(and yes — i do love a good emdash, and despise that it makes me look like AI)
Readit Newsottoflux commented on Discuss: Linux has been solid for a long time, come on in – the water is fine · Posted by u/ottoflux
ottoflux commented on Discuss: Linux has been solid for a long time, come on in – the water is fine · Posted by u/ottoflux
Oh wow. That's wide open then, just about any of them. I run Mint on older mac hardware (happily cruising along on an 11" MacBook Air), I'm a sucker for Ubuntu's default look and feel a lot of the time - and they have a pretty large user community (as do all the major distros), and love Fedora too.
One note - a lot of the distros are Debian based (Mint/Ubuntu/etc.) vs. Red Hat (Fedora, Asahi - M1/2 Apple hardware Fedora, etc.) vs. Arch Linux.
If you're just getting started it's probably easier to get into the Debian world, but I'd advise you to dip your toes in other distros too unless you just deeply fall in love with your first pick.
(I have my 80 year old neighbor happily running Mint on their old computer to save them from having to buy a new Windows machine.)
I'll add that Libre Office can be great but if you already have an ecosystem you like, most of those have online editors too which can handle most of the average user needs.
ottoflux commented on Discuss: Linux has been solid for a long time, come on in – the water is fine · Posted by u/ottoflux
I do simple stuff: web browsing, some coding (not professional - just need g++, perl, and emacs), some writing (probably need LibreOffice), maybe some audio and video recording. What distro would you recommend?
Oh wow. That's wide open then, just about any of them. I run Mint on older mac hardware (happily cruising along on an 11" MacBook Air), I'm a sucker for Ubuntu's default look and feel a lot of the time - and they have a pretty large user community (as do all the major distros), and love Fedora too.
One note - a lot of the distros are Debian based (Mint/Ubuntu/etc.) vs. Red Hat (Fedora, Asahi - M1/2 Apple hardware Fedora, etc.) vs. Arch Linux.
If you're just getting started it's probably easier to get into the Debian world, but I'd advise you to dip your toes in other distros too unless you just deeply fall in love with your first pick.
(I have my 80 year old neighbor happily running Mint on their old computer to save them from having to buy a new Windows machine.)
Get off social media, and go do things you enjoy that aren’t centered around consuming.
Volunteer at a museum if you like art, etc.
You just have to go live and bump into other people living in the world.
ottoflux commented on Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to huijzer.xyz/posts/123/do-... · Posted by u/huijzer
this. despite all the ghost stories and war stories. it’s how apple sells you the watch to save you from that bear attack or that time you got trapped somewhere.
the stories are real, and in some cases you may need it — in most cases you don’t. and it clearly doesn’t always protect you.
ottoflux commented on A 9KB (3KB gzip) single HTML notebook, perfect for minimalists chunqiuyiyu.github.io/xie... · Posted by u/chunqiuyiyu
not a dig, but it reminds me of how much i used to like tiddly wiki.
ottoflux commented on Article on crowdstrike website has not aged well crowdstrike.com/resources... · Posted by u/hellajack3d
“zero hidden costs” — lol. maybe one?
ottoflux commented on System-wide open source ad blocker for Mac, Windows, and Linux github.com/anfragment/zen... · Posted by u/krpl
lofl. no. like… did they try any 2nd order thinking here?
ottoflux commented on No One Is Happy About Diversity Efforts at Work wsj.com/articles/diversit... · Posted by u/agomez314
Admittedly didn't read the thin article. I do think there's something to the premise that people from diverse backgrounds end up unhappy.
Poorly run diversity efforts are upsetting to POC. In a way they all tend to be poorly run. It can be infantilizing and condescending.
Ultimately, we end up falling short of the numbers, so the people behind the programs are unhappy. POC are unhappy because of the quality of how the programs tend to be run. Obviously the fascists/republicans aren't happy. The centerist people tend to fall between the people running the program and the right.
So who's supposed to be happy. I will say that in my experience, these diversity programs don't exist. That is to say the really overbearing ones people complain about. I imagine it's a bigger thing for SV and some big companies (although, I have worked for big companies).
In my experience, programs are nearly non-existent and the minorities they hire are at least "pretty competent", which is hard to find in software. If anything, it looks like they're still being pretty choosy. So people like OP get their wish, and the programs are pretty laid back.
for anyone else not able to get past the paywall:
from the article, only around 14% think DE&I efforts are "too much", while 54% say "about right", 17% "not sure", 15% "too little".
for thinking increasing DE&I at work is a good thing, only 47% of white people agreed while 78%, 72%, 65% (Black, Asian, Hispanic) thought so.