I’m unfamiliar with KISS. I don’t really distro hop, since what I use has satisfied all my needs to date.

Debian for my daily workstation. Minimal terminal-only install, and then I piece together my environment.

For smaller, headless applications I like Alpine. Containerized projects, VPS, etc.

The Borderlands series might work. Also I believe L4D2 might run on all those, if y’all wanna coop some zombies?

You need to download a client, and then you connect to a server. Once on a server, you can join (and create) channels.

https://www.irchelp.org/faq/irctutorial.html

As far as servers go, I personally enjoy tilde.chat and libera.chat

That’s why you use pseudonyms and hide your power level. However, the experience is what I’m after.

I believe having a good, healthy personal foundation allows people to make better choices for their communities.

Same. I’ve returned to things like IRC for my online social time.

When ‘reasonable’ people delete/deleted twitter/facebook in droves, are we just ceding the ground game to the racists and the ones who can shout the most hate?

Leaving a toxic environment that also is a privacy and advertising nightmare will always be an excellent personal choice.

I don’t disagree, I’m just saying if anyone was on the fence and needed a push.

The best crash course I received was when I needed to translate my startup scripts into systemd services. The hands-on learning was priceless.

If it can detect suspicious unfriendliness, then I’m really in trouble.

Is FlyingSquid Blocked?

They’ve grown up in a world where immediate gratification is expected.

I know every generation says that about younger generations, but perhaps that’s because with every generation it just gets worse and worse.

It was a topical joke revolving around the numerous rounds of tech layoffs since 2023, as well as the current state of industry hiring, which is pretty depressing and toxic if you’re a software engineer currently looking for work.

I’m a software engineer who was recently laid off.

> Q3 2024 earnings report drops

> record profits

> CEO gets fat raise

Still, I bet you’d immediately have to get back on and next day yourself some new underwear.

You have $875k worth of stuff in your cart? Imagine accidentally clicking 1 click checkout or something.

Chase your dreams. The warehouse will always be there.

Eesh.