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c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · LeftReddit2@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026

Wait, there's books and classes on linux?

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Way back in like 2006 when I was in middle school, a friend of mine pulled me aside to tell me there’s more than just Windows and Mac. His parents worked IT and they showed him a lot of stuff and he showed it to me. I installed Slackware on a laptop with him. I basically just did as he said.

In high school, I looked more into it and tried installing some other distros but landed on DSL as the laptop my parents got me was a piece of shit and it worked good enough. I moved onto Ubuntu later because DSL can only do so much and really struggled with it lol.

And then as the years went by and Ubuntu started to suck I moved onto a variety of other distros like Arch(which took me 2 days to install and I fucked it up), Void(which also took me 2 days to install), Mint, and when it finally came out I tried things like SteamOS, Bazzite, and Nobara.

This all as I was dualbooting with Windows. I never took any classes, I never read any books on it, I just figured it out by doing it, breaking my OS a bunch of times, chatting with friends and randos on forums and Reddit, and the man command, thank GOD for that. All that and I just come back to Mint which I adore for its ease of use.

So all my knowledge is muscle memory. What the actual fuck does a package manager do? Like I know generally, but there’s more to them than just downloading shit? What is the difference between Systemd and OpenRC? WHAT THE FUCK IS HYPRLAND OR WAYLAND!? I DON’T UNDERSTAND! 20 YEARS AND I LEARNED FUCKING NOTHING!

shoutouts to tux

c/privacy@lemmy.world · LeftReddit2@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026

Are there any ways to know if you're safe from a breach? And what should you do if your sensitive information has been compromised?

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Like what do you do to care for privacy after a security breach has happened?

This is obviously in relation to that Nexus breach. How can you find out if your own data was a part of that?

And if you have been “pwned” what should you do besides a credit freeze?

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How do we get the average person to care about this? Like okay, as dumb as I am with tech, I probably am more techy than the average layman.

And guess what, they do NOT care about this shit. Most of my non-tech friends still think GrapheneOS is a thing criminals or paranoid schizophrenics use.

They also tend to not care about age verification things. “So what, you show ID at the bar or store to get alcohol, what do I care?”

Like really gamers, how can we make the common person care about this at all? How can we communicate to them it matters and will impact them?

on GrapheneOS Isn't Happy With Google Over Pixel's Widening Head Start in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 2d ago
I have a decidated, dirty windows 10 laptop for all my windows needs.

“What windows needs do you have?”

CompTIA won’t let you take certs on Linux lol. Trust me, I tried. My professor was a fat, angry, scottish guy who also hates windows and took my side, but nothing we did made that shit work.

…and also yeah, online gaming. Fuck anticheat software.

on Thats why I only smoke weed. Don't want to risk this nasty windows Programms to suddenly start working in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 4d ago
I’m autistic and have ADHD, so things often work backwards for me. Like how I drink coffee to help me sleep.

on CachyOS & Arch's Heated Rivalry in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 5d ago
I think it is. Again, I game on Mint and have had 0 issues with any of my games so far. Maybe he is just using older hardware or something?

on CachyOS & Arch's Heated Rivalry in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 5d ago
Is it? I game on Mint and have had no issues so far.

on CachyOS & Arch's Heated Rivalry in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 5d ago
Ah yes, I remember the days I used Arch. I was a younger man back then, I was so thin and heterosexual. Then one day I did an update and boofed my bootloader. I made the repairs, but I grew tired of this. I stopped liking it when my computer broke because of my own incompetence and just wanted something stable.

Now I use Mint and I’m fat and gay.

on CachyOS & Arch's Heated Rivalry in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 5d ago
I use Mint btw.

on CachyOS & Arch's Heated Rivalry in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 5d ago
on Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5d ago
There are Linux distributions where you never need to touch the command line unless you’re doing advanced stuff.

Yeah, this is why I use Mint.

on Wait, there's books and classes on linux? in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026
Is it really praxis tho? Like it is just being a good guardian to my niece and her friends. I get it to an extent that ‘ads are the price you pay for using a service for free’ but to what end? Google is a massive company and should vet the advertisements they allow a lot more.

