I feel like I’ve been gaslit into running FOSS but every success only brings me closer to fighting god

  • hangonasecond@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Reddit death > installing mint on my second PC > realising I can run most of the games I play and installing mint on my main PC > start learning Rust as a first foray into programming in a long time > realise I want to go back to uni and study info tech to get out of my shitty marketing job > get a shitty second hand laptop off my parents that struggles to run windows and install endeavourOS to try something different.

    It really is a slippery slope. When does it end???

      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Eh, it’s not bad. Everywhere there’s computers they’ll need a computer janitor to keep them running. It’s just not the insanity of 2021-2 where everyone needed techs and starting wages were rising rapidly

      • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
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        10 months ago

        Nah, just not the best time. That was 1996. 2021 was pretty good too.

        Besides some high profile layoffs, there are still tons of tech jobs out there in less visible industries. Widget factories and insurance companies all have IT people, along with every one else in general.

      • los_chill@programming.devEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Why? No worse than any other job market right now. Sure Google layoffs get headlines but it’s not like tech skill are getting any less employable across sectors. If anything those skills are more critical now than ever.

  • Ashen44@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    Fuck did we all go down the exact same pipeline? I just installed Linux last week and I haven’t booted up windows since.

  • m3t00🌎@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    it really is comforting to know you can do 99% of stuff you want with PCs without a license from Microsoft. FOSS has its own headaches but at least you don’t have to wade through a PR swamp to fix stupid bugs

  • Margot Robbie@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Speak for yourself, I first got on Lemmy to promote a movie, and the next thing I know, I was using Arch (BTW) and moderating an Android community.

    I’m still not quite sure how that happened. This place.

    • SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip
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      10 months ago

      That sounds kinda like my journey, although without the Marxist part.

      1. Clueless about tech, bought an iMac
      2. These ads are annoying. [Installs adblock Plus]. There. Except for fricking Taboola, they can DIAF. And the cookie popup banners. Why do they love cookies if they’re not playing cookie clicker?
      3. It’s the MacOS Catalina Update!! It Thanos snapped my iPod music library. This taught me to avoid MacOS and realize that updates often just make things worse. Set up a dual boot with Windows.
      4. I start browsing r/asshole_design too much. Teaches me to never trust a corporation. I also realize how phones keep dropping useful features. I finally realize uBlock origin blocks much more than ads.
      5. Oh boy, this is where the rabbit hole starts. I’m sick of how slow my Mac is, addicted to discovering new cool apps on my phone, and discover FOSS. I install Linux for the first time, and it runs quite well on a laptop from 2009. Also YouTube goes full greed mode.
      6. Get my new Windows gaming laptop, try to balance privacy with convenience. But I’m irked at how slow it is for some basic tasks. Everything is stable, except when the laptop’s SSD borked.
      7. Uh oh. Discord, YouTube, and Reddit all make massively greedy decisions, and I don’t want to support those platforms anymore. I discover Lemmy. I try to focus extra hard on FOSS and donate $150 over the course of the year. I think this tells me I’ve became radicalized. Proprietary platforms keep getting worse and worse.
      8. Linux resurgence. Tired of Windows, and one of my classes needs a UNIX terminal. Sounds like it’s time to dual boot (on 2 SSDs), with Ubuntu being the default. Also I buy a year of Nebula to support creators and stick it to Google.
  • FrostKing@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I don’t run Linux (though I’m admittedly more interested in it than I used to be) but the reddit API stuff definitely made me learn more about foss, and value it more.

    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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      10 months ago

      If you’re already feeling some interests your gonna jump ship sooner or later. I made the switch last year and its been nothing short of amazing.

      Steam, gog and epic games all work. Some run better then on windows, others require a tinker step.

      You can run and install most exes, even pirated games using Lutrius.

      Blazing fast. I have sm called hyprland sway and win11 feels like the stone age compared.

      Best of all: COMPUTERS ARE FUN AGAIN You learn so much but its intuitive enough you don’t even notice.

  • bnjmn@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    I got pissed off at Google Photos, which led me down a self-hosting rabbit hole. Ended up installing Linux everywhere, even my “gaming” one eventually (I do development, and WSL was a resource hog).

    The hardest thing to degoogle has been email - I’ve used the same address for years. But I use Thunderbird so at least I don’t have to see ads in my fucking inbox

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
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    10 months ago
    sudo hostnamectl set-hostname SOMETHINGNORMAL

git clone https://github.com/popey/unsnap
cd unsnap
./unsnap

    The first one will set the name behind the @ sign to something not that long. I recommend just usint “PC” for privacy reasons. Often nobody needs to know your device model.

    The second one removes snaps and snapd and installs installed apps as flatpak instead. Flatpak is a universal format, similar to snap, came out a bit later but not only Ubuntu uses it. Snap also works on multiple Distros but people dont like it, it is still slow (now just slowing down boot) etc.

    • filcuk@lemmy.zip
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      10 months ago

      What hostnames do people use? I’m tired of (and bad at) naming all my devices, I just tend to leave default as op, at least I can tell them apart easily

      • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I use names from FFXIV.

        For my work-related VMs, raid bosses. It makes it easy to spot my VMs because nobody sane would name them stuff like Erichthonios or Hippokampos. Unfortunately I had to draw the line at 724P-Operated Superior Flight Unit A-lpha.

        For my home server VMs/CTs, I use the names of the gods - Byregot, Rhalgr, Azeyma, etc. and Eulogia for Proxmox itself.

        • Nobsi@feddit.de
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          10 months ago

          You could also name them so everyone can identify what they are at a glance instead.