I wish more people would. I think it’s ridiculous that we’ve put up with buying all these tools and appliances that come with ads like pimples all over. Pisses me right off.

Welcome, sibling

Just put a lil bit o’ tape over it. I’m actually insane and put tape over most of the logos around my house hahahah

If you have any power at all, complying with the blatant fascist is treason. You know what happens next. Think of all the people who have virtually no power, who can be beaten, imprisoned, deported, without consequence. Chuds like Zuckerberg and Gates pave the way for that. They have enough money and power to insulate themselves.

Even fucking Musk parted company with the ghoul emperor. Imagine having less spine than someone who bought a social media platform so people would stop making fun of him (didn’t work, obv).

Thank you jerk face!!

Thanks for sharing, this is a better write-up than I would’ve done.

But yeah it really sucks because from the outside Bandcamp looks like a great “light touch” platform, but the truth is sadly much more cynical and anti-democratic.

I buy on Bandcamp Fridays, but am suspicious of that platform since they changed owners so often without any input from the community or musicians.

I’m keeping my eye on https://subvert.fm/ as a hopefully more democratic option.

“trauma induced return to Ubuntu” 😭 it was my wifi not working that did it, and I’m just so used to Ubuntu from years of using it at work…

Oh that’s very interesting. I usually do sort --unique or sort [...] | uniq if I need specific sorting logic (like by size on disk, etc).

Or 60 minutes making it all work just with jq functions.

Hey I throw a /^regexp.*/ {print $NF} in there sometimes!

…but yes, it’s mostly print $1—but only because I mix up the parameters whenever I try to use cut!

Couple reasons people dislike Ubuntu/Canonical. 1) they’re just popular, but also they went their own way with the Unity UI hoping to score a BMW touchscreen contract, they went their own way with snaps which are much worse than flatpak, they added ads for “Ubuntu Pro” in the distro (notably in the terminal).

I think they have a reputation for going off and doing their own thing rather than working with existing solutions.

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Penguin wave

Rofl

For the first time I’ve actually started, like, using the Documents folder to store copies of receipts, contracts, etc.

I feel like I have finally entered adulthood.

Ubuntu catches some well earned flak, but afaik it was the first distro to have an effortless Gui setup wizard that “just worked.”

I remember using one of their ubiquitous install CD back in the mid 00s to bring an old laptop back to life, and literally changing my life.

What’s next, sideloading apps on your desktop??

Gratitude journaling actually works. Top cope if you need to swing the pendulum the other way.

I’d like to take things a bit more for granted, myself, but my damn mindfulness habits make it hard

Congratulations! I remember where I was when I first learned it (in a noisy server room at the back of a machine shop).

Now pair it with FZF for fuzzy finding – it’s surprisingly easy to set up, just following any guide. It’s insanely useful. I find myself even doing things like typing:

$ xinput --disable $(xinput --list | grep -i touchpad | grep 'id=[0-9]\+' -o | cut -d= -f2)  # Disable synaptic touchpad trackpad pointer

commands with these like comments on the ends as sort of “tags” so I can ctrl+r search for them later. Yes, I know I could just use a named function, but this is like the step just before that–before I know if I’ll be issuing the same command all the time, or just for the next couple weeks. (This one was from when I was resting my notebook on my laptop.)

Wait it’s REALL??!