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You're 3 times more likely to be surfing PornHub than HardOCP (or any place else) if you an OS10 user
 
Man, the anti-Apple crowd is slacking today.
  • iOS Market Share: 13%
  • iOS Mobile Porn Share: 47%
I mean, the shitposts should just write themselves...

"They've got a thing for circle jerks."
"They're big on self-love."

What's wrong? Do you need a hug? Or a reach-around?

Come on, let's go watch some porn together. Sure, you can be 'little spoon'.
 
XenIneX said:
Man, the anti-Apple crowd is slacking today.
  • iOS Market Share: 13%
  • iOS Mobile Porn Share: 47%
I mean, the shitposts should just write themselves...

"They've got a thing for circle jerks."
"They're big on self-love."

What's wrong? Do you need a hug? Or a reach-around?

Come on, let's go watch some porn together. Sure, you can be 'little spoon'.
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Someone seems sad :(
 
XenIneX said:
Man, the anti-Apple crowd is slacking today.
  • iOS Market Share: 13%
  • iOS Mobile Porn Share: 47%
I mean, the shitposts should just write themselves...

"They've got a thing for circle jerks."
"They're big on self-love."

What's wrong? Do you need a hug? Or a reach-around?

Come on, let's go watch some porn together. Sure, you can be 'little spoon'.
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The COURAGE to whip it out anywhere.. anytime.

Meaning the phone of course.
 
So 3% and up 14% from last year. While it's literally impossible to accurately measure Linux usage and web counters are notoriously unreliable, such news on Linux adoption is good to hear even if it is just a rough guide.

Gotta love porn!
 
More like 2.95763% are servers, the middling few decimal points are the actual desktop/laptop users. ;)

If one considers Android as Linux (which it is) and factors in all the devices running Linux and not just personal computers or mainline Internet servers of any and all kinds then sure, Linux would have a much larger percentage but, it doesn't because they don't do the numbers in those ways.

Almost 25 years and 3% "market" share, not too shabby for something that's free of monetary cost (for the most part) and has been competing with the commercial "big boys" for that long.

Ok, no, not really, that's actually quite ridiculous after all this time. :p
 
Tiberian said:
More like 2.95763% are servers, the middling few decimal points are the actual desktop/laptop users. ;)

If one considers Android as Linux (which it is) and factors in all the devices running Linux and not just personal computers or mainline Internet servers of any and all kinds then sure, Linux would have a much larger percentage but, it doesn't because they don't do the numbers in those ways.

Almost 25 years and 3% "market" share, not too shabby for something that's free of monetary cost (for the most part) and has been competing with the commercial "big boys" for that long.

Ok, no, not really, that's actually quite ridiculous after all this time. :p
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Not a cracker of advertising, no marketing whatsoever, not too sure where you're going re: Servers. That's not too bad when you consider the time Apples been a major player with only 14%.

Mind you, Apple users probably think porn is the devil.
 
That 14% boost can probably be largely accounted for by the explosive purchase and use of Chromebooks which identify as Linux machines, now that I think about it.
 
Maybe it's because one of the best ways to test vid and sound is to watch a porn or five...
 
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And 90% have viruses/trojans from porn sites.
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And this kind of made me wonder about something. They had a lot of stats in this survey, like desktop browser use and while Edge hasn't been doing very poorly in everything else I've seen, it grew in that survey 845% and had about 6% total share which is a lot higher than anything else I've seen on the subject. I wonder if porn surfers are thinking that Edge is safer, I'm not saying that it is, again, just an outlier number that's not like anything else I've seen.
 
I think porn surfing is demonised for nothing with the respect of security threats. It's not in the interest of website maintainers to lose viewers. Having said that the sites are popular and probably get targeted a lot by the attackers. I think that the stigma of porn has somehow amplified the threat level.

Of course I haven't browsed for years personally using windows - God forbid Windows with Java installed and/or a browser without a script- and adblock. Perhaps the average dumb user is still getting a gazillion popups and fly-by infections from those sites who knows.
 
