4 ms·

Hi, it's me, your dream psychologist. Linux represents business, homogeneity, AWS, Google, webscale. The H*R games represent the fun and wonder of the Internet

by rogual 4y ago

Hi, it's me, your dream psychologist. Linux represents business, homogeneity, AWS, Google, webscale. The H*R games represent the fun and wonder of the Internet in the early 2000s. We, as a civilization, are installing Linux and wiping our H*R installation. You're conflicted about this. It feels like there should be a place for the H*R install too, but where will the money come from?

volodarik_lemon 4y ago
I like Linux.
dmd 4y ago
Imagine telling a Linux user in 1997 or so "Linux represents business, homogeneity". They'd laugh you out of town.
- bitwize 4y ago
  The warning signs were there in about 1999, when suits and marketroids, rather than hackers, became the dominant force at large Linux conferences.
  - BirAdam 4y ago
    well... that and mentioning Linux helped boost those manic stock prices.
stavros 4y ago
> Linux represents business, homogeneity, AWS, Google, webscale That's what Linux represents to you? To me it represents transparency of software, the fact that I can look at my machine and understand everything that it's doing, because all of the secret sauce is easily available for me to see. If it weren't for OSS, I wouldn't have realized that everything is ultimately knowable, no matter how advanced it seems, and that everything was built by some person like me, not handed down to humanity by a remote god. Basically, the exact opposite of what you say.
- rogual 4y ago
  To be honest, it represents that to me too... it's just not the facet of Linux that occurred to me when I thought about OP's dream.
- metabagel 4y ago
  I think that comment was calling for a "yes, and..." response. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_and...
- hulitu 4y ago
  > the fact that I can look at my machine and understand everything that it's doing They are working on it. An ugly config window on xsnow with Material design style graphics. What is wrong with those people ? /s
deleted 4y ago
[deleted]

by rogual 4y ago

volodarik_lemon 4y ago

I like Linux.

dmd 4y ago

Imagine telling a Linux user in 1997 or so "Linux represents business, homogeneity". They'd laugh you out of town.

bitwize 4y ago
The warning signs were there in about 1999, when suits and marketroids, rather than hackers, became the dominant force at large Linux conferences.
- BirAdam 4y ago
  well... that and mentioning Linux helped boost those manic stock prices.

stavros 4y ago

> Linux represents business, homogeneity, AWS, Google, webscale That's what Linux represents to you? To me it represents transparency of software, the fact that I can look at my machine and understand everything that it's doing, because all of the secret sauce is easily available for me to see. If it weren't for OSS, I wouldn't have realized that everything is ultimately knowable, no matter how advanced it seems, and that everything was built by some person like me, not handed down to humanity by a remote god. Basically, the exact opposite of what you say.

rogual 4y ago
To be honest, it represents that to me too... it's just not the facet of Linux that occurred to me when I thought about OP's dream.
metabagel 4y ago
I think that comment was calling for a "yes, and..." response. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_and...
hulitu 4y ago
> the fact that I can look at my machine and understand everything that it's doing They are working on it. An ugly config window on xsnow with Material design style graphics. What is wrong with those people ? /s

deleted 4y ago

[deleted]