School of the Aristocrats?

Just put it under the sovereignty of the nation the mountain was stolen from and let them decide how to heal it

Holy shit. Can you imagine believing that Democrats are helpful to the working class? Can you imagine believing voting is helpful to the working class? Fucking hell.

It is absolutely possible. I know people that changed into programming from television production, teaching grade school, and many other things at various stages of their life.

The important thing is not getting credentialed, but actually learning how to program at a level that will get you hired. It’s probably easier to get an entry level job as a linux admin than an entry level job as a programmer. If you’re in the US, you might want to consider taking the civil service exam as that will open up a ton of low stress high stability entry level jobs that involve IT administration.

Programming you’ll need to effectively be capable of doing the equivalent of a bootcamp without going to a bootcamp. Bootcamps are expensive. If you’re part of a socially marginalized group you might be able to find free training through various organizations. Or, you can find a bootcamp equivalent training set of videos maybe. Either way, it’s an intensive path to follow. You could do it in a matter of months but you need to be programming every day for many hours, which means it at least feel like having a night job and at worst it means quitting your job and finding another way to survive while you program full-time to get your skills developed.

I don’t think bootcamps are particularly good at helping people get hired, but I’m biased because I have a great network of people that support me in the field. If you don’t have that network, a bootcamp might actually help you get connected. Your network is the second most important thing for finding jobs you love, the first most important thing is being honest with yourself and getting out of bad situations before they burn you out entirely.

Join Slack and Discord communities, attend meetups in your area, find some sort of curriculum you can follow online, and take the civil service exam (if you’re in the US) and I think you’ll be able to get where you want to go. No, you’re age and your past career do not limit you.

Maintained and defended colonial oppression over water rights for native nations

I will never tire of your contributions.

I don’t think it’s just that they are misguided. It’s that they raise guns against the revolutionary state.

Honestly, the distribution doesn’t matter. Just get started! Remember, Linux is about control over your tools. To develop mastery requires failure. I installed probably 5 distros before finally getting good at managing Linux. I learned so much from exploring and failing.

Don’t listen to crowds on this topic, please. Get one person to be your phone-a-friend and you’ll be fine. If you don’t have this person, you will suffer, regardless of distro choice. This person should be someone who is already comfortable with Linux, any distro will do. If you don’t have this person in your life, I will be that person for you.

Everything else you can learn, first get the hardware you want to use (probably already done), then get a Linux friend, then go exploring!!!

The cloud is amazing for businesses.

For personal, the reality is that we have not spent enough time as a society figuring how to make residences into self-organzing utility nodes. Every residence needs to control its own data and compute infrastructure. We have the tech for it, but we don’t design for the citizen to be in full control over their assets.

We even have some breakthroughs in mutatable crypto that would allow us to superposition a distributed cloud on top of citizen hardware without any data exposure.

But the pressures of military intelligence requires centralization. And a revolution isn’t going to change that any time soon.

No I agree. This feels gross.

Hot take incoming.

It’s because using Windows is traumatizing. Windows users are traumatized, and people who decide to become power users are doubly traumatized. The power users share their first trauma with all Windows users, so they have empathetic identification with them. The power users share their second, chosen, trauma with each other, and therefore see eachother as an in-group community.

The very existence of Linux suggests that not only was the first trauma unnecessary, indicating a cruel world, but also that the second trauma was unnecessary, meaning that they caused their own suffering for no meaningful purpose.

Therefore they must resist Linux at all costs in order to maintain their world view that they suffered justly and valiantly, that their friends and family suffer necessarily, and that their in-group is special.

It’s a form of Stockholm Syndrome.

I also use bash for this reason. However, I do find bash programming to be quite obtuse. If I was scripting for myself I would use another shell but I usually script for fleets of servers, so since bash is ubiquitous I just use it and jump to Python for anything conplex