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  • Yeah, error reports seem to be some esoteric concept for some people…

    I’m obviously doing the IT stuff for my family (although in the last years, I got out by saying, I’m doing Linux exclusively). So once I got a hysterical call, that the laptop is dead and nothing is working anymore.
    So stupid me rushed over, just to find out that they just couldn’t receive emails, because their provider had a problem.

    In my book, if a laptop is dead, there isn’t anything on the screen anymore - best case some BIOS stuff is happening.

    I started to switch people over to Linux, at least the next generation and my near surroundings, and decline now most things on windows (or smartphones), because I officially haven’t worked with those operating systems since years, and all I do is just searching around and reading things, they could’ve done themselves, if they wouldn’t be too lazy to read.
    I’m all open for people who are lost and need help, but then they mustn’t treat me like a fucking employee. I’m here to help you to solve your problems next time yourself, else my work here has no point.







  • Personally I still don’t believe that a completely unknown app was suddenly getting new members in the means of some grassroots protest.
    Maybe it is more (or gotten) more known through TikTok and that’s why it was basically unknown for me.
    Still, I think this is artificially hyped as a reaction to a potential TikTok ban and not some organic growth - even taking into account people switching in protest

    I think, I’ve heard about this app like once in the last years. And, not wanting to sound self centered, but as a software dev and quite interested in anything internet, I find this development rather strange.

    Was “little red book” promoted on TikTok or how did so many people, who are usually just consumers of feeds, suddenly heard of that new app?
    Especially, when I have a really hard time to have them install a new app, like Signal, in other cases.

    Ok, this wasn’t really a good answer to your comment, sorry. You’re right, that the TikTok feed just builds individual bubbles, so right wingers will get more right wing info and the other way round.
    But the sudden switch to a practically unknown app just… seems fishy