Those made 1000x more sense.

Oh God, they can’t even do prepping right any more.

No, they live off eating paper. Crunchy little rectangles with pictures of royalty on them.

cIvIliAn tArGeTs dOn’T CoUn’T!!!

Seriously, why won’t anybody play nice with us? It’s a mystery…

Depends where you sail, but I’ve made some edits to that comment since anyways.

A single-hull can be made self-righting, in case it flips in bad weather. A 35 foot catamaran? You’re not getting that back up-right with a crew of one - you basically hope and pray a bigger boat comes along at that point.

… or, you know, grant them asylum, and arrest individuals involved in the human trafficking of these people until China stops sending human traffickers?

Without a Plug-In? Hard agree, nor should they.

Its amazing to think the UAE and/or Oman went with opposing Iran rather than trying to get in on this, vs appeasing a genocidal ethno-state neighbor and a super-powered toddler-state on the opposite site of the planet.

What in God’s Green Earth are you talking about, “windows-or-nothing people”? Employers? Schools? Told a lot of them to kick dirt, but with them owning the buildings, that basically amounted to me walking away.

One of my favorite things about my current employer is that the “Windows” part doesn’t matter -it just happens to be the only thing the bespoke software suites we use will run-on, and the entire shift is spent in those applications anyways. I’ve almost got my boss convinced to ditch Acrobat Reader though, or rather, its constant demands to be allowed to present AI Summaries of confidential documents is doing the convincing for me.

The simple fact is, all four of my children can generally get done what they want/need to in Windows, Mac, Chrome, Android or IOS, including customization or “esoteric” stuff, and get on with their lives, without coming to me pretending there aren’t a million tutorials on Youtube for whatever and that they shouldn’t even have to check there first. Only one of them has shown the same aptitude, willingness, patience, what-have-you, for Linux. Another is just too young to tell where she’ll go with all that.

I meet my users and use-cases where they are and presume a heterogenous network/device environment. That becomes and stays true the moment you introduce a game console, a printer, a tablet, phone and/or a router of all things.

I like Linux, love it and can’t wait to get back to using it more in fact, but using only Linux isn’t going to leave me with any way to relate to or convince people who are sceptical and comfortable with another OS they are already comfortable with, and forcing it into the present state of my life is going to demand time I don’t have available for the next year or so, but it was my daily driver for years and will be again.

Meanwhile, I’m counting down a shorter-every-day fuse for when the one boy wants an Amiga or roll-your-own-“retro” device of some sort to go with his RaspberryPi, OrangePi, plus various consoles and old phones he’s torn-down to the compotenent leven and built back up(successfully … err … to a surprising degree anyways), and his brother just laid claim to my (kickstarter-era)Snapmaker A350 CNC/Laser/3D Printer.

Some people still want to feel like Windows is something they own, like back when it was something you installed on-top-of DOS. Taming the hostile mess its become is still rarely worse than de-bloating a new OEM PC ever was, and if you use your PC rarely-enough, there’s hassle aspects that blur into near-parity versus Linux(updates, anyone?)

… share a PC with others, and just keeping Open-Shell(plus PowerToys and/or StartAllBack, or sometimes Rainmeter for a laugh) on one’s profile looks sufficient, versus dual-booting or whatever. Personally, my Laptop can go un-used(by me, anyways) for months and months, and letting my family use it helps keep it up-dated and let’s me know if problems arrise before I run face-first into them in a moment when I just need the thing to work.

I’m looking-forward to each of my kids having their own capable laptops(just ONE more …), but until then, Windows updates are stupid-prone to breaking dual-boot, only one of my kids likes/uses Linux half-so-much as I do, and even he is in more of the tweak-it-until-it-breaks-and-start-over dabbler stage, so I let him keep to his own laptop and a pile of old used ones(and consoles…) that are older than he is. 99% of what I would use it for in the mean-time, I just use my phone.

I knew eBay fucked-up, but $55 billion? That’s couch-change to a lot of businesses with much worse brand-recognition. At least their turn-key operation isn’t over-valued by orders of magnitude…

Like Free-to-Play games and Casinos, they “make their real money” on whales. Go step foot in a Best-Buy; 95% of the time, the employee-to-customer-ratio is about 5-to-1, or worse.

To be clear, I think basing one’s business on that concept is delusional at-best, but its what a “profitable” retail chain has looked-like to share-holders for at least the last 30 years.

Open Source can also imply “Off-the-Shelf” parts, in the same way IBM made their Personal Computer with parts that were already on the market from other manufacturers.

Open Source can also imply “Off-the-Shelf” parts, in the same way IBM made their Personal Computer with parts that were already on the market from other manufacturers.

Looks like that’s the Bill-of-Materials if an individual sources the exact parts they specify at retail. That’s without including the value of the tools one would need to own already, plus skills with said tools, and time

Basically, a BoM is used in the DIY space to give one a realistic idea of what a project will cost them “at a minimum” - it’s not a “with profit for us” “price”, it’s a “don’t go into this half-assed and come after/bash us months/years later for mis-leading you about what’s possible with fuck-all for skills, resources, or perseverance”.

I would like to think I could get it done much cheaper, in the way a shade-tree mechanic can keep an absolute piece-of-trash on the road for years, but won’t sell or recommend it to a friend, but even more-so, I would rather spend the time and resources making something I could be proud to pass-on to a beloved family-member or best-friend, so “$1200” is the minimum figure I’m going to use when deciding whether to commit to this project.

https://moskitos.org/en/do-it-yourself/

I’m probably older than you. Definitely better reading comprehension and actually took my meds today. At least blocking me would get you out of my way, which is an option I offered from the start.

Psyop? Your NLP handbook or AI waifu tell you to throw that non-sense at me?

The guilt one should feel or not is in no way dependent on what others blame them for. We all agree he gets a good chunk of the blame, but do you think Trump feels guilt? Should he? See, it’s backwards! He sure spends a lot of time shifting blame though, as if blame-shifting itself were the most righteous calling of orangemanity.

So ask yourself, are you trying to be like Trump, while discussing problems he refuses to admit are even real problems?

You should feel guilty, most of all, for refusing to shut-up about how blameless you are. So blameless that you must pre-emptively shift blame to others, as if people like me care if blame falls on us any more. It’s like you and the majority of people out there, every one of them just like you in your approach to this, honestly believes you’re more blameless than others.

I’ve told you to do nothing. Called you deserving of nothing-in-particular. Said nothing about myself as being any different in blameworthiness to you, beyond that I am bored with the notion of blame itself in the face of how bad things are, how much worse they are going to get, and how hard fixing any of it will be.

None of that has stopped you coming at me as though my refusal to call you or your pet exceptions blameless is a particularly eggregious offense to your very soul. Grow up.

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/59429497/25525728

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I have my own Lemmy Community plan and philosophy designed to adress this issue, but I can’t run anything while making life or death decisions daily.

… wtf did I just read?

The OP literally includes older generations blaming younger ones. Now you’re creating layers of distraction by quibbling over what is or isn’t “the real” distraction.

Who’s to blame? Who cares, so long as you don’t have to do anything about it, suffer any loss or inconvenience, or even admit you maybe share the slightest hint of fault.

Gross.

Mounting a successful invasion of a sovereign nation 101: Give the saner nations of the world the longest heads-up possible, so they can help your intended victim prepare.