Amazing!!

Incredible

Found an Ubuntu CD on the ground and took it home. It resurrected a dead laptop and since then I’ve only known the kiss of Linus

It does make wonder if we would be better off now if the silicon valley monetizers had just gone with a subscription model.

Hell even a donation model works, as we see from countless FOSS projects.

In their defence they were born into it, and their parents and all their peers do too.

Most people aren’t exposed to the content of people who “got out” because it doesn’t show up on commercial platforms or get discussed at company barbeques.

I’m not saying it’s 100% the fault of algorithms. Sure, they work because they prey on very real human nature.

But lemmy isn’t apart from the rest of the internet or the overculture. The “algorithm” (to torture the term) that guides the news cycles, manufactures bikeshedding style outrage over meaningless diversions like the colour of a government swimming pool, etc… that does seep into our timelines and conversions.

Like you and I are at slightly different perspectives on what an algorithm is and how much of it can be said to affect people against their will, and some people will see us as arguing for two “sides” of a political spectrum.

I believe in personal responsibility sure, but I also believe all this other stuff affects us, and that I can’t even totally blame people who might be more susceptible to it.

At a certain point I blame the companies that keep putting out those hooks they know are harmful knowing that someone will always bite (millions of people will “bite” to greater or lesser degrees).

At that scale I think the excuse of saying people have personal responsibility (not your words) gets diluted because we all have different innate capacities and weaknesses.

It can only be called predatory.

Really without major social or political change all commercial technology will serve incumbent power.

Bruh

Masaka is waking!

Actually my fav episode though

You could taste it in the air

May as well call it “jayloading” 😒

Yeah maybe get him to focus more on being emotionally supportive if being more logistically supportive is too draining

Hmm kind of sour grapes mixed with “I turned out fine” and then universalising that to a global proscription

Yeah I think we all have that little voice at some point that goes what it atoms aren’t real, what if things are exactly as they appear? What about germs? What about the “globe”? What about “other” ““people”” and— and then you think about it a bit and it unravels very very quickly, but it’s good to be able to throw your entire mental model into doubt sometimes.

I wonder if some people aren’t able to build a satisfying mental model for some reason. I don’t think it’s just a matter of intelligence either, but something more emotional.

That one episode? How about all of them.

That show is like fear of the future set in crystal

Little? More like longer than you think!

Bravo

Anthropic principle ftw

I propose going to the south pole and just letting go??

I don’t have technical advise but congrats on taking your privacy seriously. It sounds to me like you’re fundamentally doing very well, probably learning a lot, even if your setup isn’t ideal right now.

From my perspective, it’s never going to be truly ideal—like perfect. Migrating and moving around, adapting and optimising, are how you maintain a good posture.

Especially when dealing with companies or even other people like solution maintainers, you’re going to get disappointed in some of them and have to migrate.

If you were happy staying put you’d be on Windows 11 complaining on Facebook right now. ;) So pat yourself on the back for that win, friend—you’re doing it!