Ging

The whole profit incentive seems to do a lot more harm than good, no?

How do the 'ppl who actually know' defend this obvious scammy aspect of the whole thing? Genuinely curious

This is a messed up meme 😂 When I first into'd ubuntu, I really thought I was big-brained for choosing LTS over the more current release. Mentors are so much more important than you'd think when you're 14ish

Wait I'm confused, did OP invert it or did you?

Bmarked. Many thanks for the assurance and insight. Prolly best comment I've ever gotten on the fediworld

I said the same about ubuntu, debian, then arch. I believed arch and it's wikis/docs were the endgame. I stayed arching through college ( thought endeavorOS was arch meme for awhile, because why would you want an easier arch install? Turns out, college professors are incorrigible to a maddening degree, and finding so many linux workarounds got me in all types of trouble I didn't fully understand yet--better wipe and reset for sanity sake...again)

tl;dr I thought all non-windows were jokes before I found precisely what I was looking for all along.

EDIT: tldr itself reads like a joke, I'm just saying I thought almost all distros were a joke until I felt something better was missing--gentoo is where I've been for about a decade now. I'm quite worried nix or guix is the joke I will be maining in the future, but I don't seem to need any of it's features just yet, but who knows. I'm willing to be persuaded because of how wrong I've been...hell might get a comment today opens my eyes to the declarative life any minute now lol

No pain, no gain.😝

Ohhh, so it's old but also best by test, this makes it pretty cool then

But if it's just an old api, why is it still in the spotlight? I understand compatibility is important, but I'm almost never hearing half as much about any of the other old apis--can't even really think of one either

I've been too scared to ask for a really long time
What's the big deal with POSIX? Why are ppl constantly discussing what is and isn't posix compliant? Is it just funny or am I missing something important?

I see enjoyment (jouissance) as a built-in surplus that pushes past satisfaction into something often painful or compulsive. Ideology hides this excess by promising straightforward fulfillment, but that promise produces the very leftover enjoyment it denies. The subject thinks it wants a clear goal, while an unconscious drive seeks the surplus; culture can redirect this surplus (sublimation) or it returns as symptoms (addiction, shame). So enjoyment isn’t just pleasure — it’s the extra push that both sustains desire and disrupts meaning.

You saying no such thing is a misunderstanding. Žižek links this surplus to the paradox that prohibiting pleasure produces a new form of enjoyment — the pleasure of prohibition. The ban sets up a forbidden object that becomes more desirable; the surplus (jouissance) then migrates into transgression or guilt, so prohibition itself generates the very enjoyment it aims to stop.

I'm curious to know specifically how this was experienced as offending

Frustration is a natural part of learning; ignorance is bliss