It’s funny how I was learning Brazilian Portuguese and the days of the week are like Sábado (Saturday), Domingo (Sunday), but then everything starts becoming “days of the fair”, segunda-feira, terça-feira, quarta-feira, quinta-feira, sexta-feira…

And I, an English speaker, have the gall to still find this confusing when it comes to intuitively using non-weekends.

Like “BuT wHiCh DaY iS tHoR’s DaY?!” Asks the Californian who’s never been a Norseman to their knowledge 😂

This makes it even funnier with exchanges like:

“My phone’s at sixty nine percent, bro!”

“Nice! 😎”

These days I’d expect large number of people in college to not even know what a file system is. I’ve read articles where professors complain about this.

No no, not like “NTFS / BTRFS / ReiserFS / TempleFS / EXT4…”

…like…“Folders are how you organize files. And you can rename files. The extension tells you what the file is.”

Haha I’m an aspiring game dev and I know a little bit about a ton of software!

…and I suck at most of it. But I can hold a conversation about it at least! :D

P.S: Haven’t heard of QGIS tho! My partner used ARCGIS though, and would always get annoyed when I pronounced it “Ark-jizz.”

it’s so incredibly easy to highlight some text and click search that it it shows a profound lack of curiosity and a lot of laziness.

100%. People will ‘Google’ celebrities, memes, “Why is my poop green?”, but also just be like “Somebody hand me an answer.” When they risk learning something.

“The Internet is like having access to the Library of Alexandria, and everyone wants to just gossip about each other in the lobby.”

–I think I read this on bash.org at some point

Don’t quote me on that tho.

–Me.

BUT ALSO like the others said…if somebody’s legitimately curious, let’s be nice about it because somebody new learning about our thing is a net positive.

Are we talking about that original one? Where he tried Pop!_OS and tried to install Steam and the package installer gave a big message that something wasn’t right, so he chuckled, TL;DR’d and hit “yes anyway” and was shocked he borked his install?

That LTT?

I’m never gonna fault somebody for unfamiliarity, but we should absolutely fault people, especially ones with any tech experience, for not reading helpful messages right in front of them.

YEP.

I used to work in a library computer lab. It was soul sucking, how many people older than millennials couldn’t friggin handle a basic computer. I heard the words “I clicked the ‘E’ for ‘internet’.” multiple times A DAY. (Thanks, 1990’s Microsoft and No Child Left Behind.)

“CaNt I jUsT uSe My PhOnE?” (Which would be a million more steps on my part…thanks, 2006 apple, and defunding schools.)

The biggest ragebait for me was “I dOn’T kNoW cOmPuTeRs, I’m oLd ScHoOL.”

I’m like “PCs have been increasingly commonplace since the mid-1980’s. It’s currently the 2020’s. You’re like 56. HOW ‘OLD’ IS YOUR SCHOOL?! Because somehow you drove a car here!”

I imagine a certain weird kind of “privilege”, to have been able to somehow dodge computers and learning this entire time, when they were so often found in homes, schools, and workplaces.

Like it takes significant effort to somehow avoid even an accidental education. HOW?!

It’s…infuriating. These rubes can gleefully scroll tiktok and dump all their personal lives into Facebook, but freak out about sending an email.

Many of them were even around to try the Internet during Eternal September and AOL, and now they’ve exchanged the squishy fat in their skulls for convenient slop.

I’d bend over backwards to patiently teach, but few cared to learn.

Their collective, willful ignorance is why we’re fighting a constant uphill battle against attempts to turn the entirety of computing into nothing but a commercialized authoritarian hellscape.

I left that job because if I heard one more “Kids are born so smart with these computers because my (grand)kids can watch their cocomelons all by themselves.” I would’ve snapped and been booked for assault.

Lol /rant

…clearly this is a button for me…I have sought help in the past…

Hey I really appreciate you updating me with that! Thank you. :)

It’s not always easy to know if it’s a “My machine” problem or a “They’ve gotta fix it” problem.

👐Pop! POP! 👐

How big is this ship, anyway??

This was a particularly goofy handwave in the Lost in Space show as well. :D

As a Christian myself, 10,000x this. SO much.

I really can’t stand the hypocrisy of America-brand Christianity: swearing oaths to a star-spangled idol is not following Christ.

Hilarious to see this after my OpenSUSE Tumbleweed install booted to a black screen (with a cursor) and no TYY access after a 16 GB update. X_X lol.

