You could buy box copies of the original suse Linux that had manuals in the box the size of a TI graphing calculator manual.

Once you got X working everything else was cake by comparison.

I will say the only thing more convenient for most people is that it’s preinstalled on the computer they bought at a big box store. If that changed it would make a world of difference.

that’s not in the plan it won’t increase until they dominate the market and lock in the user base and I don’t think enough people subscribe yet. squeezing free accounts to put you in the just enough annoyed state. Just like mobile games do.

im mean technically lemmy counts as social media i guess since it’s a feed but it’s the closest things we have to an old school forum. Just idea that you care so much about a topic you create a site to talk about it was powerful. People don’t realize it’s a big difference between a land grab for subreddits or even communities on here and running a server. startrek.website is the closest thing since they have very focused communities.

It’s like match making and running a gaming sever back in the day. it was this weird hybrid of a public game and playing with friends. there was a TFC server i played with the same people and along with them but never knew them or joined a clan in mechwarrior 2 and would battle other clans i never knew any of them outside this one thing. It was a natural filter for jerks and cheaters. now it’s ether play with friends or play alone.

i think it’s important remember the web and the internet are two different things. humans just made a choice to centralize a originally a decentralized system. after being incentivize by the growth phase of the venture now the culling phase is here and they are extracting that wealth. stuff like gemini. shows we can go back and do it right the next time. The internet is just there be it port 80 or some other port.

can we bring back old school forms they were the best.

also a big thing was the rapid openings of malls in the 80s and 90s. honestly they opened too many of them then just kind of limped along as it was too hard to close and Sears kinda funded them till their death.

the default is pipewire now so you may need to install the alsa pipewire module

very true the only reason I’m okay with it is the files are standard markdown and there is no database that locks you in. the only thing keeping me with them is features and workflow. if any open source project gets feature parity I would switch tomorrow

you are correct i feel guilty every time I use it. but making my company pay for a license on every job I work on. it’s got one of the best licenses you can get for proprietary software. my only concern is it might go away and can’t last forever like open source can.

tracker-tag works

no judgements but I’m curious what’s the need for the folder to be sorted first that something like folder pinning or tagging doesn’t work for you?

why post the short when the full interview is only 5 mins and Linked in the short’s description?

Who knew they were telling the truth after all. When they said Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows.

there is a cult of Debian? where do I sign up?

good thing that command won’t do anything anymore

honestly the biggest problem with the media is. Linux represents the very thing corporate culture in those media empires just can’t fathom. the idea of cooperation for the greater good that Linux represents and not being 100% profit motivated. They just don’t get it and worse they see it as a threat. Microsoft can be a competitor to them but the idea of open source is a competitor to the whole system and that is a far greater threat to the people on top.

a substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body.

by definition food is considered a drug, so no one I guess

honestly I wished the arch wiki turned into a distro agnostic wiki. i have been using debian for decades and use arch wiki all the time but it would be nice to have a one stop shop for linux documentation. the Wikipedia of Linux run as a coalition.

it depends on if I heard a voice of that character before for example Batman is always Kevin Conroy and the joker is always Mark Hamill. another usecase is if I listened to the audio book then start reading a text book. Ray Potter shows up alot.

you don’t and will never will. I would recommend reading a lecture by Ken Thompson the co-creator of Unix for more details on this https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf