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  • h6a@beehaw.orgtoLinux@lemmy.mlBtw, I use Debian!
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    20 hours ago

    I’ve been using Debian for 20 years now, since Debian 3.1 “Sarge”.

    My first distro was Knoppix, and it was incredible that I could run a Linux desktop from a CD without installing it. Back then I had something like 96 MB of RAM and my computer was an already ancient Pentium II. And yet it worked fine. This opened my mind about what a computer can actually achieve so I asked around forums in my country and met a guy who had the installation media for Debian. I only had dial-up so downloading DVDs was impossible.

    Installed it and used it non stop since then. I’m running Debian Testing with the Unstable and Stable repositories pinned at a lower priority.

    It’s hard to describe but the first time I used Linux it just felt like home. I have used DOS 6.x and Windows since 3.1 but it didn’t feel like I was in control of the computer; in retrospect it felt something like an amusement park instead of the engineering marvel it really was. We take it for granted now and don’t completely realize that we have actual super computers in our pockets!

    Debian was the epitome of this, for the first time I could understand and control the entirety of the software and best of all: it is a community effort. Smart people all around the world donate their time and skills to create something to improve humanity. What’s not to love and appreciate?



  • I would feel mostly meh about reggaeton if it wasn’t the one and only thing everyone ever hears in a 300km radius of where I live. It’s frankly sad that Latin America, having so much creativity and diversity in culture, ended up with such talentless noise as the absolutely dominant genre.

    It’s literally inescapable and an entire generation already only listens to reggaeton. It’s lazy and unpleasant, combined with a completely commercial mindset.










  • h6a@beehaw.orgtoMemes@lemmy.mlPriorities!
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    2 years ago

    My opinion is that what matters is how much money each part of the network receives.

    For example, instances tend to be transparent about their funding. And we can see that some of them are just months away of being out of cash. Meanwhile, we see people subscribing(!) to a very expensive app that charges $20 to remove ads (and tracking and data collecting) otherwise.

    I think is okay to keep people aware of these things. Getting defensive about it is just a waste of energy. For both sides.