One reason I like living around rednecks. After the last hurricane, which didn't really touch our hood, dudes were patrolling the streets in pickups, hunting downed limbs.
There was a sandy patch on the way into our camp where cars would get stuck. One day I pulled up on 3 with 2 vehicles and a bunch of neighbors working on getting them out. Parked up the street and walked down, "OK. Who we getting out first?" I've been towed out myself on 4-5 occasions.
Coolest thing is that all those dirt roads are private. Somebody put their own money into upgrading and fixing the whole mess. There are at least 2 guys that cruise around on their little tractors and grade the streets now and again.
Thought on this before. I don't think any of us could take the change without going insane and likely catatonic.
It's not just about learning coordination all over again, getting used to new physical quirks. Different hormones, reflexes, nerve wiring, gut bacteria, senses, just too much to handle. Hell, I'd go into shock if your dropped me in my own body from 20-years back.
I think that's more a conservative mindset, and I don't mean in any sort of modern political sense.
That sort of mind is fearful of change, fearful of people and things that aren't traditional, more easily disgusted, etc. They're a needed balance to the opposite sort of mind. But goddamn are they stubborn.
Sometimes the graphics go fuzzy and I have to reboot, not even restarting the video drivers works, no issue in Edge.
Imgur doesn't load. I use the Imagus extension in both browsers, flawless in Edge, spotty in Firefox. (Yes, that's on Imagus, probably not the browser.)
I can watch YouTube logged in on Edge with Ublock, no ads. Have to log out in Firefox. So if I see an interesting video here, I have to copy/paste to Edge.
Porn browsing? Straight to Edge. What six keys do I need to hit for private mode again? CTRL+SHIFT+N, as it ever was.
There's more, but those issues are top of mind.
I could probably figure out these issues, point being, non-technical users would run away. Kinda like how lemmy is utterly broken for me. My brain just shunts off the annoyances, but I can't expect anyone else to do so.
I can hardly sell Linux to Joe User, when not even technical people use it as a daily driver, was the point of my original comment.
Seriously, y'all are not moving me to switch daily drivers here. I run nothing but headless Linux servers, but for a desktop? Let me start a fight: Which distro?
Last job was at a software dev. One soul of 130 worked with Linux as his daily driver. One. And y'all expect non-technical people to run Linux?!
Also, and this guarantees downvotes, I don't have the Windows issues you all tell me I have. Same install, years and years, multiple SSDs and PCs, no issues. I can hear you grinding your teeth, "NOAWW! You have problems! I INSIST your desktop fucks up all the time! I INSIST $MS crams unwanted updates up your ass!" Well, there is an update icon waiting on me. Not touching it ATM.
Only issue in recent memory is that it sometimes doesn't wake properly. About once every 2 weeks I have to hold the power button for a few seconds, let off, hit it again, acheive desktop.
Not trusting the gang who talked me into Firefox last year. What a fucking mess of a browser. Was on Edge last week, without realizing it, everything was smooth as glass. Firefox fucks up the most basic spellcheck. Really?! Still have to swap over to watch YouTube without ads, how's that for irony? Imagur is plain broken outside of Edge. I get weird graphic artifacts and issues on Firefox.
Much of what my anecdote was about, the veneer has slipped. And yes, much of it is legitimate. Much seemed to come from, "I'm not the racist my parents were!" But it was weird and borderline scary seeing that veneer peel off on that last trip.
I can usually turn a blind eye to bad CGI, but The Hobbit was next-level awful. It wasn't so much bad as unfinished. I felt I was watching a pirated movie before post production was complete.
Alien is a 10/10 for me. Showed my wife last year and she was indeed on the edge of her seat for the duration. And she hates science fiction!
So much of the movie has leaked into pop culture and memes that it's easy to forget just how horrifying it is, how well crafted. I hadn't sat down and really watched it for decades until I watched it with my wife.
Lemmy always beating the socialist drum, yet I've never once had an answer as to how socialism prevents power and money from being concentrated at the top. Communism is the even worse version.
Don't be daft. Humans aren't evil, we simply didn't evolve to care about anyone outside our Monkeysphere. Give that a read, what do you think? I've never read anything that gives such solid explanations for so much of human behavior.
Maybe racists keep in on the down low around me, but I live in the South and never hear anything racist. And as a middle-aged white guy, and somewhat of a redneck, I'd expect them to think I'm safe to rant to.
When I moved here 20-years ago, I experienced racism from black people like never before, weirded me out. Can't remember that last time I felt that. We've all changed.
Counter anecdote though! Traveling Mississippi last year with my Filipino wife was distinctly uncomfortable for the first time. Can't put my finger on it, can't describe a single incident, but I felt we were shunned for the first time. Those people were formerly outgoing and hospitable. Not now.
Somebody clue me in on Typescript. I'm somewhat familiar with scripting, PowerShell guy here.