GNU readline is a library that handles text input

I have no idea what "camping " means to you, but I can tow a pop up camper with my Impreza.

Do you know what the word for “accused” is in German?

They’re trying their best to speak to you in your language because it’s the only one you know.

Cut them some slack.

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We live in an unprecedented time of compromising pluralistic societies and international cooperation.

This guy: “lets go back to tribalism”

But Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014

I know this is pedantic, but that’s just not right. Amish and Mennonites are generally distinct.

Well, Jakob Ammann, who the Amish are named after, was a member of a Swiss Brethren church (now called Mennonite) who didn’t think his Mennonite brethren did enough shunning (a core principle of the Swiss Brethren).

So he formed his own church. Eventually members in his church (surprise!), shunned him over some different differences, as it happens when you join a group with all the cantankerous people. And it continued so on and so forth.

The distinctions might be in practical matters that arise over time–like fabrics used in their dress, use of buttons vs hook fasteners, or use of technology, or use of English vs German, but theologically they’re pretty much identical and these differences are just natural things that happen over time.

An Amish church split is really just two groups mass shunning each other. There’s no real difference.

And I’m aware it probably doesn’t seem like that closer up, because I’m speaking very abstractly. But I can’t see how anything you’ve said disagrees with what I’ve said.

And, I want to say I do appreciate hearing your experiences. For the record: I have a degree in Bible, did some post-grad study on church history, have some family members who are Mennonite, and grew up pretty close to a large Amish community.

Yeah…wifi.

Good luck!

Correct. Amish are Mennonites who shun other Mennonites. The elders of their church decide for the local congregation what is and isn’t appropriate conduct. If you disagree, you are shunned.

If the congregation down the road disagrees, those folks are shunned.

So you get very customized, local, specific lists about what is and isn’t allowable.

Really, it looks more extreme, but it’s no different than independent baptist churches or churches of christ ‘disfellowship’-ing with other congregations over doctrinal minutia.

In all cases you will get a few congregations thinking that only their congregation of 20-50 folks are the only ones in the world who “go to heaven”. 😂

So, all Amish might not agree what technologies are worth shunning over, but they all agree that some technologies are worth restricting their members access to, upon penalty of shunning.

Yes absolutely.

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But they trusted [youtuber]!!!

I use IBM Plex Sans and IBM Plex Mono

You have to manually manage new kernel branches with the manjaro-settings-manager.

Lots of people get told “it’s arch with good defaults! Just sudo pacman -Syu and you’re good!”

…which leads to them eventually breaking their systems and blaming manjaro.

No rolling release is appropriate for people who can’t RTFM.

6 years on my manjaro install, zero problems.

I’d settle for a good ole-fashion court appointed hanging.

You can put a myriad of setup and administration options into the GUI and most people still have no interest in them. These people just have no interest in using a computer like that. They “just want it to work”. It’s not a CLI v. GUI problem, it’s one of assumed responsibility.

This is an inherent limitation of “free as in freedom” software.

“Free as in freedom” really only refers to developers. The non-developers are beholden to whoever packages and distributes their software for them. We Linux users who aren’t system developers let the “distro maintainers” do the developer work for us. That’s why a distro’s website is full of mission statements and declarations of philosophy–it’s how we decide who to trust.

And it’s the same for the “non-nerds” with system administration. Businesses hire admins to handle their internal software and networks, and at home people let Apple, Microsoft or Google take increasingly more control over their devices so that they aren’t responsible for getting it all working.

Apple’s success came from Microsoft’s negligence. Too many people had Windows XP computers at home wrecked with toolbars and spyware and garbage.

And people gladly left for a walled garden platform that locked down everything and didn’t require them to administer their own systems.

The biggest success in the Linux world has been Chromebooks and Android, where Google administers the system for the user.

Most people don’t choose linux because they can’t administer their own system. A system that lets them administer however they want has no appeal to them. They instinctively know they can’t handle that responsibility. They need their hands held.

Linux is based on unix, which was an operating system designed to run on computers like the PDP-11 of the 1970s.

The problem is that computers have changed a lot, and Richie and Thompson couldn’t perfectly forecast all those changes. Most notably, it predates the internet.

Anyways, computers changed and so systemd was invented to copy MacOS Tiger’s launchd service model. Here’s the only video you need to watch on the subject

TuxRacer is the bees knees.

I can’t type somethymes