Sawed Off Shotgun?
Yeah I guess. North American suburbs are not built for youth. It sucks here. I wish I was born in the Netherlands or something but where I live I have no way to actually safely leave my subdivision since its divided from the nearest city by the Highway 401.
As a 17 year old who only really uses Lemmy, Youtube and IRC I think social media is the least of my problems. I wouldn't spend so much time online if there was anything else to do. The outside is a suburban wasteland that offers nothing. The most I can do is walk to the library an hour away and read a book there.
As a 2007 kid I don't many of my peers actually are but we are pretty different than post 2007 kids. I still grew up with satellite tv for the most part.
Same (I use arch btw). Although I do end up using MacOS at work.
I have never seen a kid sit down for O Canada unless they are in a wheelchair. Of course getting sent to the principle's is not worth it but I would admire a kid who had the balls to do it.
As a zoomer (17) I kind of agree but I really don't think its that deep although big tech does seem to profit off people's incompetence. Yes kids my age know very little about the computers they use. Hell most kids don't even seem to know where their files are or how file paths work. I recently in Comp Sci class had a kid look at me confused when I mentioned the folder he was looking for was in his home directory. The dumbing down of Tech is definitely a culprit. Not always even in ways that the tech easier to use. Finder on MacOS outright hides things from you on purpose like file paths and being able to access arbitrary folder on your system. There are a considerable amount of features locked away in the settings menu where the vast majority of people will never even look. I highly think all of this is malicious as it severely degrades user experience and sets them to fail in the long run. Don't even get me started on the whole random files will end up in ICloud/Onedrive and there is nothing you can do about it.
Well 17 still. I still got like 6 months.
As somebody who was born in 2007, I have no clue who modern celebrities are either. People consider me out of touch but I have no idea what half of what people around me are saying. The acronyms don't help and I am too scared to search them up.
I am young (17). I like old things. Most kids my age like simple old things just because of the vibe. They feel a lot more real than digital stuff. I buy dvds from the library and the thrift store all the time even if I could just pirate them online in minutes. Owning stuff is nice.
Jaywalking isn't even illegal where I live.
No shit sherlock.
I think he means in pre modern times. Not the current era.
bruh
and thats why you always need a backup computer.
I think a IRC server/channel full of lemmings would be cool. I wish my friends used IRC.
Except the school prepares the children with none of that in its current state. Those chromebooks are incredibly locked to the point of being practically useless beyond searching stuff on google. We have still have textbooks at my school but most people prefer the pdf version. Most of the kids at my school are incredibly tech illiterate to the point of not knowing how the filesystem works. Most of them have used mobile devices as their primary computers and use laptops just as a glorified browser.
Yeah its closed source because the devs don't want people to fork the project for some reason. I thought the app had pretty good user experience when I used it but I am more of a vimwiki type of guy.
Obsidian, its pretty pro user but the devs are scared of forks for some reason.
Your welcome.
Hello anybody know how to flash debian to EMMC on an Orange Pi 3G IOT B?
I can't seem to get it to work. I always get these errors in the terminal when running the spi flash tool that they recommend:
Connecting to BROM...
Scanning USB port... Search usb, timeout set as 3600000 ms
and then eventually an S_TIMEOUT. I think my thinkpad is not even detecting the orange pi at all through usb. Anybody have experience with this. The official documentation is really bad. I also seem to get this on startup of the flash tool:
QMetaObject::connectSlotsByName: No matching signal for on_pushButton_browser_clicked()
QThread::setPriority: Cannot set priority, thread is not running "05-14-2024" QObject::moveToThread: Cannot move objects with a parent
Wireless wifi is not working after chroot rescue on Arch Linux.
So basically I stupidly tried to update while my thinkpad had low battery and it powered off halfway through the update. The system wouldn’t boot because it was complaining that vm-linuz/linux was not found so I performed a chroot-rescue and got it to boot again. I must have messed something up during the process because now the device wlan0 is not showing up in iwctl device list. How can I fix or diagnose this issue? (I am using btrfs if that helps). Has anyone had a similar situation and can lend a hand?
Google is putting ads in gmail. WTF?
Why would anyone use this over Proton Mail or the gazillion alternatives if it treats people like shit.
"One of my favourite hobbies is misattributing quotes" - Gandhi
You can boil water with water by using the electricity from hydro power to power your kettle.
You have probably done it without even noticing. The modern world is clearly miraculous.
Does this still hold true?
Academic Programmers - A Spotter's Guide
Pete Fenelon
Department of Computer Science, University of York
Introduction During the course of a computer science research project (or even a DPhil) it is highly likely that a researcher will have to generate at least a couple of lines of code. Most researchers fall into a number of well-defined categories when it comes to programming. This handy guide for supervisors, other researchers or the plain bored helps you to identify some of the prime suspects...
Disclaimer: this was written when I should have been concentrating on my current research project, the one my previous contract was for AND my DPhil thesis! No resemblance to individual researchers alive, dead or at York is intended.
1 "I Am The Greatest" Firmly believes that he is the greatest programmer to have walked the earth and has the three-line version of Tetris to prove it.
IATG spent most of his undergraduate days in the terminal room and only got a degree because he could
The King's Toaster
Once upon a time, in a kingdom not far from here, a king summoned two of his advisors for a test. He showed them both a shiny metal box with two slots in the top, a control knob and a lever.
"What do you think this is?"
One advisor, an engineer, answered first. "It is a toaster," he said.
The king asked, "How would you design an embedded computer for it?"
The engineer replied, "Using a four-bit microcontroller, I would write a simple program that reads the darkness knob and quantizes its position to one of 16 shades of darkness, from snow white to coal black. The program would use that darkness level as the index to a 16-element table of initial timer values. Then it would turn on the heating elements and start the timer with the initial value selected from the table. At the end of the time delay, it would turn off the heat and pop up the toast. Come back next week, and I'll show you a working prototype."
The second advisor, a computer scientist, immediately recognized the danger
Richard M. Stallman, Linus Thorvalds , and Donald E. Knuth engage in a discussion on whose impact on the computerized world was the greatest.
Stallman: "God told me I have programmed the best editor in the world!"
Thorvalds: "Well, God told me that I have programmed the best operating system in the world!"
Knuth: "Wait, wait - I never said that."
—Erik Meltzer, rec.humor.funny
How to use IRC at school?
I want to use IRC/SSH at school but both seems to be blocked. I assume they blocked all ports outside of 80 and 8080. Is there anyway to get around this? Maybe a proxy? How would I set this up?
My Thinkpad T480s randomly dies with Arch Linux
I can’t find an active thinkpad centric community on here I am just going to post here. My Thinkpad T480s, 16 GB RAM, 238 GB SSD is randomly shutting off while at like 50%. When I try to open it back up it always is dead and I have to connect charger to boot it up again. Why is this happening? Is it battery issue? It complains about not being able to read temp2_input while shutting down and sometimes say PM usage count underflow. Not sure what that is supposed to mean.