HOW ABOUT SOME RANDOMS?

It's Thursday morning I feel like 15 randoms would be good for today.
 

ASOCIAL MEDIA

 

If anyone on Facebook would like to see more of my content, most of it is on my www.sift.co.nz blog. The ever increasing use of AI online, has really trashed the entire internet this year, with the past few months crossing my line in the sand for being bombarded with lame AI crap.

So from December 2025 on I want to do my best to stay focused on using the internet as a productive tool. Social media is an addictive distraction that I want to keep to a minimum.

I’m decidedly not a big fan of most social media anyway, and have already essentially stopped using all platforms apart from Facebook, along with watching some videos on Toutube.

I don’t post or comment on Youtube, but do post on Facebook, and up until early 2025 my Facebook accounts were constantly being suspended, which is why I ran multiple accounts, and swapped between them.

Surprisingly, from March 2025 onwards Facebook pretty much seemed to quit giving a toss about censoring most posts. In fact I even did a month long experiment in August to see just what I could get away with, and then compiled those posts into a blog page called FACEBOOK UNCENSORED

I’ve never looked at any platform controlled by algorithms, or seen any ads, but I get the impression that is how most people view all social media, including Facebook and YouTube. Screw that for a joke! If that was the only option I would have quit them long ago.

A major reason I still look at those last two platforms is because they are the only windows I have into what narratives the normies are being programmed with. I don’t watch TV or look at “news”, or even use a smart phone.

Lately, even with carefully selected feeds, I feel like I’m being exposed to a never ending feed of “end is nigh” fudporn. Yes a lot of it may well be true, but there is a theory that whatever we focus on attracts more of the same. The law of attraction.

It’s a really hard call to decide how best to deal with a society that appears to be collapsing under the massive weight of corruption, deception, conspiracies and lies.

My approach has always been to expose it as much as possible. But we are being spoon fed deep-state propaganda by alt-media gatekeeper shills, as well as the mainstream media.

For example, telling people that the economy is collapsing in dozens of ways every day, even when it is, creates more expectation of collapse, and leads to the crash being even bigger.

On the other hand, “vaccines” are toxic injections designed specifically to make normies sick or kill them, so possibly exposing that may have save some lives.

I don’t think being constantly told that everything is totally screwed is helping me, so I’m going to reduce the amount of that stuff that I look at.

Thanks to all the real people online posting original content, keep up the good work!

SUBSCRIBE TO FORBES

Forbes do really in depth crypto research, and charge a premium for their deep insights 😂 

"Following the latest rally, bitcoin may have bottomed out, according to the YouTuber who goes by Wendy O" 

Yeah, that "person" looks fully legit...

Trust Forbes, they can tell the difference between Elon Musk & Mark Zuckerberg...

7 YEARS AGO

I have no idea what sort of day I had because it was seven years ago and I don't remember, but on this day back in 2018 I wrote the following and then posted 40 LOLPICS.

I just stumbled upon that old post and it still cracks me up so I'll repost it here. It's a bit big to do the whole thing as a blog post so this is just 10 of the images. To see the whole lot go to this gallery - OLD LOLS

 

 A BAD DAY AT THE COMPUTER - WHEN IT ALL SUCKS LIKE A VAC

Have you ever had one of those days when so much bad shit has gone down online the you want to unplug your internet connection?

Because you feel like you accidentally got your nuts caught in the weedeater, and something bad is about to take place.

Well there is something that can help. Here are some funny pictures to make you laugh like a spastic.

 

 

BUT IT DOES WORK

When I was checking out some Linux links as part of the updates I’m doing to my LINUX PAGE, I revisited a page called "Why Linux is not ready for the desktop" that I first read years ago.

It was written by a geek called Artem S. Tashkinov, who makes a really full on case that Linux doesn’t work as a desktop operating system, and is not suitable as a replacement for Windows.

It is fully researched and well presented. Mr Tashkinov really seems to know his stuff, and I remember when I originally read it I was fully convinced, so I went back to Windows 7.

He updates the page regularly, and has hundreds of people commenting, who mostly agree with him.

But he is wrong.

He is an experienced computer geek who really knows his stuff (an expert), while I am a clueless numpty who often struggles with the basics. So how on earth can I definitively say he is wrong?

Mainly because of one simple fact. For the past year I have used Linux as my desktop operating system every day, on both my PC and Laptop. I used it to replace Windows and it is not only working, it is generally working well.

Here is a screenshot of my Linux desktop operating system happily working well this morning:

He is not the only person online saying Linux doesn’t work and is unsuitable to replace Windows. There are dozens of YouTube videos essentially saying the same thing, but they don’t have all the research to back them up that Mr Tashkinov does.

But I’m certainly not the only person successfully using Linux as a desktop operating system. As of 2025, Linux-based operating systems now exceed 4% of the global desktop market.

There are estimated to be more than two billion PC’s in 2025, so 4% of that is more than 80 million. That means there are literally MILLIONS of people using Linux as their desktop operating system.

As well as all those PC’s, 100% of the top 500 supercomputers in the world are running on Linux in 2025, which tends to confirm that it must have some good points.

I’m not a geek and have no desire to get into arguments with geeks, because using their thinking methods and playing by their rules, they would shred me.

But as far as I’m concerned, if I’m using Linux as my everyday operating system, and millions of other people are as well, then this argument is done and dusted. Linux does work as a desktop operating system, the proof is right there in plain sight.

So how can these geeks claim otherwise? Personally I think they are deliberately ignoring all the millions of instances of it working, and focusing only on when it doesn’t.

However I’m not about to deny that for non geeks fleeing from Windows, Linux often initially doesn’t work very well, so next I’m going to do a post with 10 common mistakes and how to avoid them.

I’ve done multiple installs of Linux, and on some occasions have not been happy with the results, and have had to start over again. But I've found that by sticking to Linux Mint and avoiding some basic mistakes, it's not that hard to avoid most common Linux problems.