No shaming people for being anti-electoralism. This should be obvious from the above point but apparently we need to make it obvious to the turbolibs who can’t control themselves. You have the rest of lemmy to moralize.

Love this!

Also, OLPC… That sure takes me back.

Yeah, I found an old OLPC I had lying around. Over 20 years old and somehow still kicking. I managed to update it to the most recent versions of Sugar and Gnome available for it, but they’re both from 2010. I saw people online talking about putting Linux Puppy on these things, so I’ve been grinding every single day for three weeks trying to get it working.

Thing is, I’m totally new to this. Zero experience with programming, hacking, or computer hardware. I’ve always been a plug-it-in-and-it-just-works kind of person. So messing around like this has been way outside my comfort zone.

But I’ve learned a ton over the past few weeks. I’ve used virtual environments on my Mac to format disks the OLPC can actually read, run sudo commands in Terminal, update firmware, and unlock the system so I can install other OSes. I even got the Wi-Fi working, so that’s a win. But I really want to get Linux Puppy running on it. Everyone says it’s lightweight, fast, and plays nice with these old machines.

My end goal? To post to Lemmy from my OLPC. lol So yeah, it’s been a weird little adventure. My OLPC so far:

I appreciate people and their side hustles, but I write plenty of other things for pay, I don't feel the need to go crazy with Lemmy articles on pirate/hacker insights. Tho I appreciate the person saying it!

I mean, I already made a whole $10 off my transsexual werewolf gay porno novel that involved a genetically altered hamster who's obsessed with Cheetos, playing Balatro on PlayStation, pegging, and fetishizing women wearing strap-ons, and ignoring him while they make TikTok make-up vids on their phones. Oh, and it had a secret cult of nuns protecting magic golden dildos. (Not even joking--welcome to my life as a writer.)

So I can write Lemmy articles and put them out there just to put them out there.

Thanks, mate! <3

Oh I like that!

When someone’s working on just trying to stay afloat, it’s hard to justify paying again and again just to rent joy. In that light, piracy isn’t rebellion; it’s survival.

Yep, I'm never going back.

Thank you! (EDIT: No thank you)

EDIT:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Bias/Fact_Check

Nevermind. MediaBiasFactCheck bot and website aren't scientific at all.

Yeah, I grew up on those days, and missed most of the computer revolution simply because my family couldn't afford any of it. I did have a rich friend that dabbled, so I got so see the edges of it, but I didn't get to dive in deep like a lot of people did in those days. I'm making up for it now, though!

Yep! That's why projects like this are so essential.

Brah, think of it as millions of data-drenched pages, packed with high-voltage scholarly juice, swirl through the wires like ghost smoke, and then vanishing into the hidden vaults of a shadow library buried deep in the darkweb. A digital rebel bunker, ducking the sweaty claws of greedy suits who’d sell knowledge by the ounce if they could!

OR just some random AI image the author of the piece picked? I don't know.

PTB.

But consider it a good thing for you.

.world is a toxic shithole and they remove anything that veers slightly from the echo-chamber. You're much better off just blocking the instance and enjoying the rest of the fediverse.

If you decide to overlook it and stay, you'll find shit will just keep getting removed. Do yourself a courtesy and join another instance.