I actually feel one problem with the modern age, in america in particular, is this idea of everyone doing everyone for themselves. doctor, accountant, lawyer, mechanic, it guy, plumber, electrician. Initially gas stations pumped the gas, checked your fluids and tires, and would top you off as part of the service. no one did that stuff. if your tv broke you called in the tv repairman and you got your milk from a milkman. people were expected to know their jobs and not necessarily everyone elses.

I for one find your explanation very fitting.

I know tons of people even 30 years ago that could not check the oil on their car and would call triple A or their insurance company for a flat tire. Heck I had a friend we practically had to beg to bring his car in for an oil change and that is just a number and calendar date to keep track of and most places put a little sticker to give you that information.

I agree. Combined with what people are used to but apple showed thats not much of a reason.

Good to know word is still bleeding over since the api debacle. slashdot was the first thing which made me feel a bit like back in the newgroup days and reddit moreso but it just went down hill. The federation is the closest yet I have found to those lost years of command line internet.

at first I thought this required hosting but it looks like maybe its stand alone software now. Am I right or did I misunderstand the site?

Im not sure if your looking for a simple install and go type of setup but I often recommend zorinos as the free community type edition mimics the feel of windows and it comes with wine and play on linux from the get go. its a ubuntu using gnome spin so it sounds like it would work for you.

privacy went out way before ai with smartphones.

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They were great in the aughts. Once the iphone became the flagship it went downhill. Believe it or not at one point macphiles bragged about how many more ports they had than typical windows machines and how much more powerful they were spec wise.

karma farm???

oh. I guess I knew about that.

I did not know naturally occuring red eyes existed.

Thats the idea. make everything difficult unless you do it the way they want. Have to call my insurance today to find my account number for sending a payment through billpay as they are basically hiding it because it necessary to pay outside of putting something on their system. don’t want you paying from your system (bank) must put in your card in theirs.

isn’t that supposed to be based on nextstep which is also what osx is based on?

I allow override and on occasion allow the override. I use it like no script. If it needs modification I ask myself how motivated I am to see it.

I have a dream that one day I be part of a platform where one will not be judged by the glamor of their username but by the quality of their discourse.

firefox with no script.

before 2010 when a suse disk was put into a laptop and installed and the network card and everything worked just fine no tweaking.

mycroft needed a service?