Have I been on 10 years? I dunno, but I like to think I’m pretty experienced for an amateur.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed! It rolls! It games! It works with newer hardware and gets along sorta reasonably with Nvidia!
Best part? If any of that ISN’T true (rarely after an update), it seamlessly integrates BTRFS snapshots with the boot menu, to just roll back and wait like a week til the wonderful souls working on it, fix stuff.
The community is also very supportive.
I imagine people trying to run aged applications through WINE?
Sincerely, thank you for spelling it out to the rest of the class.
These things are always worded ‘agreeably’ enough that by the time we’re done going back and forth debating it all day, they’ve pushed even more invasive policies on us.
I think back then it was generally assumed this simply assisted with office communication.
Imagine telling a UNIX engineer in the 70’s how almost everything you enter into a machine would eventually be used to manipulate or entrap you by the State and surveillance capitalism.
I’m just using Docker on Proxmox, buuuut… I’m gonna look into this project. It looks like a LIFESAVER. Thank you for sharing this. You’re awesome! :D
“Everyone’s always asking me: ‘What are you doing, retard?’, but nobody ever asks 'How are you doing, retard?'”
Still use it, unironically, along with things like “righteous.”
I like taking what I like from various ways of speaking, until mine is my own. Don’t let anyone take that away from you. :p
Surfing the world wide web. Sounds so dumb now.
I dunno I still kinda love it. In part I think it might sound a little dumb now thanks to how big money has turned the primary web interaction into “Schlorping at the Centralized World Trough.”
But web surfing is still a thing with the Indie Web, and it can still be an apt description because you can catch and ride “waves” of various networked pages and find really neat stuff. There was a sense of exploration to it, the whimsy that you could get carried really far from where you started and potentially have a lot of fun along the way.
I still like to surf the web. Cowabunga. :)
I love surfer slang because it’s rooted in a verbose comprehension of the English language. The hyperbole of it brings me joy lol.
Yeah, there was that “Glimpse” fork with a mission to primarily change the name annnnd…it was quite short lived.
Lol I’m legit wondering what was meant by mentioning Digg, just saw an article it was gonna come back but got overwhelmed with bots and Ai?
Is there… more to it?
I think a global mesh network with an encrypted layer would be better. With micro transactions for delivery.
…We’re going back to the postal service, but with fun little mystery ciphers!
“I laughed. My friend laughed. The toaster laughed. We shot the toaster.”
I’m so into this as an idea. The saddest part being I seem to be one of the few people I know willing to to the hardware/hosting/setup and I get this sinking feeling
“Nobody cares. They just want convenience.” :(
I’ve thought a lot about trying to set up a VPN’d social media alternative before, where it’s literally just friends and family sharing what matters to us without ads and stuff.
But with storage prices lately? That’ll definitely have to wait. 😅
I want that nice middle ground 90’s-2000’s 'net:
There was a lot of weird stuff, there was scary places, but general browsing and surfing wouldn’t USUALLY suddenly hit you with some NSFL / CSAM stuff that made you wish your brain had a “bleach port.”
Stuff like TOR is really cool in theory, and absolutely necessary, but it still has that back-alley “Don’t stray from the street lamps and guide posts and trust no one.” vibe. Definitely not a place one can (easily) go around making friends.
That’s why I just enjoyed watching Mutahar surf it, since he knows what he’s doing lol.
I’m curious if people tend to use i2p as much.
And then there’s that pesky network effect, of course: Secretive places on the web might finally break free of the corporate net, but the non-criminals inhabiting it will likely be those already deep into sweaty nerdery and a definite non-zero chance of untreated schizophrenia.
But, yeah, make something too accessible and it gets Eternal September’d into yet another extension of corporate / state hegemony…
I’m deeply invested in where we go from here, and how to make that future brighter as opposed to following the downward trend…
Is this even for static sites? Geeze, that sounds awful. I’ve been getting really excited about starting up an “indie web” site and enjoying that HTML/CSS digital gardening I was way too ADHD to get in on in the early 00’s…
Don’t worry, you’re one Docker pull away from having to look up how to manually migrate Postgres databases within running containers!
(Looks at my PaperlessNGX container still down. Still irritated.)
“You’re cool, you’re cool, screw you tho , you’re cool…” XD