but I’m pretty convinced that Linux is not close to being ready for normies.

Yeah. I consider myself somewhat tech savvy (I do software development for work) and I had a really bad time installing mint on my desktop. I got it to work after a day but that was far more than a casually interested person would put up with.

I send people links to posts on Lemmy, and tell people I can’t see Instagram/Twitter/etc.

Is it working? No, not really, but it feels like it should.

Snake case, usually. Some perhaps unfounded fear that something will blow up on a dash in a file name kicking around. Or I’ll do a weird typo/premature enter and part of the file name will be treated like a -flag of some sort.

Even if the value was only “artistic”, I think that is valuable. I don’t especially want to live in a world void of art.

But while concise and simple language has its place, being able to express and understand more complex constructions seems valuable. Do you want to live in a world where no one expresses themselves with more depth than “See spot. See spot run.”? The world is complex and being able to communicate in different ways seems valuable. Hitting a clever sentence can be an inspiration for thinking more.

By contrast, look at 1984 and the dystopian collapsing of language. As words are removed and grammatical structures lost, it becomes harder to express some ideas.

Ironically, I don’t think I’m going a great job communicating my point. Let me try again. Simplicity and sparseness have value in some places, like instruction manuals, but richer language is worthwhile in many other contexts.

A whole vector for receiving new ideas, perspectives, expression, experiences.

Some stories can’t easily be translated to another medium. House of Leaves, for example, is very much a Book, and trying to translate it to some other medium would result in a very different item.

It also helps improve communication skills in general. You’ll see a variety of ways to put sentences and ideas together, and you can use that yourself. A lot of marketing and blog posts are targeting a 6th grade reading level. Authors there aren’t typically aiming for complexity or richness of prose.

Did you forget that non-fiction exists as a genre? Biographies and memoirs are very popular, for example.

Copyright should be 14 years.

Yeah I don’t think this covers externalized costs

I know pre 1.x.x is kind of a wild west for versioning but uh is there any logic to the version numbers here? I’d think a new feature would be a minor version bump, not patch

They should probably limit how many swipes you get instead of having your swipes go into the void.

Been seriously thinking of switching to linux for my desktop. I mostly use it for games. Today I was looking at mods for Mass Effect, and the mod manager says in all caps - LINUX IS NOT SUPPORTED :(

There’s probably going to be a lot of that sort of annoyance for years.

This is like saying “I’ve never watched movies. What should I watch?”

My dude there are so many genres.

That’s a nice find.

You just got to be a bit more stealthy.

Yep, but that’s not the lesson the school should be teaching, at least for it’s best interest. Fostering white hat attitudes would probably work out better. Instead I learned the authorities were idiots that can’t be reasoned with.

This just reminded me of a thing from my high school (many years ago). They had windows machines that were somewhat locked down, but I discovered a trivial way to bypass the restrictions on changing the desktop wallpaper. So naturally I set the background image to a screenshot of the desktop, and then hid all the actual icons.

On another timeline, the staff would have approached this with “Huh that’s clever. You fooled us and we thought the computer was broken. Please don’t do that, but also let’s channel your creativity somewhere useful.”

Instead I got a monologue about breaking things and was banned from the computer lab for a week. Soured me on school and such for a while.

Nice work.

My tiny nitpick is that “touch” will create the file you specify if it doesn’t exist. I’ve seen this usage a lot, so your example may benefit from mentioning it.

LinkedIn is very useful for job searching and networking. I don’t post on there, but it was key to getting several job offers.

I’m not aware of any other professional social networks.

Perhaps some sort of collectively owned service.

Or a non profit like Wikipedia that all it does is host and sell music.

Whatever it is needs to be resistant to the standard shifty capitalism problems. It should focus on providing a good service and making enough money to support itself. Not infinite profits forever.

I’d like the “show context” link to work. Maybe that’s just me? It used to work but no longer. It’d be helpful when I go to a post from the reply notification thing. (viewing this on the web in Firefox)