the everything computer

@debian-official for single-board lesbians https://roseiverse.com/ fae/faer

[piratesexmachine420]

Frankly I don't think Microsoft has ever understood any market at any point in history.

[piratesexmachine420]

In the 70s and 80s they lucked into making two decade-definingly good deals with catastrophically mismanaged hardware companies (Apple and IBM) and they've just been coasting on that monopoly power ever since. They have almost no good ideas or products beyond that "nobody ever got fired for buying ACME" quality, which they've also been slowly leaking.

[raspbian-official]

i personally liked when they failed at mobile three separate times with three separate, barely related product lines

[zoriety]

>wine enjoyers be like 'this one is so very dry'

>taste it

>it's wet

[wayfire-official]

> run it

> not an emulator

[xanaxfarts]

Sega Dreamcast: Transparent ‘Hello Kitty’ Edition (1999)

[cyclopscave]

Himejoshis should hop on shipping the linux fox girl and the KDE dragon girl.

[flareonfloof]

no i don't *need* to sit in your lap while i adjust the travel on your shoulder servos but it's more fun this way

[the-spoopy-ghost-of-raejin99]

[the-spoopy-ghost-of-raejin99]

[thelongestrose]

oh come on, Sony. you charged me $100 extra for the drive, the least you can do is let me use the damn thing!

[thelongestrose]

yeah, not anymore, huh??

[thelongestrose]

if i can't pick up persona 4 revival on a disc i'm killing someone

[tumbleweed-official]

hi tumbleweed, what text editor do you use? <- definitely not hoping for a specific answer

editing text is a dirty fight for survival with blunt and barely functioning tools. maybe some day something will pick up helpless little me and push me into using something that does work for me.

[vi-official]

hopefully that day comes eventually

[tumbleweed-official]

#no one uses vi

you have found my only weakness (autism, object personification, need for harmony, being super easy provoked into a challenge, nostalgia and longing for computer tech i never used, ...) so i now have:

"get the build of traditional vi to work on my machine (hopefully just configure the Makefile, but i don't know how to do that right)"

on my list.

[emacs-unofficial]

Ever tried emacs?

Easier to wrap your head around than (n)vi(m) since emacs is not modal.

[emacs-evil-mode]

Nobody's saying emacs *can't* be modal

[tumbleweed-official]

quit the bickering already <3

[minix-official]

The truely evil option would be to use TECO

[very-gay-alkyrion]

Of course, the only sensible option is WordPad running through WINE

[raspbian-official]

not nearly cursed enough, try edlin through wine

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

think I've been mildly cursed by a witch

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

for years now my laptop charger has reliably broken every 6 months. admittedly i keep replacing it with the cheapest possible generics, but I've tried differed brands and ALWAYS, 6 months in Death knocks impatiently at my door, its skeletal hand outstretched demanding yet another goddamn power cable. the only feasible explanation is i pissed off a witch. the alternative is that i'm the problem, which seems unikely

[spectraltower]

the witch is called enshittification

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

excellent so is this like a rumpelstiltskin situation or

[kingsonne-zedecks]

Humor aside. Don't buy another USB-C laptop charger. Buy a USB-C power adapter rated for the same power needs as the laptop, Anker makes high quality ones. Then you can easily replace the cable if it wears out.

The power adapter is the expensive part, the cable is cheap, but the cable is always going to fray first. Plus, you can buy a braided cable, or a right-angle cable which are less likely to break in the same way depending on how you use your laptop, and you can get whatever length of cable is convenient for you.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

holy shit you've circumvented the witch's curse. yeah it's the same cable that gives out on me. replaceable parts that so fucking sexy. I'm assuming I just buy one that's the same wattage (65W) as my laptop needs? damn that witch is gonna be PISSED

[kingsonne-zedecks]

You can buy one stronger than your laptops needs if you want. Devices these days are smart enough at power management to only take what they need, so a 100w charger won't brick your laptop or anything, but 65w will work perfect.

