LainTrain

Enjoy not having a job with your natural botox-free filler-free face and bitten-nails

Tabletop/card games seem inexplicably complex like bruh.

Something about the teaching method of some guy explaining something to you haphazardly, while sitting physically across from you making facial expressions and body language gestures and whatnot, something about the societal pressure to understand the rules in a given time limit as to not hold up a game, yet also make sure you actually do understand it and not come off as an idiot in a group which often features people you don't know that well, meaning you're now vulnerable in front of strangers, the way it's explained purely in the abstract without any relation to the real world which just makes the rules seem extremely arbitrary... It just makes for a rotten stew of incomprehensibility.

On the one hand I actually like it because how much of a challenge it is to my brain and the sheer novelty and shock to the system that the experience brings.

Most of the time games you play either have a commonality with others (genre i.e. FPS) or simulate a real world activity (i.e. shooting people) that have a certain logic to them that's just self-evident (point at target and pull trigger) and speak a sort of shared language that's designed to be as ergonomic as possible and on top of that, teaches you as you go with contextual instructions.

Even very complex games like HOI4 (or any Paradox or Paradox-type game) with enormous amounts of intertwined highly complex systems still simulate a real world activity to some degree, I don't actually have to have any game-specific knowledge to understand that if my government budget is in the red my immediate solutions are to cut costs or increase income (tax) and borrow to invest in infrastructure to increase income long-term and if the menu is intuitive enough, (e.g. Victoria 3), you can just find it.

And games with just absurd amounts of knowledge required like Warframe don't necessarily expect the player to actually know all, most or really any of it to play at the most basic level, and it's kinda understood that learning the ins and outs of later content takes hours and hours of periodic wiki perusing and game progress.

So board games that force completely abstract thinking among arbitrary rules going on half understood words of someone with an ever-thickening accent instead of the safe warmth of wiki text on a screen are actually a fun challenge, if you're the kind of person that likes to blast yourself with ice cold showers to wake up (me).

On the other hand - unfortunately I feel apprehensive about it due to past experience where sincere engagement probably gave my gf's friend circle the impression that I'm a stunted or something, it kinda sucks to feel like my game performance is judged, when obviously such things are intended more as a mutual activity to stimulate conversation and alcohol consumption rather than some cutthroat assessment of skill. I don't even know if it's the case, but I felt that way, so now I've just learned to say no completely out of hand to any and all interactive things at any social gathering for the most part.

Because few artists use CC as-is, because they have a petit bourgeoise mindset and are largely cutthroat narcissists who only care about "making it". I hope sincerely the breadline teaches them a lesson.

I ain't reading all that.

You are angry asf and need to chill tf out, restating your points over and over doesn't make them true, but it does make you sound like an aggro troglodyte.

You need to back up your shit and learn to formulate actual arguments, not just arbitrary statements you keep repeating. Stop being an aggressively incorrect moron and start thinking.

Neckbeards Mouth-foaming screed Braindead

Speak for yourself bruh.

Anyway, it's not very hard to understand:

Root access = control of device, control of device = ability to experiment. Ability to experiment = potential for tech literacy. Potential for tech literacy = tech literacy

Mac OS = locked down and dumbed down = tech illiteracy Chrome OS = Linux with chrome = tech literacy.

Also, blocked.

Wait, sushi places have spring rolls? Never seen one offer those. I thought it was a doner kebab thing, I get them with cream sauce or garlic sauce or something. Definitely not soy sauce yuck.

More importantly, is that soy sauce? Y'all eat spring rolls with motherfucking soy sauce? Ewwwwww

I love movies like Battlefield Earth and Showgirls, there's just something about them y'know?

Might be more accessible than gopherholes and gemini gems(?)

Remarkably sane https://creativecommons.org/ai-and-the-commons/cc-signals/implementation/

Meanwhile, I can find no official tutorial from Google

This is such an unserious strawman of an argument, how do you not get embarrassed writing this?

There's no official tutorial for most Android devices either, it doesn't mean it's harder to do than on Apple devices.

