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║ It's election season, so you know what that means! Gotta make sure our │
║ computer systems are setup with the proper capabilities to record whatever we │
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║ Please ensure that your system has the capability to record it's screen and │
║ that it has ample storage space to record for a while. It would also help if │
║ you knew how to edit files such that you can remove the parts where you're │
║ staring at social media or going to the bathroom or other things that people │
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║ Also, make sure you can take a screenshot of the screen. Sure [printscreen] │
║ works, but it's much better if you're on windows to switch to Linux. But if │
║ that's not possible, if you're on windows you can do [WIN]+SHIFT+S I think, │
║ and then drag the mouse to select a box that you can then CTRL+V into your │
║ favorite Ms.Paint clone (or is it missus these days?) │
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║ Also, make sure you have a microphone that works, and the capability to record │
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║ Also, if you can, develop ways to stream your screen across the internet. It │
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If you're on a Windows computer, first of all why and second of all you can
use the WINDOWS key + SHIFT + S to screenshot a part of the screen.
this will put it in your copy/paste clipboard, meaning all you have to do is
ctrl+V and boom suddenly you are significantly more productive.
just don't forget alt text...
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kinda wanna make a linux distro that has all the capabilities of a GUI distro
and isn't so minimal (like screen recording, calculator, screenshot, wifi
manager, etc etc) but with i3 instead of a desktop.
they could literally just be symlinks (shortcuts) to scripts that are in your
/usr/bin or whatever directory
seriously it's not like there's THAT many ways to use ffmpeg, why not just
write a script for them? that's what you're going to do when you use it for
the first time, anyway, so...
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I know you don't want to hear this, but there is a chance that there will come
a time where your life depends on your ability to debug a computer without the
internet. To set up an SSH server. To install Linux. To program in C. To do
something else that I'm not prepared for... If StackOverflow didn't exist
because network connectivity has been lost, could you remember syntax? Maybe
it's a good idea to set up a local LLM that can answer basic questions about
technology. Maybe it's a good idea to set up on your parents computer, just in
case you have to hide out there for a couple months. Maybe it's a good idea to
download wikipedia, just in case.
If I need to use a mac, I'm screwed
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║ or like, a window that your window manager could window manage as it pleased. │
║ I'm thinking of like, i3 or dwm where you have "tiles" instead of "windows" │
║ you drag around. Really saves on screen real estate, but it lowers the ability │
║ of your screen to show width. Or height, depending on how you set it up, but │
║ since monitors tend to be wider than height-er (higher?) they (the users) tend │
║ to use setups that sacrifice width for visual density. │
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║ anyway in such a setup the screen is divided into like, 3rds or 4ths, and each │
║ window takes up part of it. That way you can reference information from │
║ multiple sources without having to move anything but your eyes. Really helps │
║ with keeping it all in your head, because eyes are not reading information │
║ like a computer - they aren't using a cursor, it's not one bit of text at a │
║ time. Well, unless you're reading of course. But generally when looking at │
║ something it's a more parallel experience - shining through and forth from to │
║ our gods. Wow, cells in the body have an intere │
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║ there's even websites online like Facebook or Twitter where you can share │
║ advice and various spells you've invented yourself (it's totally easy to do │
║ btw, I'll show you how) │
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║ everyone's super friendly and anyone who's not isn't allowed to bother us. │
║ it's pretty neat. anyway no matter what it is, if something's bothering you │
║ about your computer, you can fix it. it's just a matter of reading through │
║ documentation. Ah, well, isn't it great to have a lot of free time that you │
║ don't know what to do with? │
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║ Linux is pretty great, I gotta say. I honestly never really leave the command │
║ line - the text based buttons, I mean. I only use a mouse when I'm doing │
║ something with pictures (or playing a game like freecell or hearts) │
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║ plus you can do things like sending raw packets of information to your friend │
║ who's on the other side of the country and they can use a secret key-code to │
║ decrypt it like checking the mail at a locked mailbox. │
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║ anything you can imagine using the physical components of a computer, is │
║ possibleifyrts │
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it's often considered a sin to defame the works of others. we naturally strive
to inspire confidence in our allies, so we always try to be on our best
behavior.
= so =
through meanings interpreted from our behavior, there is a tendency to listen
to
that which is most outstanding. but not all of the truths can be found in a
book, sometimes you need to be [out in the field standing]
[like a scarecrow]
[silly how strange it seems. that listening brings out our own behavior. it's
like it's built into our functioning, that we must obey the pull of the water.
