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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

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I feel like the people I interact with irl don't even know how to boot from a USB. People here probably know how to do some form of coding or at least navigate a directory through the command line. Stg I would bet money on the average person not even being able to create a Lemmy account without assistance.

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[–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 102 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

And for that reason alone I built a Linux PC for my 11 year old and told him to go to town figuring things out. (I supervise everything of course). Dude has been doing fantastic so far.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 70 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If he doesn't solve problems with chmod 777 then he's already more competent than the ops teams at my fortune 500 company

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Who's going to win?

SELinux+Seccomp+Containers...
Or the sysadmin with sudo and chmod.

Neither! It's whichever script kiddie gets lucky first.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, but you gotta drop a chmod nuke at least once to feel the terror having done something irreversible. As a bonus, you’ll also gain a brand new appreciation for snapshots.

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

sudo chmod 000 / for security

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And it’s also so much faster than full disk encryption. Cool little trick the admins don’t want you to know.

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

You don’t even need to do it recursively:

sudo find / -path '/*/*' -prune -o -exec chmod 000 {} +

This is extremely fast.

[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Cool. I'm old enough that in middle school I begged my Mom to take to the mall to buy Linux. I got a Red Hat Linux CD-ROM pack from a store called Babbage's. I couldn't download the ISO on our modem and I don't remember if we even had a burner at that point.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I used to love going to Babbage’s in the mall. So many King’s Quest boxes….

[–] Fetus@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

King’s Quest

Damn, that's a good hit of nostalgia!

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

oh man, Babbages. Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. A long time.