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   Watchful Citizen (watchfulcitizen@goingdark.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Mar-2026 11:35:22 JST Watchful Citizen

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   @nowherefast @latenightlinux Fair points, agree with most.

   The terminal though, Linux has come a long way. But search how to fix almost anything and the top results still assume terminal, not because there's no GUI way but that's just what lives online. You have to specifically search for a GUI solution to find one, and even then the comment section is half arguing about your distro choice instead of answering the question.

   It's honestly the same overwhelming problem as Mastodon. Pick an instance, what the hell is an instance. Pick a distro, and most people coming from Windows don't even know what a distro is. There's a whole middle group between power user and calling IT who will Google a fix and just give up right there.

   I love the terminal, it's fast but also fast to destroy something. Regedit is more cryptic and dangerous but it just never shows up at the top of a Google search so it feels safer.

   Most of the app gap though, web apps sorted it since devs stopped writing three native versions of everything. Business software is still the exception like you said, and hardware is mostly fine now, though Nvidia is still a damn mess.

   Linux is definitely more user friendly once you're in, but the path there is still pretty bumpy for a non technical user. Would love for it to go more mainstream.

   I did install Pop!_OS on my father in law's old 2013 Mac though, and other than wrestling with network drivers and writing an rclone backup script he has had 0 complaints.

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   William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 00:13:58 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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   "Never mind that he was the most pro-union president we’ve ever had. Never mind he is a fundamentally decent man; his character is not in question.

   It wasn’t enough apparently. …

   Biden didn’t fail America — America failed him."

   #Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #future
   /16

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   Coal (taurus@thicc.horse)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 06:20:58 JST Coal

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   @Susan60 @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic that's the true autistic question.

   It was probably all a trick and all those people who ignore the ambitious word choice did not get in the secret aspie club

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   nicholas_saunders (nicholas_saunders@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 18:10:27 JST nicholas_saunders

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   @RD4Anarchy @thetechtutor @aral I asked you one question. One.

   You declined to answer on either a moral or legal basis.

   Here is the question:

   What military action would've been legally or morally acceptable to your high standards following the #AlAqsaFlood operation?

   You've dodged this question.

   It's a very reasonable question. Your inability to form a coherent reply isn't terribly interesting.

   No nations. No borders. That's not an answer but a dodge.

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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 01:26:33 JST Paul Cantrell

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   @markearnest @marcelias
   Yup. In principle, it it could be possible to bridge a Bluesky protocol to ActivityPub. But that protocol is currently so hypothetical, that’s hardly even a useful question.

   It’s a bit like asking whether a newly self-declared micronation on an oil platform could join the EU in 20 years: maybe an interesting thought exercise, but not a question that’s close to answerable in practical terms yet because circumstances and human context matter as much as technicalities.