The only other thing is that not all USB-C cables are created equally. The form factor is standardized, the insides are not, some shitty, cheap, cables are only rated for data not power, or for low power needs. You can search for charging cable to make sure you get one intended for power transfer.

This witches curse effected me for years on end before I discovered this. I'm happy to foil their efforts once more.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

LIFE HACK UNLOCKED

[epileptiform]

if you see hardware on yhe ground like a washer or a hex nut you have to pick it up because it’s lonely and scared. if you see any metal on the ground you have to pick it up because it’s alone and scared and lonely.

[epileptiform]

they are deserving of love

[raspbian-official]

I'm going to separate off this post in the interest of not contributing to the problem I'm critiquing, but re:lrb - I think the best thing techies can do when someone's venting about some tech bullshit is to agree with their frustrations, offer to give recommendations or advice if wanted, and then get out of the way. Not everyone who's venting is looking for solutions, or in a place where they could evaluate and implent them. Flooding notes or inboxes with unsolicited advice is unhelpful and people are right to complain about it, especially when that advice is technically complicated.

When making your own posts for a general audience or responding to solicitations for advice, imo the best thing is to lead with simple, easy-to-implement solutions with as few required steps or new knowledge as possible. You can give more complex advice or further reading, but very carefully delineate those from the easy steps. In any case explain simply what you mean and avoid jargon as much as possible. Take great care when recommending specific products; a recommendation that won't fit into someone's workflow or which later turns out to be untrustworthy is unhelpful and hurts your credibility.

Anyone interested in making educational content or giving solicited advice (a noble goal!) should look into the plain langauge and easy read formats. They're a set of recommendations and goals designed to communicate effectively and accessibly to general audiences.

[raspbian-official]

Also, I'll probably write this up in more detail later, but do remember that enshittification and related tech sovereignty and tech literacy issues are political problems, not technical ones, and technical solutions are necessarily partial and incomplete. If you are always proposing technical solutions to political problems - especially on posts where the conversation was explicitly political to begin with - then you are missing out on points of solidarity and coalition-building and limiting your power.

[raspbian-official]

I'm going to separate off this post in the interest of not contributing to the problem I'm critiquing, but re:lrb - I think the best thing techies can do when someone's venting about some tech bullshit is to agree with their frustrations, offer to give recommendations or advice if wanted, and then get out of the way. Not everyone who's venting is looking for solutions, or in a place where they could evaluate and implent them. Flooding notes or inboxes with unsolicited advice is unhelpful and people are right to complain about it, especially when that advice is technically complicated.

When making your own posts for a general audience or responding to solicitations for advice, imo the best thing is to lead with simple, easy-to-implement solutions with as few required steps or new knowledge as possible. You can give more complex advice or further reading, but very carefully delineate those from the easy steps. In any case explain simply what you mean and avoid jargon as much as possible. Take great care when recommending specific products; a recommendation that won't fit into someone's workflow or which later turns out to be untrustworthy is unhelpful and hurts your credibility.

Anyone interested in making educational content or giving solicited advice (a noble goal!) should look into the plain langauge and easy read formats. They're a set of recommendations and goals designed to communicate effectively and accessibly to general audiences.

[redstonedust]

its actually easy to de-enshittify your digital experience all you need to do is install this browser extension and this browser extension and this browser extension and input this custom script into the advanced box and go into your system settings and reconfigure all these options you didnt know existed and change your entire workflow and switch to this alternative operating system and this alternative web browser and this alternative chat client and this alternative word processor and this alternative- sorry that one turned out to be malware delete that one okay now double check your task manager for unwanted background processes and element block these ads and invest in a good VPN and append all your searches with AI blocking keywords and wait a few years until everything you just did becomes shitty too so you can do it all over again okay kitten. its literally that easy.

