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Remember when Canonical used to give away installation CDs to anyone who asked? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Still have those CDs. Getting a package from South Africa was exciting.
sudo apt upgrade 2>&1 | grep -vi 'ubuntu.*pro\b'wget actuallygooddistro.org/install/2023-09-x64.iso && cp *.iso /mnt/ventoy/ && rm -rf /*
You didn’t unmount your ventoy… uh oh!
just unplug it real fast when you notice while rm’s still hanging in your extensive /home
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.
Security updates for packages that are so old that they aged out of official support.
Who determines how old a package needs to be before they start charging money for it?
Well they do, of course.Tune in next year when they turn off free Snap patches.
what in the fuck.
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
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You mean, like on Ubuntu?
Ubuntu really makes it hard to keep liking it. They keep pushing bullshit like snap.
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.
That almost makes me wanna switch but I enjoy fish too much…even if it’s probably got issues above my level of use bc idk what I’m doing most of the time 😆
$ 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 ~ ...You forgot the Your command will be executed in 10…9…8…
After each ads.
Y’all just need to get Terminal Pro for $16.99 a month for that sweet ad free experience
I have sl installed
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
I was going to say, I’m surprised this isn’t a Windows 11 “feature”
cut them some slack, they can’t put every annoyance into one version … got to leave something for future “upgrades”
Maybe for the first time Ubuntu could get to sue them for infringing on their innovation.
Good lord, I hope no one employed at Microsoft reads this. I would bet they institute it if they think of it.
If you write [email protected] instead the link is usable for any instance.
i always forget. i am just to used to markdown. Thanks for the reminder.
Ahhhh…THANK YOU! r/boringdistopia was one of the few subreddits I have been still missing.
no problem … enjoy … kind of … maybe.
Already have ads with node / npm “looking for developers / donations / funding” messages
“ls” sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends.
Ooh. What about fdisk? Or parted. You know. 'cause raid.
The lion, the witch and the gall on this bitch…
Leave terminal alone.
That’s already a thing. When was the last time you ran npm?
I remember some guy posting an ad for his resume on there
core-js, everyone used it basically but no one wanted to support
~ $ adware (...ncurses ad featuring blockchain shows for 10 seconds...) Sorry, internet connection is required to run adware. Aborted ~ $ (plugs in ethernet cable) ~ $ adware (...ncurses ad featuring Threads displays for 10 seconds...) (...ncurses ad featuring next-gen Android displays for 10 seconds...) Press CTRL+C to skip the ad [^C[^C Got tired from ads? Buy Adware Pro for $5.99/mo [Y/n] n ADWARE SHELL (C) 2023 Buy-n-Large Corp. All wrongs reserved ---ad--- How much do YOU think this advanced operating environment is worth? Just press F1 to get the answer! ---ad--- Activate Adware Go to Settings to Activate Adware % exit Please watch all the ads to be able to exit. (...ncurses ad featuring alt medicine displays for 30 seconds...) (...ncurses ad featuring ad-blocker for 30 seconds...) [^C Interrupt rejected. Please watch all the ads. [^C[^C[^D[^X[^Z[^Z[^Z (unplugs ethernet cable) Interrupt rejected. Please watch all the ads. Buy Adware Pro for $5.99 to allow interrupts.The last step I leave to you.
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We ought to make a satire shell based on this
Shred *
Doesn’t npm have this already? I’ve definitely gotten requests for donations and various political messages when installing dependencies.
That’s probably cause you or your packages use CoreJS. It’s basically a one man project that’s holding up the whole modern Internet infrastructure. You can look up the story online, but it was a pretty small donation request for a really relatable individual.
I guess this highly depends on package maintainers, Node already provides
fundinginpackage.jsonfor much less invasive funding requests (and that can also be disabled) and you might also block executing the scripts during package instalation which are sometimes used for advertisement. I think this was a lot worse in days NPM didn’t supportfunding, especially for projects depending on a huge number of dependencies. But I’m not that old Node/JS dev to tell how things were back then in reality.Ew, I’ll pass on node then.
That’s the reason you pass on node? Compared to all the others?
It’s the final straw.
I mean… I already use ubuntu, so…
Wicked self burn
Those are rare.
People who know how to use a terminal know how to block ads
DELET THIS
In my free time I develop ways for advertisers to reach as many platforms as possible. I hate ads as much as I hate people who say things like “just skip it if you don’t like them” so I spend my time trying to fill every inch of their lives with ads as possible.
I can get behind this flavour of evil. Keep doing satan’s work, lad!
Why would you try to make the world a worse place just to spite people?
Since this week I get some form of ad in the github diff viewer. “Copilot is available for purchase for you organization”. Horrible.
Yeah they’ve put them in a couple places, It’s pretty bad. Had to work out how to create a custom uBlock Origin rule to block them.
there’s a dismiss button under the hamburger menu right next to it, it removes all of these copilot ads permanently.
