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1 hour agoYou’ve never met an eternal September Linux user?
I regularly encounter such people online and offline, as well as people who abhor GUIs or making Linux easier to use.
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I’m sorry this dude has to go through this shit. If I could, I would help, but there just isn’t any time. I’m fighting NixOS and just getting things to work for me. There isn’t even time to get it working for non-technical folk, let alone disabled folk.
My blame goes to the gate keepers who want to keep linux an elitist space. The people that want things to be hard so that they can feel superior and laugh at others who can’t do what they do. The people that unironically say RTFM.
Linux could be such a great distro for normal users but the very first step of installing it is already a hurdle for many people. And yet many linux users recommend dumb shit like Arch to beginners or tell them to buy (and support) non-Linux hardware vendors instead of funnelling money into the linux ecosystem.
If the majority of Linux users who could actually invested monetarily into opensource and the linux ecosystem, and the Linux Foundation invested more than 2% of it 200 million annually into the kernel and advocacy, maybe things would look different. But it seems like we’re a long way from the linux community actually being welcoming and self-funding. We’ll have to wait for corporate sponsors like Valve to actually make the OS popular and worthy of interest to app developers and accessibility advocates before the community realises that being popular does come with more benefits than negatives.
6·2 days agoI bet this will be out into a military plane and it’ll brick while flying over China or close to it. The genius of these people cannot be understated. Imagine, if they’re saying this publicly, I bet you they have this in existing military equipment they are selling to partners. Anybody buying military equipment from the US is asking for trouble.
If it’s on peertube, I might follow it. On YouTube, even if I watched it, it’d be through yt-dlp and thus no views for you (at least not officially).
41·7 days agoSorry, I’m European myself, so it’s not in the same situation and I have no experience with it. Most of my non-EU colleagues got here through student visas, then got a job, and just stayed. Others started out in large companies abroad and relocated with those companies. The only US American I know here was relocated by their company.
A quick search found https://relocate.me/ Maybe they can help you?
Good luck!
Is this the US talking? I still have recruiters contacting me, not as often as before but still getting messages on LinkedIn (European here).
The market here seems to be buzzing if you are willing to move. There are pages and pages of devops, sysadmin, software developer, software architect,… . On one website j searched “sysadmin” and it found 10k jobs across Europe! They also seemed up to date when I was checking them out.
Most well paying jobs are in West and North Europe, they also have quite interesting jobs, even in opensource companies. Italy and Greece can’t seem to be desperate for people, but their wages are trash. They don’t seem to be doing much interesting stuff either. Just run of the mill stuff.
But yeah, Europe looks busy busy busy at the moment and very acceptable for people willing to move.
24·7 days agoYou did not watch the video, I see. Because if you had, you’d know what they are trying to accomplish. He says it 3 minutes into the video. Probably shorter than it took you to type out that uninformed comment.
That framework laptop tho 💦💦💦
Edit: the comments on here really show that 1) people just read headlines and 2) many people cannot think for themselves and will just quote or regurgitate from whichever text they were indoctrinated without second thought. The “but it’s not free as in freedom” and “it’s not opensource because it’s not OSI” comments show up on every single post about this topic. It’s like people referring to the bible and screaming “blasphemy” when someone says something that doesn’t fit. Or like people losing their minds because a non-white actor is “not canon”.
I wish people had to answer multiple choice questions before being allowed to comment. Maybe it would make them actually think instead of just spew their religious bile all over the comment section.
461·8 days ago
I’ve been thinking about using business source license for my projects. Fuck MAGAF and other companies for taking advantage of opensource devs, making billions and not wanting to contribute back or even support the dev.
Once the Post-Open license is finalised, there’s a good chance it’ll become my default instead of AGPL or BSL.
61·9 days agoHow does one get a job like this? This is great! I want to get a job in a school or university and infect it with linux. “Guys, look! It’s cheaper and we can set it up then pay for support which still makes it cheaper and students can learn how to use it on their computers too, since it’s freely available to them!”
Python is case insensitive? Or do mean that it’s not? The phrasing is a little confusing.
With the current conservative government Germany has, the same that
fucked up the country for 15 yearskept the country “stable” for 15 years, it sounds like their promise for river internet. What’s German river penetration like nowadays? 5%? After 20 years of “investment”?Lol. It’s more likely that the US will get a grip and Microsoft or even Apple can swoop in an sell their crap to politicians.
So it’s absolutely not happening within 20 years 🤣
51·10 days agoDo you know how to use breakpoints? Put one on “Just right!” and then step through it.
Edit: I just ran the code and it exits properly. It’s probably your customized VS Code . Which command is it using to run your code?
On one side, fuck google, on the other, the video is “whistleblowing” DEI practices. Not sure what there is to “whistlenlow” about. I thought quotas were mandated for a long time through affirmative action. How is that news?
91·13 days agoWhat is this? It jumps in explaining features and details about other stuff, but doesn’t explain the basic goal. There are also no screenshots except of some table. It’s not clear how to use this thing.
Understandable. It’s a pity Google is so embedded in our systems. You can still get a fairphone though. It also comes with regular android. I’ve read in multiple places not to get the official fairphone case. You might have to check why that is.
The good thing about the fairphone is that it has the highest reparability raring of any current phone out there. You can swap put the screen, battery, and other components very easily when things go haywire.
And of course it’s one of the very few companies on this world that tries to give a shit about slavery in the supply chain.
I know somebody’s going to day “get a pixel and put grapheneOS, it’s the most secure phone in the planet”. I don’t know if the Swedish apps dependent on google services will work, but if you do decide to go google hardware, you can try and get it secondhand.
Fairphone with eOS if you want to get away from Google even more. No google services but access to f-droid and the play store with anonymous accounts.
Or, get a second-hand phone and flash it with eOS or lineage OS.
I am days into trying to figure out how why systemd just won’t start services after another service has successfully been run. I want service A to run, finish successfully and then service B to start. I’ve tries requires, wants, after and their reverse. I’ve tries paths with PathChanged and other things I’ve forgotten now. Either service B won’t start because it’s not WantedBy some target, but if I add that then it simply ignores the After, Requires, and Wants, and PathChanged to start anyway when the target has started.
It’s maddening. Why are there so many conditions that express nearly the same thing but do so in such subtle ways that only testing will expose what it truly is, and sometimes not even that helps because obviously something else is missing but it won’t say what. And AI of course has no fucking clue how to help.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Anti Commercial-AI license