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I can't imagine walking around and just assuming everything is a magic black box and not have the slightest curiosity about how something works.

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Same as you don’t learn woodworking when ordering a table from Ikea, or learning medicine when going to a checkup.

Maybe I'm different than most, but I DO wonder how that table is made, and I do try to educate myself on how the medicines I take actually work. There's been times I've wasted almost an entire day binging Wikipedia.

I'm not saying I have in depth knowledge of fields outside my own, but I do make an attempt. Like, I'm not a gearhead at all, and I only care about cars being able to take me to work and back. But I do know how internal combustion works, and I have a general understanding of the components of an engine.

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'Murican walls. Made of paper, glue, and chalk.

TimeSquirrel,
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What Windows? I got Debian, and some shit that tests my memory.

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Yo Arch users. Try daily driving Linux From Scratch. I dare ya. Let's see what you're really made of.

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I just copy my whole-ass home dir to an external drive every so often like a caveman.

TimeSquirrel,
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I'm going to create a distro where EVERYTHING including your web browser is launched through systemd and it's built from nothing but snaps, just for you guys. I'll call it "Oops! All snaps."

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The American one is the standard midwestern. We also have "Meww, y'all" and "EY! AHM MOOIN' HEEYA!"

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Boss? Is that you?

TimeSquirrel,
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At this point just screw an entire full size box fan to the side of the case as one of the panels.

TimeSquirrel,
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"Democratic republic means you have only Democrat and Republican parties"

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Nobody:

C: "Lemme just accept anything the user gives me, write beyond the input buffer, glitch out, and start executing whatever the fuck the user injects in there."

Still a decent language though, but like an oxy-acetylene torch, it's powerful tool, but you better know what you're doing.

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Jesus Christ dude, go outside and smoke a blunt. It's time to take a break.

TimeSquirrel,
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He was one of my favorite characters actually. Kinda sad.

TimeSquirrel,
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Missed opportunity to bake Doom into the kernel as an Easter Egg.

I feel like breaking my windows install was a rite of passage

Lately ive noticed that i was wanting to do certain things on Windows that just seemed much easier and more intuitive on Linux, based in the OS specific solutions i would see to problems i encountered. And i was more frequently using software where Windows support seemed like an after thought....

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My right of passage was trying to run hobby websites in the early 2000s using a pirated copy of Windows Server with IIS. Then I discovered Apache and Linux LAMP stacks and realized how much IIS sucks and it was all over from there.

I even was inspired to get back into programming due to wanting to learn PHP ( I only had some QBasic experience at the time). Now I can do PHP, C, C++, and JS (granted they all have extremely similar syntax)

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I usually just disable all this useless eyecandy shit. I like seeing the raw boot messages scroll across my screen. Let's me know early if something is fucked.

TimeSquirrel,
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No, it's yo'ou're, and you have to say it like a Klingon.

TimeSquirrel, (edited )
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Where my European 80s Chernobylkids? Remember the milk and local produce warnings?

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Going from retail to trade work 20 years ago was a world of difference. If someone has a day off, it's a DAY OFF and you better not even call the motherfucker. Workers will even get yelled at by the boss for disturbing fellow employees personal time if they don't absolutely have to.

Retail is just all hell. If anyone is doing that, get out. Get out any way you can. There is no future, you will NOT be rewarded for going above and beyond, and you are just a corporate asset.

There's also another major difference. In the trades, comraderie grows organically as you work with others on a job. In retail, it's all forced, with dumbass morning meetings and songs and shit.

TimeSquirrel,
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That was a hell of a cringe-laugh out of me...

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I like KDE cause it has a cute dragon. GNOME is a stinky foot.

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Not just software. Hardware too. Open up all the things! I want a full schematic printed on the back of my refrigerator again.

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