#linux talk

[visgrapplinghooks]

I know literally nobody who follows me except my boyfriend will care about my Linuxposting but I recently switched to using Sway and I feel at home on a workflow in a way that I haven't felt in a long time

I wouldn't say it's better/worse than the GNOME workflow I unrepentently shill for, but it saves me battery life which is useful when you're a uni student with a light laptop

I may return to GNOME sometime in the future, especially for a desktop system, but this is nice lol

[problemnyatic]

Yeah yeah linux having problems is a big joke but honestly have you considered that linux wouldn't run like shit if it didn't have to reverse engineer byzantine proprietary drivers and hardware architecture and deliberately hostile BIOS firmware and one thousand other things that exist solely to force everything that isn't a corporate OS to suffer miserably on every computer ever

[myconetted]

So, about Linux. Do you have a phone that uses Linux? Is there one out there that can access tumblr and be reasonably usable? I'm just sick of Apple and Google's BS and want an opinion from someone in the know.

technically: android is built on linux

less pedantically: i personally have a google pixel with stock android because it's the least bloated and i don't trust most other manufacturers to not put dumb bullshit on my phone.

if you want a linux phone then i've heard good things about the pinephone. here are the operating systems it supports: https://pine64.org/documentation/PinePhone/Software/Releases/. note that a lot of the OSes don't have full support for all of the device features like bluetooth, and there won't be android app support out of the box. you'll have to use something like waydroid and idk how good the compatibility is.

if you want something closer to the normal android experience, grapheneOS might be up your alley. caveat: there is very limited device support; they basically only have official support for google pixel devices: https://grapheneos.org/faq#device-support. google play is disabled by default but you can enable the sandboxed version of it to install tumblr.

if you see other custom ROMs or AOSP-based OSes, you should do some research to make sure you're comfortable with the developers and the security for them. grapheneOS is generally well regarded and most other projects don't have anywhere near the level of focus on security. (less pussyfooted answer: i wouldn't use them.)

[jingerpi]

I think the thing with Linux is it is more difficult, but a lot of that comes from it being different more so than innately harder. Windows is not a magical operating system that we're all born with innate knowledge of, we grow up learning it and getting used to it's quirks, so much so that they begin to disappear and we forgot we had to learn them in the first place. Linux might require "more" knowledge, but it's knowledge that is absolutely learnable if you're willing to go back to the headspace of being a kid again and trying to figure out how stuff works. it's okay to not know how to do everything immediately, it doesn't mean you're stupid or doing something wrong.

In response to seeing calls to switch to Linux I've seen a lot of people cry that it's too complicated and we can't expect people to all jump ship on windows/mac, and I get it, I really do, but so much of it is an experience problem, a problem of community knowledge, more so than it is an actual problem with Linux itself. at this point Windows is tradition and it's so engrained in people it's hard to switch. and that's not a moral judgement! it is hard! I'm not someone who pretends Linux is secretly super easy and everyone and their mother should use it. but... i do think we should recognize why it's hard, and not pretend it's impossible to overcome that difficulty for the sake of more independence in our lives

[andmaybegayer]

if you don't know who the transgender person at the Linux user gathering is it might be you but you could also try looking harder. It still might be you but there's probably a couple more.

[tubapun]

Justin McElroy, on Besties: yeah so I installed Linux on tour

Me, joking: beautiful trans butch lesbian Justin McElroy will be real by years end

Justin:

[july-19th-club]

one thing about being in too much pain to uphold social niceties (period and it's a bad one) is that i did spend all day at work not only doubled over and moving at a pace the ninety year old library ladies were lapping but i was even worse than usual at tasks like Looking At People Who Are Chewing Gum and "not edging away bugeyed when a coworker stands close next to me" and of course the perennial favorite "keeping track of more than three words spoken to me in a row and responding to that" and we'll let me merely say. it is just me and that murderbot. nobody else in this whole damn library understands

[verycrowindeed]

"chrome is like the Linux for windows"

Real thing that a guy that has been studying IT for two years said to me yesterday

[xwhitepolar]

System update and all that...

I have the strong feeling that if I don't update from Windows 7 very soon, I'm getting a strong ass malware lol.

