Why we're choosing to destroy ourselves due to catastrophic climate change. I just...I get it now, but there are too many facets of it for me to want to list them all right now.
But I understand it. It doesn't make it justifiable, just comprehensive.
Carlin wasn't talking about money per say...he was talking about power and the way it's wielded. Carlin had money, and more importantly, he had power. He had an entire generation's attention, and man, did he use that power to do some good!
But he didn't really have the kind of power of those that are in the big club. Carlin didn't have the power to commit mass layoffs, commit genocides, nor commit mass injustice.
If you're going to argue that Carlin was a hypocrite because he had a significant amount of money and therefore had no right to criticize those in the big club, then I'd argue back that you severely missed the point.
Those who have the power to directly fuck up massive amounts of people's lives and livelihoods are in the big club, those that don't aren't. Carlin wasn't in the big club. He could have a significant impact on the way you think about society, but that's pretty much the extent of his influence.
Honestly, I prefer King's book to any other for intro to C programming. K&R is a classic, and is really quite good for diving into some cool tricks (i.e. postfix operation wizardry).
But as a beginner, I can just say that King's book is much more digestible. The author holds your hand a lot more and assumes you only have a basic knowledge of programming and the UNIX command line.
That said, the exercises and simple projects do push you to demonstrate what you learned in each chapter as well as enforcing other Computer Science fundamentals like basic data structures (stacks, queues, linked lists) through demonstrations in the C language.
Quick...also get this man a million dollar legal team...and some orange spray tan...and some blonde follicle implants...and retroactively go back in time and get him on the price is right...and at Epstein’s island...and make sure he rapes his ex-wife...and make sure he grooms and sleeps with his own daughter...and make sure he becomes a white supremacist Nazi...and uh...shit...is he still a saint now...?
That a blowjob involved the act of physically blowing air on the penis. When I found out it actually involved sucking, I was like, "Oooh...yeah that sounds much more pleasurable."
I don't know. I'm pretty sure one of the many ways you can end a marriage is installing Gentoo and saying "I'm just gonna go and compile my kernel." to your significant other, then go to your computer and just never be heard from again.
I recommend the Mull Browser, as it gives you access to about:config settings and you can install a lot of extensions. I do recommend using NoScript extension on Mull and then using GrapheneOS's Vanadium browser when you need JS.
On Mull, install ublock origin and then paste a custom filter into it to bypass paywalls. I like this list. Even though it's not piracy related, I also recommend looking into the Libredirect extension.
For YouTube, I recommend using Tubular. It's a Newpipe fork that supports Sponsorblock.
The Linux Command Line book opened up a lot to me. How Linux Works is very good, but the command line is so essential, and that book gives you some great starting knowledge like aliases and shell scripting.
Especially aliases. Take note of aliases, when you start using aliases it can change your world once you realize how much you can accomplish with what essentially are one line programs you wrote for you own personal needs.
Welcome beyond the pale, friend. You've made it to the other side. Only freedom awaits, should you have the determination to work for it.
Sadly, I'm in very much agreement with you on this. I love the Linux OS to death, but I'm very very much into learning as much as I can about computers right now, and I am not representative of the majority of computer users.
I understand now why updates are required, why they sometimes break things, and ultimately what has to be done either by myself or, usually, others, to fix them.
But most people seem to go absolute ape shit when things don't work as expected, and I think that has to do more with human societies not cultivating enough patient, non-stressed, curious, people. And that's what bums me out more than this whole Windows vs Linux thing..
I definitely hear you on that, and in some ways, it's a shame more people don't have the option to learn more about how their computer works.
The Linux OS is, in my experience, one of the most amazing things I've ever taken the time to learn. In my pursuit of not only learning programming and computer science fundamentals, but also the internals of the Linux operating system, I've gained a granular control over my computing devices that has allowed me to be spared the onslaught of forced "AI in everything" that has recently been pushed down people's throats. I also have minimal exposure to invasive advertisements, and other unwanted features.
But the cost for access to said knowledge was an immense amount of time studying, an equivalent amount of patience, and a strong desire to learn difficult subjects. That's a cost the majority of users are unable or unwilling to pay. They simply dont have the time and/or desire, and that's just reality.
Ultimately, I don't think it's acknowledged enough that it requires a vast amount of privilege to have the time and energy to devote to such endeavors such as learning how Linux, the command line, and Computer Systems more broadly, work. I think this is because to acknowledge such would open the discussion up to the more broader topics of the qualities of our education systems and our cultivation of more positively reinforced learning models, which is a much more difficult topic to navigate and argue about when contrasted with the "It's easy to install Linux. Windows bad, so just do it." argument that pervades the discussion space.
Why we're choosing to destroy ourselves due to catastrophic climate change. I just...I get it now, but there are too many facets of it for me to want to list them all right now.
But I understand it. It doesn't make it justifiable, just comprehensive.