Why do people need to learn CLI to watch youtube and write emails? That’s all the average computer user does.

I mean, that drunk uncle is now old enough to be a grandparent who looks after the kids while both parents work two jobs each.

Incoming fabric nerd. Bolts are like the spool when you buy filament, they come in different styles, but its typically just a bit of cardboard the fabric is wrapped around for storage. Fabric is typically sold by the linear yard, and if you buy a full bolt, they tell you how many yards of fabric it has on it. Common sizes are 12yd bolts, 24yd bolts, and 30yd bolts.

I think it’s because it’s great for group messages too. SMS/MMS is kinda shit, especially when somebody has an iPhone and their iMessage interferes (seriously, enough of the ‘loved an image’ spam). IRC gets blocked on a lot of public networks because of its association with piracy, so that makes it less than reliable.

Discord is pretty full featured too, like IRC doesn’t do group calls, and getting a group phone call going is a pain. Being able to have different channels is also super nice, because you can have a channel for, idk, birthday party planning to keep it from vanishing in the general daily chitchat. I’ve used it with roommates to get everybody on board with a grocery list before, because we all had Discord accounts anyways.

It’s just useful enough as a community tool.

Nah, this person just has their pants on their head. A lot of us learned coding by dissecting existing code, and that’s totally a valid way to learn.

So how is molding an existing app “not how it works” in your world?

That’s not how any of this works. One more reason to shun those who do not care and take the time to understand what programming is all about.

Are you seriously saying that we need to shun people who want to fork a project?

It’s also important to remember that there is no magic bullet. Nothing is a viable strategy on it’s own.

It’s my own personal conspiracy theory that our natural hesitance to throw resources at unknown variables is being amplified by the ruling class and fed back to us in the form of the all-or-nothing perfectionism I’ve seen a lot this past election cycle.

We need to be building with the blocks we have, and Theil et al are using the fear of failure to encourage us to fight each other about whether we should use square blocks or rectangle blocks.

This is how you get republicans wanting to use RATM on the campaign trail

Be the change you want to see

Honestly, sometimes I wonder how much of neurotypicality is just a myth. I don’t know many neurotypical people, and the ones I do know don’t have their shit together any more than I do.

An “introduction” to lemmy that’s buried behind clicking through vague smalltext, and not any of the brightly colored buttons enticing you to pick a server.

This is bad UX.

Implying I didn’t feel old then, lmao

Just like learning how to cook for yourself is a poor solution for people who live in a food desert or don’t have access to a kitchen, sure.

American culture is changing. It used to be that family bonds were the tightest, and we had generational housing, but that started going away during the great depression when a lot of family farms shut down and people lost the house they’d been in for generations. We also don’t like to talk about the amount of generational trauma that came from both the world wars, and that was another nail in the coffin of family life. The most recent blow has been the economy, where both parents need to work and don’t have the time to build the bonds with their children that are needed for a tight-knit family unit.