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Are they good? What tracks do you recommend?

Same here. Pinch zooming is now my best friend though.

Great reference. Thanks for that. I’m reading it right now and it’s pretty good!

Don’t get me started. The thesis, antithesis, synthesis is Hegelian only in the sense that Marx was a leftist Hegelian. For that historical dialectical movement is actually a Marxists’ material reinterpretation of Hegel’s teleology of the Absolute.

Yes, you could argue that Marx is simply Hegel under a different guise, and that thesis, antithesis, synthesis is just an explicit reformulation of Hegel’s ontological dialectics. But then you might as well say that the whole western contemporary philosophical tradition is in some sense Hegelian as every known philosopher since has been trying to overcome Hegel. Which, in some sense, is true.

In any case, this will only prove the Hegelian fanboy point: aufhebung, bitches!

For life. That is. If you’re non-Hegelian.

Otherwise you become a kind of know-it-all as anything and everything that is raised for or against your Hegelian Weltanschauung is necessarily ontologically subsumed into the historically inherently determined dialectical self-manifesting and self-fulfilling recognition of one’s own liberty which is nothing other than the unavoidable individual instantiation of the greater collective coming to terms conscience of the Absolute. Aufhebung, bitches!

Well, he gave two of them away.

I would say you’re actually witnessing the very real phenomenon of language-drift. Languages evolve for a billion reasons, but there’s no right or wrong state of language.

That’s why we distinguish between language, dialect, idiolect, sociolect. Each bearer of language is also a producer of language. Their version is just theirs, in whatever many ways that makes that version unique.

(Check linguistics to better understand this process of language-drifting )

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Documentary.

Sorry if I mistake your intention. If that’s the case, it’s just me making a wrong guess.

You’re probably misreading this.

I authored THE NAME. If you prefer, I’m the name-giver, the author in this sense.

Linus is the namer and the creator of that kernel.

As creator he is by right allowed to name his creation whatever he likes. Just like me, as the cat ‘entity creator as a pet’ am allowed to name it whatever I like.

No outsiders input required. You get now what I mean by author?

Whatever your reply may be, let me thank you already for engaging. It’s nice to be pressured to explain something in simpler, more accessible terms.

Thanks for the necessary XKCD. First time reading that one.

Well, to be honest, I won’t be THAT guy, nor am I crazy to bring back the rotary disk.

Thanks!

And no, I’m not serious. Just reminding that technology, like everything else, changes.

But I loved that project! Made me smile thinking how creative people are.

Maybe you’ll like it more under this new guise: I named my cat Goofyball. But since Linnaeus named the species Felis catus, you remind me that my cat’s name should ackchyually be Felis catus/Goofyball. To which I reply, very appropriately, ‘it’s MY cat’. So Goofyball it is.

Understand now the authority argument? Authority in the sense of authorial, having an author.

I’ve been using it for more than 20 years, but I still love when someone pulls the GNU/Linux card.

To me it feels like reading an old plaque in Latin. It reminds me of an important past that shouldn’t be forgotten.

The rotary disc on phones!

Got my first smartphone in 2017. My first dumbphone in 2008. Late to both parties.

My aside:

In every community I see this. There are always folks trying to narrow the community to some cut and dry descriptors—which for them are always obvious.

Sometimes the jab is perhaps intended as a joke. But to my reading it’s always a trope, namely the tired fallacy of taking a part as the whole.

Either way, it’s myopic. In any internet community, we’re always bound to narrowly see what’s happening. Because:

• We can only see the posters, never the lurkers—which far exceed the former;
• Posters, by virtue of taking the time to post, are most often than not highly opinionated;
• Our reading is always selective. We’re either misguided by the way the comments are sorted, by our mood at the moment, by chance, or simply because we’re really bad at reading;
• Our reading is always biased. Either by our mood, our current situation in life, our upbringing, our milieu, whatever;
• the list goes on and on and on.

This results in a very reductive view that, although very teasing because very personal and idiosyncratic, is ultimately an exercise in futility. To those already biased, it simply supplies them with fodder to confirm what they already believed.

From afar, it’s just noise. Any view on what the community is is but a poor reflection of what the community ultimately is.

Thanks for that link. I didn’t know disroot hosted Jitsi.

For others in this thread, here’s a list of Jitsi instances: https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/community/community-instances/

You can do that in Voyager. It has a button for that.

Right now I just think about me and how I’ll use it. I’m eager to try this messaging app to have a way of being reachable by like-minded people.

To put it differently, I don’t want to be a slave of others’ choices. I know the network effect is real and that I’m powerless to break it. So I’ll just change my attitude, and embrace this wave. Who knows what will happen? And in the meanwhile, I’ll have fun using what to me seems right.

It’s worth mentioning that Arch wiki is the best place to go to solve that.

I’ve had a brother WiFi printer on the recent past and managed to get it going by… reading carefully the CUPS instructions on Arch wiki.

A month ago, my non-geek uncle had a similar difficulty with his wireless printer. I again got it going by pointing out where to look and what instructions to follow.

So, yes, printer problems on Arch stations are a real thing.