Isnt that how all social media sites start out. Starts with nerd culture and eventually other people come in later?
Exactly my thoughts. Back in the day when I joined the Instagram in the first month of launch there were only professional photographers posting some great stuff, it was fun until celebs and general public started using it.
Those darn celebrities, always ruining people's fun on social media.
I wonder when one of them is going to show up on Lemmy...
!usernamechecksout@lemmy.zip I hope you are not the real one ;-)
Of course I am.
Would esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress (and producer) Margot Robbie ever lie to you on the internet?
Some would say that acting is the grandest lie.
So normies are the original enshittifiers, then corporations come in. I knew it, I should have stayed a shut-in.
"Eternal September"
Starts with nerd culture
In a nutshell, this is the perfect social media for me!
That's how social media was invented. I remember when computers were things that only geeks and nerds were into. And then Neverending September happened, and suddenly normies were everywhere on the internet. We create something new to congregate, and they just invite themselves in after we make it popular. MySpace, Facebook, Reddit...even IRC and Geocities were taken over by them. We eventually took back Usenet at least, but only because it stopped being free for most people.
Political science? Hmm, switch to all communities and sort for new. Have fun.
Haha, the appeal of political science to me is less about arguing with strangers about the news and more talking about broader philosophies and theories and then applying them to what we are seeing in the world. I feel like I can have a more nuanced conversation about the prisoner's dilemma with regards to x topic, or applying philosophies like American Pragmatism to solving problems.
Talking about the news without using some of the tools political scientists use has so many emotional trip wires that it can feel like I'm just keeping up with the Kardashians. That said sometimes I just can't help but keep up with the Kardashians.
I’ll have you know that I wrote a semi-functional webpage in HTML when I was in college 😎
Not a programmer either, nurse in a psychiatric hospital. But I am interested in FOSS and web 3.0.
What web 3.0 implies are great, what it actually is in its current form is not. Simply focusing on FOSS should be enough for now and there's a shit ton of really good FOSS like this medical practise software as well as stuff inspired by Open Source culture itself like the Open Source Ecology.
No correlation I hope.
I'm glad you're here. Now there are at least two of us!
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
My education background is nursing and social work. I've only ever used Windows and very surface level. I've never programmed anything, the closest I've gotten to anything technical is troubleshooting a game that I've modded to within an inch of its life.
Though I'm picking up an old laptop from a school surplus next Monday to wipe and begin exploring Linux. My only other experience with Linux is the interface of my housemates NAS (which I use only to manage a plex and valheim server)
I'm an IT tutor in a community centre - basically just teaching grandma how to close all her iPhone apps. No experience or formal qualifications needed. If you can be patient while showing seniors the basics of the devices they've got at home, you're hired.
Our organisation currently pays too much for an IT managed service provider, who doesn't provide a comprehensively managed service, so my boss wants to end their contact and hire me as a dedicated IT management officer. My boss is 75 and is confident in my abilities because she thinks power cycling the router when the internet goes out is an amazing and high level skill, but I know enough to know how much I don't know. But I also know I can learn.
So maybe in a year or so I'll understand more of the jokes on lemmy.
Fuck openai
A corporate going down in history for the abuse of word open despite being anything but
Their entire business is constructed by harvesting the open internet, then keeping the end result closed. Yet they are called "open"AI.
~~openai~~ closedai
Python? Where? All I see is people praising Rust here. Also, Ubuntu? That's the most hated Linux distro on Lemmy.
So this supports my point completely. No fuckin clue what you're saying.
Gottem
Bring on the political science and jazz posts! Would love to see them around.
I'm not a programmer either, but I am a Linux and open source user so I can at least wade through the waters, lol
Same here. I count the days until it's discovered that I'm just a normie who agrees with the ideology of open source, and am hanged for my crimes of not knowing what a "cron" is, thinking stdout has to do with diseases, or wanting to play video games with 0 troubleshooting haha.
This incident will be reported
Hey, I studied jazz too! Now I'm working on becoming a sysadmin lol
Music and programming both have a sort of logic to them
I sir am a Linux engineer and resent your insinuation that I'm a programmer.
I know a little bit of Python thanks to ren'py, and I have Linux on my Steam Deck, so... I guess I'm in transition?
Not long before I have programmer socks and start binge watching Star Trek 👍
To make things more confusing, I program, I use linux, and I talk about all of these stuff, but I am not a programmer :p .
In the early days, it was laborwave and esoteric websites, the programmer humor seems relatively new to me
I studied both political science and programming.
I can't think of a good joke, but I wanted to share.
For representational reasons, I miss the logo of the Rust programming language, but I have the hint of an idea why the creator of the meme didn’t put it in there.
you are one of us now...
I studied political science
Oh, you're looking for NonCredibleDefense.
You will assimilate
political science and jazz
Theodor Adorno, is that you?
Hell yea I love a good wiki deep dive
I am actually writing an analysis of the music industry and counter culture responses with regards to AI and the future of music! I'm calling it musical humanism. 🎷 🎺 🎸
the same thing goes for people who aren’t star trek fans. i didn’t even know there were so many different star treks until i made an account here
I'm no programmer either, but switched to the penguin out of necessity, since my PC completely lost the ability to run Windows for no reason. But I vibe with KDE Plasma now, so it's not half bad.
(Someone tell me where I find my mounted devices as a folder pls, thanks)
Devices are in /dev. Bulk storage devices can be mounted anywhere on the file system, but by convention you can look up where permanently mounted drives get mounted by looking in /etc/fstab. Automatically mounted drives are usually put in /media and manually mounted devices should go in /mnt.