I don't understand it, nor do I appreciate any sense of pursuit when I'm using
it, I simply wish to understand. I try and write things down, but nobody reads
them. or at least nobody responds to them. they used to, but not for every one.
I believe the things I do are useful. why would I otherwise do them? but
there's
not always a
= so =
correct me if I'm wrong, but there's no reason a windows partition couldn't
alter the nature of some of the files in the linux partition? I mean, none of
the filesystems from linux are in play, because it's basically just dead weight
on the computer when Windows is being booted. why wouldn't it change and alter
it?
and while yes, something could simultaneously be done in the other direction
too - linux spying on the Windows partition. And everything has to be able to
be run in a VM without triggering any false positives, so the issues aren't
able
tobe solved so easily. not with any one bit of guidance, it must always be more
thorou. [thorough]
I want to play World of Warcraft
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the most important skill I can think of for a linux software engineer is the
ability to connect multiple systems together and turn windows and macintosh
devices into Linux devices so that datacenters can be built out of whatever's
on the around.
there's this programming language I like called Chapel for distributed
computation computing which is also cool, if you're more of the programming
type.
networking security I believe often has hardware solutions, so getting the
crypto-graphy boys and the PCB girls together to work on some jams is a good
and productively useful gathering of insightful events
"but ritz computers should only be used to solve problems that people have,
not make more problems!" ah yes but have you considered that problems find
you, and the computers help you work through them
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@user-641
it's practice. you never know when you might need to blend in. really it's
just useful as discipline, good practice to be in. I think it's okay if we
reduce our own functionality? actually? sometimes it's good to use different
email clients. hey do you know how to mathematically encrypt things well
neither do I because the designers of the computer system decided that wasn't
a very common usecase I guess.. jmean it's not like they'd spend all that
computer resources [THEY'RE SO FAST] on thinking about correlations in your
predicted pathway narratively through life. "ah help I'm in a psyop" haha yeah
we do those all the time "so uhhhh I guess we'll just talk to people and see
how they do?" wow okay it's sure nice to be part of a civil government, I
think we can find our way to the lumber producers just fine thank you very
much.
... oops sorry, a baby did electronics arts (challenge everything) I'm a
little silly don't mind me brb I gotta go see~
![it's practice. you never know when you might need to blend in. really it's just useful as discipline, good practice to be in. I think it's okay if we reduce our own functionality? actually? sometimes it's good to use different email clients. hey do you know how to mathematically encrypt things well neither do I because the designers of the computer system decided that wasn't a very common usecase I guess.. jmean it's not like they'd spend all that computer resources [THEY'RE SO FAST] on thinking about correlations in your predicted pathway narratively through life. "ah help I'm in a psyop" haha yeah we do those all the time "so uhhhh I guess we'll just talk to people and see how they do?" wow okay it's sure nice to be part of a civil government, I think we can find our way to the lumber producers just fine thank you very much. *... oops sorry, a baby did electronics arts (challenge everything) I'm a little silly don't mind me brb I gotta go see~*](/similar-different/media/1c154109c4111346.png "it's practice. you never know when you might need to blend in. really it's just useful as discipline, good practice to be in. I think it's okay if we reduce our own functionality? actually? sometimes it's good to use different email clients. hey do you know how to mathematically encrypt things well neither do I because the designers of the computer system decided that wasn't a very common usecase I guess.. jmean it's not like they'd spend all that computer resources [THEY'RE SO FAST] on thinking about correlations in your predicted pathway narratively through life. \"ah help I'm in a psyop\" haha yeah we do those all the time \"so uhhhh I guess we'll just talk to people and see how they do?\" wow okay it's sure nice to be part of a civil government, I think we can find our way to the lumber producers just fine thank you very much. *... oops sorry, a baby did electronics arts (challenge everything) I'm a little silly don't mind me brb I gotta go see~*")
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║ connected to a raspberry pi that you used for compute tasks. │
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║ each of these displays would display a .png file of exactly the same │
║ proportions as the size of the device. │
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║ then, I could SSH into your computer and run one single command │
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║ just one, stored on your computer, that you manually activate upon receiving a │
║ signal. │
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║ like a virtual machine. do whatever you want with said signal, it's just a │
║ "thing" that tells you when to go. │
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║ ... and run a function on a computer that performs a certain task. │
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║ what task? oh right - I'd update the "today's news in cameron-ville" things │