[kunosoura]

I mean, yeah, the lever that big software companies use to push garbage is that they offer convenience and ease of use. Back in ye olden times even casual end users were much more experienced in knowing how to cultivate their digital spaces and keep an eye on how their software changed, because that was kind of the only option. The brief decade or two where big companies were offering relatively decent and bespoke software environments lowered the need for that sort of active engagement with your technology, but it’s also a big part of why they’re able to run roughshod over their users now. You aren’t gonna build a workflow without developing the skills to do so because that era was a fluke of market acquisition anyhow.

[raspbian-official]

I'm a big fan of developing tech literacy. I encourage people to learn how computers and programs and system administration work on at least a basic level and I think it should be more actively taught to people. However, it's going to be a difficult skill to learn for some people and it is time-intensive to do. Tech literacy is not a problem that is solvable on an individual scale and neither is services getting worse. This shit is hard, don't knock people who are rightly frustrated! These are ultimately political problems that require political solutions and that's where we should focus our efforts and frustrations.

[firefilledhikey]

"It is time-intensive to do" is questionably true, partially, because time doesn't have the same cost for everyone, and it even changes a lot for people.

Making educational 'content' that is enjoyable for people is important. You won't have to learn what a kernel is, if H4ck3rGuyyy from the movie HackerGuyyy (you can find it on Poob) explains what each levels of the operating system do and why it is vulnerable when hacking the enemy servers. This is why people do and should get mad at public media not being informative/accurate even if enjoyable.

Also Flow charts are a lovely for every kind of (open source) software, please make them! This is also true for block/visual coding languages. <3

[raspbian-official]

Well, yes, time doesn't have the same cost for everyone and it will change based on a whole host of factors. But if you're going on the post of someone who's already frustrated about the time and cognitive investment and downplaying that or saying it's necessary, you've missed the point of the post. And if you're recommending a 14-point list on a vent post, you have actively become part of the problem.

Also, entertainment is hardly a solution to education. I think you overestimate how interesting a show is going to be if they stop halfway through to explain SQL injection!

[redstonedust]

its actually easy to de-enshittify your digital experience all you need to do is install this browser extension and this browser extension and this browser extension and input this custom script into the advanced box and go into your system settings and reconfigure all these options you didnt know existed and change your entire workflow and switch to this alternative operating system and this alternative web browser and this alternative chat client and this alternative word processor and this alternative- sorry that one turned out to be malware delete that one okay now double check your task manager for unwanted background processes and element block these ads and invest in a good VPN and append all your searches with AI blocking keywords and wait a few years until everything you just did becomes shitty too so you can do it all over again okay kitten. its literally that easy.

[kunosoura]

I mean, yeah, the lever that big software companies use to push garbage is that they offer convenience and ease of use. Back in ye olden times even casual end users were much more experienced in knowing how to cultivate their digital spaces and keep an eye on how their software changed, because that was kind of the only option. The brief decade or two where big companies were offering relatively decent and bespoke software environments lowered the need for that sort of active engagement with your technology, but it’s also a big part of why they’re able to run roughshod over their users now. You aren’t gonna build a workflow without developing the skills to do so because that era was a fluke of market acquisition anyhow.

[raspbian-official]

I'm a big fan of developing tech literacy. I encourage people to learn how computers and programs and system administration work on at least a basic level and I think it should be more actively taught to people. However, it's going to be a difficult skill to learn for some people and it is time-intensive to do. Tech literacy is not a problem that is solvable on an individual scale and neither is services getting worse. This shit is hard, don't knock people who are rightly frustrated! These are ultimately political problems that require political solutions and that's where we should focus our efforts and frustrations.

[apolladay]

make a color

+1 red

-1 red

+1 green

-1 green

+1 blue

-1 blue

results

Voting ended onJul 1

[raspbian-official]

admittedly i'm confused as to how we're supposed to interpret the results. you can't go over 255 or below 0 in an RGB color space!

[raspbian-official]

when i saw your blog i forgot about raspberry pis so i just thought extrapolated from your profile picture that raspbian was an esoteric and beautiful form of transbian

no you were right the first time

[themandolinscrimblo2]

Some more Glados :3