Oh well. Been here before, thank God for BTRFS and Snapper integration! Probably just gotta freeze that Nvidia driver again for like a week. Blah.

When it works, I agree with some other posters here: It works fine. My only graphics issues have been “doesn’t boot into graphics environment and Nvidia-smi says 'We ain’t found shit.'🪮” LOL

Otherwise it’s a LOT better than it’s been. I haven’t had to go chasing down obscure issues.

EDIT: Yeah, they did finally release a Steam version with a perpetual license. That’s a step in the right direction but I’ve already gotten burnt so bad lol.

You’re right, when it comes to the industry’s “cutting edge” unfortunately the likes of Autodesk and Adobe and their copycats seem to hold the hill.

But know what? I’ve actually quite made peace with the idea that I’m probably never gonna work in the AAA(A?) space where that top of the line cutting edge stuff is absolutely required.

In this case, Material Maker and Blender with some add-ons are providing some wonderfully intuitive materials workflows!

Despite my ambitions, my life just didn’t shake out that way and now people that are at least a decade my junior are far exceeding what I can do, with a lot better training and a back that can handle the long hours. :p (Honestly from some of the stories we’ve heard out of the industry, I feel I dodged a bullet sometimes.)

But yeah…

It’s kinda like when I say I work in Godot and people wanna say “WeLL uNrEaL’s GrApHiCs ThO…”.

They might be right but, ha! Am I, a little indie dev that might work alongside some other indie devs, REALLY gonna be making a project SO incredibly strenuous that it’s gonna break anything less than the full might of Unreal?! Probably not. :p

(Power to whatever tools people like using of course! The tools don’t make the artist. :) )

I’ve decided to dedicate my study and efforts towards empowering the Rest Of Us ™. The FOSS tool users, the industry’s rejected applicants, the amateurs, the little guys and gals; Especially the ones who are sick of being exploited by tools, employers, and corporations.

And I hope something good comes of it one day. <3

Haha yeah, I think HD-DVDs were a bit more budget friendly compared to Blurays, but they were the extremely short-lived “team red” in the format war, and ultimately they weren’t a huge improvement to upgrade to, unlike Blu-rays when everybody was jumping to 1080p.

But yeah! Absolutely! Hit up the library and enjoy those DVDs (and Blu-rays)!

I was just having a discussion with a coworker who was wondering why one would keep a DVD player around, and I basically explained how not owning your media gets it ripped away from you sooner or later.

Libraries sometimes even get DVD versions of streamed TV shows and movies that don’t get a retail disc release.

Oh yeah! Totally! Big fan and advocate of the library. Mine’s even got Blurays and videogames now!

Haha yeah you probably won’t find HD-DVDs in the collection as it lost the format wars to Blurays , but maybe in the library book stores sold from donations. XD

Let’s see… One that comes to mind that I guess is “tech” would be Substance Painter and Designer, back when it was independently owned and had an indie license.

“This will really take my Blender work to the next level. I’m going to LEARN this. Let’s freaking go.” I said, and “invested” like $150 into it.

I’m NORMALLY a FOSS nut, but this software was changing the game! Paint directly on 3d models with smart materials and layers and dynamics‽ AWESOME! Maybe it’s worth paying a chunk of my meager part time income for quality software…

Then comes the email:

Subject: “Substance is joining the Adobe family!”

Then the follow-up to all the pissed off customers:

“Don’t worry, it won’t be subscription only.”

Maybe a month later it’s part of the “cloud” and made subscription only.

I don’t care what’s “iNdUsTry sTaNdArD.” I refuse to engage with Adobe for any reason, and I’d rather put my hard earned money into supporting open source community tools than to ever get rug pulled by some shameless sellout ever again.

I had the Nokia 8.3 5G from HMD, which was a really pretty phone with a killer camera, but the charging port stopped charging on that one! I wonder if they’ve got some kind of chronic board problem?

Nobody wanted that model for sale and there were no custom ROMs which was a huge bummer.

No surprise they’re kinda fading. I wish your user serviceable one worked out, because we really need one of those projects to take off.

I like my Motorola now. I hear Graphene might be porting to these, and they have SD card slots and headphone jacks. Also you can pretty-please get them to unlock the bootloader.

Is… The library bookstore full of HD DVDs people have donated? O.o

I thought Mac development had to come signed from one of their OSs though? Maybe I’m wrong. Have never owned one.