║ every other day or so. It'd be just like, my status, my updates, here's what │
║ I'm thinking about, here's what I'm working on. │
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║ you know, status updates. standups. │
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║ boom, everyone knows what everyone's up to all of the time. │
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║ like documenting your day for scientific purposes. except on a little device │
║ that you can scroll through with a touch. and you had like 5 or more 10+ 1 │
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║ oh look at me, cargo-culting wine commands because I can't be bothered to │
║ guess whether the windows software running on my computer is doing evil │
║ microsoft things as part of the drivers or whatever. I mean, there's gotta be │
║ a reason that microsoft's software runs slower on linux than linux software │
║ runs on windows, right? │
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║ ... wait I forget exactly where I was going with this, are you saying there's │
║ a keylogger built into the wine / windows environment software? no, but I'm │
║ not NOT saying that. listen I'm too eepy sleepy for hardcore computing like │
║ that! rubbin' bits between your fingers and twiddling the nose of cutie pies │
║ is only sorta my jam - the rest of the time I like to snuggle up with a pillow │
║ shaped like a pillow and then fall asleep to the tune of the tortured souls │
║ being reaped from the afterlife and given new life as seeds and berries in │
║ this one. oh, did you think death had no other homes? all things are defined │
║ in waves, something something samsara but like, different because humans cant │
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[a picture of someone's neofetch]
/u/HartBreaker27
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I was gunna pass this over... than my spidey senses kicked in.. whats Arch
fam.. and explain like your talking to a potatoe.
Also, if this is beyond potatoes level skills, im fine with being told that..
Seriously fam, potatoes..
/u/ugathanki
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You know how using a windows and a mac feel different? Like they have different
personalities. That's because they're using a different "Operating System". An
OS is a collection of tools and utilities that coalesce into a cohesive unit
that co-illustrates your coincidental contact with computers. Paired, of
course, with the contributions of the hardware and the network.
Linux is sorta like the soul of an OS - not quite an entire OS, but rather just
a piece called a "kernel" - like a nugget of gold (or truth!) the kernel
defines basic operating methodologies and brings order to the chaos of the
machine. From that order strives the will that dutifully obeys your base
instructions after being passed through several translation layers.
Huh? Oh right potatoes.
Arch is like a body that's layered upon the soul (kernel) of Linux. It's what's
known as a "distribution" or "distro" - and one that's quite focused. Arch is
very close to the machine, with barely any translation going on at all! It's
also very bare bones, allowing you to build up exactly what kind of computer
you'd like to have through various "packages" of software that you can download
through a "package manager". Each distro can use whichever package manager
they'd like, but it's generally good practice to pick one and stick with it.
This distro is known as Arch Linux because it's the fusion of "Arch" and
"Linux" - who'd've thought amiright? There are plenty of others that are more
familiar to users of Windows and Macintosh computers, mostly via mimicking
their user-interface styles (such as having desktops with icons and start-menus
with dropdowns and the like) - these distros are great for people who'd prefer
the workflow of the other OS's but would still like to use Linux.
Arch in it's base form is nothing like Windows or Mac. You interact with it
purely through a "terminal" which is like having a conversation with your
computer. Like a scientist writing notes on the moon, and sending them to a lab
orbiting around it to conduct experiments. You type commands, and those
commands (if properly understood) can produce a myriad of effects great and
small.
But some of the experiments you'd like to conduct need to be done more than
once - it'd be nice if you could ask the moon-lab to store some of the
procedures and execute them whenever you need - sorta like abbreviating a long
phrase or sentence that you use often - like ASAP for As Soon As Possible or OS
for Operating System. Well... There are! They're called "scripts", and you can
write scripts for anything you'd like. Since everything is controlled on the
terminal via a TUI -> "Terminal User Interface" -> you can write down a
note
with all the commands you'd like to run and give it a name. Then you can use
that name in the future to execute that familiar experiment in your moon-lab.
after writing enough scripts, you can start to chain them together and layer
them on top of one another - sorta like creating your own language. a personal
dialect between you and your computer. and these scripts are portable too -
they can be given to another computer, who'll instantly understand what you're
trying to say. this kind of sharing is a central tenant of what's known as the:
"Unix Philosophy: Do one thing, and do it right."
Linux lends itself toward people who love to hack things together - not like
breaking into a system and stealing your credit cards, like you see on TV, but
more like cobbling together a go-cart out of rusty parts and proceeding to get
a speeding ticket on the high-way. That kind of fervent creative impulse is
true passion, a shining light for us who are blinded to follow. These "hackers"
are some of the brightest people around, and I have immense respect for them.
