OwenEverbinde @ OwenEverbinde @lemmy.myserv.one

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Evangelizing.

If I want to share a cool link with someone who has an account but is not yet active, I have to:

1. ascertain their instance if they are on the site
2. visit their instance on a browser
3. search their instance for the post I want to share

On centralized platforms I can hit the "share" button the moment I find something interesting. When I do, I will receive a single link that will work for all users of the service.

Granted (because the platform then harasses the user who follows the link, trying to annoy them into getting an account and/or logging in so that it can more accurately harvest their data) it's not a ton better centralized.

But it does make it extra difficult to evangelize this way. I convinced a friend to get an account, and yet when I shared a link with him (without taking the above steps), he sent back a screenshot of the banner telling him he wasn't logged in.

I'd like an easier way to pull the uninitiated into a conversation occurring on this network of sites.

Yes. Installation. With all the other Linux distributions I have installed, there is a bootable CD with an installer of some kind.

• Slackware
• Debian
• Ubuntu
• Mint
• Arch (though the install process with that one is admittedly more complicated. Also, because I have a very hard time grasping what the use cases are for anything outside of a "default" Linux system, it felt like I was using a very expensive arc furnace to toast myself a sandwich.)
• Manjaro
• OpenSUSE
• MX Linux (my current favorite)

Actually, come to think of it, my problem with Arch is also my problem with Gentoo: I don't know what the use cases are.

In fact basically, I like Linux, but I also don't know what Linux is for. I use it for Web browsing, occasional attempts at writing code (I'm bad at that. I have no idea what the proper process is for finding code that already does the things I want done, and I'm pretty sure that's 90% of programming), I use it for taking markdown notes and mind mapping. And that's honestly about it.

I could do all of that with Windows, technically speaking. It would just clutter my system, and I would not get to choose my own desktop environment. And I wouldn't have access to the Debian repositories. And where it's effortless reinstalling Debian based systems, Windows installation can be a pain.

So the way I use it, Linux is just a sleeker, more lightweight, more visually customizable Windows that I can run on older hardware and fill to the brim with random software packages acquired through Debian's humongous library of verified programs without worrying about messing up my OS because ultimately, I can easily reinstall the whole system in a matter of 40 minutes.

To someone who uses a computer the way I do, it almost can't be anything more than that.

I'm pretty sure that's the real reason I don't use Gentoo.

If you're into bread tube / left tube, I highly recommend Innuendo Studios. In particular, Innuendo Studios's playlist, "the Alt-Right Playbook." It helps make sense of internet discourse.

Aren't you listening? He's not liking it! His users are pissed!

I wanted to try Gentoo for a while. But I could never find a bootable ISO for it. And that's basically the only way I know how to install a distro.

As Bobert said elsewhere in these comments, there is a massive mental health benefit to having any adult at all who provides the child with presence and emotional support.

To add to that, I have received treatment from numerous therapists. And I have seen siblings and friends receive treatment as well. From my experience -- and I might get some flak for this advice -- even though a good therapist is better than no therapist, a bad therapist can actually be harmful. Your little pal will easily get more out of a well-intentioned friend than he would get if he wound up placed with a mediocre therapist. It's the unfortunate state of mental healthcare in this country.

Ten years from now, if he's eighteen and still in your life and starts asking for monetary assistance to pay for therapy? Great. Pay for his therapy. (Also make absolutely sure he keeps shopping around until he finds a therapist who really clicks with him. For the above reason, you know? The odds of him getting a great one on the first spin aren't high.)

But until then: there's a good chance he's missing very little. And a very good chance there's nothing to feel bad about if you can't get this little guy into therapy. There are more surefire ways of improving his outcome.

So, like the other commenters said: offer the mom help. You noted that she's guaranteed to dump him on you for long stretches of time.

Also, offer to pay for his phone plan. (Like another commenter said, phrase all offers as a benefit to her.) If she agrees, put yourself in his contacts, let him know he can always call you, and try to make sure he knows the number "988" and never feels too shy to reach out to that number.

Okay, yeah. These people definitely find comfort in hiding behind "personal responsibility" as a means of abdicating social responsibility.

But have you seen the Alt-Right Playbook video, "Always a Bigger Fish" ?

In that video, Innuendo Studios lays out the idea that there is a base, core, philosophical difference between conservatives and progressives in how we think the world ought to be, and what kind of world we think is possible.

To the conservative, nature is full of hierarchy. The strongest chimp gets the most bananas, you know? (Yes, I know that's not actually true. But it's the way they see the world.) The smartest, strongest human survives and hunts well and eats well. (Yes, I know early hunter-gatherer societies hunted in worker cooperatives and raised children cooperatively. So I know this isn't really a well-researched scientific hypothesis. But it is believed by a particular group of people.)

When they say, "take personal responsibility," it's kind of a code word for, "accept your rightful place in the hierarchy. Accept that you are simply the weaker, stupider chimp and you are inevitably going to get less bananas and society can't be expected to coddle you and give you more than you deserve."

According to a worldview that asserts humans are naturally divided into the strong, the weak, and the in-between, a person complaining about their own outcomes is just in denial of this fundamental, universal "truth." A whiner unwilling to admit they receive less because they provide less. A deceiver attempting to usurp a more deserving person's place in the hierarchy because they are unwilling to accept the consequences of their "actions."

