I pay for Posteo and Metager, i would never want to go back to Goole…

If you drive in germany with this mindset you have a very good chance to get the opportunity to exchange your drivers licence for some bonus points in Flensburg.

Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, Suse… in the end, it doesn’t matter. If you (you as in “newbie Linux user”) find a distro that captures your attention that is all that matters. For me - personally - it was some Slackware based distribution that hooked me back in the 90s…

Yes, Omarchy is in some ways quiet… hacky and has a bit of a “style over substance” approach, but i think that is not THAT important for the role it fills. It remembers me of the various riced up setups from the early 00s (and perhaps late 90s, but my memory is hazy in that regard) that simply looked cool (i just say “compiz”) and had this WOW effect on regular Windows users.

Omarchy has this and also benefits from an idiot proof setup routine. If it drags in people from Windows its good, some will start tinkering with it, some will dig deeper into the Linux / Unix world… its an entry level drug in a way.

I, personally, think Omarchy is the best “easier to install Arch” out there - you can hand out a flashdrive to anyone with at least the most basic IT-knowledge and they would get a working, useable and upgradeable system within ~20 minutes.

You spelled Forth wrong.

I don’t give a shit about the political views of the creator of the software i use. I use Omarchy, i use Brave… it works great.

This is the point. About twenty years ago when I first met this guy I thought I HAD to convince him to upgrade to something more modern because, well, “new is better” I guess. Luckily he declined my offers and stayed with this system.

Now, this man is for me what would call a living legend. He bought this system when the PET was brand new, state of the art tech and was perhaps the first veterinarian in a radius of 100 km with a computer. From this point on he wrote himself tons of software for his personal use, modified this software for changing circumstances (and still does so!) and kept this system running.

THAT is permacomputing!

Honestly, the very best i got from a client of mine, a veterinarian who is about 80, he runs his whole Praxis on a Commodore PET (i mean, its a natural choice for a veterinarian), which he bought somewhere around the time i was born. His reason: “I don’t need no Windows, i need no Linux or anything other than the computer i am accustomed to. It does what i need and it will do so till the day i die”.

Shamelessly promoting the instance which is run by a buddy of mine:

BlackNeon.net

Looks like Cloudflare has some problems, I cannot access multiple sites…

I don’t say it would MORALLY below him, quiet the contrary, but more from a skill level. Acting so obviously would be just amateurish.

Wouldn’t that be below somebody like Thiel? I mean, he is a professional and this seems a bit too much “amateurish”…

Absolutely! The moment i catch ANYTHING remotely affecting the mucous in my nose everything is sealed shut tight. Regarding the reduced sense of smell i haven’t noticed anything.

Interesting, from time to time over the years i wondered about it, but never looked further into it.

Lizard, otter, human… i think this may count as an identity crisis?

Hah… this also explains my taste for fish and natural attraction to water!

This has Robocop vibes…

I would also recommend wiby which caters to the really small and old parts of the net.

And THIS is the problem. How long is PGP / GPG around? I have vivid (and fond) memories of a time in the early 00s when we did encryption parties inviting normal people to help them install GPG and teach them how to encrypt their emails. And people came to these events! We had an event in a community centre where we did over 200 installs on laptops of “average Joes / Janes” in a single day.

But somehow, interest in private communication fizzled out over the last decade or so.