You got long balls, Larry.

\3. Ride the Shai-Hulud to destiny.

Well, if you get to remove one digit a year I’ll still have my thumbs. I guess.

Honey this is an Applebee’s, shit wherever you want.

“I’m constantly haunting myself” is one description of ADHD

It’s the internet, mate. The world is your oyster.

Get friends that only game on linux.

Linux compatibility or I send it back!

There’s not many all-in on authoritarianism that aren’t extreme left or right economically.

The political compass is better than a one-dimensional spectrum, but it’s literally twice as complicated.

You can pretty safely plot a symmetrical U shaped line running through the political compass and find almost everybody. That’s why one-axis works well for describing the political climate of the USA, it’s mostly in the right half of the political compass sitting on this line.

So tankies are very Communist (left) and necessarily very authoritarian to achieve their goals.

They represent the other half of the political compass that Americans usually do not see. So people on here frequently get confused when exposed to tankies.

And you also have the tankies talking about the Bernie-Sanders-style/social democrats (found at the vertex of our U shape) as “right” because if you follow the U line, they would be.

I use IBM Plex Sans and IBM Plex Mono

You have to manually manage new kernel branches with the manjaro-settings-manager.

Lots of people get told “it’s arch with good defaults! Just sudo pacman -Syu and you’re good!”

…which leads to them eventually breaking their systems and blaming manjaro.

No rolling release is appropriate for people who can’t RTFM.

6 years on my manjaro install, zero problems.

Same.

Quit what? Lmao.

I sleep on my back without a pillow.

But I still have a pillow so I can look at my phone.

Don’t go to college.

Ah yeah, just withdraw all the liquidity that is most certainly there…

You have just demonstrated more faith in neolib pretendy dollaridos than I have or will never have.

I didn’t learn until I was in college about all the other cultures, and I should have learned that in the first grade. A first grader should understand that his or her culture isn’t a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work pretty well; that all cultures function on faith rather than truth; that there are lots of alternatives to our own society. Cultural relativity is defensible and attractive. It’s also a source of hope. It means we don’t have to continue this way if we don’t like it.

Kurt Vonnegut

You can put a myriad of setup and administration options into the GUI and most people still have no interest in them. These people just have no interest in using a computer like that. They “just want it to work”. It’s not a CLI v. GUI problem, it’s one of assumed responsibility.

This is an inherent limitation of “free as in freedom” software.

“Free as in freedom” really only refers to developers. The non-developers are beholden to whoever packages and distributes their software for them. We Linux users who aren’t system developers let the “distro maintainers” do the developer work for us. That’s why a distro’s website is full of mission statements and declarations of philosophy–it’s how we decide who to trust.

And it’s the same for the “non-nerds” with system administration. Businesses hire admins to handle their internal software and networks, and at home people let Apple, Microsoft or Google take increasingly more control over their devices so that they aren’t responsible for getting it all working.

Apple’s success came from Microsoft’s negligence. Too many people had Windows XP computers at home wrecked with toolbars and spyware and garbage.

And people gladly left for a walled garden platform that locked down everything and didn’t require them to administer their own systems.

The biggest success in the Linux world has been Chromebooks and Android, where Google administers the system for the user.

Most people don’t choose linux because they can’t administer their own system. A system that lets them administer however they want has no appeal to them. They instinctively know they can’t handle that responsibility. They need their hands held.

I do not trust things in my phone to stay private.