100% and I’m a software developer and have been for ~30 years. Good QA people know how to find regression and bugs _that you didn’t think about_ which is the whole reason why it shouldn’t be under “engineering” and that it should exist. One of the QA people I work with currently is one of my favorite people. They don’t always make me happy (in the moment) with their bugs or with how they decide to break the software, but in the end it makes a better, more resilient product.
I'll add that Libre Office can be great but if you already have an ecosystem you like, most of those have online editors too which can handle most of the average user needs.
Oh wow. That's wide open then, just about any of them. I run Mint on older mac hardware (happily cruising along on an 11" MacBook Air), I'm a sucker for Ubuntu's default look and feel a lot of the time - and they have a pretty large user community (as do all the major distros), and love Fedora too.
One note - a lot of the distros are Debian based (Mint/Ubuntu/etc.) vs. Red Hat (Fedora, Asahi - M1/2 Apple hardware Fedora, etc.) vs. Arch Linux.
If you're just getting started it's probably easier to get into the Debian world, but I'd advise you to dip your toes in other distros too unless you just deeply fall in love with your first pick.
(I have my 80 year old neighbor happily running Mint on their old computer to save them from having to buy a new Windows machine.)
this. despite all the ghost stories and war stories. it’s how apple sells you the watch to save you from that bear attack or that time you got trapped somewhere.
the stories are real, and in some cases you may need it — in most cases you don’t. and it clearly doesn’t always protect you.
you make good points but i'd argue it's both. i'm talking about the subconscious bias aspect of racism (to your point it's a relic of racism, but it's an active relic) as well - this is the very reason we need DE&I. we're 3 to 4 years into it and still non-marginalized folks don't seem to fully understand the problem.
i feel like "talk to an African American of privilege" and what follows is incorrect. i know and have known a lot of well off Black friends and associates and they all have stories - there are a lot of racists in the north too, they just act a little different.
Sure, lots of people who are white and deny systemic racism or the effects of it exist. That’s literally the problem we’re fighting and why we need diversity efforts.
(i'd add that as someone who's made most of my living developing integration software - i'm hoping once things are cemented a bit that there's a non-ridiculous path to having a 2-way relay for sites that want it)
i agree with a lot of that. i run a Pleroma server (less overhead than Masto), i think the winning combination will be the group that comes up with a universal baseline for online behavior. the intellectually dishonest purveyors of hate speech have been making a lot of inroads in the fediverse and in part (imo) due to the fact that we don't have a good way to trust other admin's decisions to block/ban servers and users and relay those quickly.
Dorsey isn't really "actively" in any of this process or direction beyond the initial setup of things at Blue Sky btw. Jay is doing a great job and a lot of the "protocol" hubbub is actually some unfortunate (in this scenario) nomenclature and less actual new protocols.
i'm for whatever thing(s) allow for a healthier online experience for folks and whatever keeps _us_ from being the product.
I see a comment I’m not going to engage with, but I have two kids and I had them happily in a Honda Fit and a VW GTI (3 door) when they were little.
I came here to say this is a great idea, I literally took a loss and sold my Volvo XC40 Recharge and went back to an old BMW i3 because the larger vehicles honestly don’t make actual sense (the article clarifies this more than I’m going to bother with here) to me.
We need to stop propelling tanks and start driving vehicles sized to fit the need.
This is fantastic - (note: confirmation bias on my part) - it's quite similar to the list I keep in my head and have been trying to gently teach my daughters as they are growing up. Who they are partners with is a good one, that (for me in the work world) hasn't come up in a timely fashion to make other decisions but would be quite handy in social situations.
contractors, "specialists", etc. who never took the time to read how CORS works and how simply you can handle a list of allowable sites, etc.
it's only complicated until you take the 5-10 minutes to properly understand what happens where. if you don't know, go do it now.