Sometimes I just sit down and realise:
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@aks That feeling of calm is real. Running Linux isn't without its little problems, but knowing that my computer actually belongs to me, and isn't just some remote-controlled tool for a big tech corporation to extract more money and data out of me makes such a difference for my mental health.
@kianga Yeah it had genuinely made me happier and excited to use my devices again.
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Sometimes I just sit down and realise:
- Tinkering with Linux eventually resulted in my dream job
- Many FOSS tools I use are made by awesome individuals, most of them working on things on their free time
- I trust my devices more now that I use these tools
- Since I run tools like Nextcloud myself, I can trust that my data is not being misused
- I have knowhow to help my friends and family to keep their data safe (sometimes I wish they would follow my advice but anyway lol)
- Since I dont use corpo social media, none of the crap around it concerns me
- I am just generally happier since I do not have worry about any of the techbro nonsense
Makes me feel oddly sated. Calm.
Is any of it perfect? No. But I take these always over the user-hostile corpo solutions.
So people who work on all of these free tools: Thank you.
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@miiko @aks
Yep, everything applies, more or less.Occasionally you get glimpses of the "outside" (corpo) world and boggle at the horror of it all. How are so called normal people supposed to live and deal with the mess? And they have this illusion Linux is hard?
And then you quickly retreat back to your cave and slam the door, emitting a loud sigh of relief
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Sometimes I just sit down and realise:
- Tinkering with Linux eventually resulted in my dream job
- Many FOSS tools I use are made by awesome individuals, most of them working on things on their free time
- I trust my devices more now that I use these tools
- Since I run tools like Nextcloud myself, I can trust that my data is not being misused
- I have knowhow to help my friends and family to keep their data safe (sometimes I wish they would follow my advice but anyway lol)
- Since I dont use corpo social media, none of the crap around it concerns me
- I am just generally happier since I do not have worry about any of the techbro nonsense
Makes me feel oddly sated. Calm.
Is any of it perfect? No. But I take these always over the user-hostile corpo solutions.
So people who work on all of these free tools: Thank you.
@aks This post is beautiful.
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Sometimes I just sit down and realise:
- Tinkering with Linux eventually resulted in my dream job
- Many FOSS tools I use are made by awesome individuals, most of them working on things on their free time
- I trust my devices more now that I use these tools
- Since I run tools like Nextcloud myself, I can trust that my data is not being misused
- I have knowhow to help my friends and family to keep their data safe (sometimes I wish they would follow my advice but anyway lol)
- Since I dont use corpo social media, none of the crap around it concerns me
- I am just generally happier since I do not have worry about any of the techbro nonsense
Makes me feel oddly sated. Calm.
Is any of it perfect? No. But I take these always over the user-hostile corpo solutions.
So people who work on all of these free tools: Thank you.
@aks@scalie.zone I'm still waiting on my dream job – but otherwise I completely can follow what you are saying.
Linux put so much of the fun of using computers back for me. Now being limited to one shell for instance… Having Plasma as my daily driver, but playing with niri on the laptop just refreshes my feelings when using my devices.
The Quality has improved so dramatically.
Does suspend work on my laptop every time? No…
But do a bazillion of cryptically named background tasks completely drain my battery? No! Am I greeted with Ads on login? No!
Do I have fun? Yes! -
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Sometimes I just sit down and realise:
- Tinkering with Linux eventually resulted in my dream job
- Many FOSS tools I use are made by awesome individuals, most of them working on things on their free time
- I trust my devices more now that I use these tools
- Since I run tools like Nextcloud myself, I can trust that my data is not being misused
- I have knowhow to help my friends and family to keep their data safe (sometimes I wish they would follow my advice but anyway lol)
- Since I dont use corpo social media, none of the crap around it concerns me
- I am just generally happier since I do not have worry about any of the techbro nonsense
Makes me feel oddly sated. Calm.
Is any of it perfect? No. But I take these always over the user-hostile corpo solutions.
So people who work on all of these free tools: Thank you.
@aks High five, tinkering with Linux _games_ resulted in my dream job and kickstarter my career!
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Im expecting someone go BUT WHAT IF BLABLABLa.
Let me have my moment ok?
@aks but... This is gold indeed - "Since I dont use corpo social media, none of the crap around it concerns me•" - its not only crap around unsocial media, but it allows to avoid consumption of giant pile of dissinformation, hate, bad news, manipulation etc.
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Sometimes I just sit down and realise:
- Tinkering with Linux eventually resulted in my dream job
- Many FOSS tools I use are made by awesome individuals, most of them working on things on their free time
- I trust my devices more now that I use these tools
- Since I run tools like Nextcloud myself, I can trust that my data is not being misused
- I have knowhow to help my friends and family to keep their data safe (sometimes I wish they would follow my advice but anyway lol)
- Since I dont use corpo social media, none of the crap around it concerns me
- I am just generally happier since I do not have worry about any of the techbro nonsense
Makes me feel oddly sated. Calm.
Is any of it perfect? No. But I take these always over the user-hostile corpo solutions.
So people who work on all of these free tools: Thank you.
@aks I am guilty myself of not thanking FOSS developers or just random guide makers. Being boy who only knows how to troubleshoot stuff on windows and installing/reinstalling stuff and having task to get Freebsd server up...
Like even if you have zero coding experience, there are guides that help you to do everything you need to do step by step, all lines of codes. I might never need it now after years of not touching Freebsd, but still someone done the hard part explaining me what to do.
Like lots of stuff I done from reinstall of Windows to installing programs.I am far off from being digitally independent, android phone, win10, google mail, several chat programs because family uses them... But setting up my own old pc with Yunohost and having personal server makes me really appreciate all FOSS out there. Can't setup personal email with my provider but translation,some file hosting and few other good quality of live services. Will slowly move to gaming Linux as well when win10 is absolete but it's a slow process. Looking at all recent news, I am more and more wary about personal and juridical information getting leaked, especially with win11 cloud saving and later AI integration.
One FOSS developer was really happy getting email that says thanks for making x.
We should give more thanks for people who makes our lives for better.
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@jawarajabbi Never too late to learn if youre interested. Start making silly scripts with python, see where that takes you
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Sometimes I just sit down and realise:
- Tinkering with Linux eventually resulted in my dream job
- Many FOSS tools I use are made by awesome individuals, most of them working on things on their free time
- I trust my devices more now that I use these tools
- Since I run tools like Nextcloud myself, I can trust that my data is not being misused
- I have knowhow to help my friends and family to keep their data safe (sometimes I wish they would follow my advice but anyway lol)
- Since I dont use corpo social media, none of the crap around it concerns me
- I am just generally happier since I do not have worry about any of the techbro nonsense
Makes me feel oddly sated. Calm.
Is any of it perfect? No. But I take these always over the user-hostile corpo solutions.
So people who work on all of these free tools: Thank you.
@aks in the same boat, life is good.
Huge thanks to the creators of these tools.
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