It's not like the economy isn't purposefully being wrecked by the current government administration or that they're not trying to purge as many workers as possible to pump up unemployment and reduce the number of people who can patronize a small business and it's not as if the government isn't picking winners and losers and it's not as if the tariffs don't impact small business more than big business and so on and so forth.
But sure, believing stupid shit like you can fight and survive in a rigged economy where competitors a hundred times your size want to crush you economically and legally totally makes sense and isn't moronic at all. /s
This post references this is [USA] in the title and even when it comes to Wall Street the entire economy is hinging on a small number of massive businesses with absurd valuations at the moment.
the /var/log/ folder would be the best place to start.
When a random freeze occurs note the time. Try to be as accurate and close to the time it happened as you can, including day, hour, and minute. A. If possible, do this for multiple instances of this happening
Check various log files starting with syslog and look at the times noted above. Look for any relevant errors being thrown by the system at these times.
She says that if I can’t even have the courage to “go outside often and be a ‘normal’ human being”, I wouldn’t be able to handle/manage the assets/investments they have. (Small bussiness, won’t go into detail about it)
Your mother is a giant fucking asshole. Neither of those things have anything to do with one another. Nerds have created whole businesses online while barely seeing the light of day and have become millionaires and billionaires from it while barely seeing the light of day.
Secondly, if she really think their "small business" is going to survive the purposeful collapse the wealthy are going to put us through, she's not just an asshole, she's also a certified fucking moron.
A lot of us still manage to live in the real world and the clothing real people wear and the way they style their hair and makeup isn't really an "AI slop" thing.
Very astute and the whale tails themselves were a consequence of the low rise jeans era for women where now we are in a high waist jeans era for women.
In the late 1970's bell bottoms went out of style.
In the 1990's a different style of bell-bottoms became fashionable again for women in particular.
In the 1990's a popular look was the giant baggy jeans like JNCOs, which were technically a type of "bell-bottom."
In the 2020's, big giant baggy jeans like JNCOs are back in style again.
Further, did everyone forget the entire scene kid/emo kid styles of the early 2000's because that style was very unique and I don't see anyone who looks like this these days.
Haircuts like this were the thing in the early 2000's for women and men until about 2010ish when everyone put their three wolf t-shirts up in the closet and cringed at why they thought being ironic cringe was so great.
Both the 1980's and early 2000's were "skinny jeans" eras.
Just like how the broccoli headed boys are a thing for the 2020's.
And even the broccoli head boys are a natural re-occurence of the permed haircuts in the 1980's
I can think of plenty more examples but these are just a few.
So my question is, since everyone on lemmy is a programmer, what do you guys actually do?
Hey now, some of us hate programming and the deepest we go is being scripters. I, for example, am dogshit at coding, but I am pretty solid at systems and network administration.
Agreed on that, it's not the best solution, but for people who need access to computing and whose devices have aged out of other support, it's pretty much the only option available.
I'm in the minority who thinks Linux isn't for everyone and that people who approach computing from that standpoint should really stick with macOS or Windows. Linux gives you more freedom to be in control, but that freedom to be in control also demands more knowledge and involvement to be able to be in control. "With great power comes great responsibility" kind of thing.
For an analogy Windows is like being a passenger in a car with someone else driving, and Linux you're in the drivers seat of the car. You simply are required to be aware and involved in driving more because you are in control, and that control requires knowledge. You don't get to sit back and go "I don't need to know what all this stuff does because I don't want to." Understanding how the pedals and steering wheel work is a requirement for driving, as is paying attention to what is going on around you on the road. As a passenger, you aren't required to know or pay attention to as much because you're not being given the freedom of control, you're just along for the ride. Linux is giving you that freedom of control of being the driver, but you have to know a lot more to do it than you need to know just being a passenger (Windows).
I know everyone else thinks Linux is ready for the prime time and ready for regular users who don't want to have to learn and just want something that works... but I personally don't. Simply because Linux is a lot less guaranteed to "just work" than the other options.
It's basic in the sense that Linux is always a work in progress and no matter how hard you try, you're going to need it at some point.
When your system randomly turns on to a black screen and there is seemingly no way to log in, knowing how to switch to the command line and at bare minimum back up your settings and documents before you wipe and start over is pretty key. To be clear, I have been in that exact situation and even more confusing situations where the PC has basically become unusable but I was able to fix it via CLI.
Just imagine losing months or years of work because you don't know that you can probably fix it all from command line and likely don't even need to wipe your computer and start over if you can narrow down what is going wrong and remove it via the command line.
Graphics driver installation is pretty key on any system but AMD graphics systems.
For example if your parents want to watch any videos without them stuttering or being weird, whether Intel or Nvidia, they will need the non-free graphics drivers installed so it doesn't run like shit.
To my knowledge nearly every AMD chipset already works out of the box on Linux.
At least a basic primer about finding your way around in Linux in command line, and where various configuration files live.
When shit goes wrong (and it likely will at some point) knowing how to dump to another tty and log in via the console and fix issues via command line is pretty key. This has saved my ass more times than I can count now.
Having trouble finding a CLI focused course, but this is a free course that covers a lot of basics:
It's not like the economy isn't purposefully being wrecked by the current government administration or that they're not trying to purge as many workers as possible to pump up unemployment and reduce the number of people who can patronize a small business and it's not as if the government isn't picking winners and losers and it's not as if the tariffs don't impact small business more than big business and so on and so forth.
But sure, believing stupid shit like you can fight and survive in a rigged economy where competitors a hundred times your size want to crush you economically and legally totally makes sense and isn't moronic at all. /s
This post references this is [USA] in the title and even when it comes to Wall Street the entire economy is hinging on a small number of massive businesses with absurd valuations at the moment.