My advice is, when you’re recommending Linux be very sure that you’re ready to be the 1st level support from then on. Personally I’m too old for that shit. People are ignorant and unhappy for so many self chosen reasons, their personal computer desktop is just another one and I just can’t fix the world.

Actually, several hours of cursing and trying are an excellent substitute for up to three minutes of manpage reading.

Well, it IS a not very reasonable take that seems to be grounded in a certain unwillingness to deal with new and unknown yet things. How do I solve address overlap in RFC1918 and various VPNs reliably without IPv6? This starts to become a problem when I think about my self hosted music server accessed through a wireguard tunnel and I’m at a friend’s house. Not too outlandish problem for the crowd around here, I’d guess.

My mother was born in a basement during the bombardments of Dresden while the house above them was burning. Her mother had barely made it out of the second floor with burning phosphorus running down the walls. At this point, my grandparents had been on the road for quite a while, narrowly escaping the Russian front, starting with leaving behind every single thing they owned at their farm estate in Silesia. They had nothing but their clothes on their back and they already experienced, that nobody wanted anything to do with the refugees from the east.

My inconveniences are mild, compared to that. They are significant for me, but historically, we’re still at an all time high compared to our ancestors, unless you have old money in your bloodline.

Historically, people have made babies under much more dire circumstances and some of them made it through so we’re here today. I don’t feel like having kids either, I know, but I think this sentiment comes from a luxurious position.