Since person was learning Vietnamese, person noticed Vietnamese have one letter words. One word person liked was ร, umbrella. Saying ร reminded person of monkey making sound.
Person thought about simplest sounds monkeys make. U in person mother language sounds oo. U is simple, basic monkey sound. Oo-oo, aa-aa. Person being monkey, person thought U good name. Reminded person of person's past and person connection to nature. So person decided to be U.
U then thought of past people. Past people were simply known as person OF place person came. Examples: Leonardo DA (of) Vinci, Renรฉ DES (of) Cartes. U is from Recife. Thus U de (of) Recife.
Hey, you make a great point. There's a false dichotomy being presented here. As you see it, local-first is a bit of a misnomer when you already expecting your device to join a remote environment.
Yes, makes sense that we're being lured by the so-called cloud hosting. Following a business model that sells convenience in lieu of data control, cloud providers are distorting our current understanding of remote hosting. They're breaking the free flow of information by siloing user data.
Now, with that being said, I'd like to add something about your presentation. I'd suggest you avoid walls of text. Use paragraph breaks. They're like resting areas for the eyes. They allow the brain to catch up and gather momentum for the next stretch of text.
Regardless. You brought light to this conversation. For that, thank you.
Right now I just think about me and how I'll use it. I'm eager to try this messaging app to have a way of being reachable by like-minded people.
To put it differently, I don't want to be a slave of others' choices. I know the network effect is real and that I'm powerless to break it. So I'll just change my attitude, and embrace this wave. Who knows what will happen? And in the meanwhile, I'll have fun using what to me seems right.
That's simply outrageous!!! As soon as I finish tinkering with my system, I'll prepare a proper reply...
On a more serious note though. Don't overlook the role of procrastination in the endless tinkering many put on their boxes. I'm speaking from experience.
It's worth mentioning that Arch wiki is the best place to go to solve that.
I've had a brother WiFi printer on the recent past and managed to get it going by... reading carefully the CUPS instructions on Arch wiki.
A month ago, my non-geek uncle had a similar difficulty with his wireless printer. I again got it going by pointing out where to look and what instructions to follow.
So, yes, printer problems on Arch stations are a real thing.
You make a great point. Why be slave to a tool, right? If the box is just the way to get to what you really need to do, you aim at what you want to do and not the box. So, setting up Arch Linux, in that sense, is a bad investment. I'm ok with that.
Now let's think about it this way. Because I set up my box the hard way, whenever the box fails for some reason, I'm better equipped to find what's wrong with it. Since I lost the of fear of dirtying my hands to achieve what I need, I wear the mechanic jumper on and I go about doing what is need to get it going again. Setting the box, in this sense, was an investment in myself. I now have the knowledge. And we all know that from France is Bacon.
So both things can be true. You are right; I am right. So now the question is: why the cheap joke? And you've answered already in the first paragraph of your comment.
Anyway, thank you for bringing more food for our thought table. It has been a wonderful meal so far.
I read the arch elitists as a slur directed to the arch user. So in my arch-user brain, that became akin to a prejudiced label, like 'ageism' or 'ableism'. Is there a kind of 'archism'?
Yes, I had to put some work to have my computer running. But that was so long ago that I don't even remember when or how it was. So now that statistic is screwed. I don't think about my install 99% of the time (I do think about it when I topgrade it weekly).
But I do get it. This is supposed to be a joke, and an easy one. As my comment reveals, I'm not the target audience. If I was fuming, I would be Tom on that bottom picture. Maybe I woke up in a more philosophical mood and got myself carried away by my initial question. I don't know.
For the poster, I want to wish them a wonderful day. Thanks for the thought-provoking meme you shared.
True. And the way it's said/written causes a soft perplexity that feels nice.
Now you got me thinking. In my mother tongue, this is not at all perplexing. In order to find out why, I tried a more direct translation from my language to English. Here's my try:
The picture of me youngest is also my oldest picture.
I have accounts on several instances, but only use one of them.
Just like opening an account on an email provider to gauge the quality of the service+features, I went instance hopping until I found one that felt right.
Right now, all other accounts are sleeper accounts. I have them kind of sorted out so that if my current instance goes down or is knocked out of the air, I'll just log in to the next sleeper account.
Any history book will be filled with such stories. Depending on the outlook, I'd say all history is like that.
Take any one event. Let's pick any decisive moment in history. Say, the battle of Salamis. Now flip it to the side of the Persians and you have the kind of blunder you're looking for.
Owen said forbidden word. Last sentence.