In know what you guys are thinking. “But you are posting in the Fediverse on a phone with GrapheneOS flashed via the command line in a Debian based distro!”
I know I know! But truth be told I don’t know what the hell I’m doing! I WISH I could be one of the greats who preaches the gospel of “Just install Linux” and who didn’t constantly ponder flashing stock android again. However its not that simple.
I’m a power user at best! Half the time I’m copying and pasting commands into the terminal. I try to smile when the Battle.Net launcher fails and buggs out through Lutris and tell myself “Its OK! Who needs to play WoW anyway! I’ll just replay Half Life again!” But in reality there’s a part of me that wants to just restart into my dual boot windows 11 partition with my tail between my legs.
I’m not worthy to be on Lemmy! DONT LOOK AT ME! (I’d type a crying Emoji, but my Foss degoogled keyboard doesn’t have Emojis)
You’re actually more savvy and skilled than most sysadmins I’ve met irl.
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I use this FOSS keyboard: https://github.com/Dakkaron/Fairberry
It also doesn’t have emoji.
I have yet to degoogle myself. As a teen I was a google fanboy. Now my stuff is still on there.
It’s my turn to post this.
It’s a funny joke, but
I’d type a crying Emoji, but my Foss degoogled keyboard doesn’t have Emojis)
HeliBoard? Or, literally any of the dozen other FOSS keyboards in FDroid?
Listen mate, the fact that you’re even reading instructions at all instead of chucking the technical stuff aside, or trying to force some unlucky family member to be tech support, puts you miles above most of the people I’ve dealt with.
I had one guy demand I physically come down to his desk for an issue that was “blocking an important report”. It was literally just Windows asking if he wanted to overwrite an old file.
I’m not in IT, but I was trying to get a coworker to send me a file they were supposed to have generated. I sent them a PDF and I wanted them to update it with current procedures (they were the area supervisor) and type it out in a word doc so it could be edited and rev controlled.
They never got back to me, 2 weeks passed. It was a 2 page document, so I emailed them to ask if they had finished. They responded that oh yeah they had finished a while ago, and I could find the completed document attached.
They sent me back the original PDF I sent them. After a confused follow up email, they again sent me back the original PDF.
I went over to their desk, which I had never been to before, usually I interface with them out on the assembly line. I was like “Hey what’s up, could you send me the .Doc file you created?”
Their response? “I forget what I named it so I can’t find it.”
I am even more confused. After some general troubleshooting I ask them to open their documents folder, which they did not know how to do. It didn’t matter because it was empty. They then close out of Outlook, which had been fullscreened the whole interaction.
Their desktop was the most densely packed jumble of hundreds of files I have ever seen. Not snapped to grid.
Turns out every document they ever interact with gets saved to their desktop permanently, and to find things they use Windows search. This explains why I kept getting back the original PDF, they searched for the name of what the file was supposed to be, and they just grabbed the first result without looking and slapped it in the email.
I ended up finding the document by showing them how to open a finder window, navigate to their desktop, and sorting by “last modified”, then asking them what day they remember finishing the document. It was named New Document.doc.
It ended up being so bad I had to completely re-do it myself anyway.
I’ve read that a lot of users, including youth, don’t really understand file systems because modern computers don’t make you.
Personally I think just letting people live in ignorance is a mistake. Some people can’t be helped but I think many could, if presented with learning opportunities, if the default wasn’t bad.
I’ve been using linux for over a decade and still constantly search for and copy/paste stuff. There are almost no issues that I solve without searching for something first. The skill is not memorization of commands or being able to solve everything off the top of your head, the skill is being able to troubleshoot.
If you can understand the problems enough to search for and apply solutions, then you’re as good as any of us and belong.
I also leave broken things broken until I need to fix them or work up the motivation. Priorities.
Same, but for a quarter of a century
You have demonstrated more competency than the average IT Auditor.
That’s because the average IT auditor is a bunch of if then statements wrapped in human skin.
This is comment is so on point I actually LOLed. I am an IT Auditor and I hate 99% of the people I work with. I had to explain the difference between UDP and TCP and why that was relevant to my boss with 10 years experience.
This is Dunning Kruger in effect. You actually know way more than you think because you’re more aware of what you don’t know than a total beginner.
Also, as far as wanting to switch back goes, That’s a path of least resistance. For a multitude of reasons, stock Windows is simply easier to use than Linux for most people. Especially if you’re already used to Windows’ workflows and its particular quirks. And somewhat ironically, Linux is harder to adapt to if you’re a power user. Power users tend to use their PC for more things than a basic user does, and therefore need to configure more things to work properly.
I think this is the first time I’ve seen someone bring up Dunning-Kruger to comfort someone rather than insult them
This made me feel better about myself, actually. Thanks!
That’s because Power Users on Windows tend to avoid the terminal like the plague. You cannot do that on Linux.
The secret is nobody knows. Computers are magic and we are merely pretending to be sorcerers when we just do a web search for the problem and pray that some random forum post from 2006 has the solution and not just “Edit: Nevermind, I figured it out.”
my foss degoogled keyboard doesn’t have emojis
My man, have you tried FUTO? 😌
You’re doing a great job and you shouldn’t feel bad for being ignorant when you’re literally getting results and learning new questions to ask. Of course it’s not working perfectly! Of course you’re looking for help as you discover more options! You have the desire to learn something new to you, and you’ve made so many steps beyond the first already.
Here’s some emojis to copy and paste until you smash through that problem too. https://emojis.wiki/all-emojis/
Here’s some more emojis if you like ascii: https://emoticonhub.com/emoticon-generator/
✺◟[⚗︎▾⚗︎]◞✺* ੈ✩‧₊˚˚˚ ੈ✩‧₊
DONT LOOK AT ME!
Ok, ok, sheesh. Go to that corner to cry… This corner is mine.
Oh man… “I’m in this picture and I don’t like it” 🙁 at least I got emojis with florisboard for graphene… 🎉
I’m using helioboard?
Heliboard does have emojis. 🦄
Heliboard does have emojis. You may not have the key enabled in your settings. Its a toggle under the Preferences menu.
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🎉
I’ll see!
Im exactly the same way. Im mad at people using Ai to code because all my life wanted to code but can’t get it down (ADHD).
I wish I was someone who could go huh, this 1998 ms flight Sim stick doesn’t work on linux. I’ll write a program to make it work! But there’s no way that will happen now
But I can run linux and at least im not on windows so that makes me feel better.
Don’t feel bad.
I was the computer kid when I was young but I’ve fallen all the way off and am fine with it.
Tbf, computers are so boring now. To have been around when it was really booming, and you were coding machine language and talking to the actual hardware in a pc, now THAT would be cool and motivating. Now its just stealing code or using Ai code to make a bloated java website. Like all things, it just got boring.
Trying to get myst running on a p3 with 256m ram was actually fun and interesting. Now you just install steam, ha
It’s not boring though. You just have to find things. I see so many interesting projects, and so many interesting ideas that I want to implement but run into time/skill issues. Summer is when I can just forget about other things and develop what I want, but I think after university I won’t have much time at all.
