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techno hippie

see c/UGEM for UnderGroundElectronicMusic. :) (I was going to set up something like that when saw someone else had already requested to make it. Good stuff. Populate it.)

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  • for some reason...

    several.

    mostly conditioning by their abuser pretending to be their salvation. atrophying their potential and capacity and curiosity, deluding them about the challenge and diminishing their curiosity, hiding from them their growing empowerment, terrifying them about calamities technical and social with slippery slope fallacies, all both subconsciously and overtly. + the biases implanted inside the controlled user-lock-in bubble.

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  • Ironic that now Linux is the more "just works" os.

  • I voted for Trump!

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  • Well, at least Trump's making bank. Big time.

    Maybe y'all should just work harder.

    /s!!!

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  • Fortunately, they not not have to remain, and are not innately and inescapably "cons0omers".

    I was such a corporate fanboy consumer in the 90s... Until I (frankly) "turned on, tuned in, and dropped out".

    I sure wasn't the first, not the only since / wont be the last.

    ... Even despite the promise of "AI" (LLM/HRM/MCP) atrophying people's brains even further into dependence.

    Also worth noting: ... ... Linux use % keeps rising slowly. (Currently over 5% I hear.)

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  • I'm guessing you've no idea how uncompelling that is to those who have deployed such and seen it be intensely effective.

    "not a thing" XD yeah. not like there's not big incentives to have people believe that.

    PS, I used to work in advertising. It's a thing.

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  • For the main initial one, near 10x the resource use of 95/98/NT/2000, to accomplish apparently nothing more but pointless shiny.

    Then when I moved to SuSe, with KDE3, I saw they had even far greater shiny, for near 10x less resource use. Further confirming my leaving Windows and all proprietary. And further making me wonder what the resources were being squandered on. Also, I dont recall the specifics, but there was rumors going around of various spyware in there too, and some compatibility difficulties with some of the software I was using at the time, and no apparent means to work around it.

    Also, shortly after, I learned of M$ Window's subliminal messaging system, and one drunken night with a couple of rotters on the outer fringe of our friends network, we messed around with it on a friend's computer (with WinXP), largely thinking it wouldn't be effective. But oh boy was it effective [just one example, as a new Linux user, I put in "get red hat", and days/weeks later, utterly uncharacteristically, he bought a red fedora!]. Really glad I put the brakes on the more foul stuff they wanted to put in the messages. Gets one wondering what messages the corporation put in.

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  • Ah, right. Thanks. Very different beast to the tech enthusiasts I was thinking of.

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  • Ohhhhh boy. I surfed over a thousand distro ISOs. Couldn't have just one.

    ... Now, for over a decade, I've calmed down. Settled down with Bedrock Linux. ;) (That's cheating!)

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  • I got annoyed and stopped reading before that became apparent.

    Content churn. Pussy-footing. Just get on with it! Heh.

    Still, it's good to see more are jumping ship (to freedom), with how much M$ keeps making it worse (abusiveness).

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  • Yup. I've been daily driving linux for about 22 years now, and seeking solutions to what I want to accomplish was[/is] a much more enjoyable exploration than trying to wrestle the square peg in the star shaped hole.

    It's the free software (free as in freedom), not the "can I get this proprietary software for windows to run in linux". Best to understand this and make that leap. Then life gets so much better. The more of your software that affords you (and everybody) the 4 freedoms of free software, the better.

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  • Fits with the recently announced 5% Linux use.

    Maybe eventually people will increasingly realize the folly of this expecation.

    Maybe even "AI" atrophying their skills will wake people up to this problem, right through to no longer wanting to be consumer cash-cows of the monopolistic corporation.

    Convenience, so sweet, in the short term. Maybe eventually people will learn, the sweeter the juice, the more dangerous the pitcher plant. And then people will learn to drive. And to be able to mend their own. And stop buying the ones that make it difficult to mend. Seeing the folly of such dis-empowerment.

    Dreamer

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  • expecting

    There's the key flaw.

    Maybe if we kept speaking of Free Software philosophy, people would not have these misplaced expectations they've been conditioned to as dis-empowered consumer cash-cows of the monopoly.

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  • Learning is good.

    I know someone who after years of being told about gentoo, still refused to use the handbook to install it, had someone else install it for them, and gave up after a few months... recently revealed he thought it was a text only operating system. XD

    Learning is good.

    RTFM! :)

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  • AntiX for same reason.

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  • Nice to see others get it, 22 years after I got it, even if it did take a hella load more egregious malware impositions.

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  • Yup. Not anything for me to downvote.

    Further testament (same as the original post content), to the people not being as stupid and gullible as they think we are.

    Maybe those corporate goons have been supping on their own brain-atrophy juice too much. :) The future's looking good.

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  • The exact response I was about to make.

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  • Fluent seems weaker than valid, which is weaker than sound, philosophically speaking.

    It["A.I"]'s like a 2 year old.