JTode

joined 1 year ago
[–] JTode 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey everyone, go outside and find some grass and take your shoes off and put your feet in it. Stand there for a minute or two and just feel the grass on your feet. Have fun!

[–] JTode 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I do my best, when I see an intellectual huckster, to point at it and call it what it is.

Those who are taken in by hucksters have a tendency to dig in about it, and that's not my business.

[–] JTode 1 points 1 year ago

This is why I've kinda stopped consuming other people's political writing, and only shitcomment about it. People of all stripes cannot resist the urge to make the story just a liiiiiitle better.

[–] JTode 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The point that is being made, though, is that those things that do have value that exist in his writing, did not originate from him and are available elsewhere to the point of ubiquity. If you only heard about them from him, you should read more.

[–] JTode 3 points 1 year ago

51, I can drive a semi, but before I took some training for that I learned on a standard from my grandma.

[–] JTode 3 points 1 year ago

People can help you, but there is a way to ask, and learning how to ask is part of learning the OS. We are fascinated by problems actually.

The problem is that people come and say things like "I tried to setup a fleegbat server and it doesn't work!" and so for the helper it becomes a process of pulling the information out of the asker in a long and painful process of interaction and we just move on. Users who say things like "here is the error message I'm getting when I try to start up my fleegbo server, anyone understand this?" get way better help.

Those who really want to learn it come to understand these things, those who just want to do something neat and not work their ass off will complain that it's too hard.

Those who do the work are rewarded in many ways. I drove a dump truck ten years ago, now I make twice what I used to, working with people who aren't racist sacks of shit. They were my motivator to learn, I was tired of being among pigs every day.

[–] JTode 20 points 1 year ago

I will be one of many saying this: if you want to self-host you need to learn Linux. It can be done, but this is not like taking a pottery class and you don't really get to show anyone, the only people who will understand are people who are also able to do what you do. It's rewarding on many levels, but pleasure and sociality are not among those rewards. :>

[–] JTode 5 points 1 year ago

It's mostly about using every last one of the cpu cycles efficiently, which is old school think from the days when 640k was supposed to be enough for anyone. When I was a wee tyke in the 8bit era we had machines that did graphics, but they were for launching games from a terminal/console.

There are many servers with GUIs, primarily Windows servers, and there's probably web or GUI interfaces available for every useful service you can run which will be handy in some contexts, but there's a kind of speed and simplicity you can get with a good console that no gui can touch. Hard to explain unless you've done some work.

[–] JTode 3 points 1 year ago

Let's get them in just once and see. In the meantime, they are a black box as far as how they would govern, and yet, everyone keeps choosing the turd sandwich or the giant douche.

[–] JTode 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

We have been huffing capitalist poppers while banging economic steroids for decades in order to sustain the conceit that Socialism Bad Rich People Know Best

Stop huffing the poppers and stop voting for the steroids. Vote NDP.

[–] JTode 73 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Transplants are incredibly strict about you not just wanting to live, but doing everything you can in order to live. It is good that the transplant went to someone with a sense of self-preservation. Utter waste on the likes of her.

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