Sometimes I just sit down and realise:
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Since joining mastodon I have had a glimpse into a world where people can do what you've done because they have a deep understanding of computer technology and I am jealous! Especially as things have gotten so, so bad. I was the generation that went to college with an IBM Selectric. In my final year, '84, freshmen came in with PCs. I took one class on programming (Pascal?) to see what it was all about. At the time I found it easy but uninteresting. Ah well. Now I'm victimized daily. Sigh.
@jawarajabbi Never too late to learn if youre interested. Start making silly scripts with python, see where that takes you
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Sometimes I just sit down and realise:
- Tinkering with Linux eventually resulted in my dream job
- Many FOSS tools I use are made by awesome individuals, most of them working on things on their free time
- I trust my devices more now that I use these tools
- Since I run tools like Nextcloud myself, I can trust that my data is not being misused
- I have knowhow to help my friends and family to keep their data safe (sometimes I wish they would follow my advice but anyway lol)
- Since I dont use corpo social media, none of the crap around it concerns me
- I am just generally happier since I do not have worry about any of the techbro nonsense
Makes me feel oddly sated. Calm.
Is any of it perfect? No. But I take these always over the user-hostile corpo solutions.
So people who work on all of these free tools: Thank you.
@aks in the same boat, life is good.
Huge thanks to the creators of these tools.
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@jawarajabbi Never too late to learn if youre interested. Start making silly scripts with python, see where that takes you
Maybe I will! Cheers,
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Sometimes I just sit down and realise:
- Tinkering with Linux eventually resulted in my dream job
- Many FOSS tools I use are made by awesome individuals, most of them working on things on their free time
- I trust my devices more now that I use these tools
- Since I run tools like Nextcloud myself, I can trust that my data is not being misused
- I have knowhow to help my friends and family to keep their data safe (sometimes I wish they would follow my advice but anyway lol)
- Since I dont use corpo social media, none of the crap around it concerns me
- I am just generally happier since I do not have worry about any of the techbro nonsense
Makes me feel oddly sated. Calm.
Is any of it perfect? No. But I take these always over the user-hostile corpo solutions.
So people who work on all of these free tools: Thank you.
Yep, sure is peaceful on this side of the fence. Here's what it looks like for the rest of the world.
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Sometimes I just sit down and realise:
- Tinkering with Linux eventually resulted in my dream job
- Many FOSS tools I use are made by awesome individuals, most of them working on things on their free time
- I trust my devices more now that I use these tools
- Since I run tools like Nextcloud myself, I can trust that my data is not being misused
- I have knowhow to help my friends and family to keep their data safe (sometimes I wish they would follow my advice but anyway lol)
- Since I dont use corpo social media, none of the crap around it concerns me
- I am just generally happier since I do not have worry about any of the techbro nonsense
Makes me feel oddly sated. Calm.
Is any of it perfect? No. But I take these always over the user-hostile corpo solutions.
So people who work on all of these free tools: Thank you.
@aks same. i switched basically every app. it works well. i am not spamed. not "reminded" of a profanity or "noticed" by an ad. and i help people around me.
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Sometimes I just sit down and realise:
- Tinkering with Linux eventually resulted in my dream job
- Many FOSS tools I use are made by awesome individuals, most of them working on things on their free time
- I trust my devices more now that I use these tools
- Since I run tools like Nextcloud myself, I can trust that my data is not being misused
- I have knowhow to help my friends and family to keep their data safe (sometimes I wish they would follow my advice but anyway lol)
- Since I dont use corpo social media, none of the crap around it concerns me
- I am just generally happier since I do not have worry about any of the techbro nonsense
Makes me feel oddly sated. Calm.
Is any of it perfect? No. But I take these always over the user-hostile corpo solutions.
So people who work on all of these free tools: Thank you.
@aks
You are welcome. I agree on all of these takes as well.I do want to point out that foss devs like myself in precarious situations due to the fact that foss and comminity work dont pay at all most of the time and never pay well.
And that is also only half the picture because we had the means, both physically and mentally to learn this.
There are countless people who slave away in factories for 8+ hrs for minimum wage - if that - who dont have the means, who need our ears and support too.
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Sometimes I just sit down and realise:
- Tinkering with Linux eventually resulted in my dream job
- Many FOSS tools I use are made by awesome individuals, most of them working on things on their free time
- I trust my devices more now that I use these tools
- Since I run tools like Nextcloud myself, I can trust that my data is not being misused
- I have knowhow to help my friends and family to keep their data safe (sometimes I wish they would follow my advice but anyway lol)
- Since I dont use corpo social media, none of the crap around it concerns me
- I am just generally happier since I do not have worry about any of the techbro nonsense
Makes me feel oddly sated. Calm.
Is any of it perfect? No. But I take these always over the user-hostile corpo solutions.
So people who work on all of these free tools: Thank you.
@aks I relate a lot with this
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Sometimes I just sit down and realise:
- Tinkering with Linux eventually resulted in my dream job
- Many FOSS tools I use are made by awesome individuals, most of them working on things on their free time
- I trust my devices more now that I use these tools
- Since I run tools like Nextcloud myself, I can trust that my data is not being misused
- I have knowhow to help my friends and family to keep their data safe (sometimes I wish they would follow my advice but anyway lol)
- Since I dont use corpo social media, none of the crap around it concerns me
- I am just generally happier since I do not have worry about any of the techbro nonsense
Makes me feel oddly sated. Calm.
Is any of it perfect? No. But I take these always over the user-hostile corpo solutions.
So people who work on all of these free tools: Thank you.
@aks Anything interesting or fun you'd recommend doing in Linux? I've run it multiple times, but I generally just kinda stare at it after I install a few applications.
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@aks Anything interesting or fun you'd recommend doing in Linux? I've run it multiple times, but I generally just kinda stare at it after I install a few applications.
@jhooper @aks It used to be easy to rice (much harder on wayland).
Try out window managers, icon sets, system fonts, terminals, desktops, tiling vms, stuff that run in the panel, xscreensaver with all the extras, and that's *before* you start distro-hopping.
Read every installed man page. Try using the small tools (cat, head, tail, cut, wc, grep, echo etc., and with pipes) instead of an editor. Find your perfect shell. Try out terminals, and programs that only run in the terminal. 1/2
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@jhooper @aks It used to be easy to rice (much harder on wayland).
Try out window managers, icon sets, system fonts, terminals, desktops, tiling vms, stuff that run in the panel, xscreensaver with all the extras, and that's *before* you start distro-hopping.
Read every installed man page. Try using the small tools (cat, head, tail, cut, wc, grep, echo etc., and with pipes) instead of an editor. Find your perfect shell. Try out terminals, and programs that only run in the terminal. 1/2
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