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Lofi Beats To Bleat To @growlph.greywolf.social · 1d

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Lofi Beats To Bleat To @growlph.greywolf.social · 1d

Well fuck, Linux might have snuck its way onto your PC while you weren't looking.

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Lofi Beats To Bleat To @growlph.greywolf.social · 1d

I still recommend the hoodie and sunglasses, though. Style is important.

Lofi Beats To Bleat To @growlph.greywolf.social · 1d

But I also feel like there's this impression that "installing Linux" means putting on a hoodie and sunglassess and hacking into the Matrix, when it's really just "plug in thumbdrive, reboot"

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Lofi Beats To Bleat To @growlph.greywolf.social · 1d

Fair. I remember "re-install your OS from scratch every year" was basically just how you kept DOS/Win95 machines working, so that was just a skill you developed by being near computers.

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Lofi Beats To Bleat To @growlph.greywolf.social · 1d

Yeah, and sadly anyone who says Gimp, Inkscape, and Darktable are suitable replacements for Adobe are either ambitiously optimistic, or coming from a *very* specific workflow.

Lofi Beats To Bleat To @growlph.greywolf.social · 1d

But if anything approaching "graphic design" is in your computer-touching workflow, then yeah...maybe not

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Lofi Beats To Bleat To @growlph.greywolf.social · 1d

I mean, I get your frustration with smug "why don't you just...", replies, but I also think the pervasive idea that Linux is turbo greybeard-only hacker shit is a little dated.

Grab a thumbdrive and google "Install Mint" if you want, it's less intimidating than you're probably imagining.

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Lofi Beats To Bleat To @growlph.greywolf.social · 3d

Nobody:
My Brain: "Hey there are probably flat-earthers who are also Columbus-day apologists"

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Lofi Beats To Bleat To @growlph.greywolf.social · 4d

Time to get winter coats back out of the closet for the season and that means free pocket candy!

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Lofi Beats To Bleat To @growlph.greywolf.social · 6d

It's weird to me that so many people turn on the Steam and Discord features that just tells everybody on the Internet what application you're using on your computer.

What is the supposed value of this?

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Lofi Beats To Bleat To @growlph.greywolf.social · 8d

Wolves are better than code.

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Blktigerart - Commissions Open! @blktiger.bsky.social · 10d

A switcher's dilemma

#furry #furryart #art

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Lofi Beats To Bleat To @growlph.greywolf.social · 10d

Oh well this is just wonderful

Lofi Beats To Bleat To @growlph.greywolf.social · 10d

I still believe that the thing it's *trying* to do, building a social media platform this isn't owned by anybody, is a great idea.

But that makes it really susceptible to becoming a place that only ever talks about itself and what its trying to do.

Lofi Beats To Bleat To @growlph.greywolf.social · 10d

My specific brands of geeky interests intersect well with the types of people who use Mastodon, but the toxically congratulatory circle-jerking is very real.

Lofi Beats To Bleat To @growlph.greywolf.social · 10d

I...
Goddammit not a word of this is wrong

Lofi Beats To Bleat To @growlph.greywolf.social · 13d

I'm pleased with myself how much of this list I can comprehend

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Cashew @mintcashew.bsky.social · 13d

Bathtime! 🫧🛁

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Lofi Beats To Bleat To @growlph.greywolf.social · 13d

For real I actually do still like/use Mastodon, but the culture has a pretty serious gate-keeping problem, and I've largely stopped advocating for it.

Lofi Beats To Bleat To @growlph.greywolf.social · 13d

Once you start federating with other instances, people from across the fediverse can start criticizing your tagging and CW etiquette, too!

Lofi Beats To Bleat To @growlph.greywolf.social · 15d

Pet it instead.

Lofi Beats To Bleat To @growlph.greywolf.social · 15d

And every "neat, AI helped me create a spreadsheet" has about a dozen "AI just helped grifters steal someone's life savings", which isn't a great ratio.

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◬𐃋♡Astrid♡𐃋◬ @astringent.darkwo.ke · 15d

a person standing on a veranda with the text " I bring a sort of "rotating gas station hotdog" vibe to going to bed that the person who wants to cuddl don't really like"

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Lofi Beats To Bleat To @growlph.greywolf.social · 15d

Tubifier.
I always suspected that's how it worked.

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