Exactly like a Chromebook. Those stupid things were (are?) such a coordinated landfill and education-decimating campaign.
With my mom in law’s, I had to go through so much crap to overwrite the bootloader using some saint’s scripts just so I could put Linux on it. The stupid thing (an Asus) actually said “We’re done updating this thing. Buy a new one. Lol.”
The way they foisted that Temu-grade hardware on impoverished schoolsystems across the country is disgusting.
It’d be miserable but man if we gotta skip some lunches to dethrone unjustified authority structures I’m so down. 👍
This one big time.
It’s anecdotal but like 90% of my psychological torment disappeared overnight when I quit a horrible job I’d been trapped in for 8 years.
A lot of recovery work I’m doing is trying to undo all that. It made me insufferably cynical, angry, depressed, anxiety to 11. But it paid bills.
The other 10% is ADHD. Society also punishes that one in fun ways. (And has now turned it into yet another marketing trend. Hooray.)
But being denied free will to act in the world and determine one’s own course is damaging to the human psyche. Being coerced into doing something stupidly pointless on top of that, for little in return, is even more damaging still.
I am praying this is wrong SO MUCH.
I’m happy seeing so many kids getting into retro hardware and actual computing and physical media and stuff. We should tighten that bolt.
As much trouble as we’ve got, I REALLY will not live in this “everything is just a terminal to The Cloud™” world. It’s disgusting.
Fast forward 30min of training and the final outcome is a model that outputs “do nothing” in 100% of the cases.
To be fair, your program demonstrated the most reliable way to win at crypto! 😉
It’s like Suzanne, the Blender monke ❤️ 🐵
you can also alias
rmto runslinstead :)
Choo-choo!!
Hehe I just thought of a hilariously nefarious prank: alias ls to sl. 😂
I was expecting a pair of flip flops. :)
EDIT: oo, maybe one of those motor-unicycles!
… is it the “UNIX-Hater’s Handbook” from 1994 with a parody of “The Scream” on the cover?
LOL nice, I’ll have to check it out. :) Thanks!
I’ve read this somewhere too! Where are you quoting it from if I may ask?
But yes I also agree 💯%. rm should always be treated with respect and care by default rather than “customizing the danger away.”
That’s certainly something you can do! I would personally follow the recommendation against aliasing rm though, either just using the trash tool’s auto complete or a different alias altogether.
Reason being as someone mentioned below: You don’t want to give yourself a false sense of security or complacency with such a dangerous command, especially if you use multiple systems.
I liken it to someone starting to handle weapons more carelessly because the one they have at home is “never loaded.” Better safe than sorry.
Lol we should have “rules of rm safety”:
OOOOOOOOOOOF!!
One trick I use, because I’m SUPER paranoid about this, is to mv things I intend to delete to /tmp, or make /tmp/trash or something.
That way, I can move it back if I have a “WHAT HAVE I DONE!?” moment, or it just deletes itself upon reboot.
I’m sure I have a lot, but comes to mind:
EDIT: Sorry this turned into a big reply haha…
Lots of happy songs too…Like they’re beautiful and wistful and lovely and I think I cry because I can’t imagine such peace… My wife likes these songs and I guess I kinda break imagining us getting to just unshoulder our burdens and truly live.
… Okay I’m sensing a theme here. Yeah, I’m a person of faith. Thinking of a refuge in my Father where I can stop worrying, stop fearing, stop fighting. Songs about pure and unyielding love, or lullabies , crush me instead of relax me for some reason. Maybe because the contrast with our present circumstances is so harshly defined and such respite feels like it can’t be had in this life.
I’ll have to check these out. I’ll add another Sabaton here:
It’s powerful. The “true meaning of Christmas” has been satirized and watered down to death in our time…
…But there was a time it truly could stop a war. It could get people to lay down their guns and be brothers again.
Their “superiors” forced them back into battle. If we all snubbed our masters and just stopped fighting, what could we be?
Exactly. I’ve got a 4TB mirror setup for my pictures I reclaimed from Google Photos, and music, and other important stuff. It also backs up to iDrive which is really affordable. (Hopefully stays that way…)
What sucks is I scored a deal on a pair of WD Red 4TBs to add, but one was defective (secondhand, and WDs RMA procedure is STRICT.) , so now I’m stuck with a half expansion I don’t know what to do with and it’s kinda not responsible for me to spend >100 bucks completing the mirror right now.
My media collection isn’t on a mirror or backed up or anything because it’s naturally way larger than everything else, but I think for the stuff that truly matters, this will see us through.
I agree with you; if they have a resource they can approach together, it’d be much easier to be on the same page.
And also yeah, people tend to resist help and advice they never asked for to begin with.
From my understanding looking into it somewhat seriously and asking folks, I wouldn’t recommend getting into Etsy.
Between its endorsement of Ai slop and high fees, it’s gotten to App Store levels of “If you’re not at the top, you’re at the bottom.”
I’d still recommend local, but targeting events where people into your thing would likely go.
In good faith, I think this ask is taking the initiative to find advice from said experienced person, and then relay that information to their possibly tech-illiterate parent.
I like the digital ones because I severely lack the space for analog ones besides my RPG shelf hahaha.