I was watching one of those videos once where a non-religious person debates a religious person (which are always good to angry up the blood lol) and when asked about fossils that proved the world was more than 6000 years old the guy was like "well you weren't there to see that happen so how do you know it's true?" And the other person just let that go by instead of being like "Motherfucker, are you 2000 years old? Did you meet Jesus?" which still bothers me a bit to this day.
Slartibartfast
joined 2 years ago
Your system will almost certainly get irrevocably broken by something at some point and you'll have to reinstall. This isn't a failure on your part though, it's a rite of passage that everyone goes through at least once, especially if you have Nvidia drivers lol. It'll happen less and less over time the more you learn how to fix stuff though.
Also back up often!
Yes! I have an entire folder in Joplin that's just lists of what broke and how I fixed it so I can refer back to it later. It's saved my ass so many times.
And don't skip over reading things! I also run Arch with KDE and honestly with almost all problems I have, if I carefully read through either the Arch Wiki (this will probably be your most valuable tool) or the error message that comes up, the answer is usually in there somewhere, it just needs digging up.
Also: if something with a GUI crashes and doesn't give an error message, try running it in the terminal. So like, if Firefox crashes and doesn't give any info, try opening up a terminal and running firefox from there and the terminal will tell you everything that's going on. (It'll be a different command if you're using a flatpak but that's the general idea.)
I clicked the link so I could block it, it went to a 404. The system works!
If you do echo "3 6 * p" | dc in a terminal it'll give you the result of 3x6, but the dc part of that is software that was written probably between 1969 and 1971.
It really blows my mind how good of a deal reddit has (had?) with regards to content and how determined they seem to be to blow it up.
By that I mean: they make the site, all the content is created for them for free, all the moderation, sifting through horrible porn, nazi shit etc. is done for them, also for free, people create apps to more effectively drive traffic to their site, also for free, literally all they really have to do is run ads to rake in the cash, keep the servers up and try to provide better tools for the free moderators to sort through the free content more effectively.
They only do one of those things reliably, and people still contribute endlessly for free. So really all they have to do is not directly torpedo all the free labour they rely on, and they even fucked that up.
Yeah I was saying the other day how if I really needed to I could probably just use the Steam Deck as my main PC. A bigger drive, a dock, bluetooth M&K I'd probably be pretty much good to go I think.
I'm probably just being idealist of whatever but personally I really hope it doesn't. I don't really like the idea of one instance getting so big that it has the ability to disrupt all the other ones, I'd much prefer in was all just little niche servers run by people who are passionate about the subject, even if it's not making them any money.
But probably it'll all just eventually conglomerate into one big thing and then turn rotten and we'll all have to find something else, because that always seems to be the way it goes. But these are the wild west days for this platform, enjoy it while it lasts!
Additionally, is there a way to block a magazine (hopefully I'm using the correct term) aside from having to actually go in there and click on the block button? If a properly skeezy one shows up on my general feed I'd prefer to not have to actually open it to filter it out if that makes sense.
I get what you're saying, but at the same time, we can't start fucking around with nazis and letting them creep in. We just can't.
Remember, the nazis taking power in Germany in the 40s was done democratically, and everything they did after that was "legal."
I'm not anti-democratic, but just because something's done democratically or legally doesn't necessarily mean it's right.