That’s not comparable. The situations are quite different. Let me explain:

In your example: Windows. It’s basically the “default” operating system. Billions of users. Some of those billions are kinda dumb and will type in a command or delete a folder because the Internet said so. Ok, so you ruined the day of some dummy with a practical joke. Not particularly funny, but whatever, it’s just some dummy.

In the Linux example, here’s how it goes. There’s an alternative OS people can try out. People who are fed up with Microsoft. They install Linux for the first time, and what’s their first experience? Some practical joke ruins their day. These are the people we want! The good ones. The ones brave enough to try out Linux, and their first experience is a dumb meme that ruins their day, or week, and totally turns them off from the Linux community.

This is not the same as pranking some dumb Windows users.

That’s not googling, that’s ducking. Besides everyone knows you should get that kind of answer from ChatGPT.

Shit like this is why desktop Linux will never be mainstream.

Jewel of Open?

Zelda LttP

That’d be awesome! I’d pirate the shit out of a remake.

If people had just chilled the fuck out… we might be in a better place now.

Gamers aren’t a bloc, and each person has their own individual game tastes, opinions, and willingness to spend money on trivial junk.

Most gamers are tween Fortnight players or ones who play exclusively mobile games full of ads. They are not people like us. This was inevitable, and nothing would have or will ever change it. Most people just want a pleasant distraction from the horrors of life and don’t have any particular principles when it comes to how they spend their money on games.

I would have written a user-script to find all check boxes and check them automatically.

Oh, wait, a game? So not a web browser?

I just block everyone who participates in this dumb idea. Even the people posting to make fun of it. I want to live in a fediverse where this stupid idea never existed.

It’s a habit like licking the bottom of your shoes when you get home.

Mortol is the game of the year.

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The Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
The…

I/you

Pick one.

I don’t even sell flowers!

Don’t listen to the haters. The original sentence was ambiguous.

You gotta admit it’s confusing and abnormal to put a single “no” entry in the middle of a comma-delimited list of “yes” entries. Normally you’d say,

It has this, that, and the other thing, and no bad things, malthings, or blahs.

Sometimes the “and” and “or” are left out.

It has this, that, the other thing, and no bad things, malthings, blahs.

The original commenter took this format, and mixed it all up like

It has this, no bad thing, other thing

Is that no other thing or yes other thing? Who can tell? Only people who didn’t need to be told these things in the first place.