Maybe this’ll strengthen the worldwide film industry.

Maybe I should finally see if Who Killed Captain Alex lives up to the hype. 🤔

I mean, the Vegas Strip has always been disgusting…but the fact that (more than?) half of it is owned by Amazon now is absolutely insane to me. . .

Netflix crap never comes to DVD.

I dunno if it’s a thing exclusive to libraries or not, but at my public library I’ve seen some Netflix movies, and things like Stranger Things and Castlevania come through.

Not sure if those discs hit traditional media shelves or not.

Aww yeah, this is Tumbleweed life. :D

he was legit jotting down PH material on a notebook.

Somewhere a professor is getting an APA citation that’s like

Lustful, Lucy. (2023, April 15). Sexy Coed Horny Cheerleader Stepsis with Big Titties Can’t Get Enough!. PHub. (www dot phub dot com)

“You can set up your own email server at home, for fun!”

– The 90’s, Probably.

Lol. I’m kinda sad I missed out on that expressive time of making websites when I was growing up. You’re right, now everything is very homogenized and there’s a billion botswarms just waiting for you to be 3 seconds late to a security update so they can zombify your site for…

(Flips papers) Crypto somehow… it’s always crypto.

Internet crime isn’t even cool anymore. Lol

Positively whimsical. I guarantee you I’d have laughed like an idiot way longer than necessary. XD

The good thing about YOUR homelab is that YOU’RE taking notes solely for YOURSELF and only YOU know how YOU work and how YOU organize YOUR thoughts.

Normally I’d agree, in that it’s not some corporate production environment, but also I personally want to document my self hosted setup in a kind of document that can at least be accessed and understood by my closest family, if something were to happen to me.

Convincing them to archive stuff on my Nextcloud instance for example, and them losing access because I’m not around, temporarily or permanently, would spoil the whole point of the endeavor.

Oh this is REALLY cool. I’ve been using Daylio for a long time, and this seems like it’s aiming to be a great self hosted replacement!

So, multiple users can journal on their own accounts, or can you control who sees your entries?

This is such a neat idea. As a soon to be parent, I 100% understand the motive behind building it too. I can’t wait to try it! :)

Y’know…this. I might not like it, and many of their choices are… questionable…

…but I think it’s good we have some effort coming from full-time career paid Linux developers, rather than just sponsorship money from FOSS-leeches like “mEtA” and “aMaZoN.”

By simply not using Ubuntu, and ignoring the MOTD on my VM servers…I don’t really feel affected by their actions in any meaningful way. And that makes me happy.

As opposed to having to just accept whatever new footgun Microsoft wants to blast users with next.

Well hello right back!

O/

I can’t imagine writing something like that. Job security? Hah, I’d end up in an inescapable labyrinth of my own making if I named things something that wouldn’t be obvious to my 3-months-later self!

Maybe that’s the play: He intentionally confuses himself so it takes extra paid time to remember what the heck “SOISOISOI” does, compared to “Whopwhopwhop”.

Just looking through this as a fledgling barely-coder…

…It inspires fear. Terror, even. LMAO

Hey now, garbage companies actually do something productive for society. :p

However if you tell their api that you are an smart tv running Linux it works…

I wanna figure out how the heck to do this. 1080p doesn’t particularly bother me, but it’s pretty ridiculous getting discriminated against like that.

I also blame the Uni for not advertising that it would be required for the coursework.

Just like Steam now says "REQUIRES KERNEL LEVEL ANTICHEAT" like a big ugly Surgeon General’s warning, I think college courses should say stuff like this too.

Along with “REQUIRES INVASIVE KERNEL LEVEL REMOTE ACCESS MALWARE BROWSER TO TAKE EXAMS”

Heroic is so aptly titled. Combined with one of those helper apps to install “Proton GE”, it makes you just about unstoppable.

I’m finding that Linux has given me better compatibility with my game library as a whole!

For real legacy stuff, Bottles also works a treat. Never thought I’d get Sims 1 working again with so little hassle.

It’s a wonderful time.

Oh my gosh the hyper-specific domain names are the WORST. ☠️

It’s like a dream come true for all those get-rich-online-Lambo-selfie-bullshit-artists!

But having to pay for those domains, and ad eords worth much less now, how the heck is this strategy even worth it I wonder?

Something really cool you can do though is block sites from showing up in the results.

So if you’re looking up Linux answers for instance and you keep coming across “First of all, what is a Linux, we’re going to…” Ai slop sites, you can click thr 3 dots next to the result and tell it to blacklist that site.

Not perfect, but definitely helps!

windows is shitty but its setup bullshit is very straight forward and clear to deal with

Unfortunately, you definitely get a false sense of simplicity when you’re essentially forced down a lazy river of:

“Accept all these corporate agreements, make an account with our centralized authority structure, try to deny a litany of invasive ad permissions (you can’t turn it all off lol nice try.), enable our one touch AI button, shut up, and click go.”

"(Pulsing blue light) We’Re TaKiNg CaRe Of YoU. . ."

Some setup things in Linux can be confusing at first, like how I’ve agonized over the implications of which file system to use. (Settled on BTRFS for rollbacks, otherwise it doesn’t matter for 99.9% of people lol.)

But also I think we’re just at a sad point in history where computers are everywhere but people have terrible computer education (self included), and it’s left up to private interests who mainly want a cattle-like customer base.

…So everything seems scary and complicated.

I imagine cars would be the same way if we weren’t required to test for a license. They’re getting that way quickly though, people wanting a “Push ignition and turn off brain” machine that seemingly “just works” until it doesn’t and they must take it to Special Wizards. A black box which they ultimately have no control over, but feels “easy”.

I think it’s because people are forced to use these devices. Like driving, some people enjoy the act of computing. Linux is for those people.

When everybody is forced to use computers every day and most of those computers run something by Apple, Microsoft, or Google, anything else feels like yet another stupid thing to deal with.

TL;DR: Linux respects the user, but respect is built on a two way street of understanding. People hate learning because they’re systemically stressed TF out all the time.