Listen, guys and girls, I like nude women. A lot. As I am divorced, with no kids, I have the luxury of being able to have random nudes pop up as my Windows wallpaper on my monitors. I get the pics from a trusted site, I don't just go blindly searching for porn. I use adblocker, and I use common sense. Oh, before anybody forms an opinion about me being a "porn-hound," at least let me explain something: My taste in what some call porn is, to me, pretty tame. Much more like the Playboy magazine of yore, much less like a gynecological exam. Yeah, you know what I'm talking about. The human female body is the only proof, to me, that there is a god.


Don't demonize porn-searchers. Most people who do are repressed hypocrites.

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a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs,principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, especially a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.
2.
a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his other public statements.


Live long, and prosper. On my left monitor are two beautiful breasts attached to a beautiful woman.
 
heatlesssun said:
And this kind of made me wonder about something. They had a lot of stats in this survey, like desktop browser use and while Edge hasn't been doing very poorly in everything else I've seen, it grew in that survey 845% and had about 6% total share which is a lot higher than anything else I've seen on the subject. I wonder if porn surfers are thinking that Edge is safer, I'm not saying that it is, again, just an outlier number that's not like anything else I've seen.
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I might be completely wrong because I haven't used Edge.
But hasn't IE been putting the "default option is do not track, are you okay with this" message during first launch for a long while now?
While Chrome/Firefox do not?
If so, this is something that could be sticking in people's heads as they are figuring out a way to anonymously browse the female anatomy sites?
 
michalrz said:
I might be completely wrong because I haven't used Edge.
But hasn't IE been putting the "default option is do not track, are you okay with this" message during first launch for a long while now?
While Chrome/Firefox do not?
If so, this is something that could be sticking in people's heads as they are figuring out a way to anonymously browse the female anatomy sites?
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Not sure about your point about IE. I just thought that spike in Edge was very odd considering all the other surveys have not shown Edge gaining much market share at all.
 
Tiberian said:
That 14% boost can probably be largely accounted for by the explosive purchase and use of Chromebooks which identify as Linux machines, now that I think about it.
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It may also have absolutely nothing to do with Chromebooks at all, in my opinion that's like claiming that the 14% increase has something to do with Android products. I can't see why it's so hard to simply assume that Linux usage on the x64 PC platform has increased.

You've only got to look at the activity on enthusiast sites such as r/Linux vs r/Windows to see how popular the OS is becoming with 233,216 subscribers under r/Linux vs 61,391 users subscribed to r/Windows respectively. And this is open, friendly discussion, not simply people asking for assistance.
 
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So you're saying that Chromebooks - based on an operating system with Linux heritage and with browsers that have user agents in them (which is where most of this usage data is culled from) that directly identify the platform in use as Linux by CrOS - which had a period of explosive growth that directly coincides with the particular time frame those statistics were also culled from apparently has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the data shows a somewhat decent spike of 14% in increased usage?

Seriously?

The reason it's so hard to assume things - do I really need to explain what occurs when one assumes something - such as Linux usage increasing is probably because I don't actually see Linux in use most anywhere ever. I'm not saying that it doesn't actually have more people using it, especially considering how many of us realized long ago that Windows 10 is absolute shit (my opinion, take it as such and don't extrapolate from it) and that people should either stick with Windows 7 on their given platforms or jump to Linux, but I am saying that in my experience of dealing with, supporting, fixing, repairing, optimizing, tuning, networking, and most anything other related to working with personal computers of all shapes and sizes over the past oh, 40 years now which does include the past few years where this so-called 14% spike has occurred, still leaves me wondering "Ok, if Linux has such a spike and it's not related to Chromebooks which identify as Linux platform devices, then where the fuck are all the Linux users 'cause unless they're in dark corners of basements I'm not seeing 'em..."

Or words to that effect, I suppose.

