Just realized "highbrow" and "lowbrow" is literally fossilized phrenology in english language

@stellarskylark woahh this is interesting
RE: https://solarpunk.moe/@stellarskylark/115476784866528480
Aurin (ki, ki, kis)
Tech people talk about tech too much.
I really really REALLY want to use all the awesome privacy friendly FOSS (and similar) stuff, but I am not a techie person! I don't know how to program, nor do I want to.
And every SINGLE time I try to find out even what thing (OS, program, app, service, etc) to use, let alone how, and I search for it... I get techie-focused answers.
It's complete gibberish to me! Absolutely useless. It makes me feel actively unwelcome even though I really care about using alternatives to Windows, Meta, X and other dystopic nonsense.
For example: I'm like "How do I start a non-enshittified group chat to talk about a thing?" and all the results are technobabble to me. I don't even know if the words they use are supposed to be normal english words or if they refer to orgs or groups or apps or some weird coding wizardry.
I am so lost, every single time.
I stick with it though. But like. I wonder if the tech people realise that this is happening???? Because they probably understand what they're talking about. And they seem to not realise that not everyone does.
I'm not trying to blame or shame anyone or even complaining as such (a little bit complaining, ngl), mostly just giving feedback. This is not an issue with a singe thing but with ALL of it as a whole! Including #GNU/#Linux the #Fediverse #Matrix and most #FOSS apps.
My sincere wish: Give non-techie people an EASY TO FIND and easy to read and easy to understand and easy to implement guide about how to use the things as an alternative to using big corporation services, ie, "I just want it to work" and not have to worry about the technical side of things. (examples in thread)
Dolls: counts as tool, has roughly the same durability as stone pickaxes.
Drones: stacks up to 64 in your inventory
Angels: stacks up to 108
Demons: Doesn't stack, consumes adjacent inventory items.
Moths: counts as a key item, can't be removed from the inventory bar once you have it there.
Witches: does not stack, but you can make a cube out of them at a crafting table.
going to start writing troubleshooting checklists that start like
i was told that my views on parenting would change when i got older and had kids of my own.
i dont have kids but they did change – i hate parents and nuclear families even more now and still think kids should have full control over their lives
apparently it takes the average WoW player less than a week to reach max level? and that’s without looking at guides
I didn’t think that I was playing WoW in a way that was particularly slow or inefficient but this really puts my playstyle into perspective to be honest. I sometimes play for 2-3 weeks at a time before quitting for a while again, and at no point have I ever reached max level. in fact the furthest I’ve gotten on any character is WotLK, and this was on a 3x XP private server
the stranger danger panic of the 80s did irreparable harm to community trust and especially queer/minority communities in the us
Regarding https://cryptid.cafe/objects/b3c23a32-b3d9-45c7-9174-9301a5c8ea67: I spent fifteen years using Git, and for much of that was considered the Local Git Expert. I definitely didn't know everything about it, but I understood the (beautiful!) underlying model well enough to mostly see through the (awful!) UI and fix most problems that arose for me and my colleagues. Git was my friend. Git had my back. Git let me boldly try things out. Git helped me find problems. Git told me how the heck we got into this state and why.
Now I work in a job where I have to switch between Perforce and CVS (yes, I *know*), both of which have totally different internal models and totally different awful UIs. It feels like I've lost a limb.
someone on reddit: *asks a question about pianos on r/PianoQuestions because they’re interested in pianos*
a chronically online, deeply insecure white man: *pushes up anime glasses* ohohoho, you fool! you imbecile! you don’t understand pianos at all! allow me to educate you on just how wrong and stupid your question really is! pianos just so happen to be one of my most passionate interests, and instead of sharing that interest with you I am going to belittle you for knowing less than me!
I love how, when I tell WoW players the way that I play WoW, their immediate response is complete bafflement and a little bit of fear. like “what the fuck is wrong with you, you psychopath” kind of energy
that’s right, normies. fear my playstyle and despair
have you ever wanted to turn a 30 second text file edit into a 15 minute code golf exercise? well now you can, with Vim: the official editor of autistic transfemmes. making text editing unnecessarily complicated since 1991
95% of the time all you need to know about git is add, commit, push, and pull. maybe log if you want to see a list of commits
but then the other 5% of the time it’s suddenly like
!!! you didn't transverse the planes before ancilpating the forward inverse!! entering CRITICAL DATA RECOVERY MODE NOW!!!
and I’m like “uhh uhh uhh” *frantically googles and copy-pastes a command that looks like git refdraft -qXR hdd::~475.2* “phew! that either fixed it or corrupted everything!”
version control is the best
the first rule of bash is Never Use Double Quotes
the first rule of cmd.exe is Never Use Single Quotes