There's no better frontier for this idea than the open road, where a single mistake can kill you and everyone in your vicinity. Transit activists, who want to take people off the roads, put them on buses and in trains where they will be safe even if they aren't "vigilant" and "responsible" and "alert" (read: unlucky), are trying to spend society's limited resources coddling people who will never really provide a return on that investment -- because they are weak. Which wastes money, since the money could have been spent on responsible people who will lead society to better places.

To these people,

• society's responsibility is to make sure everyone stays in their place.
• there will always be starving monkeys.
• the folks who would crash a car probably can't manage their bank account. Or learn valuable skills.

Hence, roads are a convenient way to cull the weak.

I don't stop there. I like to give the FULL name of my operating system when I use it. Example:

"What distro are you running?"

"Oh on this laptop here? This laptop is running Mint, daughter of Ubuntu, son of Debian, daughter of Linux, son of GNU! Her ancestors hail from the mountains of Copyleft, where the mighty Stallman wields his hammer Emacs to forge her people's legendary tools!"

Anything shorter is just disrespectful.

At the end of the day though, it's just that most people aren't willing to admit to themselves that they shouldn't be driving because they're too easily distracted in the first place.

Is there any room in your mind for the possibility that some people simply have different values than you?

You're acting like the only people disagreeing with you are people who have been in accidents and are looking for something outside of themselves to blame. You're acting like deep down they agree with you that all error comes from a lack of competence and responsibility.

(Aside: I hate cars and our car-centric infrastructure and I haven't been in any accidents, which means I don't fit into your narrative here. But that's not likely to sway you. And I know that's not likely to sway you. Because I know you don't share my perspective.)

But is it remotely possible to you that some people out there might just believe:

mistakes and errors are inevitable for everyone -- not just for stupid, careless, irresponsible, incompetent, hopeless lost causes masquerading as people.

And even if mistakes were only made by those kinds of people -- meaning a single mistake could mark you as a "bad person" -- saving "bad people's" lives is still better than letting those people die. Just because they couldn't figure out a car doesn't mean they deserve to die in an accident (or starve to death because their suburban house is too far from the nearest grocery store and they accept that they can't drive.)

Is it really impossible for you to imagine that some people might just place value on human lives, regardless of cost and regardless of personal responsibility?

Prehistoric humans are now known to have spent years dragging around and caring for their paralyzed tribe mates millennia ago. Meaning the kind of people I'm talking about have existed for thousands of years. People who don't care about personal responsibility. People who just want the best for everyone around them.

If you told these people, "some of your tribe mates will be incapable of safely driving vehicles. How should we build this city?" They would (once you showed them what all of those words meant) have intentionally laid out the city to allow those poorly-driving tribe mates to walk or use transit. They would place nearby grocery stores. They would direct high density housing to go up in the area. They would try to make it possible to avoid using cars. And the city they built would have 90% less cars because of it.

To them such a city would be an obvious choice.

You don't have to agree with the cavemen who cared for their dying relatives. But please acknowledge that they existed, and didn't hold your beliefs. Please acknowledge that the people you're arguing with, don't hold your beliefs.

Replacing Uber AND Amazon? And on top of that, this same country got sued a few years back for offering cheap, generic alternatives to expensive drugs to their populace. (Big pharma wasn't happy)

India is making a lot of good moves.

But in all honesty, let's do a bit of math:

Microsoft makes $70 billion per year from Azure, and 40% of Azure servers are on Linux. That seems to imply $30 billion come from Linux hosting. And these are the guys who make Windows. When your rival makes 30/200ths of their total yearly revenue just hosting YOUR servers for people, I'd say you're not going anywhere any time soon.

Also, Amazon EC2 is currently at half a million active Red Hat servers. Which bring in about $10 billion in revenue for Amazon.

And that's just two companies. When the revenue generated by services built on top of GNU's projects dip below $1 billion worldwide, I'll lend an ear to someone telling me they are dying.

But using money as a proxy for activity, $40 billion dollars (at the very least, and across only two companies) all say GNU is bustling.

Relevant XKCD

RULE!

I recently started a Kbin account and noticed that a few of the communities I searched:

1. were empty, and
2. had, in their info, the claim that they had started right when I searched them.

Which tells me that the Kbin instance only stores local information about a community after the first of its members searches that community.

But what can you tell us about the Irish people's fight for liberation?

• my kbin.cafe is going to be for writing
• my universeodon.com will be for the same
• my Lemmy.world I used just once for debugging
• my reddthat.com was where I thought I would settle, but
• the instance mod over at lemmy.myserv.one posted a reddit post requesting more users for his load-distributing instance, and I was like: "well that's reason enough to switch."

My only complaint is that this place isn't federated with beehaw. I think Reddthat was federated with them?

My assumption that this was about SVB sounds totally off the mark now that you've put it this way. From your story, it sounds like this is about an entire culture shift that's been alienating Etsy's original community of artisans for quite some time.

This isn't really an answer to the question, but I just saw a Mastodon post about an online store that's opening this October called Artisans.coop

It seems to be a cooperatively owned Etsy alternative, (and I can only assume it's a response to whatever shenanigans went on between Etsy and Silicon Valley Bank.)

I read this at first on a browser and missed out on most of it. (it cut off at "canrefuteapointsoq..." but when I pressed a button that said, "view source" it actually showed the whole thing. Anyways,) That was a journey, @RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world

I'm glad the aliens turned out being so understanding. 😂

My eyes hurt. Is this real? Did people add cuts after it became a meme? The Know Your Meme page doesn't mention any added cuts, but it's just so hard to believe something this ridiculous is real. I get a little bit of vertigo just watching it.