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Yeah, I don’t either, and I don’t attach USB drives very often. I’m now tempted to try it, but I’d have to wait for the next kernel update, and I will 1000% forget to do it by then

It mostly happened when I was using Arch, I’ve since switched to Gentoo. That also has update issues, but those tend to not always be the same issue xD

Usually I only remember to restart after an update because my USB drives stop working :D

I used to work for a company that had a built-in AI summary in their search engine.

1: We were required to click the links that got printed out in the summaries. 2: That rule also applied to our helpline with worse consequences.

I’d occasionally call our helpline when I couldn’t figure something out/wanted a second opinion on a judgment call. The amount of times I got told “The AI said-” yes but WHAT DO THE DOCS SAY??? I don’t care what the digital meat grinder that tells me to break the law once an hours says!

All to say, yeah, people don’t click through on those links. I’d wager most people who use it don’t

I think “Shitting where you eat” works a little better, given they’re shitting all over the internet, which is where their training data comes from

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Yeah, I’m very interested in the user side of Linux, less so what’s under the hood. There’s some degree of it there, I do use Gentoo, which is more manual than any other distro I’ve come across, but that’s about as deep as I want to go for a daily driver. I am a little tempted to do LFS on a VM once I have a computer that can handle it again

Personally when I stopped using Ubuntu (this was years ago), I hopped around different Ubuntu distros for a long time. Probably a good place to start, especially since Mint is based on Ubuntu.

After that I used Garuda (fairly user friendly, does require some terminal usage), then Arch, then NixOS, back to Arch, and now I’m pretty happy with Gentoo.

My main piece of advice when doing this: Set up the install to use a separate /home partition. It makes things way easier. You keep all of your configurations and such, just have a different OS under the hood.

I did, for a while, subscribe to the RSS feed of a Linux forum to help people xD

Ehh, having used all 3 Arch and Nix are about the same level of difficulty, Nix just doesn’t have documentation (or at least didn’t when I was using it). Flakes make it more complicated, but those are 100% optional, and I didn’t use them

Gentoo is a notable step up. Shit actually breaks there, horrendously. Still love it tho.

HMLinux does, in fact, scare me. I’m debating doing LFS, but I don’t think I could handle the difficulty that HML would offer

You at least could in the past, I haven’t had to do it in a while. Seems like the command would just be “dmidecode”, with grep if you’re looking to automate it

The problem is that this isn’t like Microsoft Office > LibreOffice/OnlyOffice/whatever. You’re not on Facebook for Facebook, you’re on Facebook for the people there. It’s why I have a lot of issues getting off of YouTube. I’m not on YouTube because their interface is nice, I’m on YouTube because the people I want to watch don’t post shit elsewhere. It’s a cycle, to get users we need stuff, and for stuff we need creators, and for creators we need users. When it comes to online platforms we don’t need an alternative to YouTube, we need an alternative to Markiplier, which is harder to come up with.

If you can get your friends, and family onto Friendica that would help quite a bit. The problem is that using a new server is hard for the end user (I would know, all of my fediverse presence is on servers I host), and telling someone “Use Friendica” is like telling someone to “Use email”. Get a Friendica/Mastodon/Whatever server, and keep it in your back pocket. Give them a link to that server, not to Friendica/Mastodon/Whatever as a whole.

Admittedly I don’t know how hard it is to stop using Facebook because I stopped using Facebook right after they took away the chronological timeline, and stopped using Messenger a few years ago. But spending some time to get a timeline together that you can boost will help any new users you recruit. Crucially, to promote viable alternatives, you need to be part of the viable alternatives, otherwise you’re just someone telling someone to jump into something new with 0 guidance, which is a good way to have them leave.

Omarchy is a Linux distro developed by the guy this article is about.

Yeah, in my experience it’s easier to make patterns for knitting, but it’s easier to freehand crochet, so I tend to pick up crochet more now, since I’m mostly making things I need around the house, and knitting frontloads a lot of the work in doing that xD

Typically it is by doing something else because they’re mimicking what an adult did to them. Usually it’s younger kids (under 7-8) who mimic like that.

Ahh, neat, didn’t know that!

To that end: how do I start? I don’t want to make a massive investment in case I don’t stick with the hobby, but what would be a good robust investment that would allow me to continue should I choose to?

A pair of Boye circular needles, and some of the cheap pound of yarns. Should cost you under $20 US. Find a tutorial online, a book, however you learn the best, and just kinda go. Recommended first project is a scarf, because they very immediately show you if your tension is inconsistent.

Don’t worry too much about how you hold the yarn at first, however I would recommend learning continental as soon as you’re comfortable knitting, because repetitive stress injuries hurt more than you expect.

• I say circulars because if you do stick with it, I find circular needles far more comfortable to knit on straight needles, and they’re about the same price
• I say grab a pound because if you’re into knitting the yarn will last you a bit longer

One thing: is it possible to knit machine washable wear? That’s something about wool clothing that has always made me cautious: the fact that you can’t wash them. Blankets, sweaters, scarfs…is there a starter yarn that can be washed?

Most animal fibers aren’t machine washable, most plant fibers are, and a far as I’ve seen all synthetics are. Most cheap starter yarn is machine washable. Redheart/Lion/Caron acrylics all are, which is the cheapest yarn you’ll find, and most of what I’ve knitted with in the ~27 years I’ve been knitting.

Bonus tip: If you end up not being a huge fan of knitting, but still want to use the yarn for something, crochet might work for you, and crochet hooks are cheap. You can usually pick them up for under $5. Some people don’t do well knitting, but do well with crochet, and vice versa. Both starter projects tend to be scarves for tension reasons.

I’d be on board if “Sex offender” only included the people that everyone seems to think it includes. However it also includes people who peed in public while drunk, people who turned to prostitution when they fell on hard times, and children who were victims themselves.

Only thing that will make both sides happy is banning them entirely, which I am 100% in favor of

(Seriously, though, look up what gets classed as a sexual offence in your area. It’s not just child molestation, and sexual assault.)

I have basically every URL our TV automatically pings blocked at this point. It phones home every 10-30 seconds whether they’re off or on. I think when we get a new TV we’re looking for a dumb TV

As a reminder to everyone:

If you can afford it, you can 100% just… Buy a phone online and use it with your carrier. Make sure it’s carrier unlocked, but yeah. All but one of my phones (bought in an emergency) was bought this way, and I’ve been through… 5 or 6? carriers and never had an issue