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ever since i switched linux i even get excited when i see a tzdata update.
The Venn diagram of Windows users and Maga voters has to be nearly a circle. Both groups seem to enjoy pain and love arguing that their way is better.
Windows user here, definitely not MAGA (or even American for that matter). This is a wild take to have, and there is a definite “updates Boogeyman” that Lemmy users seem to have about Windows that just isn’t the case if you’re remotely comfortable on computers. I use Windows 10 and turned off the updates, so my computer doesn’t update. There’s no AI features being forced onto me, there’s nothing unexpected being downloaded, there’s no pain involved in my computer experience.
I’m not going to argue that my way is better, and fully understand why someone would choose not to use Windows, but the convenience it offers me in my computer needs (mostly just playing World of Warcraft) is enough for me to stick with it. I am however strongly considering throwing a Linux build onto an old desktop or laptop I have laying around in case Windows ever does get to that point so that it’s an easier swap. Your comment is pretty fuckin wild though I had a good chuckle at that.
This meme itself feels like AI slop. Also, as a dual user, AI is really not that prelevant on Windows, as opposed to my android phone. Not sure how things are on iPhone, but I heard apple intelligence is going “great”
Clearly the Linux user just broke their prompt by updating. Classic.
AI-generated comics be like:
Ha! As if Ubuntu didnt update on its own and then completely killed my internet access because it changed the file system of how it stores DNS but didnt somehow do it right to the point of me spending 3 hours figuring out what file I had to recreate and why to get it working again.
Linux is cool but not this make believe version of cool.
Well see that’s your problem right there, you’re using ubuntu /j
Yeah. Maybe. I know I will never try arch again and I thought Ubuntu was supposed to be one of the good ones but its been so much stress.
I dont want to have to completely redo my whole system and all the software just to try a different OS flavorI switched to Debian with KDE. Same basics as Ubuntu without their oversight.
Problem with ubuntu is that it’s corporate driven, with the corporate mindset. theybare not as bad as microsoft, but they are regularly showing their teeth. not with this of course, this is “just” a mistake of some kind
Just use what you like. Every linux has its quirks :)
I have no idea when it happened, but there’s a mechanism in place to download updates but only install them on reboot, kinda similar to windows, but when you want instead of when it want. It’s kinda the best of both world : updates are quick to install, downloaded in the background, and no workflow interruption.
Ah. I have only figured out the check for updates daily, weekly or never options. I am leaning into never as this is the third time an Ubuntu update has made me want to curl up in a ball and die.
I dont find thus constant tech support fun.
You might prefer a more curated experience like Bazzite.
Probably, but it is not a gaming device but a network managing one and its been running for way before bazzite and just the thought of having to configure it all again makes my skin crawl.
But if the internet is dead, you can’t curl!
(Well, depending on what broke, I guess localhost may work)
What this comic or meme isn’t showing:
Linux user spends every waking hour being a Torvalds Witness prophet, browbeating everyone and anyone into using Linux. While proclaiming about free choice
Hey, do you use Arch? I use Arch by the way!
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DO YOU WANT US TO SET UP YOUR BACKUP NOW OR ASK AGAIN IN 3 DAYS?
*onedrive
The irony that the meme has multiple popups about AI being bad while the entire meme is AI-generated.
I agree. Can’t quite put my finger on it… maybe the window behind the monitor? I try not to assume simply because of the style, but the lack of author credit makes it hard to check anyway.The weird thing is it wouldn’t at all be hard to draw by hand.
It’s also the total failure of a punch line in the second frame. Just so robotic sounding.
It’s also the font on the pop-ups, and the AI logo.
There’s a very generic style of Facebook cartoon that these things absolutely nail.
I think it’s the speech bubbles
Left side. There is a thing next to the books and the handle of the coffee cup is wonky.
Check out the random items on the desk. They make no sense.
But yes, the biggest giveaway is those slightly blurry pop ups and that not-quite-comicsans font you see in all that slop.
keyboard
I would say it doesn’t exactly say that AI is bad moreso that shoving it forcefully in people’s throat is not the way to do it.
If all the BS AI of Windows would be exclusively opt-in I would be “” fine"" with it.
Then there is also the “telemetry” and the random updates, or settings changing on their own and…
There are no such popups though. The issue on Windows is that Microsoft is pushing AI everywhere, whether you want it or not. But the OP allegedly used AI as a tool to generate this image when they wanted to.
