I mean I assume most of us use Linux, but there can still be malware and viruses. Just gotta be careful. I stay away from most games since those are ripe for malware. Video and audio ive never had an issue

I’ll have to try that,

I struggle with this on mint. I’ll add it but then it refuses to launch.

They’re amazing

Totally!!

My take: the inability for a human to be bored today has killed the love of learning. Bored? Open the Tok and scroll. In ye olden far before times (even before Ye Family Computer of Yore) you were bored as a kid and used your brain to find activities.

When I was a kid and even now, when I’m bored I look around me and do a project or fix something or learn how to do something ive been wanting. I just want to learn all the time. I feel thats really rare now.

I’d agree on zero screens in school,or at minimum, Linux only laptops. Zero tablet bullshit.

Doesn’t matter what it looks like. Destroy em all.

Checkmate, I can write cursive, drive manual all the time, and put my phone on silent 😉

I also can operate an 1890 Victrola.

Am I normal? No.

Ninja blender and air fryer. Separate units 😅

Arguably even windows 95/98 was rediculously easy compared to dos or Unix systems before it.

Sit a kid down in front of a c64 with a manual and see if they can do anything on it. If they can read the manual that is…

Sure these systems are “obsolete” but the brain training is priceless. Kids now are training their brains to love ads and corporations. Its gotten super bad. And I’m not even an old person (just been into tech history my whole life) so its rediculous I’m even saying this.

Yeah people have like 3 or 4 on average from what I see, for exclusive shows. Its just shitty cable with ads again.

Yep youre totally right. All in all no one gives a shit about art. I can make a painting just like Jackson Pollock, splash paint out of a can whoopdy doo. Art is a human thing all humans do and so is worthless. Literally anyone can grab a guitar and write a bad song. Its not usable in a capitalistic society and never was.

Yeah ai ruined the internet but web 3.0 had already thrashed it anyways. I’m more worried about mass surveillance and burning the earth.

Not sure whos down voting. They must be more optimistic than me. No one has ever cared about art in the grand scheme. People watch and listen to what they are fed. A few select autistic people care deeply about music/image creation and preserving the humanity behind it. Maybe .00000001% of humans.

In the end, nobody cares, “art” never was and never will be viable to live off in a capitalistic society. Like they said above, you care about my band that makes kind of OK music? Youre gonna buy my record to support me? Doesn’t happen. No one gives a shit.

Yep that’s the microslop plan since its inception. Get everyone in, lock em in, kill off competition, raise prices. Amazon too. Its all a grift and Normie’s are too stupid to see it so we are doomed.

Just keep learning and keep your brain while others turn stupid. I already laugh when coworkers complain about $250 cable/streaming bills. If they took 5 minutes to learn tech they wouldnt need that. Itll be the same in 10 years with $500/mo chatbot subscriptions.

Sorry I’m not fully getting what you want. Just use a search engine that isnt pos google dogshit? Like kagi, ddg, ecosia, searxng, qwant…

Or just search using Wikipedia.

Holy crap how cool

Tells you all you needed to know. Fucking gross.

I know, but to me thats a clever part of it if you read it that way

Yeah its more silly than clever.

Yes I did hahha good one

Theres sooooo many. I’m really into bands.

Can’t think of a lot at the moment but Some I think are clever or interesting:

• deftones (“tone deaf”)
• muse (short and to the point)
• limp bizkit (yeah, I never knew the origin of this till a few years ago). Not a fan of the band myself.