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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • A lot of newer big “gamer” brand peripherals are coming bundled with proprietary software you gotta run to get full functionality.

    A friend of mine recently tried Linux and had his scroll wheel not work because it was tired to the software on Windows for some stupid reason…

    I saw this trend starting nearly a decade ago when Razers software bricked my Win7 PC by booting before the login screen, I’ve avoided any devices with mandatory software since, but seems the issue has only grown lately.





  • I’m an older GenZ born in the late 90s and I’ve had to show a few younger peers how to torrent recently.

    The idea of you needing a “special” program just for downloading a file seems to throw some of them off.

    I do know a few young people are tech/programming wizards but “generally tech savy” people seem to be declining. It’s either you’re really into it or barely know anything outside popular apps.

    One other thing I’ve noticed, People just seem to be more paranoid about downloading stuff not already installed on their devices. Which its good people give at least a bit of a shit about security but convincing people Firefox isn’t a virus gets a bit annoying (Yes I’ve had that conversation).