Even if your premise weren't demonstrably untrue

Just saying something is so doesn't make it so, to demonstrate my premise is untrue you have to actually demonstrate how it's untrue, which you have not done.

it's about the kind of workflow the device would encourage for a typical student using it

You mean like how Mac OS is locked to the Mac OS App Store by default only, featuring mainly proprietary payware unless you toggle an obscure bypass in the settings, while ChromeOS lets you run any unsigned code for ChromeOS, Linux and Android with minimal effort, all of which are either fully or partially open source and comes with a web browser equipped with a nice set of easily accessible Dev tools, which allows you to examine and learn how web applications are written, architectured and deployed - the largest by far aspect of computer science and software development most people come into contact with regularly?

Even if the conversation was about what you say, you would still be wrong. But it's not about that, because in a school scenario both would be locked down with an MDM - in Apple's case literally via serial numbers and network connectivity DRM you can't realistically block.

And no, this conversation is actually not about that either. A user repairable device doesn't become less repairable if it discourages your 12 year old from popping out and eating the battery.

severely restricts your ability and incentives to meaningfully interact with your OS outside of a browser.

Any examples on this one, chief? Or you just saying things like that will magically make them true again?

Even assuming that the process of gaining root access mattered to this discussion (it categorically doesn't),

Of course it does. Really it's the thing that matters the most.

Sorry but your bailey castle isn't any more secure than your motte, because access to root is actual freedom over your device, anything less than actual unrestricted root access where I can say, replace the network stack or write and add my own kernel modules for hardware support I want to add or whatever reason I please is by definition not really software (and by extension hardware) I have control over. It's just another blackbox walled garden.

what you can and cannot do with that root access would matter far more, and in that unrelated discussion, macOS clearly still wins out

Again, do you have any evidence at all to back that up?

And what's with this weird caveat?

(unless you'd want to argue that developer mode lets you install Linux, at which point this is no longer about Chrome OS).

It's some real specious reasoning to handwave the most core freedom of all - to simply replace/refuse the OS altogether and bring your own to your hardware, and highly convenient of course because Apple employs many anti-repair, anti-consumer, anti-modification practices from the very screws to their knock-off TPM (T2?) chip to hardware whitelists where everything is married down to the cables and each and every module for no reason other than to maintain control above all.

Please apply more intellectual rigor next time.

Fuck Google and fuck Apple, stop defending them, don't die on this silly hill and go be free.

I do this on purpose. I much much prefer chronological sorting and metadata search than actually organising files as long as it's faster and works correctly.

Even with actually manually organized file storage ultimately I just end up with folders more based on chronology than anything else.

The way I see it - the only actually practical reason to have folders is if there is logic applied to the files, like e.g. all files in folder X get mounted as a docker volume in program Y or backed up to server Z etc etc.

Beyond that all I care about is that my files are actually appropriately indexed and accessible quickly on-demand exactly when I want and how I want both at work and at home.

Same way how I don't actually go to /bin/ and list the dir and find the program, I hit Win+D in i3 and just type in what I want to run and get the program.

My one pet peeve though is when devs use this to organise an app's files like a tornado organizes a goddamn county fair, my ~/ is chock-full of random dotfiles and dotfolders of dotfiles without clear purpose or use and the state of C:\Users\whatever is a lovecraftian horror once you had the same general use Windows install for a few years, god forbid making sense of AppData and whatnot. And it gets so much worse with distro standards evolving to conf.d folders rather than one dotfile per program/daemon which just makes it hard to get an accurate full picture of things.

Fucking Kali of all things is such a bitch for adding splash to boot prams outside of /etc/default/grub in its goddamn theme script of all places. I use this OS for pentesting practice/learning (and gaming). I do not want fancy boot. I do not want arbitrary, potentially crippling boot options silently added to my grub in files that have no business doing so or really even being a default inclusion no matter how 'pretty' and 'modern' the result. I am trying to learn deobfuscating JS, not my own goddamn configs, not that the latter isn't useful but it feels hostile and anti-human to sacrifice simplicity for elegance.

Huh? I used ChromeOS and Mac OS for work, study and play and I can't honestly say one is particularly more simplistic or even user-friendly (dumbed-down) than the other. But ChromeOS is significantly less locked down overall in that getting root access on the device is much, much simpler.