MonkeMischief @ MonkeMischief @lemmy.today

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This. One thing I couldn't stand about Reddit was seeing people who could be doing anything else with their lives, but decided it worthwhile to "background check" other posters.

This was a big thing with Twitter too. "Oh, they follow such-and-such in their list of 10,000 follows, who turned out to be bad in recent news, so this person's views are worthless and they must also be bad!"

Like, being able to have a quick glance and be like "Ah this is clearly a bot / hate-troll / what-haves", can be handy for some sense of accountability, but purity-testing and association-mobs are the stuff of cautionary science fiction, and should be avoided.

Hehe I kinda like this.

People are very used to seeing short-attention-span success stories. And budding creators are often very self-conscious because of that expectation.

The stuff in the middle before people even notice the work sometimes comes across as "cringe", and I think being afraid to cross that barrier stops a lot of people from improving or sharing themselves with the world.

Sometimes you gotta be willing to take that walk so that you earn the privilege of being able to turn around and laugh at the lessons learned later on...

I dunno am I missing the point? Lol

• Maintains social ties with friend circle by sending them memes as a reminder I'm still alive.

The Union crushes the (neo)confederacy AGAIN...this time, with new friends!

180 km west of Dildo,

I'm sorry what.

Just further proof that he's white supremacist.

It seems at this point, mountains and mountains of evidence for his atrocious misdeeds against the human race don't seem to add up to much.

Woah there, he probably doesn't even know Native Americans exist yet, don't put them on his radar, maybe he'll leave them alone. :(

Especially with Trump showing he's not afraid to impose tariffs on a whim.

Yeah I dunno 100% what comes imported from Brasil off the top of my head...Oh, my favorite coffee beans come from there!

But boy oh boy are we U.S folk excited , thrilled even, to (checks papers) have handbag-baby-man frivolously attempt to bully other countries by threatening to (paper flip)...

Punish us with even higher prices on goods and more foreign disdain. . .?

Bros...I think we're hostages but the hostage taker doesn't understand countries or economics. Plz help I think it's pretty clear this guy has a hate-boner for Americans. :(

Also "move objects on"

Just gonna delete these bills here... Hey why not the whole mailbox?

I also once had a sim make enough garden gnomes to fill every single tile of the street... Then he kicked one. 😂

I hear you. I spent a while switching to OpenSUSE too because it seemed so easy, I've installed OSs plenty!

But I like to partition and stuff, and have a lot of drives from over the years. Oh, what filesystem? Well geeze that might as well be an epic RPG's "choose a name" screen!

Now it's easy: Their perfectly fine default of BTRFS because snapshots and I might try dedup, thank you very much. Lol but I still feel like I had to wade through way too much to reach that conclusion.

Once it's installed and configured though? Man, everything I throw at it is just fine. Love my Tumbleweed. Haven't looked back in like 4 years. :)

Edit: A little bit of a cathartic rant to people who will understand lol. I love you all. <3

Echo chamber or not, I'm happy to finally be back on Lemmy and see some damn community positivity about Linux for a change. It isn't perfect but it's beautiful and it's worth it and it's ours.

It's a resistance instrument over ever-entitled, creeping corporate control over our lives, it's not "better Windows", it's just better.

I just got super bummed out reading a bunch of those bizarre "Normal people can't be bothered and it doesn't instantly just work with a single button push so it's too complicated and everyone will hate it forever." Tirades... You know the ones...

The kicker... That was after I stumbled from an unrelated link into /r/linux !!, when someone was asking how to help people not be "so scared" to try Linux.

Huge, angry posts about how it can't stand up to proprietary capital-ware, and asking users to click a button or type a word "is just too much." It's freaking sad.

I dunno if the reddit brigading just got super bad or they're all self-loathing over there. But it was weird. And bitter.

I'm happy with our operating-system punk movement, where we invite artists and gamers and coders and family members to learn something and have their computing experience back, since we can't go back to the 00's when computing was an activity and the Internet was a place.

The servile corporate wageslaves who disregard their rights and throw a fit whenever they need to troubleshoot something, can keep their bloated service-appliances and their self righteous corpo-simp attitudes, whilst loudly announcing "tHe DeSkToP iS dYiNg" and "aNdRoiD iS LiNuX." They can keep it.

Meanwhile we welcome the curious, and the seeking, and those wanting something more.

I don't care if we'll never get "critical mass adoption." Part of me hopes I never see Linux getting talked about in mainstream TV news or something, because that's when the grifters will descend like vultures and corporations and states will be wanting a piece of it.

But hey I'll gladly take the time to help someone discover it and enjoy it as much as possible so it can be even greater than it is today. I'll gladly release my work to be Linux compatible and donate to software that changes my life for the better every day.