I've been to coffee shops all around the world, been to libraries, cybercafes, hangouts, raves, all sorts of places and I swear to some higher power that can strike me down dead right now if it wants that I haven't seen anyone using Linux on a laptop or desktop in so long it's not even funny - and realize that when I say "using Linux" I mean they are running Linux natively on the bare metal hardware (as best I can tell from the glance in their direction) as a distribution which is the most common way to do it aka Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, or something else that is for the most part readily identifiable as running a desktop environment like Gnome or KDE that happens to be, of course, Linux-centric by design.

I see people with consumer class laptops running Windows, I see people with MacBooks running OSX, I see ThinkPad owners running Windows (ThinkPads are heavily favored in the Linux community, that's just a fact), I see people with business class laptops running Windows (like myself but then again I run macOS in a VM too so...), but I haven't seen a single person running a Linux distribution on a laptop in a public space in maybe 4 years.

Unless, of course, I count Chromebooks 'cause I see those all the fucking time all over the place. The Acer and Samsung logos and the all too obvious "home screen" of a Chromebook is not something I'd ever mistake for a casual Linux distribution, not for a second.

Anyway, I realize this is the Linux subforum and as I'm not a Linux disciple I suppose I better move on lest this thread - like hundreds before it - digresses into just another pointing match where nothing useful happens or comes to light. It's an age old discussion that will simply never have a proper conclusion for anyone and I already know what your comeback will be so have at it. :D

Disclaimer: I use Ubuntu (currently, but have used it since inception off and on years ago) in a VM for several purposes, one of them being running a software package known as OP25 for SDR aka Software Defined Radio purposes, it's a P25 Phase I/II digital format decoder - P25 is the most widespread digital communication protocol in use today by businesses and public service agencies worldwide aka "police radios" and such. OP25 and a $10 USB stick originally designed to tune digital TV broadcasts in Europe work together to create a digital decoding platform that can rival some of the best digital capable "police scanners" on the market today saving me hundreds of bucks to get the same task done. It's not the only reason I use Linux and I've used Linux since pre-Slackware 1.0 days if it matters (it doesn't but it had to be said).

I've touched upon hundreds of distros over the decades since Linux first got mentioned on Usenet (been using that even longer than Linux has existed by a few years) and I still don't find it useful as a day to day runner, we - meaning Linux and I - just don't mesh well in that respect but it does have a purpose from time to time that I put to good use. Of course 99% of the SDR work I do is Windows-based because, well, that's where the software is developed and I've got nothing to do with that side of things, that's just how it is.
 
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I've never seen anyone use a Chromebook here in Australia, I tried to buy one to install my favourite distro on and I honestly couldn't even find one to buy! Furthermore, I see no reason why Android wouldn't identify as Linux if CrOS identifies as Linux, you can even simply and easily see the current Linux kernel version running under Android if you like and all the usual commands work in terminal.

You may be right, but from what I'm seeing as someone that constantly searches out Linux communities as it's a topic I enjoy, awareness of desktop Linux is increasing.

Who knows? At the end of the day it's pure speculation.

Tiberian said:
"Ok, if Linux has such a spike and it's not related to Chromebooks which identify as Linux platform devices, then where the fuck are all the Linux users 'cause unless they're in dark corners of basements I'm not seeing 'em..."
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Linux users have always stuck to their respective communities, just look at the degradation of any thread relating to Linux in these very forums to understand why. ;)
 
BulletDust said:
Linux users have always stuck to their respective communities, just look at the degradation of any thread relating to Linux in these very forums to understand why. ;)
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Ain't nobody making them stay in the basement, that's a personal choice. :D

Oh, yeah, Mr. Robot has had more effect on Linux growth in the past 18 months than most people would believe. Seriously.
 
Tiberian said:
Ain't nobody making them stay in the basement, that's a personal choice. :D
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When every thread degrades into an all out flame war as Linux users try to defend themselves from Windows users it's not really a personal choice.

If people prefer Windows that's fine, but there's no reason to enter the discussion in a Linux thread if all you intend to do is bury it with crap and completely ignore logical reasoning.

