Good question. maybe I was wrong, I’ve used Debian for so long, I’ll either just update it or use the advanced installer… It’s certainly on the installation media now. Not sure if it copies it over to the system. Would make sense, though if it did…

Any specific nice hobbies? Sry, you don’t need to answer as this is kind of a (too) personal question.

Aha. U got no better hobbies or something meaningful to do?

Good luck! And don’t forget to add the non-free-firmware repo and maybe the other additional ones if you need them. A standard Debian comes without. And if you’re following an old tutorial, that might not cover the split between non-free and non-free-firmware which happened somewhat recently in Debian terms. Their own documentation is good and up to date, though.

I don’t think we need conditional sentences when talking about this. These platforms exist. Just go there and have a look. I’ve scrolled a bit through farcaster.xyz and maybe one or two others. And there are a lot of them which got passed around and failed.

Atrophy or deskilling is a underrated problem in my opinion. And it applies to all things in life. Some people suggest computer literacy went down, because people are on their phones and tablets these days and everything works smoothly, so there is little to no motivation to learn how these things work, what they do behind the scenes, what privacy is…

Furthermore a general lack of worth or value of things, because everything is available in abundance and will arrive from China at your doorstep the next day. So we used to have nice hand-knitted norwegian sweaters. And these days we wear arbitrary cheap stuff and we just throw it in the bin after one season. Of course this leads to all kinds of societal issues once things lose value. And all malls are going to close and get displaced by Amazon. And manufacturers will discontinue quality products, since they’re competing on a low-quality market now.

Same likely applies to knowledge. Why all the hassle to learn something from the grounds up, in a years-long process, if there’s cheap results available right now, and the question doesn’t call for quality in the first place?

(CW:Political opinion. I know it’s a bit fatalistic, but I think we can see the same dynamics in the political landscape. People’s grandpas still fought against the nazis and they held up democracy. People now know little about the value of democracy because they didn’t need to fight for it. So for all they care we might as well appoint fascists to lead us. I think on a more abstract level, it’s all one and the same form of atrophy. Also fits the question/answer theme of this video. Because fascists for sure have simple and easy to understand answers ready to our questions.)

Maybe that’s because it’s super new, done by a single person and just not well-known to people? I mean I just tried to google whether it’s open-source and there was no useful link on the first page of google… So no wonder people don’t arrive there. I bet it was the same for Lemmy, a few weeks after it got invented.

Me too. I guess the internet is going to change soon anyway. AI Slop is going to displace a lot of things. And these cooking recipes don’t really work. So there will be a demand for genuine, human content. And the only way to tell is if you have some connection to the creator. So we might see a revival of human connection online. At least that’s what I hope will happen… And seems lots of people are fed up with social media as well.

Nah. She doesn’t. And I think the days of Blogs and personal websites are mostly a thing of the past. These days people doomscroll on Instagram. But I have some fond memories of the good old times as well. I used to have friends (of different genders) who would write publicly about technology, sugar-free recipes, I knew someone who did styling videos on Youtube. But that toned down as we all grew older and got other things to do, and the internet changed as well.

Whatever people do on computers… Surf websites, do emails, online-shopping, organize documents, vacation pictures, paperwork, type letters, draw diagrams, watch videos, do video conferences, stuff related to hobbies… I mean she isn’t a programmer or designer by trade or anything like that, but computers are just useful tools for a lot of things.

Hmmh. I mean I mostly play old games and they tend to work better in Wine/Proton anyway, so I don’t have a virtualized Windows. I ran into some annoyances with other operating systems though, since most mundane desktop environments do lavish graphics these days. Or I’d randomly watch a Youtube video in a guest system and that’d use a lot of CPU with a recent codec and full HD or more… I guess all of this really depends on what people do with their virtualized machines, though.

Doesn’t that do graphics in software? I suppose for optimal software you’d need hardware acceleration for that, or does libvirtd pass that through automatically these days?

My wife and some relatives? Along with countless other people… We have a zero electronics devices with fruit on them -policy, in this household. But we do provide Lightning cables for guests… I mean MacOS doesn’t even run on a Thinkpad without several stunts and a day of work involved… You need to patch the UEFI, do something to the graphics, patch the ISO, or happen to have the exact right model. And it violates the terms and conditions. So MacOS isn’t really an alternative, is it?

The way AI works, it’s likely to pick up on your style. I.e. if you ask with slang words or spelling mistakes, it’s going to answer very colloquially. And this translates to meaning… Once you ask “stupid” questions, it’s going to mistake that for a creative writing assignment. And I think your question is a bit alike »What’s better, oranges or papayas?« That’s just a weird question and you’ll get a weird answer. Linux and MacOS are very different things. Used by different people for different tasks. None of them is “better” without any context given.

I’ve edited my previous comment, there’s usually more issues once we have things like “user management panel”, or “user settings”, which aren’t great either.

Yeah, I get how short strings are to be preferred. I mean the shortest one is generic masculine. I’ll stick with my previous opinion. But I guess “Nutzende” is okay if it’s plural… Seems we currently try to avoid it anyway. It says “Profil”, “Konto”, “Leute”… I guess the few occurences of “Benutzer” could be “Leute” as well. Just the “Verwalter” in the main menu is one prominent unnecessary masculine. Should be a form of “Admin” in Denglisch.

I don’t think I have a strong opinion on this. Just avoid Nutzys. I think that’d be a good option, but sounds weird to average people.

Uh, difficult. I really dislike those circumscriptions into passive form or with adjectives. My own opinion is, we have direct nouns for a reason. So I’d prefer “Nutzer:innen” over “Nutzende” and all the other options. And furthermore, since when are Germans opposed to long words? 😆 But this is just one opinion from one random person (me).

Maybe think of upcoming difficulties like “user settings”. Should that be “Benutzendeneinstellungen”, “Einstellungen des Nutzenden”, “Nutzer:inneneinstellungen”…? I think our language doesn’t offer any good option except the generic masculine form… Which isn’t gender-neutral…

Add context or people can’t answer your questions. I’d say you’re mistaken and that’s a curve for more quiet, not cooler.

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Nice. I guess that’s about when I was born, so I only remember copying 3½-inch floppy disks for friends. And it was music on my cassettes. 😉 But I don’t remember it being called piracy either. We had a lot of games, though. Monkey Island 2 and a nice collection of DOS games. None of them were bought in a store. And I remember struggling with the English language, some games were off the table since I didn’t learn English until middle school.

I guess copying things lost some of the social aspect after that. We shared a lot of stuff in digital form after CD writers became affordable in the mid- to late 90s. But these days you’d sit alone in front of the computer and just download whatever. And pretty much everything is available. Or just connect a phone to the car and have arbitrary things to listen to. Instead of a fixed set of 3 pre-made casettes for the entire summer vacation road trip.

No idea what books to recommend, but the concept of piracy is very old. That translated to the realm of home computers, pretty much when home computers were invented and software licensing became a thing. People would share floppy disks and cassettes. And then stuff got easier with modems and the internet.