Yup!

Thank heavens! Let’s get the ol’ mob to storm the castle/this guy’s comment!

Context and nuance? In a fediverse comment section? Is that even allowed?

Thanks, appreciate that!

Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985) by Neil Postman, The Shallows (2010) by Nicholas Carr.

I think about both a lot, both are terrifyingly prescient and the issues they describe only got worse.

Amusing Ourselves is basically how the television age shapes politics (and all the ideas extend perfectly/terrifyingly into the modern internet era) while the Shallows is about how the internet is literally rewiring our minds.

Both are quite short, easy reads that will stick with you.

And on a lighter palate cleanser sort of note, anything Mary Roach writes is worth reading.

“Calls are being made on social media” - In other words, the same accounts that were already calling for boycotts are continuing to do so.

Talk is cheap, more so online.

I really like my friends though. Don’t you folks? Last 3 lines, 4th last if my pals know, sure. Do others really not have people whom we love?

Talk is cheap but damned if this didn’t make me look into what the studio has done…

And I’ll point out that Workers & Resources is on a historical sale. For those of us boycotting American goods, it is an American company but you can at least buy it on GOG which, as I understand it, is Polish. (Unsure with the recent sale but he’s Polish so…)

Ahaha, right? We buy these beater bikes so we won’t be sad when they get borrowed permamently but then they do so well for us that we gotta protect 'em.

I’ve wondered about the tracker thing but I figure one of the local open air chop shops would take that out pretty quick. (Best hope is the bike is so shitty they wouldn’t think anyone would bother with one…)

That’s wild to me. I guess if there’s no one biking, there’s no resale market so no incentive to steal them. In my city, plenty of cyclists so wild theft problem. My bike is an absolute beater of cobbled together ridiculousness. I love her but she looks like trash.

Love the repurposing stuff! My coffee table is one my partner at the time found in our alley and I love it.

My kryptonite stood up to some would be thieves! They then kicked the shit out of the bike, stole the bracket that holds the headlight as well as the kryptonite lock holder. It was almost impressively petty and made me laugh until I paid more to fix her than it cost to buy her.

That’s wild. Do you live in a city or more a town?

In my city, the bike thefts are wild. So far I’ve had two stolen and my my current bike kicked to absolute shit when they couldn’t break the lock.

Ooooh, thanks for the recommendation!

telling users to mess with system settings in a way that will fuck up a lot of things up if you don’t know exactly what you’re doing.

In my head, this is the subtext of much linux info.

I appreciate both your responses, really awesome stuff!

Goddamn the linux community is good people.

Heya thanks so much for that explanation, took a couple read throughs and some thinking but I think I get it!

The time ans thought you put into that are much appreciated and so emblematic of the awesome nature of the linux world.

Thanks again!

I uhhh, just loaded Mint the other week. Any chance someone can English this for me?

I feel these memes are like us looking at rich peoples’ instagrams, yes at some point in time some folks lived like this but many more did not and in fact lived much more miserably then now.

I haven’t tried the Barron’s article in question but this little site has gotten around every other news paywall at which I’ve thrown it:

https://archive.is/

Shocked pikachu face.