JackbyDev

I think I agree with most of what you said. My one doubt is about Wayland. I was under the impression it was still a relatively new/niche thing that had problems. Is this no longer the case? I ask because you recommended against things like immutable distros because they’re not super mature yet.

Note: I’m technically inclined but don’t use a Linux distro daily. My personal laptop is my old work Mac and my work laptop is a Mac. My older personal laptop runs Xubuntu.

I’m going to actively voice my support for this mentality, more than just an up vote. People saying things like dual booting and rolling distributions are good ideas for genuinely new users who, like you said, have never opened a command prompt or regedit, really shouldn’t be suggested those types of things.

The average dev/tech enthusiast has a horribly bad habit of drastically over estimating the average person’s technical ability. While I believe it’s reasonable to expect new uses to want to try and learn (I’d hope everyone would want to learn sometimes), the reality is that most folks won’t.

The one that just makes me want to scream is when people suggest installing Arch via the wiki. I did this around 2015 or 2016 on a VM and couldn’t get it working. To be fair, I wasn’t terribly motivated to really dive into what was wrong, but people act like it’s really magically simple and clear cut when it’s not. (With the major caveat that perhaps it’s gotten better since last time I tried.)

I think so many of these discussions go to shit because of who the target audience is intended to be and who the responders believe the target audience to be.

My dual boot has never broken on multiple computers. Whether is be Debian, Ubuntu, fedora, or arch.

That’s great, but it’s still shockingly common and not something newbies should have to try to fix

I’m treating them like guns. Assume they’re loaded until you prove otherwise.

Why don’t you Google why people don’t Google things instead of asking why they don’t Google it? It’s pretty hypocritical of you to ask that without putting in the research.

CRT TVs.

-i doesn’t exist?

It’s been bizarre realizing people are (likely) pathological liars (alor at least massive bullshitters). It’s like, wow, you sure do seem to always have an interesting story to tell in every situation. Every situation.

That’s fair, I was just making sure I read you right. 💜

I was asking because the usual stereotype is than many younger programmers are transfemme.

This comment made my eyes roll out of my head.

There are probably more AFAB coders at my work than those who identify as female.

Did you get this backwards?

If you do something like refer to all white people or all Germans as Nazis then yeah, in that context it’s a slur. But just referring to members of the Nazi party, definitely not. Extreme far right folks, personally no, I don’t view it as a slur there. Some people may disagree (probably the extreme far right people being called Nazis).

This is like asking if you should get into books or movies! The answer is absolutely! 💜 There are so so many games.

The genre “cozy game” is a pretty good place to start, I think. They focus more on the vibe than challenges.

Definitely stay away from games that use phrases like “souls like”. Those are games that are trying to be intentionally difficult for the sake of being difficult.

A lot of this depends on what sort of console or computer you have access to. A lot of indie games are not very taxing and you can probably play them on your computer easily even if it isn’t a gaming computer. Things like Stardew Valley and Spiritfarer come to mind.

They’re saying that in the same way terrorist is not always a slur but is used as a slur sometimes, Zionist can be used as a slur. I think it’s a fair take. It’s odd to specifically list Zionist as a contextual slur when you can just say no slurs.

I don’t know if I fully agree but that’s their argument as I understand it.

Edit: Idk why people are down voting me trying to explain someone’s argument.

This one is probably out of date now with smart TVs and few people using cable, but one of those jumbo TV remotes for people with poor eyesight/motor difficulties.

It’s like email! You know email?

I’m on Lemmy essentially 99% of the time. When I’m on Reddit it’s because of niche hobbies that have more presence there. It’s very rare. (Or search index results.)

I never use Mastodon. I was only on Twitter for very niche and interactive hobbies that do not have enough people to engage with on Mastodon. I mostly use BlueSky now but still use Twitter on occasion. It’s like 50/50 at the moment, but that’s a lot considering my BlueSky account is only like two weeks old.

Lemmy has enough content to keep me entertained for general browsing and most of my hobbies.

I’m pretty sure you get warnings trying to delete system32.

Edit: And I mean beyond the standard UAC pop-up.

Don’t even get me started on planking.