Remember when Canonical used to give away installation CDs to anyone who asked? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Damn, and people complain about Windows …
I bet if they could have added pictures to this ad, they would have.
You haven’t seen the best part yet. They’re holding back security updates, if you don’t do this whole Pro-shit. I really don’t know how much pot their executives smoked to get that awful idea.
And like, to be fair, for personal use, you can get Pro for free, so you ‘just’ need to create an account to get a secure OS.
But yeah, you basically don’t really hear people complaining, because we simply don’t use Ubuntu. Plenty better Linux distros to choose from. I only know this shit, because my work laptop unfortunately comes with it and I’m not necessarily allowed to change it.
wget actuallygooddistro.org/install/2023-09-x64.iso && cp *.iso /mnt/ventoy/ && rm -rf /*
I replied this to someone else gonna put it here:
Kinda a shit take. Canonical is very generous with licensing. They give you 5 free personal licenses per account AND they license per physical host which is practically unheard of now. Like everything is per VM or container or CPUs or sockets etc now. One pro license on an ESXi host could have hundreds of VMs and Canonical is OK with that.
Source: I work with and use ubuntu pro. Canonical’s alright in my book. More than I can say for the RHEL team
You mean, like on Ubuntu?
I don’t know about vim, but emacs does have a clippy package for real. You can even make it be useful if you try hard enough.
$ rm -rf /
Removing /etc/passwords...
~ WITH XXXXX ANTIVIR, PROTECT YOUR PASSWORDS FOR ONLY 5.99$ PER MONTH ~
Removing /home/user...
~ WITH XXX VPN, ACCESS ALL YOUR CONTENT ONLINE FROM ANY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, 19.99$ PER YEAR FOR NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS ~
Removing /bin/bash...
~ DO YOU WANT A BIGGER D ? TAKE XXXX PILLS, 99.9% SUCCESS ~
...
i could see that as a powershell “feature”, which allows microsoft to sell adspace in the command line that reaches technicans and administrators
edit: fixed link
If you write !aboringdystopia@lemmy.world instead the link is usable for any instance.
Ahhhh…THANK YOU! r/boringdistopia was one of the few subreddits I have been still missing.
