today I learned - using Linux at home since 2005ish and I have never had an auto-file generated on any USB attached drives of mine…

honestly - while a Mac is certainly less painful to use than winshit, putting rubbish files recursively into each(!!) accessed folder, on all thumbdrives ever inserted, that’s something Jobs deserves to burn in hell for.

yeah, not quite as good as German sour dough, but at least real good french bread :)

Honestly the release version looks way more appealing.

yeah, proper facepalm there… hello Winsucks Recall…

That falls under convenience. Getting others to leave corporate bullshit malware and/or spyware takes effort (and I know very well how frustrating it is). Personally I refuse to use discord or FascistApp (I guess with the recent policy changes that name is warranted) etc with all the implications that it has.

Been using matrix since forever :) But the dissing of shitty corporate centralized applications is necessary because way too many naive users still give their data away for convenience.

Fuck discord. Proprietary spyware. That shit isn’t getting on my computer anytime ever.

Thank you. Fuck that piece of shit.

I am never gonna not up-vote a pro Luigi and anti CEO millionaires post.

Damn good summary. Even more BS than I complain about on a weekly basis.

(written from my smartphone when I should be sleeping)

It’s a guess by me, but honestly I think it’s quite accurate - then again I just checked some statistics and those absolutely does not confirm my guess - however most unfortunately mix PCs and laptops (which are not the same in terms of how you learn with them, imo) and oftentimes even tablets (which are completely useless to learn anything about computers). The actual numbers as per the first statistic I found say that households with PCs are down from ca. 65% in the early 2000s to ca 43% in the 2022.

Thinking about it, that might actually be true, but I don’t think that anywhere close to 40% of children get exposure to computers & spend way too much time on mobile devices.

Glad I’m putting together a Linux box for my oldest to wreck/play with!

And that is absolutely the best you can offer them to find out if they have an interest in / a talent for anything IT. And playing games is a good motivator to try and start figuring out problems.

kids are missing out on a lot simply because the number of PCs in private households has shrunk by ca. 90% - consoles just don’t give the same gaming experience / definitely not the sense of immersion.

long live (classic) EQ :)

That first bit is a pretty accurate description of a lot of early online gaming.

yes. about three fiddy…

Should be, but I am afraid that our system encourages corrupt people to seek positions of power.

Until the next corrupt politician… but yeah, let’s hope Linux stays, this time around.

Nope, not Germany. The city of Munich, and it was rolled back because a politician took Microsoft bribes and drank the Microsoft snake oil.

Big red button might help, but when I’m “in the zone” with coding, normally I forget everything around me :) One moment I’ll be browsing the web on my leisure time, and then I have an idea for one of my work projects, switch to that and “wake up” 8 hours later with lots of stuff done and no idea when I “clocked in” - that’s usually when I do “ls -lR” on my project folders and check file timestamps :D