Tbh, I don’t recommend beginners to try out multiple distros in the beginning. Realistically, if you don’t have in depth Linux knowledge already, all you’ll be able to differentiate is the look of the DE and the wallpaper.

I find, too much choice tends to confuse beginners more than it helps them.

So I’d rather recommend something simple like Ubuntu and let them try out the flavours with the different DEs.

Choice is better for later when people actually understand what they are looking for.

Python sure has changed since I last used it.

Finally designers are realizing it’s not 2013 anymore and nobody liked the Win8 designed-in-powerpoint style.

I recently had to work with XSLT (may it’s inventor burn in hell for their crimes).

That’s pretty much programming in XML. It’s probably the worst possible thing.

!woosh@feddit.de ;)

This was a joke about how Apple just takes open source stuff (in this case, they used FreeBSD as a basis for MacOS/iOS/iPadOS/tvOS/watchOS), rebrands it and then claims it was theirs.

The advantage is that you can rebrand it, close the source and sell it as your invention.

Btw, did you know that Apple invented Unix?

It’s kinda funny how many people have no problem at all with a cloud account on their phone but get a mild stroke when Windows asks them to create a Microsoft account.

The problem is discoverability. And that’s where I don’t get why anyone in their right mind would use Discord for stuff like that.

Say, you have Github, a forum or even a subreddit for your project.

Somebody asks a question, you answer it.

Somebody else has the same question. Either they are intelligent enough to find it themselves or they ask and you just link your old answer. Done.

On Discord, it’s basically impossible to find an answer that is more than two screens full of posts ago. So you have to keep answering the very same questions all the time.

Tbh, this is not a good solution.

It dumps you in front of a wall of 22 pages of servers on my laptop (equivalent to 4.35 meters).

Most of which have completely nonsensical descriptions.

If I look at e.g. the first page (top 6 servers) I get these:

• mastodon.social: The original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit
• mstdn.jp: Mastodon日本鯖です． よろしくお願いいたします。 (Maintained by Sujitech, LLC)
• mstdn.social: A general-purpose Mastodon server with a 500 character limit. All languages are welcome.
• mastodon.world: Generic Mastodon server for anyone to use.
• mas.to: Hello! mas.to is a fast, up-to-date and fun Mastodon server.
• mastodon.online: A newer server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit

Ok, so of these I can only rule out mstdn.jp, because I don’t speak Japanese.

mastodon.social and mastodon.official are, I guess, the “official” instances, with one of them being newer, for some reason. What does that mean? No idea. Is mastodon.social running out dated software? If not, why fork the instances at all?

mstdn.social and mastodon.world mention that they are general purpose. Without (and even with) Fediverse experience, I would expect any social media platform to be general purpose unless otherwise stated. So they basically have no description.

mas.to mentions only that it’s “fast, up-to-date and fun”. That basically has no meaning, except all other instances are slow, outdated and boring. So now I am worried.

mstdn.social says it has a 500 character limit. Without googleing a new user would have no idea what the regular character limits are. And I have no idea whether that will cause issues when interacting with other instances.

This page is like getting to a used car dealership without a clue about cars and you ask the car dealer to help you choose a car, and the dealer is like “Yeah, so I’m gonna help you. The right car for you is any car on the property of the dealership.”

If you have a little cash to spare, I’d recommend upgrading this thing a little bit.

A 480GB SATA 2.5" SSD costs around €22.

8GB of DDR3 can be had for ~€10.

So with maybe €35 of investment (and probably much less if you buy used stuff from your local flea market app) you could make the laptop much faster and much more usable.

If you don’t actually need ~500GB of storage, a 240GB SSD can be had for ~€12.

Tbh, the “tonal shift” had been happening for a long time. This was not out of the blue at all. It was only unexpected for the “A comic must and can only be funny” crowd.

It’s basically the receipt for an ape.