• https://www.learnlinux.tv/ - i started with this guy’s bash scripting series. learning bash will definitely give you at least a vague idea of what these forum commands are doing

• i promote Codecademy every chance I get because they’ve got some really good free courses, and i actually subscribe to unlock the quizzes and projects. I went through the CompTIA Linux+ certification path last year and it covers a lot.

• the most important part: take notes. like you said, there’s too much to remember. you gotta have a reference, even a place where you store other references. I use Obsidian, so i use that to search for a topic i may already have notes on already. each topic has links back to references (so many itsFOSS and GeeksForGeeks.org articles, but also youtube videos).

finally, a friendly warning: anytime a linux user uses the word “just” as in “just do this…” Ignore them. It’s never “just” something. this means they have lost the ability to put themselves in the shoes of a new user.

we need more variety

sometimes just do nothing, literally. meditating I guess.

or go back to something familiar before I’m ready for something new again

yep i use it. the public servers aren’t nearly as active as discord, unless you’re in a server with a discord bridge. but i mostly use it for this one small server of close friends anyways.

it’s definitely a work in progress, more like a beta than a finished product, but I’m willing to stick with it as it develops.

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stir fry and pizza

do people still play Frets on Fire? everyone in my game design camp back in like 2008 put that shit on their computers lol

kbin was my first too. RIP.

I have the original wired HTC Vive with the two sensors that have to be nailed up near the ceiling. I’ve been hoping to find support for VR tech that old but it looks grim. And I really don’t wanna have to buy a new headset when this one still works.

it’s not a warning… it’s an advertisement. like “hey, come read me, I’m good enough to get banned by bigots.”

Bandcamp

was an English teacher/tutor for a little while. it all makes me so sad and disappointed.

pretty much just the Lambda, Hugo, and Nebula awards. if a book has those it gets my attention.

my dapper little lad always puts me to shame

I’m on like 3 different ones, mainly defcon.social. All of them are under 5k users. I use a desktop app called Sengi to show feeds from all my accounts at once and group the federated feeds together, so yeah I can watch lots of posts fly by or scroll through at my leisure.

And yeah I pretty much just watch until I see a post I wanna favorite or boost. That’s why I say it’s the best way to find new accounts you wouldn’t otherwise have thought to check out.

Generally my local and home feeds are much slower. So on mobile, when I’m done catching up on those I keep refreshing the federated. I would be so bored without the federated.

“federated next to useless?” nah it’s my favorite. best way to find new people to follow

love a good Shakespearean fool

i so want somebody to get a picture of her constipated face lmao

My Libby hold for the audiobook of Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer finally came in and I’m excited to start it.

Also started Piranesi by Susanna Clarke a couple days ago and it’s one of those that’s hard to put down.

unfortunately in my experience reddit still has more niche communities than can be found on lemmy, probably bc they have more users. they have more subreddits for specific games, cities/states, mental illnesses, spiritualities/world mythologies, art, music, and book genres… the number of times I’ve searched for a community on lemmy only for it to not exist makes me hesitant to accept this video’s claim. reddit still has more niches than us. we just don’t have the numbers or activity.