Windows 11 is known for pink soup and crashes, but I will still need to install it for uni and work.

Windows 10 is already obsolete, so I don't want to go for that because in a few years I'm going to be in the same situation again.

Linux Mint refuses to dual boot with Windows. I had to unplug its SSD.

Kubuntu does allow dual booting, but SimPE refuses to work on it for me, and I really need it.

I've seen some tech-savvy users recommend Fedora (@brandinotbroke in particular comes to my mind!) but have we got our tools (SimPE etc) to work on it? is it a good distro for Linux beginners, in your opinion?

I could just disconnect my w7 from the internet but I need it for mods and cc making. :(

Tech deities of simblr, what do you recommend for me? What is a distro that I can use well with Sims 2 and its tools, that can still dual boot with Windows?

....... I should also mention that both Mint and Kubuntu caused audio buzzing 😭 if you have tips on that I'll be eternally grateful !!!!!

[canisvesperus]

From the 2020 folder— ironically the same year in which I ended up hyperfixating on cooking.

[tiredarts-main]

tumblr, please, for the love of the light- stop showing me gay dating app ads

semi-long post condensed below readmore

I already have two wonderful girlfriends, and I’m not about to start looking for desperate older strangers to parasocialize with in a city I hold no ties to.

and -pardon my unsteady grasp on the youth-language- if I even wanted to quote-unquote “rizz up a faggot,” I could just. find one on tumblr. I- th- this isn’t a niche that needs to be filled, it’s already occupied by the very site they’re advertising on.

——

Jokes aside, the concept of a heavily-advertised “hot (demographic) in your area” queer dating site -in today’s political climate where being openly queer is dangerous- feels like a trap. Like an anglerfish luring in the unknowing and vulnerable with glistening rainbow light.

I don’t trust that it isn’t back-ended by some nefarious shit- especially if they’re managing to pay for ads to promote it. Same with that anti-depression chatbot ad I saw a few weeks back, and the “color-by-numbers solves depression/insomnia/amnesia” ad that wove its way between the torrent of tanned pectorals that tumblr is convinced I want to see (I don’t).

It’s textbook manipulation- targeting a weak point in the armor. No big company is your friend. Every single one is either out for your money or your blood. A good chunk want both at once.

…I do wish I could have a proper adblock on my phone, so I could stop getting flashbanged by some random dude’s clip-art critspot

[empiressmp]

I think the fundamental sin of apple is the same as the reason I can never express why they're so shit to apple users, which is that apple products are Toddler Computers, every single thing on apple products are made to be as easy and non confrontational to people who are tech illiterate as possible, which means that it is so incomprehensibly dumbed down that even the mildest competency with even windows or Samsung will make their products unusably basic and uncustomisable.

But don't worry! Because not only are they designed specifically to baby anyone who uses their computers, denying them any opportunity to become truly tech literate by hiding anything more complicated than the accessibility settings behind ten thousand layers of nonsense, they're also! Malicious!!

The Icloud backup is to me inherently evil, because explain to me in simple words why your CLOUD SERVICE doesn't allow you to delete the files off of you devices, in fact they link the storage together! So you are forever trapped with all the files you supposedly backed up! (that you only have one copy of between multiple devices because they're synchronized and therefore are not ACTUALLY backed up) And the only thing you can do about this? Buy more storage! Fuck you if you want to just put your files on your laptop from your phone, buy more storage loser! You don't understand tech enough to be able to tell that this is scummy! By design! Because we give you no opportunity to learn! So buy our storage! Fuck you!!

The reason apple users think apple is good is because apple is literally making them stupider, this is by design, you need to be tech illiterate to use apple.

[c-rowlesdraws]

I had to learn linux for my job a year ago. A distro is just like the OS on a phone. Like how ios and android are different but they are both still phones. You only need to go through a gui to set up most distos too. If you mount a linux image to a usb with something like "rufus" you can try it out without touching your windows too

thank you! Maybe I will try that someday. But not yet.

[beebfreeb]

have you heard of rain world

I have the game! I just haven't played very far into it at all, because I suck bad at it. ^.^

[tvmblrsillyman]

whoever in microsoft is changing the code so their services dont work in firefox and forcing people who need those services to use edge/chrome deserves the