That is an important step, yes.

However another important step is that the default distro needs to basically not even highlight that terminal exists.

If you’re trying to learn how to use linux, and step 1 of the tutorial is “open terminal”, you will lose 97% of your new install base. Then headlines will flood that linux machines are being returned in high numbers.

As much as you guys hate to hear this, the first experience for a new linux user needs to be intuitive. Before they even turn the machine on, they have to know how to use this software. Not because they are experts, but because the space and experience guides itself.

Then as you learn, you can customize a bit more, and from there linux can become a rabbit hole. But the point is, let the individual user control the depths which they dive. Because I suspect 90%+ won’t even change the desktop background. And thats ok.

Make it easy for the dummies, but then you individually can tinker if you want to. And it’s linux, so…ya know. Go nuts. But some people don’t want to do all that tinkering. That vanilla experience is what gets remembered to represent that OS. Even if you customized it and experienced it very differently.

Orrrrrr…leave it as sausage size, and put billionaires penises inside! Penises? Penii? Peniii’ses? Words are hard! Off with their dicks!

You’ll shoot your eye out, Ebenezer Scrooge! Now let these ghosts visit you, and try not to think about the pink slime flowing through the sewers!

I would ask how you know that guy sweats a lot, but then I saw his username.

Fair enough.

That depends where you live. I wouldn’t want to live in India, which is crowded as hell. But Half of Canada is basically empty. Half of Australia is basically empty. Some of the states in the USA are basically empty. The majority of russia is empty.

Space isn’t the issue.

Thats been happening since 1996 in Japan, and 1998 in America.

We CAN sustain everybody we have now. It’s just billionaires have decided it’s more profitable to let a huge section of society suffer. The more suffering for us, the more profit for them. But you have to balance it, so it doesn’t lead to revolt.

Thats what ends suffering. Not decreased birthrates, but instead death and revolt of those holding back food and shelter from those that need it, so they can raise prices on unsold units.

Lesson 1: Don’t shake the baby.

Lesson 2: I said DON’T shake the baby!!!

Masturbator here. Can confirm spit as lube.

Please don’t leave your dark cave.

Start furiously punching EVERYBODY

And a person with THOSE hobbies is on Lemmy??? Well I for one am shocked. SHOCKED I SAY!!!

…not that shocked actually. Next you’ll tell us your linux distro, and a fight will ensue over which distro you should switch to.

How to wisely use $75.

Step 1) Send it to me.

There is no step 2.

As someone who grew up in the 80s, but never watched J.I. Joe…what?

Also, does the show actually recognize Sgt. Slaughter defecting to Iraq?

Dads reaction is probably a more exaggerated version of my reaction.

I let out a sensible chuckle. I had no idea there was a movie. I just said “Ha ha ha, girl look like doll!”

And thats as far as the joke went for me. But I guess the dad found it way funnier than I did.

Or maybe he was being tickled. By a ghost. A ghost tickler! Like the kind that jerked off Ray in Ghostbusters.

Thats right. In a PG movie, a character got a handjob. Between this, and Marty McFlys mom being horny for her son, the 80s were a different time. I would know. I was there, high on cocaine. Also I was born in '83. Sooooo…like 5 years old.

Gosh! I hope there were no kids on that train!

What does it say?

Music, Phrases, and Butterfly Gloco

??? The fuck is Butterfly Gloco?

See, I like this.

I don’t have diabetes. Either type. But I said when I first got to Lemmy that it was very very heavy on tech and politics.

I said in order to grow we need more everything else. The example I used was I have no interest in gardening. But we should get a gardening community. Then I said I don’t know how to play guitar, but there should be a community for guitar players. These communities would not interest me personally. But they’re a sign of a healthy growing platform.

Last night I was browsing ALL and saw a post from a community called “Stop Drinking”. I’m not an alcoholic. I drink on occasion. But I thought it was really cool that community exists. They have a daily post where people pledge to not drink for the day. Taking things one day at a time. I think thats cool. I like that exists for those who need it.

And now this. I don’t have diabetes. This community won’t be of interest to me personally. But I think it’s cool this exists. I don’t know if a type 2 diabetes exists. Quite frankly I’m a bit ignorant on the difference between 1 and 2 is. I used to think type 1 was sugar levels too low and need sugar suppliments, while type 2 was too high, and need inculin shots to level it out. I was told thats wrong. In any event, I hope there is a type 2 community too.

All the communities for all the people! The way I see it, every interest no matter how niche, should get a community. Now granted some of them won’t have as big of a userbase, but that’s ok.

There should be a community for people who still collect POGS. Remember POGS? They should be back. In Lemmy form.

I’m getting off track. My point is, I like that this community exists for those who need it. Keep up with existing!

Can I join? I want to be surrounded by angry kittens!

Not all. Just a huge chunk.