Bear in mind that none of my comments are aimed at yourself Tiberian.
 
And I would say exactly the same thing to you, BulletDust, whenever you make a post in a thread related to other operating systems.

Oh, and one more thing:

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Tiberian said:
And I would say exactly the same thing to you, BulletDust, whenever you make a post in a thread related to other operating systems.

Oh, and one more thing:

Pot_Meet_Kettle.jpg
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If someone's posting generalised crap regarding Linux, Windows or OSX/macOS Tiberian I'm going to correct them, If they can't take criticism, that's their issue. If they post crap relating to myself, then I'm really going to get involved.
 
Tiberian said:
Oh, yeah, Mr. Robot has had more effect on Linux growth in the past 18 months than most people would believe. Seriously.
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I loved season 1, season 2 was a bit too focused around mental issues and not enough hands on hacking. But the good thing about Mr Robot is that everything is entirely realistic, every command in terminal is almost perfectly in context and usage scenario and every software package used exists with no Hollywood fluff.

In relation to movies, Blackhat by Michael Mann is similar in it's accuracy - Mind you I could be biased as I love Michael Mann movies!
 
I love Michael Mann movies myself, just not that one. Not sure what the hell happened but compared to pretty much everything else Mann has created/produced/directed "Blackhat" was a complete waste of 35 minutes for me because that's when I finally decided "Ok, this sucks, what the fuck, Mann..." :D

Maybe it was using Chris Hemsworth as the lead character, I don't know, but it just didn't work on any level for me at all and I went into it thinking "Mann hasn't made a flick in years, this should be awesome..." and yet I literally had to stop watching it and move on at about that 35 minute point (and I can't even recall what scene was in progress at that point either). I'm not commenting on any technical accuracy, just the actor's performances and the overall story not generating any level of interest or intrigue for me personally at all.
 
Tiberian said:
I love Michael Mann movies myself, just not that one. Not sure what the hell happened but compared to pretty much everything else Mann has created/produced/directed "Blackhat" was a complete waste of 35 minutes for me because that's when I finally decided "Ok, this sucks, what the fuck, Mann..." :D

Maybe it was using Chris Hemsworth as the lead character, I don't know, but it just didn't work on any level for me at all and I went into it thinking "Mann hasn't made a flick in years, this should be awesome..." and yet I literally had to stop watching it and move on at about that 35 minute point (and I can't even recall what scene was in progress at that point either). I'm not commenting on any technical accuracy, just the actor's performances and the overall story not generating any level of interest or intrigue for me personally at all.
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I love the way he films, close up face shots with an ambient background and killer soundtracks - His amazing. To this day the shootout in Heat is one of the most realistic and best sounding cops vs robbers experiences I've ever seen/heard and I loved the depth of Collateral.

I actually didn't mind Blackhat, but the world would be a pretty boring place if we all had the same likes and dislikes!
 
Wyodiver said:
Listen, guys and girls, I like nude women. A lot. As I am divorced, with no kids, I have the luxury of being able to have random nudes pop up as my Windows wallpaper on my monitors. I get the pics from a trusted site, I don't just go blindly searching for porn. I use adblocker, and I use common sense. Oh, before anybody forms an opinion about me being a "porn-hound," at least let me explain something: My taste in what some call porn is, to me, pretty tame. Much more like the Playboy magazine of yore, much less like a gynecological exam. Yeah, you know what I'm talking about. The human female body is the only proof, to me, that there is a god.


Don't demonize porn-searchers. Most people who do are repressed hypocrites.

hypocrite

[hip-uh-krit]
See more synonyms on Thesaurus.com
noun
1.
a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs,principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, especially a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.
2.
a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his other public statements.


Live long, and prosper. On my left monitor are two beautiful breasts attached to a beautiful woman.
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Except with linux you could do the same, only a lot safer.
 
True. But I don't do silly stuff. Not every computer user is sane.
 
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