Its simply the old internet: A highly autistic place filled with highly intelligent (or at least, that is what they think of themselves) people with tons of StarTrek, inside jokes and oh so much petty grudges.
As someone who was around at the time of the Usenet and the end if the BBS era I love it, but it is a bit of an acquired taste…
To be honest: If you don’t have the deeper technical knowledge to implement some secure form of forum / BBS or something like that and if you are dependent on the advice from strangers on the net and LLMs AND you are currently living in a nation where something like that may lead to an “accident”… just don’t. A warzone isn’t the right place to learn to fight.
The ENTIRE modern civilization? No. But the western world is surely in decline. If anything, i would place my bets on Asia if i would make a prediction which region will dominate the world in the next 100 - 200 years.
There is no competition in my area, I either have 100 MBit Starlink or… well… I can climb on the next hill to send an Email. Welcome to rural Germany.
In this case i would lose access to Starlink and be confined to the very very shitty internet connection i had before. Sooo… no, his companies can stay.
Is your reality the one where they didn’t imprison Trump?
THIS Windows user has used Linux and BSD sytems for ~30 years and still manages a fuckton off Linux servers as his dayjob. The thing is - and it is a somewhat inconvenient truth - that Windows 11 has evolved to a point where it works just really, really well when used on dedicated hardware.
And Powershell is simply the better scripting environment, this is a hill i will gladly die on.
I honestly would love it…
why would you try to copy windows?
Because you may prove you can? I mean, this is an absolutely valid reason.
Sitting at the beach of the Baltic sea in early spring or late fall when its too cold for the other beach folks, kept warm by my decades old leather biker gear and a bit of whiskey.
Oh, i am pretty sure he sees the enemy as human, most imperialist did… the thing is though, that they see themself as something better than human…
Because many (most?) Lemmy users prefer to ignore that - if you look too close - most stuff they use was created by people that they would absolutely hate in person.
In my mind the ideal product maintainer for an Lemmy approved product has to be part of the LBTQ+ community, has to be some people of color, atheist, vegan and must subscribe to the EXACT same flavour of leftism the individual Lemmy user has sold his soul to.