I believe you’ve answered your own question.
Lemmy isn’t Marxist-only. The majority of Lemmy users are what the more vocal Lemmygrad and Hexbear users deride as “libs.” As a thought experiment, imagine that you are one of us for a moment and then browse Local on one of those.
I still maintain my boycott of Amazon over the one-click patent.
It’s a hassle to buy stuff online without using Amazon. The patent expired years ago. Probably no other person is still boycotting them over it (not that it was ever an effective boycott in the first place). But I just can’t bring myself to buy from them.
Writing. Specifically, tech writing. I’ve got an intuitive sense for it, but other than business communication and the occasional bit of internal documentation I don’t have any desire to do it professionally.
I get along great with our tech writer, though, since I’m the only other person at the company who can hold a discussion about the Oxford comma.
Favorite? No idea.
Least favorite? Alan Alda in Canadian Bacon. Dammit man, you were good in MASH, why can’t you act in anything else?
I’ve never talked to an Arch user about Linux, so I dunno how toxic their community is. But I do read Arch documentation, and it’s fantastic. Arch’s documentation has (for me, anyway) taken the place that used to be held by the old HOWTOs back in the early days.
The kind of cooperation required to accomplish this doesn’t speak of a toxic community to me. I didn’t watch the video since I don’t watch YouTube on my phone, but I’m guessing it’s not the Arch community that has issues but annoying teenage “I’m more 1337 than you” jackwads that are the turd in the Linux punchbowl. Those little cretins are drawn to distros like Arch because they like feeling superior to the “normie” users.
I should know, I used to be like that thirty years ago. Most of us grow out of it after we start getting laid.
Native Americans in what would become the US had stone-age tribal societies and oral traditions. It’s difficult to establish a consistent history for groups like that. To make things worse, by the time anyone wanted to make a serious unbiased attempt to document their culture, their culture had been changed long enough that no one alive remembered what pre-contact life was like.
You might have better luck with Central and South American natives. The Aztecs and Mayans had written records, and the Incans left behind cities full of artifacts. Or check out the Inuit - they’re largely isolated so they had less of a change forced on them than the tribes living in more desirable areas.
Or, depending where you are, you could always just seek out the local tribes and visit. Most of them have museums and books written by tribal historians and welcome people with a serious interest.
Or just don’t connect your phone to it. That’s what I do. I’ve never touched the “smart” screen in my car except to adjust the air conditioner.
The example you’ve given is likely not a problem with reading comprehension but obliviousness. I read and understand things very well (I have to read and correct engineering drawings and schematics and implement them), but I simply don’t notice a lot of what goes on around me.
My suggestion for that is any job that doesn’t require safety, physical team labor, or security.
I don't believe so - the docs mention several ways to boot a pi but most only work for newer models.
An option might be to boot an SD card read-only and run everything over NFS. It's trivial to do that sort of thing with some UNIX clones (OpenBSD, for instance), but I don't know about a modern Linux.
It might be too outdated to do major services, but it's still fine for its original use - interfacing with electronic components.
You could build a weather station, monitor temperature and humidity in your attic and crawlspace, automatically water plants, etc. You don't need much electronics knowledge for that sort of thing.
Thanks, Mother Mary.
For everything:
For everything except firewalls:
For a desktop:
Yeesh, I never knew about that. Probably because I normally only worry about SIGHUP on *BSD.
What kind of arrogance does it take to just decide to change how signals work?
Every post on a chan-style imageboard has a number. If the last two digits are the same, it’s “dubs.”
Now imagine a million threads full of nothing but people trying to get dubs on their comment. Yeah, it’s really that stupid.
The creator of 4chan (moot) turned them off at some point (as in, it would skip any number with dubs, but not trips or above), but right before he sold 4chan he turned them back on.
Could be worse. At least we don’t have “dubs” threads like 4chan does.
Turning dubs back on right before he left was the final middle finger from moot, I suspect.
Yeah, I saw that. My brain keeps telling me Selectric though. I’ll never know for sure - Mrs. Tipton1 (my typing teacher) retired the year after she taught me. I’m sure she’s long dead by now.
Either way, they were cool and I loved typing on them.
1 I grew up in rural white Oklahoma. Mrs. Tipton was my first encounter with an old black lady. We loved her to death, because she took no shit. My favorite memory of her was when one of the kids was switching a typewriter on and off over and over again and she yelled out, “stop masturbating the typewriter!” Peak humor in the 1990s bible belt.
Some kind of Pong game. I was really little and it was my grandmother’s, so I don’t even remember what the actual unit looked like.
Then the Atari 2600 (my aunt’s), then the Atari 5200 (my grandmother’s - she was unstoppable at Pac-Man and could start from Cherry and work all the way up to nine keys without dying once).
Then there was the day we rented an NES. That day changed my life.
It was Super Mario Bros. Start the game. “Oh hey, the screen moves sideways! Good lord, this is a huge game.” Dies a bunch. Find pipe shortcut. “Oh wow!” Finally beat level 1-1. “Yay, I beat the game! Oh wait, World 1-2? WTF?!?!?”
It’s hard to explain the feeling when the most immersive game you’ve ever played was Pitfall.
It wasn’t a teletype. They were definitely IBM typewriters. They had a little LCD display on them and - if set to the right mode - would display the keys you typed and allow you to make corrections before you hit return (not sure on the name of the return/enter key), which would fire the daisy wheel to type out the line you entered. In regular mode (what we used it in, since it was a keyboarding class after all) it acted like a regular typewriter and typed one letter at a time.
I don’t know how old they were. That class was, oh, around 1991 or 1992 I think? They weren’t new, and were halfway through the process of being replaced. Half the class was full of 286 computers with typing software on them. We’d trade seats every week between the typewriters and PCs. I assume once the budget allowed they replaced the rest of them, but that would have been after my time.
There were Selectric models that had a built-in memory and supported various word processor functions, but nothing in the Wikipedia article jumped out at me. It might have been a non-Selectric (the memory plays tricks after 30 years), but it was definitely an IBM.
I meant quiet compared to when the ball printed your line. I guess I should have specified that I was talking about the ones with the little LCD screen that would take all your text and then print it all at once.
(I’m pretty sure they were Selectrics, anyway. IBM for sure. They’re what I learned to type on in school back in the dark ages. We weren’t allowed to use that feature, but there’s always someone that doesn’t follow directions so we go to hear what it sounds like.)
Exhibit #1 why Hexbear/Lemmygrad are unpopular: this guy