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Look at Mr. Svalbard Global Seed Storage over here.
I absolutely love GNOME but had to switch recently due to hardware and software quirks. My primary computer is a Steam Deck and with valve primarily testing their things with KDE and the ability to launch into the Deck mode there was a lot of bugs and quirks happening with GNOME that I got tired of troubleshooting and patch in config files for all the time.
Switching back to KDE, sure I get a better overview of things but I love Adwaita and the GNOME Intuitivity of the UI. Things I needed was there and presented in a very nice non-distracting way. The clean look and the added margins around elements giving a comfortable view of what's necessary is extremely nice to me, all while the rest of the stuff isn't distracting me with buttons and gizmos everywhere. I hope I can one day switch back but the added niceties of HDR and better KDE Connect support that isn't half broken is also quite nice. Loose a little, win a little.
I don't really have social circles that show of Linux elitism. While on public spaces and have the time and energy I try to help out as best I can in a respectful manner and make sure not to get frustrated or annoyed at peoples need to learn things. While I haven't encountered the elitism myself I can obviously see why it would be extremely off putting to encounter it as a new user and it saddens me a bit to hear about it.
I have a few local friends who wishes to give Linux a go now and decided to hook them up with containerbased systems, in this case since they play video games I chose to give Bazite a go for them specifically for the reason that ruining it with modifying installed packages is going to be harder. I don't mind helping them out myself however and have found the bazzite community pretty forgiving as well luckily.
This should be one word, no?
We need to beat the Germans in long and complicated words.
This was my usecase when learning JS. I've always had a very very difficult time with programming and wrapping my head around those types of patterns. But with the help of AI I was able to get a quicker understanding and being able to ask followup questions, explain what different symbols do, nowadays I use it as a basic reference to get a starting point to some solutions while just being well versed enough to approach a lot of things on my own.
I often try to switch around and experiment with different similar and potentially better approaches unless it's giving me one of those responses that have been the most bogstandard straightforward way of doing it... because of a stackoverflow answer from 12 years ago. But those are often the more simpler queries. But each day I practice my programming I turn to search engines more and more to adapt similar problems to my own so the kickoff of using AI got me to the point where I had a stronger understanding of how things work in a practical learning method that worked really really well for me.
I hate how great AI can be in some use cases while I also am part of the reason for excessive power usage of GPUs :( but I really don't think I would've been able to get as far as I've come today without it.
The amount of this shit I've seen everywhere is ridiculous. Not too long back I saw a YouTube channel about ADHD called The Mini ADHD Coach, it was animated, well spoken, thorough about their own experiences regarding their childhood and societal differences, titles were a bit clickbaity but it's YouTube so what is one to do? By the end and in the description they where shilling their book which was a glorified ADHD questionaire to answer the question of "Do you have ADHD?". Basically a non-medical self assessment book based on the DSM and questions used in American evaluations.
The book is priced 31 USD, added in it was some drawings and I guess some further explanations of the questions. Which you could just, search up and search explanations and definitions of words as well if you need.
I have a strong distaste on how people are monetizing and trending neurodivergent disorders. It's a disability, not your next money machine.
There was a mastodon posting before as well but I can't find the link anymore. But there should definitely be a more publicly accessible space to get status updates from.
Edit: Asked on the Matrix space and got the link to the Mastodon page, Rynach posted the link in their comment.
Thank you so much for making these! It's great to see if there's anything I've missed!
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