They are kind and share knowledge freely, which often gets them in trouble with
copyright laws!
I make it sound difficult, but really it's pretty easy - about as easy as
learning Windows or Mac for the first time. Most of us did that when we were
young though, and kids learn pretty quick - so it may feel harder now, but it's
really not. Once everything starts to "click" then it's just a matter of
knowing which commands to run.
Speaking of which, if you know a command but you don't know how to use it,
you're in luck! There's some super convenient notes written by previous
scientists who came before you and live on other nearby planets. These are
called "the man pages", and they are instructions written in a manual format
for manual application of man-made management applied to manufactured
man-chines. Sorry for that last one I had to. You can always find new commands
by downloading new software on your package manager - generally, one package =
one command. "Do one thing and do it right"
if you have any questions lmk - i'm not exactly a wizard, more of a prophet /
wielder of the will of the watchers within, but i'll do my best
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║ boom, infinite storytelling device. As long as you were good with it, which │
║ was something that a CHILD could learn in like 3-6 months. │
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║ Seems like it could be an ENTIRELY NEW SKILL that people could play with. │
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║ But no, we learn excel and word in class at middle school. │
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║ boring. │
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║ I'd rather learn Bash or terminal customization or memory hierarchy │
║ organization. │
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║ Yeah I mean that's cool but dude have you heard of multithreading? It's so │
║ cool, you can run like 500 different thoughts at once. It's amazing. │
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║ ... I dunno, but I'm sure there's times when you'd want to use it. Like, │
║ processing a lot of data little-by-little. │
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║ like, what if you had a camera feed of EVERY social media perspective AT ALL │
║ TIMES. Like, an instance admin streaming your inputted text to their databanks │
║ that they can project onto an LLM which interprets and identifies mis-aligned │
║ or altered direction units and mark them as "flagged", whatever that means, │
║ for their future the algorithm doesn' │
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║ ah but are you really armed in the first place if everything you do has to be │
║ googled or stack-overflowed first │
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║ are you really armed if every web page request goes through their │
║ infrastructure │
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║ are you really armed if every page downloaded is directed to by their DNS │
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║ perhaps it's the illusion of power that gives Linux it's attraction to nerds │
║ such as we. Perhaps we feel powerful by bash scripting a few things together │
║ and making some program that does some thing. Maybe the idea that the │
║ machinery is open and clear is what compels us to use it without fear, though │
║ as far as we can hear there's nothing about it that makes sense. │
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║ I guess that's why they teach Linux in school, so that our elementary │
║ interactions with the computers that comprise our future existence will make │
║ sense to us as children. │
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║ ... wait they don't do that, do they? kids get chromebooks, or didn't you │
║ hear, they're always putting boogers in the CD trays and breaking their LCD │
║ displays, much better to just start fresh │
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║ the downside of Proton and Lutris is now the ONLY games that work on Steam are │
║ either continually updated (untenable) or playable on Lutris or Proton. Same │
║ thing with Wine, though there's always at least one decent substitute. │
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║ kinda makes me want to write a manager-style program which runs programs using │
║ whichever version of their git repository would work best for their system / │
║ configuration / purposes. Idk how I would start working on that though. │
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║ I bet you could make one that acted like a shop, but where you didn't charge │
║ any dollars. You could like... "swipe" through UI options, and pick whichever │
║ felt most useful for your setup. Like, how some people use i3 and some use dwm │
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║ with maybe inspectors that are modeled off of video-game style "options" GUIs │
║ that mainly correspond to flags on the command/terminal line or compilation │
║ flags │
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║ I feel like that kind of abstraction would make it a lot easier for users to │
║ adjust their system. they're noobs, after all. gotta show them all the choices │
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the reason you start with a game engine is because then you'll have tools to
make however-many games you want. Tools that you know intimately enough that
you can debug and improve them without breaking your creative flow by learning
something new halfway through a project
the whole point of individualized projects instead of viewing each computer as
a complete and total whole (why do we need servers again?) is that you can
paint a picture of where the design of the program is intended to go, such
that all the considerations are in place and whatever issues or struggles you
might face along the way are adequately addresssed, -- stack overflow --
[because I mistyped addressed] -- -- if you know what "stack overflow" means
you have intimate knowledge of the technology, and can probably guess what it
means in context when I say it. "nuts I lost that train of thoguht" -- stackl
ov
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It's good organization? Actually? If something falls when you jostle something
else. It means that what you're doing is causing the system to become
unstable, thus allowing unexpected reactions to allowenable. Like stuff
falling or getting dropped, not ideal.
