No, that’s the joke. I have to roll a 12 or so to finish even a single chore

I didn’t read but the formatting is 🔥

Brecht said it better.

Oh I’m sure it runs perfectly fine in a container, it’s just not my preferred setup.

Last time I checked, radicale and baikal were the sensible options. I went with radicale, no regrets, but not in a container.

That lesson was always the point of monopoly of course:

The game is named after the economic concept of a monopoly—the domination of a market by a single entity. The game is derived from The Landlord’s Game, created in 1903 in the United States by Lizzie Magie, as a way to demonstrate that an economy rewarding individuals is better than one where monopolies hold all the wealth.[1][6] It also served to promote the economic theories of Henry George—in particular, his ideas about taxation.[7] The Landlord’s Game originally had two sets of rules, one with tax and another on which the current rules are mainly based.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(game)

Same for me. I distro-hopped for about 20 years with OpenSuse, Ubuntu, Debian, Arch and Fedora being the most memorable desktop setups for me. While all that was a valuable experience, NixOS feels like graduation.

For the Nix-curious: I wish someone would have told me not to bother with the classic config and build a flake-based system immediately. They’re “experimental” in name only, very stable and super useful in practice.

It’s a good idea in theory, but it’s a challenging concept to have to explain to immigration officials at the airport.

What’s more, they require you to periodically log in on your phone. If you exclusively use the desktop client, you will get a message that access will be blocked if you don’t sign in on your phone.

I feel you.

Signal still centrally collects metadata and requires a phone number to participate.

If you’re serious about privacy, ESPECIALLY if you’re part of a group looking to organize in a clandestine fashion, you should look into the vastly superior SimpleX Chat.

There’s probably many different ways to achieve this but I would probably use a shell (zsh or fish) that does this by default

Big fan of both fzf and tmux!

Good advice!

That’s what I actually use (and ctrl-r also quite a bit), but up arrow for the meme

I totally understand where you’re coming from, and I’m pessimistic that any flavor of Linux will be an acceptable experience for the person you’re describing. Something like Silverblue may be least obstrusive, but compatibility will still be a prominent problem.

Alternatively, you could show them surface level cool stuff that’s easier to do with Linux. Like blocking all ads, running your own Minecraft server, downloading YouTube videos, building your own PC with cheap parts (and maybe even pirating movies and TV shows, depending on your own practices and relationship to that person). There’s a lot to love about Linux even if you don’t care about privacy and open software as abstract values.

The way I usually start teaching using the console to my (very much non-tech) students is set up a safe container and then let them type whatever, invariably generating a lot of error messages. Then I challenge them to generate different error messages, “gotta catch em all” style. Then we talk about the error messages and what they might mean. After this exercise they usually get the basic idea of command – response, what to look out for and how to compose valid commands.

I don’t know of such an alternative. A quick solution would be to use something like GeoNotes to take geolocated notes.

As far as a self-hosted solution goes, I’d just like to point out that you wouldn’t need a self-hosted database of places. You could query Ouverture (or Google, OSM, etc.) for places near you, and you’d just need to store the check-in on your server with a basic API. This is an interesting problem, and not super hard to implement.

This sounds like a good idea, but I think the problem here is that a lot of popular software runs great on Linux but is very clunky and ugly on other systems (looking at you, LibreOffice). So keep that in mind if you try out FOSS on Windows as a sneak peek.

Navigation on Android: Osmand lets you download and cache OSM data so you can use it offline. Cache is unlimited if you download Osmand via F-Droid.