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I feel like I've been gaslit into running FOSS but every success only brings me closer to fighting god

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[–] ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I've been a linux user since 2006. But I'm not a computer guy, it was just my OS really. I haven't done serious computer work it what feels like decades. Two days on Lemmy and I'm thinking selfhosting a smarthome could be for me. Things are so wonderful now.

PS: Auch mag ich Kühe. Sie sehen wie Landcarten aus.

Ok, that's about the most complex sentence I can make. I wish I stuck with learning German.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.de 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's called "Landkarten" :) but for the rest this sentence is completely correct.

I am a Linux user for about 1.5-2 years and I really like doing technical stuff. The next thing I really have to do is figure out how to install Stable diffusion on Arch Linux. That stuff isn't that straight forward. All guides I found didn't work.

[–] ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

German Ks make so much damn sense. Why do I keep screwing them up?

In this case, it was that "cartographer" is a cognate.