spends ten minutes figuring out which one’s the latest

has to save it again

“new (actual)(for real)”

You’re going to be really happy when you find out it’s a whole gif!

Aren’t you basically just describing FOSS and framing it as a complaint? Valve for example has a vested interest in improving their software stack, and they do just that by donating both money and engineers to various projects. If these open source projects did not exist, they would have to spend the same or even more money on a proprietary licensed alternative, or to develop their own solution.

I wish that news articles would actually cite how they know things

Yep. When I actually started reading some news articles and quickly found out that I was on my own if I want to learn more or verify what I just read, really put me off that stuff.

When I actually post something informative, it seems crazy to not include the links I already have anyway. And make sure it’s viewable in the wayback machine if it’s something so predictably ephemeral…

If you’re willing to believe a couple of random news outlets:

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/09/altoona-mcdonalds-luigi-mangione-unitedhealthcare https://www.ibtimes.com/altoona-mcdonalds-flooded-angry-1-star-reviews-after-arrest-suspected-unitedhealthcare-ceo-3754683

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/9/altoona-pennsylvania-mcdonald-reviews-go-negative-/

Not hard to imagine thag G**gle would be on the case, deleting reviews by now.

not sure if arguing against tldr, or just trying to defuse a bomb

If you want to mess with the command line, I recommend tldr. Anyone could do xkcd’s tar challenge if they can run tldr tar first! (pretty sure it’s in mint’s apt repos)