My hat’s a tactical cap with hook-and-loop mounting points, where I change out various morale patches based on what I’m feeling that day. (A lot of times it’s the X-COM “vigilo confido” patch haha.)

So does the hat choose my personality? Or does my personality choose the hat? Who’s to say. It’s flexible and open to change at least. :D

Can’t try college right now, but LAN parties are legit! I hope somewhere they’re still a thing…

Ya caught me bein’ a bit lazy! X_X

Thanks for the formatting help. :)

QGIS sounds really cool! I’ll definitely bring that up so she can practice that Environmental Sciences degree. :)

Insane about the liability angle. I had never considered that! Sounds like far too serious a business for my tastes.

I’m glad there’s a lot of open source libraries, and Linux is heavily employed in scientific and academic circles, at least. :)

These days I’d expect large number of people in college to not even know what a file system is. I’ve read articles where professors complain about this.

No no, not like “NTFS / BTRFS / ReiserFS / TempleFS / EXT4…”

…like…“Folders are how you organize files. And you can rename files. The extension tells you what the file is.”

Haha I’m an aspiring game dev and I know a little bit about a ton of software!

…and I suck at most of it. But I can hold a conversation about it at least! :D

P.S: Haven’t heard of QGIS tho! My partner used ARCGIS though, and would always get annoyed when I pronounced it “Ark-jizz.”

it’s so incredibly easy to highlight some text and click search that it it shows a profound lack of curiosity and a lot of laziness.

100%. People will ‘Google’ celebrities, memes, “Why is my poop green?”, but also just be like “Somebody hand me an answer.” When they risk learning something.

“The Internet is like having access to the Library of Alexandria, and everyone wants to just gossip about each other in the lobby.”

–I think I read this on bash.org at some point

Don’t quote me on that tho.

–Me.

BUT ALSO like the others said…if somebody’s legitimately curious, let’s be nice about it because somebody new learning about our thing is a net positive.

Are we talking about that original one? Where he tried Pop!_OS and tried to install Steam and the package installer gave a big message that something wasn’t right, so he chuckled, TL;DR’d and hit “yes anyway” and was shocked he borked his install?

That LTT?

I’m never gonna fault somebody for unfamiliarity, but we should absolutely fault people, especially ones with any tech experience, for not reading helpful messages right in front of them.

YEP.

I used to work in a library computer lab. It was soul sucking, how many people older than millennials couldn’t friggin handle a basic computer. I heard the words “I clicked the ‘E’ for ‘internet’.” multiple times A DAY. (Thanks, 1990’s Microsoft and No Child Left Behind.)

“CaNt I jUsT uSe My PhOnE?” (Which would be a million more steps on my part…thanks, 2006 apple, and defunding schools.)

The biggest ragebait for me was “I dOn’T kNoW cOmPuTeRs, I’m oLd ScHoOL.”

I’m like “PCs have been increasingly commonplace since the mid-1980’s. It’s currently the 2020’s. You’re like 56. HOW ‘OLD’ IS YOUR SCHOOL?! Because somehow you drove a car here!”

I imagine a certain weird kind of “privilege”, to have been able to somehow dodge computers and learning this entire time, when they were so often found in homes, schools, and workplaces.

Like it takes significant effort to somehow avoid even an accidental education. HOW?!

It’s…infuriating. These rubes can gleefully scroll tiktok and dump all their personal lives into Facebook, but freak out about sending an email.

Many of them were even around to try the Internet during Eternal September and AOL, and now they’ve exchanged the squishy fat in their skulls for convenient slop.

I’d bend over backwards to patiently teach, but few cared to learn.

Their collective, willful ignorance is why we’re fighting a constant uphill battle against attempts to turn the entirety of computing into nothing but a commercialized authoritarian hellscape.

I left that job because if I heard one more “Kids are born so smart with these computers because my (grand)kids can watch their cocomelons all by themselves.” I would’ve snapped and been booked for assault.

Lol /rant

…clearly this is a button for me…I have sought help in the past…

Hey I really appreciate you updating me with that! Thank you. :)

It’s not always easy to know if it’s a “My machine” problem or a “They’ve gotta fix it” problem.

Hilarious to see this after my OpenSUSE Tumbleweed install booted to a black screen (with a cursor) and no TYY access after a 16 GB update. X_X lol.

Oh well. Been here before, thank God for BTRFS and Snapper integration! Probably just gotta freeze that Nvidia driver again for like a week. Blah.

When it works, I agree with some other posters here: It works fine. My only graphics issues have been “doesn’t boot into graphics environment and Nvidia-smi says 'We ain’t found shit.'🪮” LOL

Otherwise it’s a LOT better than it’s been. I haven’t had to go chasing down obscure issues.

Then the one hundred eighty-nine

In the service of heaven

They’re protecting the holy line

It was 1527

Gave their lives on the steps to heaven

Thy will be done!

-Sabaton, The Last Stand

Northern: “Flihhhliipin’ 'eck!”

…“And Fanny’s your aunt.” I’ve been told concludes the expression lol.

Lol I’m so glad this thing isn’t catching on and is so often ridiculed by the people it’s supposed to “help.” I see that silly X and my phonetic brain just goes

“Lah-tinks” or in the above poster’s instance “Fill-ih-pinks”. LMAO wat? Who would appreciate that?!

This is the same culture-warrior neckbearding that wants to crusade and die on the hill that “Hey guys” should be offensive to anybody in a mixed group who doesn’t just so happen to be male.

It feels like the kinda thing that only sounds like a good idea when people are so isolated they only communicate online.

You don’t marry someone within a month of meeting them

Don’t shouldn’t. XD

Well it’s Saturday morning, the buildings where the battles take place are considerately evacuated first, of course!

We should all aspire to such monkey business.

Or a Red Bull ad 🤔. Jk

why do people put the extra X in there? indolence?

My best guess is it’s become a sort of linguistic meme, poking fun at incels who’d ramble on about things like “looks-maxxing”.

Or maybe it’s a combo of that and “min-maxing” from gaming communities. The extra X makes it more maximum. LOL

Taxing, faxing, relaxing…

"…Shootin’ b-ball…

When a couple a’ guys, who were up to no good…

Started making trouble in the neighborhood…"

–Prince William Smith of Bel Air