Computer monitor showing windows update screen]
"Marvelous"

Distro users in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

[–] amanwithausername@vlemmy.net 4 points 2 years ago

I remember seeing a version of this meme where for all distros the "users" was in plural, except for gnewsense, where it was just "user", implying that Stallman is the only one who uses it XD

When all you have is a hammer, every screw looks like a plaintext file. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

[–] amanwithausername@vlemmy.net 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[you go to jail meme template]

Panel 1: You want to write a program? Use vim.

Panel 2: [logos of matplotlib, pandas, and R] Need to process scientific data? Also vim.

Panel 3: [LaTeX logo] Writing a report about that data? Vim.

Panel 4: [OpenSCAD, CadQuery logos] 3D modeling? Believe it or not, straight to vim.

"Subscribe" and "Block" are only text, not buttons in c/support@vlemmy.net

[–] amanwithausername@vlemmy.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

know how to fix it?

Try going to the comment section of any post in that community? For me, that made the subscribe and block buttons functional.

So true. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

[–] amanwithausername@vlemmy.net 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How is it btw? I'd assume battery life on laptops would be non-existent, since everything runs in a VM, right?

Disabling automatic browser extension updates as a security measure? in c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

[–] amanwithausername@vlemmy.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

but if it’s public the odds of SOMEONE reading it and finding out it’s doing shady shit is substantially higher

See, that's the banger: The Great Suspender is licensed under GPL and its source code is available on GitHub. The malware was injected specifically into the chrome web store version. So that's why I'm slightly paranoid of automatic updates.