The fact children are getting highly sexual ads is a failure on their part and I see blocking ads as a fair reprisal to them until they can sort themselves out. It’s my civil disobedience as a consumer. Like especially these days with how massively invasive ads have become.

on Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026
I’ve seen my niece and her friends get incredibly sexual ads on their YT before. Taught them both how to install adblock even on an iPhone and managed to make them not see that shit anymore. Mind you, my niece and her friends are FOURTEEN!

I felt like such an adult when they were getting excited that Fandom didn’t have ads anymore when I showed them what a DNS sinkhole is. This is what it means to be an adult. To use your wisdom to help the new generation navigate theirs.

on Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026
It’s fucking shit. I went that “building your own router” thing but had no idea how to do it. I had an old Mac Mini lying around and so turned that into my router by flashing OPNsense on it and ran into issue after issue.

Here’s the biggest issue I had that I know some of you were thinking but I wasn’t at the time. OPNsense is built on FreeBSD, which lacks proper support for Apple shit, so the Mac got mad at me every time I tried to flash it. So then I got an idea. Built the router inside a VM in the Mac Mini!

Believe it or not, this actually all went pretty well of getting a vRouter inside of a mac computer and having the Local LLM, I uses Google Gemma tuned to Hermes running Ollama on it, but ran into an issue of the AI agent being painfully, agonizingly slow and revving up my tormented Mac Mini every fucking time I asked it to do anything.

This is because Apple bullshit. I am not qualified enough to answer that, I’m a help desk guy so 50% of the time I talk about IT stuff, I’m confidently bullshitting. Anyways, I got oLMX, gave the local AI agent my API kets to my Mac Mini vRouter, and any time I need anything I can just go into the Mac itself as a computer and talk to it.

I am still trying to find out how to do that thing where you like message the agent through some messaging app as that I have 0 idea how to do. Talking to it through Signal would make my life a lot easier, but sometimes you grow as a person when you reject convenience and make your own life harder.

on Backflip: Apple now wants to train AI models with user data after all in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026
You mean I can read books and take classes on eating ass!?

on Wait, there's books and classes on linux? in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
I assume their answer is taking the piss, but seriously tho. Local LLMs are amazing. I have one in my router whenever I need anything. Using them shows just how much you give away when you use cloud based ones because they will tell you what data they collect.

I waste no water and no electricity but my own and it feels good.

on Wait, there's books and classes on linux? in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
Such is life. Nah, I still use linux and now rather than dualbooting I have a dedicated DIRTY windows computer for all my online gaming and windows needs.

on Wait, there's books and classes on linux? in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
Can you teach a package manager how to love?

on Wait, there's books and classes on linux? in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
God forbid a man be sincere. What would I even be satirizing?

on Wait, there's books and classes on linux? in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
on Wait, there's books and classes on linux? in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
Having dicked around with Local LLMs, they do get better the more they learn about you. But going through what these things figure out is kind of horrifying.

Like looking into the training data they find out, they can infer a lot about you and your methodology and it is creepy. Like really creepy.

I’m not anti-AI by any means. I have a Local LLM Agent in my router to keep an eye on things in case anything fucks up and it’s pretty good as my little administrator, but still. It knows a lot about me to the point I had to catch myself to not fucking call it “he” or “they.” It’s an object but it’s an object with a frightening amount of info on me. I just wish the average populace had this level of think of what you are giving up.

If you’re not that techy… well first, what the fuck are you doing on Lemmy and on the Tech server? But then I want you to think about this. If someone stalked you for a week, what could they find out about you? How much do you think they would learn?

That is how these huge companies are and especially AI. They’re stalkers who manage to learn a lot about you by just observing you.

on Backflip: Apple now wants to train AI models with user data after all in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
When I was younger, I actually liked it when my computer broke because I thought fixing it was giving me knowledge. I guess it did to some extent, but I’d rather my stuff just work now that I’m older.

on Wait, there's books and classes on linux? in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
Ain’t no way I will ever try Gentoo. I don’t even know what “compiling from source” means or what the difference between that an “binaries” are.

You know, it is shocking I work IT when I barely understand tech at all. Though to be fair I am a help desk guy. I have Google IT Support, ITIL 4 Foundation, CCNA, and Security+ so I know some stuff. Kind of. A bit.

