Alice Lia Maro

ive realised what we need to do as a workaround for the "you don't get notified when someone answers your ask" and its embracing the old tumblr method of bookmarking the tag for your username (e.g. i've bookmarked #slimelia) and when people answer an ask from me, they tag it with that tag

"but alice that seems ridiculously clunky" yeah it is but it's how we handled asks and xkit-style replies (back when OP couldnt reply to comments on their own post) on tumblr for YEARS until a better system was implemented. so

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also comes in smol

linux is easy and fun actually its just all the people who want u to use it are nerds about it (im one of these) because free computing first attracts all the people who want to customize their computer. you dont need arch u need mint or pop_os or something else that isnt built for nerds.

linux can be easy and fun except there seems to be a large amount of hostility in the linux community towards ease of use. some of it is warranted -- the ways that windows and android and mac os abstract things hides functionality from the user and makes computers seem more arcane and mysterious than they actually are, which seriously impacts computer literacy -- some of it isnt -- having a pre-built software suite helps onboard more casual users and keeps your community from seeming elitist and out of touch.

i feel like there's such a disconnect from reality with the "users should know how their computers work" crowd. and i don't disagree with the principle but there's plenty of people who wouldn't be opposed to using a linux distro but don't want to have to touch a terminal at all, ever. and honestly? that's fair. no other device people use in daily life requires that level of knowledge and unituitive interaction with the device. and it is unintuitive if you've never had to deal with that before. when it comes to computers, i'm afraid to say that most people are idiots: i work with people who think that when they open a new tab in a web browser the old tab is gone forever. people on average are NOT good with computers.

i had ubuntu & windows dual-booted on my old laptop i used at university, and i enjoyed it. it was a simple entry-point, stable enough, and overall i was able to get by and learn a lot. ...until windows inexplicably completely broke the bootloader. now i was usually able to fix this because i was a compsci student and knew what i was doing, but i'd say throughout my time at university i probably had to reinstall ubuntu about 6 or 7 times due to various inexplicable bugs i encountered with my hardware that had never been documented anywhere before

that's... just not good enough for the "i would be willing to try linux but i want everything to just work properly" crowd.¹

i appreciate the cohost 18+ spoiler for two reasons:

1. while i shouldn't be scrolling social media at work at all, i still do and i'd be in far more trouble if i was caught looking at like, a dragon's penis or whatever
2. i'm not horny at work and looking at horny art while sat at my office job at my desk just is NOT the vibe. the 18+ filter is my Vibe Management