Sounds impressive in theory, but I’ve actually seen it; it’s this weird guy from the '80s singing about quitting cigarettes or something.

Does not live up to the hype.

Most money is not really created by central banks. It’s created by private banks when they make loans. They literally add a number to their assets, and to the borrowers liabilities - and the borrower can now go spend that new money.

Central banks are supposed to try to regulate bank lending to try to stop the pyramid spiining out of control.

Governments also take out loans though (by selling bills, gilts, bonds) - so they are also involved in money creation process, that money typically goes to pay public services and public servants.

But the majority of money creation is typically private loans - and much of that goes ino property price bubbles , which does indeed benefit the rich.

Ongo Gablonion

No way.

It’s blatant hype. They’ve probably got a quarterly investment report due. Just trying to bump up shareholder confidence or something.

As usual they’ll be flogging the elves until midnight just to rush out a reskinned version of V20.24 with a new batch of bugs and very quickly there’ll be dissapointment all round.

There’s a less popular name “Jago” in English that would fit. I think that also comes from Jacob or Iago.

So I reckon “Saint Jago”

I’d go basic debian . Install flatpak and flathub to get any packages that are too far out of date or might get so. Any derivative or ubuntu derivative just sees like unnecessary extra dependencies to me.

Debian gives i think a wider choice of desktop environment than any of the derivatives on install, but I think they’re all much of a muchness really. Most of the DEs have the “Click something, window opens” feature.

Maybe they emphasise “children” to encourage more of the current adult generation to sacrifice themselves. And to manage expectations of when the benefits arise.

I always think of Kiwi / Ozzie slang when I type chroot.

Of course that’s after consulting the ArchKiwi to remember how to mount it

oh oh, I’m a below average arch user. I suspect i copied most of my hoome from debian or something.

I’ll rename it to Dickuments as a security feature.

Rat pogo stick.

Unfortunately rat consumers are notoriosly sensitive to the ‘not tested on animals’ logo, so is not as simple as attaching rat and observe.

Standard practice is to tape a large potato to the top part and check it bounces properly.

The datasheet should state the specific bounce characteristics to test against, but normally, it should bounce between 2o% and 40% of it’s length, when dropped from 40-50% of it’s length. I think the standard weight for the testing potato is 700 +/-20 grams. Again the datasheet might indicate a different range if it is specifically marketed towards a niche market like juveniles or the obese or something.

obligatory bunk mcnulty do csi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNVEQgXsBgs

The Three Stigmata of Palm . . . Dick

Martian Time Dick

That’s a problem and I remember talking about it in the 2000s when everything started to become user friendlieness. plug and play, just works and so-on, worst part is stuff being locked down and harder to jailbreak.

It’ll be fine though, I’m sure AI will install their OS for them, I won’t have a clue how it did it, but it’ll probably be better than I could do.

You’ll just add “without backdoors” to the prompt and it’ll be secure too.

I agree, there’s a lot of people in this thread who seem to know exactly what is good or bad for a new user. But I don’t see many being sensitive to what the user might actually want to achieve. New users are not a homogeneous group.

If the user wants to both use (stably) and learn (break stuff) simultaneously, I’d suggest that they start on debian but have a second disk for a dual boot / experimentation. I don’t really use qemu much but maybe that’s a good alternative these days. But within that I’d say set them self the challenge of getting a working arch install from scrath - following the wiki. Not from the script or endeavourOS - I think those are for 4th/5th install arch users.

I find it hard to believe that I’d have learned as much if ubuntu was available when I started. But I did dual boot various things with DOS / windows for years - which gave something stable, plus more of a sandbox.

I think the only universal recommedation for. any user, any distro, is “figure ourt a decent backup policy, then try to stick to it”. If that means buy a cheap used backup pc, or raspberry pi and set it up for any tasks you depend on, then do that. and I’d probably pick debian on that system.

Chicken?

https://youtu.be/kwo1S7QCJ_8?t=108

Meh, it’s just a handful of square normal males added together.

Not really, it generally worked in the end - so in fact it’s pretty great actually at getting you out of a hole.

It was just a load of extra steps - and usually a last resort after failing with whatever came on the installation disks. So morale had taken a few hits before you even started with it.

Everything is easier when you can connect to the network immediately.

Fair play to ubuntu (and i guess kernel improvements in early 2ks) - that was such a major step in ease of installation.

Bring back the good old days of ndiswrapper.

Yeah but make sure you get the high mocktane stuff, too weak and you end up with punypunk.