I'll gladly troubleshoot a little, and be patient, and donate when I can, and report bugs, and share what I've learned. Because we're in this community together, and Open Source belongs to all of us, and you're doing a great job.

It's true. This person gets it.

Source: Am one of the monkeys.

You're exactly right. And this is scary right now.

They've been polarizing "tHe GuN iSsUe" for decades now, to divide people into easily sortable balls in their stupid game of "Hungry Hungry Hippos." Playing with that fire has officially reached the "and find out" phase.

On one hand, a large portion of 2A sided voters have started wearing stupid little red hats, buying even bigger smoking pickup trucks, and fallen to the side of literal nazis, (if they weren't already nazis).

A chunk of team red are terrified of the government but for some reason want our/their employers to have absolute rule of divine right or something.

The other major faction has spent decades trying to actively disarm the people, enact bans, and straight up tried to get the Second Amendment removed. They've actively pushed disinformation and peddle ideas that scarier-looking firearms increase mass-murder potential and we should all be super afraid of them. "Only the rich and enlisted should be wielding these things!"

Most of these voters' ability to fight for their rights end at a picket line and some very harsh social media criticism. (Look out!)

Both factions' officials generally think everyday street cops would look absolutely baller rolling through town in more secondhand battle vehicles and fully automatic weaponry.

My point is:

For rational people who understand the core of our Constitution despite it going through various manipulative marketing filters throughout every cycle, it's REALLY hard to know who your real friends are outside your immediate circle.

So it's more important than ever to organize as civilly as possible to fight this nonsense, but educate your friends on how to protect each other when that falls through. We're quickly approaching a point where we can't abide the privilege of ignorance if we're to present meaningful resistance to these bullies.

I dunno, homie...

"Lol that blowhard crazy idiot. I bet he's not actually gonna do it."

Has been proven by history many times over to be a foolhardy assertion. ... Especially recent history.

(checks map) My word, Russia is STILL trying to take Ukraine?!

.rar isn't a domain yet is it? Lol

Too bad everyone that actually gives a damn about that option is on red team, and blue team thinks the 2nd amendment is for killing children and nothing else.

Thank you for acknowledging the quiet leftists who take responsibility for ourselves. I've been really upset with the crisis-mining nonstop drama panic rhetoric and dis-education about firearms from the Democratic party and their sockpuppet gun-panic action groups.

(While they openly perpetuate systematic issues that increase likelihood of gun violence, of course.)

Now firearms ownership is disproportionately in the hands of conspiracy nuts and goose-stepping good-ol-boys, while many liberals are dogmatically hoplophobic and ignorant about them.

Reminder that the Socialist Rifle Association is a thing.

Educate your friends, get them out to the range, and by Almighty God keep close social ties on each other's mental health.

I want to solve our problems with words and witty reparté, but all those safeguards are quickly breaking down and we're seeing an increasing threat of mobilizing angry everyday-sadists looking to hurt people, and stern memorandums aren't gonna cut it.

Yeah after knowing in great detail what industrial equipment can do to soft squishy people, I'm thinking this "fun police" thing is a corporate psy-op to push for further deregulation.

Because safety (and fines for blatantly violating it) costs money, you guys. :(

It depends on the notes, for me:

I've had an oddly long-running obsession with Tiddlywiki!

It has a bit of a learning curve, but it's VERY flexible. My favorite part being that by default it's just a single, portable, HTML file. No special app required besides a browser, no accounts, and you can just sync it like any other file. (Syncthing, Nextcloud, and friends)

There's also an app called Tiddloid for Android to make managing and saving a little easier, but they open in any browser.

I have a Tiddlywiki that I use like one might use Obsidian, where I just stash stuff I'll want to remember and maybe link between similar ideas.

And then I'm currently trying to use it to make a solution to sketch out my Savage Worlds RPG campaigns. It gets a little tricky but you can make templates, script buttons, and that kind of thing. If you're already comfortable with web stuff you'll probably catch on WAY better than I have.

You can also host it as a website, or on your server or whatever, to use it like any other wiki. There's also plugins to use Markdown instead of "wikitext."

There's also an excellent guide to learning it at https://groktiddlywiki.com/read/ . It's basically an online workbook using Tiddlywiki itself!

The community is also super helpful. I do wish it had a little more out of the box, but something about a customizable, portable, digital "notebook" that doesn't require an account or hopefully-supported-in-5-years application is SUPER appealing to me. It's quite underrated.

Also just for fun I wanted to share my favorite example someone's been working on for quite some time now, a heavily customized D&D wiki

https://intrinsical.github.io/wiki/index.html

Tiddlywiki can be a bit dense and the documentation is slowly improving, but there's so much potential!

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Haha I wanna see that movie again, it was pretty good.

...and then crack a beer to treat the whole family to "Speed 2: Cruise Control" bahahahahahaha