While I love sway, it’s not the easiest to work with if you want to do something specific. swaymsg -t get_tree and get good at jq 🤣

I was part of two categories. Now I’m part of three 🤣

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I was going to suggest just getting receipts (still only solving part of the problem) and using a spreadsheet. Why overthink it? Then I was reminded by my own ADHD that I haven’t screwed around with spreadsheets in a while and am now off to play around with pivot tables. Immediately demonstrating why this is a bad solution.

Is life just a series of slot machines until you die?

The computer of the beast!

I left it open ended so you could choose how to answer or how specifically. I guess I should have added more of a prompt. For me I was thinking independence from big tech or consumer culture.

X ray vision

That coat will be heavy, the beer will be warm, and he is drinking it through a straw. This man is not my enemy. He is my arch nemesis.

Parry and hit back. Ask her why it matters what you use if you can function with them as if you use google. Then return fire with your favorite reason not to use google. For me, I like to open the dev tools in Firefox, and show the head of any website. Let them choose. Find the line with google analytics, google tag service, or google ad sense. “Wow this website has nothing to do with google. Why is this here? To track you. Did you know that google can track your mouse? Even if you don’t click on anything? Or they can track you by installing fonts?” Etc. Etc. Scare the shit out of them and they’ll leave you alone. Hopefully you can slowly begin to convert them.

I agree not sweeping Linux under the rug is important, but what about something like:

Doors: Powered by Linux

After all, Linux is just the kernel. It isn’t the operating system <insert long Stallman rant>. Saying ”Powered By" is both accurate, and the brand recognition horse shit people go for

Make no mistake. I don’t like that brand recognition is an important consideration, but it’s important to recognize what works for many people

I can see where you are coming from and chrome os is a good and bad example of what I mean. It’s a bad example because of the lack of transparency. It’s a good example because it creates a “brand” around the product. Linux lacks brand recognition to the average person, and when we approach getting folks on Linux, we do one of two things. We pick a brand for them, or we explain what a distro is and that linux is actually the kernel and that its really GNU/Linux or GNU and Linux etc. I want to get to the point a non technical user makes the choice themselves

Outside of just buying computers with Linux one them, imo the best scenario would be if there was a recognized brand, like chromeos, which people could point to and say “you’re good with computers and fuck windows. Can you install Doors?”. You have to admit an operating system called “FuckWindows OS” would be appealing to those who utter the words several times per day.

I’m also not suggesting we go guns blazing into doing this so much as presenting a consideration why we are less effective than we’d like and what we could add to our focus to improve conversion rates.

TLDR: Linux, or our representation of it, is confusing to the average person. Could we address this with a distro whose purpose is to establish a stronger brand?

Why?

Not at all, but there is a difference between creating a finished product and creating a finished product a particular way. If you make a suggestion for how I do something, and it isn’t stipulated to be part of the finished product, then I can do it however I want. If however part of the contract is I do it your way, then that matters. Hope that clarifies things

Interesting word choice. ‘Suffering’ for lack of weapons

I’m sure in other contexts you address folks per their preference? E.g their pronouns or name. Same applies here

usian yanks or yankees

Tridactyl

Have you ever had a client who wanted something done but had an asinine suggestion for how to do it? Do you do it their way or do you focus on getting the job done? Unless it’s a stipulation, you do it the way that gets the job done.

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