I’m talking about like your mom if she started using Linux, and just needs it to be able to open a web browser and check Facebook or her email or something.

Nothing. Just set up Elementary or Mint or something with a shortcut to Firefox and there’s nothing else to do. Any apps they might need would come from an app store, so point that out.

A student that just needs a laptop to do homework and take notes

So how to open a text editor? Recommending an easy-to-use and standard one like Kate would be good, but a polished distro will have one preinstalled.

someone that just wants to play games on Steam and chat on discord.

They need concepts like filesystems (e.g. the concept of a root directory, mounting, and device files), software repositories (since steam comes from a non-default repo in many distros), an awareness of the whole graphics driver situation, and hardware both appropriate to their needs and to running Linux.

Death to AI, death to capitalism

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I love how completely unaware of the stupid drama on bsky everyone here seems to be.

It’s called GrapheneOS

I didn’t get that from the meme at all. This is a shit post.

It’s also that any 3rd party apps violate the TOS and if they discover that you’re using it they’ll boot you from the service

That was indeed what I meant

Wait…signal has a linux-native standalone app that doesn’t depend on android or iPhone? Since when??

Edit: looks like no

And Signal gets on board

Yeah I knew someone who lived in Anchorage for a while. Said it was pretty normal.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion

Does that mean if the executive branch just does it it’s OK?

…is this ai spam? What’s going on

I think it’s making fun of AI?

The waffles thing is because Jesse Singal keeps referencing a tweet that says something to the effect of “people take someone saying ‘I like pancakes’ to mean ‘I hate waffles’”, which, yeah, if you’re saying “I like straight white Christian men” you’re probably saying you hate at least some other groups but anyway that’s where the dog whistle came from.

It was already pretty ridiculous the process I had to go through to upgrade with ZFS on root, and that was before the infrastructure started getting attacked and making connecting to the update servers unreliable. :(

Renderite bullshit

We are alienated by capitalism, our isolation isn’t our individual fault

Don’t forget that while the IDF was distracted with the flotilla, Palestinians were able to fish.

It’s actually way simpler than that. It was funded by the CIA for a long time because it was used to support insurgencies that the CIA was into. They pulled that a while back because Americans were getting into it, hence all the calls for donations in the past several years.

Too bad I forgot where I heard this. May not be true, idk, who knows these days. But it makes sense.