I should just take that Linux+ class shouldn’t I?

on Wait, there's books and classes on linux? in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
Wait, you guys learned linux by reading about it? I just flashed that puppy up (the distros I have used are Slackware, DSL, Ubuntu, Arch, Void, Mint, Bazzite, SteamOS, Nobara, and then back to Mint which I am on now) and hoped to god I’d figure it out as I went along. Thank fucking GOD for the man command. That shit is a lifesaver.

I still know next to nothing about Linux lol. All my knowledge is raw muscle memory.

on your entire personality now in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 13 Sep 2026
You know gamers, I really love how this era of capitalism we’re living in is just companies trying to spy on us as hard as possible to know what exactly to advertise to us and if you show any form of rejection to it, then you get called a schizo by your friends.

on Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consent in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 12 Sep 2026
Hold on guys, I need to ask the AI what my opinion about this is.

on New "Siri Recap" Feature for Apple Watches Can Create Summaries of Your Conversations Throughout the Day, Apple Says in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
I’m familiar with that, but that is just for passwords. For the Nexus breach, how can I know if my own ID was in that? Am I just cooked, chat?

on Are there any ways to know if you're safe from a breach? And what should you do if your sensitive information has been compromised? in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026
What if you’re like me and use multiple operating systems? I usually use Linux Mint but also have a Windows 10 LTSC computer for my gaming and other windows needs.

on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 Sep 2026
Did a gas leak happen in here? Why are the comments on this post so weird?

Maybe some people are a bit too ‘all or nothing’ when it comes to privacy. Youtube isn’t the best, but what Gamers Nexus does is incredible investigative journalist work and they should be celebrated for it. I’d have had no idea about this had they not done the work they did. Fuck Google, for sure, but let’s not toss the baby out with the bathwater.

Privacy is really more a spectrum than anything. A spectrum of what are you willing to deal with and how much is it going to impact your life. At least that is how I see that. Anyways, on that note, fuck LG.

on The LG Smart TV Problem - Gamer’s Nexus in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
Is Sable worth getting into? My friends and I have been using Element for a hot second now and it works good enough for us. Like if it does everything we need, so how is Sable better?

on Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of Users in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
Element.

on Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of Users in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
I don’t trust the AI slop. Some psycho youtuber out there will find a way to do it.

on I'm so sick of corporate greed in c/gaming@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
Moved onto Matrix a while ago because of this. Gonna be real, Discord is better but all Matrix asked me for was hardware verification. I fucking hate this ID verification thing. Like we are going to see a sharp spark in identity theft going forward.

…and shit, I might be part of it. I had to verify with an ID to get my CompTIA tests, which I passed. I am still arguing with Pearson to delete my personal data, but I might be in the shitter with all the others getting their identity stolen.

on Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of Users in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
Wait, type shit? I legit didn’t know.

on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
Ublock Origin Lite still works on Ungoogled Chromium for me, at least.

on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
Nah man, we gotta get the cameras RIGHT in his house. What if someone gets in we couldn’t see from the outside?

on Flock Safety's controversial CEO just got a taste of his own medicine in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
Oh no! This guy is in danger! We should set up a ton of security cameras around his house so we can all keep an eye on him and make sure he’s safe!

on Flock Safety's controversial CEO just got a taste of his own medicine in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
As much as I do think this is good to push for, the fuck do they mean by the “strictly” necessary thing? I’m from the US and this is what started the shit. IT’S STRICTLY NECESSARY WE STOP KIDS FROM ACCESSING PORN SITES and then it snowballed. I even had to fucking verify just to take a CompTIA test much to my chagrin. I passed btw.

Been messaging the company to ensure they delete my shit before I’m a victim of identity theft.

on Stop Killing The Internet: No Digital ID & No Age Verification | European Citizens' Initiative in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 29 Aug 2026
Probably a good thing, honestly. We all need to be more offline anyways.

on Reddit forces login to access old.reddit.com in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026
It’s why I moved onto Lemmy. I can’t stand new Reddit.

on Reddit forces login to access old.reddit.com in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026