My pro open-source teacher in HS pushed for all of us to use the handful of Linux computers and recommended GIMP over Photoshop. He even said we can download GIMP at home for free.

Back then, searching for GIMP gave you bondage suits.

And because we were immature fuckwads, we played real hard into that joke, to a point where the principal had to send a letter to parents about how to actually find free open-source software with links.

I don’t know what half those things are but I laughed at the words “Breast Mints”. No idea what it means.

I would have disagreed with you when Pis were like $50 and chaining 3 Pis together with a hard drive was a fun project to do self hosting.

Now to get to the beefiest raspberry pi, it’s $120. And in the range, yeah, for price and reliability, use a mini-pc/laptop.

I just realized I have no idea who pays for Let’s Encrypt. I just run the server commands, automate it, and move on.

Joplin.

Ive been paying for Workflowy and honestly, I’ve reached my limit of cost vs value.

I needed a way to do more than just bullets, like Evernote without the bloat, or OneNote/Notes without the megacorp, something I can export and read 100 years from now.

I was surprised how often I use it, and slowly weening off of Workflowy.

Politics in my sci-fi? Yuck.

Gonna go enjoy my politics-free shows like Star Trek, Star Wars, Black Mirror, Westworld, and The Man In the High Castle.

Sorry to ask: can you include a summary?

I don’t often get time to watch videos, even short ones.

That’s exactly what I tell tinkerers.

You can be a Windows IT person for a decade and not really know anything except how to copy and paste something.

You do the same for Linux, and at some point, everything clicks.

On the DevOps, and scaling side, yes.

But not on the general maintenance side.

We hired a IT guy who had a decade of experience with Windows Servers. The dude was not a good fit for our linux-heavy IT team. Didn’t fully know commands or how the OS worked.

He was still a smart dude, and he moved to the AWS team, where there’s a lot more GUI aid.

As a Linux user, I shit on Linux tutorials being obtuse because the solution is often like “then sudo [command]” and now run these 8 other commands. But at least with Linux commands, a smart person can piece together what’s going on.

Windows, it’s even worse. It’s like a bunch of black boxes talking to other black boxes so after you right click to enable that property and add this registry key, you then have to reboot into your bios to turn on “Fuckboi” mode and take photos of your asshole for verification, then log into your Microsoft account to get this Powershell script and now you can finally see your children again.

I was pretty amazed at this when I learned about it.

It feels like digging into Windows was finding a bunch of compiled code.

Where there’s been some times where I understood what was happening in Linux because I was able to follow how the library was set up.

Imho, ‘cheapest’ and ‘useful’ are rarely a great combo for a VPN.

Yeah I never understood why people have this mindset.

Like looking for security, but then buying the cheapest option?

I had a brilliant idea for a app during college. It connected self-identified lonely nerds with other self-identified lonely nerds. Like “Oh you like anime, here is this other guy, and here are five events you can attend together.” I was hoping for that Zuckerberg money if this app was a hit.

I ran it through a test trial with a dozen pairings of them in my college campus to see if it had value.

And yeah, a lot of the feedback was that the other person was kind of annoying/intolerable. Which was funny when both of them said that about each other.

Two weeks ago, I saw the loner at the table of an event. Went to go talk to them because they were alone for a while.

In less than 10 minutes, they made a offensive joke that would have insulted half the people here, and complained about their living situation unprompted.

Same. This picture is surprisingly accurate.

It’s built off of OSM. Which is how it should be.

Oh man same!

2000s, with permission from the HS computer teacher, I was installing Red Hat on a few computers. It was ROUGH. Like, yeah we got it to show a desktop, but it was a nightmare to use anything but the basic applications. Windows just worked and after a few months, went back to that.

Only during the pandemic did I finally go Linux. Started with ElementaryOS (highly recommend for old people) and went through a dozen other flavors. What really pushed me to expert level was setting up Linux servers.

I no longer code on a Windows machine (unless I have to), and absolutely would recommend Linux to any end user. And now with Steam Deck/SteamOS, it’s only getting better. My gaming computer is still Windows, but I’m going to let it sunset. I barely use it except to play high-spec games that aren’t on Steam Deck. But that’s getting rarer and rarer.

They really thought they can sprout gibberish and mic drop. Discount Ben Shapiro over here.

Every single post about ad blockers will be someone talking about how “good” Brave is. Drives me crazy.