You may not believe this, but I don’t spend my time reading the post history of strangers.

I still have an OG Xbox with an emulator and the SNES romset and Conker’s Bad Fur Day on another partition (I did the mod to install a larger HDD). All it took was a hacked save and a Mechwarrior game.

I’ve never been a big fan of the word “atomize” in any case.

Mate, I’ll have you know some of my relatives are made of atoms

There isn’t much there that can’t be done with PVC and bent aluminum sheeting.

Hamas famously uses water pipes for their rockets (no idea about the propellant, payload or control systems though)

The drone parts and control surface actuation is by far harder and I say this as someone who has a professional background in computer science and software engineering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrzxSOtj33s

The model rocket community has this one sorted.

Weird, I use free Spotify and don’t hear adds

(SpotX)

This is the first I’ve heard you say anything on the topic, hmm curious

Yeah, you’re good. Some people are just bad at expressing themselves.

We all understand the systems that they use to tie you into their walled garden.

Escaping takes time and money now (and it isn’t like PC hardware is cheap currently…). You can still get a cheap tower from whatever marketplace/craiglist service is popular where you live and setup a Linux server and do things that are compatible with your existing devices like pi-hole, Jellyfin, etc.

I know a lot of programmers and sysadmins that use Apple laptops to interface with their Linux backend.

Not anymore

I can understand how that can be read into what he said.

I was simply pointing out that the headline is lying about what he said.

I hope they are furries, I’m accepting all allies

future Taco Bell vs future Del Taco during dinner rush:

Linux users sampling self-hosting options

It’s not a MANPAD really.

The sensor package has no IR sensor (or radar unit) and no way to proximity fuse.

It has GPS, accelerometer and barometric pressure. It’s more like a rocket powered artillery shell than an anti-air weapon.

Or, given the lack of payload, it’s more like a high speed burrito delivery device.

They gotta be, people wouldn’t just go on the Internet and lie, would they?

'Murica

If you swap “says” with “doesn’t say” it also works.

It’s uhh, for home defense

So, we’re just trafficking in misinformation now?

Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort

True

, Says Their Time Is Over

Complete fiction. Clickbait misinformation.

The tweet:

I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took.

Thank you for getting us to this point.

Since you’re just starting you’ll want to make sure you have a good foundational understand of what Linux is and how it works. Understanding the File System Hierarchy, file permissions, user/groups management, etc will help the ‘feeling over your head’ part. There are a lot of Youtube videos/playlist talking about the basics, skim a few to see if you like how they’re presenting the information and pick whichever works best for you.

For a more structured approach, look for books (or a class at a vocational school if that’s something you’d do) teaching Linux+. This is an entry level certification by CompTIA and the course will cover all of the fundamental things that you need to understand.

Have a project in mind to motivate you. In the end, you’re learning all of this so that you can do something with Linux so pick a something that would improve your setup. Jellyfin running on a NAS is an good and achievable goal to start with.

Join some of the Linux/selfhost/homelab communities: !linux@lemmy.ml, !linux@programming.dev, !selfhosted@lemmy.world, !linuxmemes@lemmy.world. These are great when you’re stuck on something and need to ask for help.

On Reddit the homelab, linux and selfhosted subreddits are also good to read.

When you’re getting started and also when you have a problem remember: RTFM - Always, ALWAYS read the manual/docs and also check the Arch wiki and Gentoo wiki. Asking for help without first reading the documentation and wiki is… frowned upon in the community. Some people will give you a hard time if your question is answerable in a Google search or in a wiki article.

LLMs can be useful as well. You have to be careful here because they can hallucinate and provide you with wrong information. LLMs that search and summarize based on your question will generally be more accurate but generally don’t run any terminal commands that they give you without first verifying what they do. Treat them like a search engine, a starting off point for you to do your own research. You could probably just ask for the exact terminal commands to setup a Jellyfin server on docker and get pretty far, but you wouldn’t learn anything and that will hurt your efforts to learn. I’ve been using Kagi’s AI assistant which includes a research agent option that has been pretty useful.

Finally, don’t avoid using the terminal, you can do a lot with a GUI but being comfortable with terminal use is fairly mandatory for anything but casual desktop use.