oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]

Sure, maybe I was a little ambitious. But my point is mistakes can bring learning, so it might be worth it to try something “hard”. Trying things in a virtual machine is also often a good idea.

Attempt an Arch install entirely from memory. You might want to try this in a VM, in case something goes wrong, but just do it. If you can’t quite remember what to do, man and ls /bin are your friends.

linux from scratch /s

Linux Mint is good, Pop_OS! is good, Fedora is good.

Welcome!

Maybe, maybe not. They probably would’ve been hacked regardless, things went downhill quick. The hackers weren’t ever identified, and it’s unlikely they had the capability to do that.

Wasn’t exactly my workplace, but a contractor. Basically, as a cost saving measure, they layed off half of the IT department. And then they got hacked. They just re-flashed everything, and the threat was out of their system, but they messed up big time. The new images weren’t locked down properly, so they almost immediately got hacked again. I noticed that they’d messed up, and pointed it out to a few people, but it was too late.

Now the execs need a scapegoat, so they gut the IT department again. I don’t work for them, not even close to the business relationship, but their managers call me to a meeting room and try to get me in trouble? Try to make me admit to doing something wrong? And it was just their admin people there, not like my heads or anything. It was kind of a surreal experience.

This was a while ago, and their tech is still a bit funky. (Some details are lightly fuzzed, but this all is basically true)

I am now on the floor

Kinda just ideological commitment. I sorta just started using Linux right off the bat, the only time I wasn’t a Linux user was way back when I was using the family Mac. Linux has gone quite far over the years, in quite a positive way.

Emacs or Neovim could also serve to replace Word, depending on what you need it for.

If you really want word, you could try Microsoft 365, where its in your browser instead of a thing you download.

CoreCTRL, but written in Rust? Based. I’ll try it out when I have the time.

Arch, becaus AUR and rolling. Alpine, because lightweight. opensuse tumbleweed, because rolling and SUSE does cool stuff. NixOS because declarative. Guix, because declarative and bootstrapping.

Those are just the distros I use, I’m sure others are nice too.

talk of political organization outside of violent revolution is frowned on

Then why do so many people talk about how they are voting for ? Admittedly that’s mostly on Hexbear, but if anything I think we have too much electoralism and too many s.

All of them, basically. Arguing with people on Discord got pretty wild sometimes, and one of them straight up pulled up https://slurs.info and tried to use as many as he could. I suppose trying to argue with those people was a mistake, but I didn’t get doxxed so all’s well that ends well.

In person? Most of the homophobic or transphobic ones, though I don’t think most of them were personally directed at me. K*ke (I’m not Jewish) and n-word lover are also pretty bad.

here /s

For international stuff I mostly follow the BBC and Al Jazeera. More locally there are a few pretty cool news sources in my area.

Use it to install gentoo or Linux From Scratch

It’s more similar to not believing Goebbels radio broadcasts about the USSR. We don’t distrust NED, the CIA, or the State Department just because they did something bad once, but because it is both a consistent pattern of spreading misinformation and because it is their stated purpose to rile up dissident groups in US opposed countries.

“A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA” - then NED president Allen Weinstein
NED’s President Carl Gershman said that the NED was created because “It would be terrible for democratic groups around the world to be seen as subsidized by the CIA.”

It’s literally a group that does CIA stuff, without using the CIA name.

Yes, mostly blogs and Arch Linux updates.

Two $20 bills. In all seriousness, there are a lot of board or card games that go for less than $50 dollars.