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[–] kadup@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Single you out? You're the one replying as if you're correct in your interpretation.

But sure, if that hurt you: you and the single other person who misread the comment are both equally wrong. Better?

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

You're correct, and that's why sometimes they work really well and sometimes they make the problem much worse and profoundly annoy the plumber you'll eventually call to fix the issue.

A strong base + lipids stuck together in a pipe means a solid block of soap after a while, sometimes too big and clogged to be effectively rinsed with water, meaning you just made the blockage worse.

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

can't see how the way you wrote that comment all but explicitly states that the LSD usage was a bad thing?

Don't bring your preconceptions to my comment, or at the very least, don't accuse me of subtext with your own delusions as a source.

My comment was mocking Steve Jobs' productivity, as in, what was he actually working in. LSD parties and interfering with HR is not working directly with the engineering and quality of the products. That's the extent of the comment. Your perceptions on LSD are irrelevant to me.

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Sure.

In fact, sometimes the people posting content aren't that great too... We could also some AI posts.

And then the quality of the comments has been decreasing a lot, let's make the comments AI too.

AI posts moderated by AI to be appreciated by AI readers.

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (6 children)

I made zero qualitative statements about LSD - I'm not sure where this mix of a rant with defending the drug came from. You can use it without freaking out about any mention of LSD online, I wasn't "misled" about anything and made absolutely zero statements about LSD itself.

But as a biologist, I'd like just to respond to your statement:

the structure of dna was discovered on lsd

No it wasn't, I'm not sure were you got that from, please refrain from making statements about fields you do not have experience with.

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 20 points 6 hours ago (12 children)

That's true, he did more than just marketing and management. According to reports from his employees and C suite, he was also the one organizing the LSD parties and sometimes firing people HR had just signed a contract with.

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

KDE Plasma 6 + Lightly has been my favorite desktop experience ever. Looks clean, functionality is fantastic.

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

TikTok is one of the worst offenders, you're scrolling at night and suddenly somebody posts a HDR video shot from their phone and the screen flash bangs you

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Yep! Okular is amazing, and it's available on Windows too. Install it for someone and they'll never bother you again about PDFs or EPUB documents, it's performant and everything works: printing, resizing, selecting text, searching, signing, adding comments. Never worry about paid PDF software or shady slow apps that keep trying to gatekeep features.

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

Honestly, there isn't much to it when setting up Linux for elderly people - in fact, I find it less troublesome than setting it up for a teenager.

Most often the issues regular users face with Linux are related to installing packages from external sources or broken updates. Elderly people tend to not do that.

Set up a stable distro like Debian, Linux Mint or Ubuntu LTS with KDE Plasma or Cinnamon, install LibreOffice, Okular and a browser with strong ad blocking, and any other applications you think they might need. Enable a simple firewall, hide the root / folder from the file browser's sidebar, and you're done. Perhaps set up scaling to make everything bigger on their monitors, disable mouse acceleration and set the speed slightly slower than usual.

I wouldn't bother with immutable distros, Flatpaks are nice and all until permissions turn using a simple app a confusing chore with broken interactions.

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