People making OS their religion and following one of the Penguin Creeds:
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, installing Linux in the name of Torvalds, Stallman, and the Holy Kernel: Teaching them to use only FOSS software. Amen.
BaldProphet
joined 1 year ago
What’s rm -rf /?
Just` test it in a terminal, it’s fun.
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shared XKCD about experts overestimating laypeople's knowledge of their field
Double clicking it opens a weird folder.
I just put the ISO on my external drive and now my backup is gone what happened?
Proceeds to assume laypeople have backups
The real problem with that Guardian piece is the insistence on perpetuating a superficial identity marker well past its expiration date. Why do we keep breathing life into the dead horse that is racism? Let it die along with the aging population of people who grew up when it was still cool to think that race exists.
It's only a matter of time before custom key oard layouts are a thing, I'm sure.
I think the audience he is writing for is more the gamer, regular consumer type of user. People who need power for games, not workloads. The kinds of people who talk about repairable portable workstations on a federated social media platform are likely not his ordinary audience lol
The only thing that I've seen is Framework's customer service is unbelievably fantastic--until it's not. They had some deceptive marketing on their SSD modules, which they marketed as being useful for booting an OS on, but then later said on their forums that they weren't designed to be used that way.
The average customer won't have any issues, but every once in a while a customer reports feeling burned because they had persistent issues that Framework was unable to solve. After RMAing a number of times their support tells you to pound sand.
If you drop it and break the frame you can easily replace it.
The GPU module is actually an industry standard created by... Dell, I think? So that, at least, is technically non-proprietary.
Either way, Framework has been open about specs and has encouraged a cottage industry of third party bespoke mods and modules for its laptops. I wouldn't worry to much about that.
Sure, the skills are critical. But the tech industry is dysfunctional right now, and there are no signs of reform on the horizon. Anyone attempting to break into the industry is going to find it extremely difficult to get started without experience, as companies don't want to hire entry-level candidates anymore.
Even though there may be lots of high-pay, high-skill job openings, there is a dearth of true entry-level positions in IT that don't require existing work experience and advanced skills.
Sounds like luck is on your side.
Absolutely right. And it blows my mind that at this point people are getting less technologically literate, not more. Job security for us IT guys, I guess.