There’s also the part where a windows update unlocks a new kind of fear: “what will it break this time?”
A linux update instead brings the joy of “nice! New things everyone was waiting for!”
except nvidia drivers.
fuck nvidia.
Thank you for your summary of the meme above
You’re welcome, user whose only post in here was, literally, two words: “six seven”!
You really know how to contribute to this community!
My post was something new while that comment is a retelling of the exact same thing every Lemmy user has commented ever
You invented 67? Damn, how’s it feel to have something be globally popular.
hey bro this image kinda smells AI Generated my man
Because it is
Help me out here whippersnapper, all I can see that is suspicious is the coffee cup and grey note next to it, but everything else looks clean
For me it’s the text (too regular and perfectly-ruled to be hand lettered, but too much variance between the letterforms to be a font) and the little AI artifact on the random doohickey directly under the bottom left corner of the AI computer monitor:
Aside from that, it’s just the weight of unmotivated choices. Why is the “good” side of the image grayscale while the “bad” side is in color (a human probably would’ve done it the other way)? Why are the desks drawn slightly differently while the person, chair, and computer are drawn the same (a human would’ve probably made everything identical to better illustrate their point)? Why all the random clutter on one but not the other (if the point was to make the AI computing experience look scattered and cluttered, surely they would’ve made it more overwhelmingly cluttered, but if it was for verisimilitude they’d have put clutter on both desks)? Also, subjectively, the “AI” logo on the screen suggests a pleasant experience, not an oppressive one.
An unmotivated choice on its own isn’t necessarily an AI calling card, but enough of them together alongside one or two smoking guns can definitely make the case pretty strongly.
There are cables in the windows side but not the Linux side, which also seems like an odd choice for a human to make to me.
Agreed, good catch.
It’s becuase they told the ai to make the right side simple so it simplified everything.
It’s not just ai slop, they also used sloppy prompts.
The desk and the colours too. Impressive prompt predicting from you, are you sure you’re not ai?
What an astute and flattering observation! You are good and smart.
I am 100% real. Trust me bro.
If you’d like I can provide a list of human organs I contain. Would you like me to do that now?
All good points, thanks for this
It’s the hands. not enough fingers.
Yes, who in the right mind would draw a popup window behind the screen and forget to write the green command prompt in the second line
I mean, fair, but this image is ai generated tho.
It’s unusual that Linux users are so cool with tinkering to get everything exactly how they want. Unless it’s windows. No tinkering for them there.
It could have something to do with Microsoft ensuring you cannot tinker with Windows to get everything exactly how you want 🤷♀️
Sounds like a skill issue.
It is. Some have the skills for Linux
You cannot tinker windows though.
For Linux it’s customization and preferences, for Windows it’s using regedit to completely break your system by removing features the core OS uses for some reason like Cortana/Search and Copilot, etc.
Everything you don’t want is baked in to the core.
one needs third party apps of questionable trustworthiness and even then you can’t definitively verify it isn’t periodically screenshotting everything you do and uploading it with your unique tpm tied to it
I’d like to meet one Linux user who hasn’t run a user script they didn’t read every line of to ensure it didn’t do anything it shouldn’t do.
AI slop + it doesn’t make much sense to begin with
It’s not the automatic Updates themselves making Windows bad lol
Totally agree.
And here OP proves perfectly how Windows Updates have done a ton of collective damage to security by being a terrible experience.
Software MUST be always updated.
but then it breaks or the design team needed to justify its salary again or…
Then the problem lies with the software. Not updating it is not a solution
despite Debian propaganda (/hj)
Where’s the part where I can’t turn my monitor on without having to pull the HDMI and reinsert?
This crap reminds me of console fanboy ism/wars.
It’s not a joke, heh. After some update in the last month or two, my monitor won’t wake up unless I power cycle the monitor.
I mean. I love Linux. But low maintenance it is not.
I have the same issue with my shiny displayport monitor when i turn it off, while the secondary, 180€ HDMI-monitor simply does not care at all. IIRC, it’s a combination of Nvidia GPU + Wayland + DP that triggers it on my system, my logs muttered something about the display not being unregistered, which causes it to not turn on because it cannot be created - details are hazy, i simply do not turn it off anymore
Clean physical desktop helps calm the mind as well. The artist knew it.
DOS user: updates? I can set the date in the BIOS if I need…
Lucky you had a motherboard with a CMOS battery. Without that*, you needed to enter the time and date every time the computer booted / rebooted.
* Or a capacitor instead.
