Why would you start a joke post with “this is going to sound really stupid”?

I don’t. I’ll share this technology, preferably with trustworthy competent people. At last, I’ll probably figure out how that decision lead to my assassination.

Itself

I haven’t played it in a long time, but I always enjoyed Super Tux Kart. It reminded me more of the Moorhuhn / Crazy Chicken Kart games than Mario Kart. In general, before Steam Proton made Gaming on Linux almost free of any hassle, I spent more time with free and open source games like Nethack or Battle for Wesnoth that are available in many Linux package managers.

It’s not really grief. Thankfully in my young life, I’ve yet not lost anyone, close to me, beyond my own decisions. But it takes me seconds to let go of people without ever expressing how much they mean to me. Then it takes me years or forever to let go of the thoughts.

If I reduce it to the shows where I watched more than a few episodes:

• La case de papel: The start of the second season quickly turned me off, because it seemed like everything just got bigger for the sake of it.
• Vikings: I tried many times and I did always like it, but for some reason I never felt the urge to finish the first season.
• Altered Carbon: It’s already an exception that I watched the first season despite not loving it that much from the very beginning. Therefore I didn’t even bother watching the second one. It’s also one of these Netflix shows that suffers from sex sells overload.
• Narcos: I think I stopped midway through the third season, simply because I wasn’t interested in that kind of big action, although obviously I shouldn’t have been surprised.

Recursion

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It’s absolutely surreal that this actually happened. I’ve done so many reality checks. Please don’t let it be just a dream.

To me in most cases it’s the opposite. I don’t watch video tutorials to solve a specific problem (sorry, Roal Van de Paar!), but to get into something. And therefore I prefer to see the problem solving in between and the workflow for that activity. If it really tends to waste my time, I just skip forward.

I’m glad I saw this post and codeberg’s statement before the spam notifications.

I will do everything I can do to stop this.

I can see that this can be interpreted as a sabotage. If they are dressed like a clown. With a gun and a pack of sandwiches.

I don’t consider that promotion. Think from the perspective of the people who happily use US big corpo social media. When you’re forced to consume B, because A is banned, you’re likely not giving B a fair chance, even if it would have otherwise convinced you.

(Obviously you must still enforce rules and ban the platforms that don’t abide.)

Tarantino loves Italy.

I’d tolerate it, but not support it. Forcefully taking them away gains these platforms even more support and demand. Only when people seek for alternatives or a change on their own, we can solve the problems.

They swap cables and enjoy the music.

I use it as the default shell only in my terminal (with fish completion). You still have to deal with breaking changes and inconsistency. On top of that, you need to wrap a lot of your commonly used commands and tools to take full advantage of it. But personally I consider it worth learning and using. Not only do I hate working with raw text, I also love the visual and interactive data representation. And working with existing tools is honestly not a huge problem. It’s just what you’d usually do regularly. Obviously POSIX-compliant shells in combination with many tools like jq, too are already capable of nushell’s power. But I just like to have it included in the shell language, so I can work with the data more casual.

I couldn’t tell you why you’d use it instead of Powershell. I just never tried Powershell on Linux.

Why should they? Less users are programming anything, but more people have become users of computers in the first place. And we have more users of computers, precisely because the levels of abstraction do not require the ordinary user to program anything. Today’s ordinary user is more “ordinary” than fifty years ago. This development of making a tool or subject more accessible to the layman, by hiding the complexities with abstractions and yet allowing more skilled users to gain advantages by peeling away the abstractions, is present in many different fields throughout the history of mankind.

If you look closely, it is not really surprising. Not even a problem at all. In fact, if you have the simple understanding that maybe somebody doesn’t want to program, not because they are a stupid idiot or a lazy normie consumer, but because they simply don’t give a shit about it, follow other interests and can contribute to the world with other skills, then the observation that most users are not programming anything, is insanely unproblematic.

I consumed fast food regularly when it was cheap. Maybe today someone consumes fast food regularly, because it can still be cheap, but only if you collect points, coupons and such.

On top of that, they’re always around you and you know what they offer, if you get used to it. Sometimes I want a satisfying safe bet instead of an unknown experiment.

It’s not an ideal situation, but somebody who you want to be kinder to themselves can motivate you to set an example.