“Femboy” or furry, obviously.

I use Arch btw.

The safe word is “Torvalds”.

You weren’t around for it, but it was bad – you couldn’t avoid them. A few dozen trolls doesn’t sound like much, but they were coordinated and relentless. Blocking users didn’t work because they were constantly making alts, including on other instances.

Calls were made for instances hosting them to ban those users: most did, some refused to or couldn’t. Blocking instances in user settings wasn’t a thing yet, so those instances were mass defederated from. Lemmygrad and hexbear were the big two and home of the dirtbags that were upset their “fun” was over.

Instances defederated from hexbear and lemmygrad because a few dozen users from those instances were terminally online trolls. They’d relentlessly harass users they didn’t like (i.e. most people), spam threads with gross images, and were generally obnoxious shitheads.

Also, “Tankie” is an insult against the hardcore authoritarian left: people that cheer on repressive dictators and violent supression of dissent. The term was invented by communists out of disgust for some of their “fellows”.

Of course, if you ask a tankie they’ll try to argue the word is an insult to all communists/socialists/leftists … it’s not.

He’s not entirely wrong:

BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War. It is based on a program called " xenix", which was written by Microsoft for the US government. These programs are used by hackers to break into other people’s computer systems to steal credit card numbers. They may also be used to break into people’s stereos to steal their music, using the “mp3” program. Torovoltos is a notorious hacker, responsible for writing many hacker programs, such as “telnet”, which is used by hackers to connect to machines on the internet without using a telephone.

You can learn more here.

You can run Kodi on pretty diverse hardware: old PCs, 1st gen Apple TV, SMBCs like the Raspberry Pi, etc. OSMC is a good option for Kodi, and they even have their own dedicated hardware if you want to go that route. Install the youtube addon if you want Youtube.

It’s still kind of a thing in the USA, you just have to visit a Macy’s department store at the local dying mall. The Toys R Us is a small section in the back.

Which is far more depressing than if the brand was outright dead.