I’m unfamiliar with KISS. I don’t really distro hop, since what I use has satisfied all my needs to date.

Debian for my daily workstation. Minimal terminal-only install, and then I piece together my environment.

For smaller, headless applications I like Alpine. Containerized projects, VPS, etc.

Lots of French loan words are also used by other languages.

Typescript

You need to download a client, and then you connect to a server. Once on a server, you can join (and create) channels.

https://www.irchelp.org/faq/irctutorial.html

As far as servers go, I personally enjoy tilde.chat and libera.chat

That’s why you use pseudonyms and hide your power level. However, the experience is what I’m after.

I believe having a good, healthy personal foundation allows people to make better choices for their communities.

Same. I’ve returned to things like IRC for my online social time.

When ‘reasonable’ people delete/deleted twitter/facebook in droves, are we just ceding the ground game to the racists and the ones who can shout the most hate?

Leaving a toxic environment that also is a privacy and advertising nightmare will always be an excellent personal choice.

I don’t disagree, I’m just saying if anyone was on the fence and needed a push.

Pineapple on pizza.

The best crash course I received was when I needed to translate my startup scripts into systemd services. The hands-on learning was priceless.

I’m very cold acclimated, so I usually wear workout shorts and a thin sweater. I just use a blanket, when I’m stationary and need some coze.

A framed picture of Channing Tatum.

If it can detect suspicious unfriendliness, then I’m really in trouble.

Is FlyingSquid Blocked?

They’ve grown up in a world where immediate gratification is expected.

I know every generation says that about younger generations, but perhaps that’s because with every generation it just gets worse and worse.

Go back to Japan.

It was a topical joke revolving around the numerous rounds of tech layoffs since 2023, as well as the current state of industry hiring, which is pretty depressing and toxic if you’re a software engineer currently looking for work.

I’m a software engineer who was recently laid off.