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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • Yes spending most of the day in a factory or a mine and rarely seeing sunlight is definitively like living as a blacksmith 300 years ago (I said blacksmith because it’s under upper class and I assume by middle class you mean office worker not middle income)

    Being a farmer is much easier as well now because machines make the work 100x easier and you only have to do 1000x the amount.

    Africa has certainly never had stability and the Inca/Mayans/Aztecs certainly had it worse than the rural folk of Central and South America

    Remember all those old paintings of kids going through garbage to find things to sell? That’s certainly not a modern phenomenon

    What about the people in winter climates that for a large portion couldn’t work in the winter? Yes they still did stuff but it wasn’t 40 hour weeks









  • I assume Linux involves typing commands somewhere

    It doesn’t, it’s akin to command prompt/poweshell on Windows albeit less verbose or Terminal in Mac. It’s just something you can do but if you don’t use it on Windows then you aren’t going to need it on Linux

    I would probably prefer to use my phone instead of a computer with a totally new os

    Android/Chrome OS are Linux, I think this is the easiest way to show people how little “command typing” is needed

    just wanted to share what the reputation of Linux is among non tech people

    Tech people use that reputation as well, a bunch of people think it makes them smarter but Linux is better for non tech people than Windows because it has a natural defense against scammers/viruses.

    I switched to it because Windows was too complicated and I couldn’t get anything to run well <- Linux has less overhead but that wasn’t my issue



  • People wouldn’t use Firefox if it couldn’t run google and if it made bing default then you’d see a bunch of idiots making memes about how it’s so bad and they won’t use it because it’s default

    Google has been worse than bing for a decade and chrome has been worse than Firefox for longer. But people still use them and think they are the best.

    You even have people make jokes about edge only existing to download chrome

    I feel like you vastly overestimate the audience