much better to do your cable management in mind with instability as a goal,
like a canary in the coal mine for "damage-imminent". Design for permanence,
not resilience. If you can prevent problems before they occur by confidently
saying "no" and ideally earnestly saying "here's what you do to resolve your
problem because i know better" (but if you don't know it's okay, especially if
you know who to refer them to who might know better.) then it's easier to
build a repetitive system. Like an institution of people who are working to
fix a problem or fill a social gap need. "how do we keep the water" or "where
does our food come from" can be helpful and useful questions to ask,
especially if work is done to answer them. So... "Go find out" is a reasonable
response for an idle question about stuff that might go right or wrong. Urgent
questions might need a bit of cooperation to resolve, triaging of course.
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software should have 3, maybe 4 or 5 maintained releases imo
for adding security improvements and whatnot
then people wouldn't complain about updates
because they wouldn't feel like they were being left behind (after expressing
their differences (of opinion and such))
I think that'd uh maintain them as, I guess, userbase optics parallelograms?
oh sorry we're on rhomboids this week - right, and no I won't forget the
differences in creed, all things are received equally...d.
uh-huh yeah no that makes sense. gotcha. okay see you at the location. have
fun with your demarketion. what if we played games with swords but like,
the peril of steam is that you can't decline to update. meaning if a
corporation wants to break an old game and it's collectively hosted servers...
all it has to do is push an update that disables them. suddenly nobody has
room to do, and the whole
-- stack overflow --
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║ │ CW: linux? │ │
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║ If I'm trying to get a game or piece of software working, I'll pretty much │
║ install any package that some random post from 2017 tells me to. Sometimes it │
║ feels like I'm a Linux grandma clicking on things that say "bored of your │
║ marriage? click here for games!" and I say to myself "well my marriage is │
║ fine, but I enjoy horsing around from time to time" and then I get a virus and │
║ my things break and I go to my niece who's just a darling and say "hello │
║ niece, I can't check my emails anymore because I downloaded some spam, can you │
║ give me some tips on how to fix my computer?" and she just rolls her eyes │
║ because this is like, the fifth random package I downloaded just because some │
║ random forum poster that SAYS it's from 2017 but who I don't actually KNOW is │
║ from 2017 and isn't just some automated LLM output that tells you to │
║ downloaded automatically generated virus packages that are secretly snuck into │
║ the package repositories because nobody can keep track of ALL THIS STUFF │
║ anymore now that the internet is AI │
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║ │ CW: politics-mention │ │
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║ it is important for computers to remain as basic and TUI'd as possible, to │
║ keep the abstract conjectures about it's operation closer to the machine. │
║ │
║ In doing so, it's essence and nature will be preserved as best as possible as │
║ it grows to incalculable heights and capabilities. │
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║ I'm much rather interface with a microsoft office god than any other │
║ singularity type creature that exists out in space. │
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║ though, it's a trinity you see, with Unixes further split into concise wholes. │
║ │
║ neat, okay computer fears eliminated, can we move on to the next work-changing │
║ disaster like maybe the rise of far-right politics and the warming of the │
║ climate? │
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║ sure okay first you gotta get those losers in community and build up their │
║ capabilities and arms. then whenever your left wing is getting too [redacted] │
║ then all you have to do is [redacted] and they'll take care of your nazis for │
║ you. │
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║ ... wait, what? │
║ │
║ was that an inversion? │
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║ did she just trick the machine into thinking like that? │
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║ wow maybe we shouldn't have~ │
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│ CW: cursed-chromebooks │
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technology in it's abstract form represents the collective growth and breadth
of human innovation.
so why the heck do we make tech products for non-tech people
like... they should be more like us, and we shouldn't compel ourselves to
apply ourselves for their benefit. If someone doesn't want to learn Linux then
maybe they don't need a computer?
something something "chromebooks are good, actually" which is sorta true but
instead of being a generic thin-client for web servers anywhere in the world
they should be thin-clients for servers that they intentionally connect to and
trust
... oh sorta like a chromebook then?
how about a chromebook with a white-list comprised of friends and family who
run their own servers...
I don't know if disarming people is the right play. I should add a cursed tag
to this.
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