Also won’t there will be an fragmentation of users issue?

when you can follow, subscribe to, post to, or comment on any community on any instance, there’s no fragmentation

when followers know there are plenty of options, it also prevents any single community from becoming too big or overbearing – and since the instances are all privately owned, the only thing you gain by growing your community bigger than everyone else is increased server load

• !unixporn@lemmy.ml is the most active
• !unixporn@lemmy.world was (for a short period) officially affiliated with r/unixporn
• !unixporn@kbin.social, as Blaze mentioned, appears dead
• !unixporn@lemmy.sdf.org – SDF is one of the oldest servers out there (est. 1987), their Lemmy instance is going to be friendlier to vintage computing
• !unixporn@lemmit.online is a Reddit repost bot

• LibreWolf ← Firefox
• Mullvad ← Tor ← Firefox

Amazon did more for killing off small businesses – the big box store chains did more for killing off shopping malls (their preference is the strip mall where they can showcase their entire frontage (and do an end-run around building codes))

and yes, everyone is too broke on top of everything else

sponsored by Raytheon and [Redacted]’s Child Hunting Island

the products and services sponsoring today’s show? they definitely won’t sell your kidneys, you have our word on that!

Deja Vu (but Worse)

forget Martha Stewart – but Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson as heads of the DEA and FDA

“… because this cannot be real life! It just can’t!”

Robert Evans – writer, comedian, conflict journalist, podcaster – Cracked, Bellingcat, Behind the Bastards, did a podcast from Rojava, and reported live from Portland’s George Floyd protests

no love for RISC-V?

it was clearly a feature

along those lines, how well would the link-aggregator concept match up with one of the BEAM languages (Erlang, Elixir, Gleam)?

• repeat the “Don’t sweat it.”
• Ubuntu is a perfectly fine starting point (the other “beginner distro” that’s commonly recommended is LinuxMint)
• »AFTER« you become comfortable with what you have:
  • try familiarizing yourself with the command line
    • far more competent than Windows cmd.exe or PowerShell
    • !linuxupskillchallenge@programming.dev
  • get overwhelmed with all the distro choices available
    • get bitten by the distro-hopping bug (“Gotta try them all!”)
      • and then try Distrobox (“ALL the distros at once!”)
• »THEN« take a look at immutable distros
  • “immutable distro” is a catch-all term that embraces several concepts
    • immutable – the root filesystem is set to read-only – makes it harder to mess up your system
    • declarative – your hardware and packages and configs are declared in a master configuration file
    • atomic / transactional – updates are checked as they’re applied, if it fails, it gets rolled back to a previous “safe state”
    • container / sandbox – ex. Flatpak or Docker or OCI – apps are isolated in their own sandbox and not allowed to mess up anything else

Eliza Effect

when workers go on strike, they call in the police, strikebreakers, National Guard, even bomb whole neighborhoods – but when a CEO takes a week off, no one even notices …

NO

I support their natural enemies, anarkiddies shall triumph!

this explains caution, wariness, concern, unfamiliarity with the terminal – it doesn’t explain the revulsion people show to even the thought of the terminal as a partner to a GUI

• you have to figure out what the icons are and which menu holds which command
• in a GUI, only the basic options are laid out for you – newcomers regularly assume something can’t be done because the option isn’t there rather trying to find out if the option has just been moved to a completely different area of the UI
• GUIs regularly freeze up with even less indication of what’s going on (do you wait a few seconds or half an hour when the beach ball isn’t spinning)
• (on a side note, GUIs are generally a nightmare for accessibility options)