eldavi

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago (8 children)

did you download & try to install it or is it coming from your package manager?

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

one is a mania with a physical root cause while the other one isn't.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

i don't have a mac anymore; but this exactly why i'm pursing this project: the last time i did this fedora atomic didn't exist and i'm likely to encounter that it's more rock solid than the fedora distros that i used to daily drive with before buying a linux laptop directly from the linux factory.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

laptops can be hit or miss because of all the custom proprietary stuff in them.

my experience is the same and that's why i'm going with a laptop; i wonder if the skills i've picked up since the last time i tried are going to help any since they're the kind of skills that get you paid in the linux world.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Please buy laptops and desktops from tuxedo, system76, framework, etc, and recommend them. They’re doing a great job and do deserve the support.

amen. i'll continue to buy from them for the things that i depend on (eg low cost personal servers and high end work laptops); but i plan to use a generic low-spec windows laptop for daily driving to teach me what the general linux user experience is like these days since lemmy is showing me that i still get something out of helping other people while i simultaneously get to leverage my knowledge and experience in an arena that's been enabling my life for these last 3 decades to do so.

it's bit like the mandates that i get from my management as an individual contributor; but more "WTF" and the "TIL's" that i get from it makes it more fun for me.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

very much so in addition to creating a new project for myself that's exciting; that's a big deal to me because i can't remember the last time in decades that i felt any excitement over any linux based project.

i learn best by challenging my knowledge and it teaches me where i'm ignorant and i can use that specify which areas to focus my self education.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

i'm glad you brought that up; lemmy has taught me that people will use those linux company distros w/o the support and it blows my mind and makes me agree that they should be upstreaming it; i know that system76 does (eventually) and i wonder if tuxedo or anyone else does as well.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 days ago (16 children)

one of the awesome things about buying a linux laptop from a linux company like tuxedo is that you don't have to worry about things like this since they have paid developers who maintain their own distro to "take care" of things like this and buying one of these linux laptops has made my experience smooth and thought free as a mac user.

it's a double edge sword however: lemmy has taught me that smooth sailing with linux laptops keeps you unaware of the trouble that lurks beneath the surface and that's disconnected me from the general linux user experience and has gated me from understanding the common themes and problems they encounter; i've started a new linux build and this time i'm going to do it the same way everyone here does, with a windows laptop.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

yes and i've leveraged it along w the stereotype of the entitled american tourist (thanks to my very strong american accent) to get out of most of those episodes.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

my anxiety about the future got a lot better once i started looking into how we got into this mess and the whole thing started by watching democracy now before watching pbs, or cbs, or abc, etc.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 days ago (3 children)

i barely integrate now as an american; mostly because of my neuro-divergence makes it easy for people to misread me due my intonation and body language and the number episodes of misunderstanding happened MUCH MORE frequently when i visited my potential new home country as a tourist over the last 40ish years.

i automatically qualify for citizenship for the country and i wonder what it's going to be like if i have to live there because i have both legal and cultural claim to the country; but i'm very much american plus an american that always seems arrogant and callous to everyone no matter how much he tries.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

i think that cock.li's experience is common for volunteer organizations in the american government's cross hairs and i forsee an expansion of something like this onto open source projects & platforms like lemmy in the future given some of the public manifestations we've seen in the news like the american's governments geopolitical posturing forcing the linux kernel project maintainers to expel russian contributors.

the american's governments restriction on open source projects like the linux kernel is a portent of what's to come and the entire FOSS world is going to be split into 2 because of it and with the better financed half being undeniably under the government's control, but its contributors will continue to call it "free and open sourced software" nonetheless due to having the most leverage (for now).

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