I agree with you; if they have a resource they can approach together, it’d be much easier to be on the same page.

And also yeah, people tend to resist help and advice they never asked for to begin with.

Yeah that “depending” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there lol.

Also big depending: At least try not to make it TOO obvious that’s what you’re doing. Most library people are cool, (Source: know library people) but it’s kinda obvious when we see someone racking up the hold shelf with like 30-40 DVDs and CDs a week. LMAO

Unfortunately the mega media interests do occasionally try to pressure libraries to enforce copyright violations or whatever. (Like telling you you can’t photocopy textbook pages or something)

I personally try to just archive things I own, primarily, or things that are special and important to me, but that’s also because I have maybe 4TB to work with and hardware is insane again.

But there’s a point when it starts to look like compulsory hoarding lol. It’s kinda an open secret/ gray area, and a few people being stupid will likely catch attention. (Look what happened to archive.org fending off broadsides from the publishing industry.)

In a way a lot of us end up becoming amateur librarians. When the big megaservers get hit with something nasty, or they decide to purge it all for AI datasets or something. (Idk it’s a stupid timeline anything is possible lol)

I like to think our fellow amateur archivists who started collecting such things for personal reasons will be a force for preserving meaningful artifacts of human experience.

“(smirk) Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory.”

Despite Hasbro’s best efforts with its pet lifestyle brand lol.

Man, if that isn’t the experience when visiting any niche online community around anything hahaha.

As the old saying goes: “Copper is copper!”

From my understanding looking into it somewhat seriously and asking folks, I wouldn’t recommend getting into Etsy.

Between its endorsement of Ai slop and high fees, it’s gotten to App Store levels of “If you’re not at the top, you’re at the bottom.”

I’d still recommend local, but targeting events where people into your thing would likely go.

In good faith, I think this ask is taking the initiative to find advice from said experienced person, and then relay that information to their possibly tech-illiterate parent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKNzEvK_5u8

One of the best examples I can think of fitting that description lol.

And before that, PepsiCo, so if “CEO” wasn’t enough indicator that he was a complete ghoul.

Lol right? Everywhere we look, there’s volumes of “rules and norms” that would see us insta-fired and jailed if violated. Plenty of actions we could take would put us at the mercy of countless authorities and perhaps rightly ruin our lives.

But gee if you go high enough, the consequences are apparently just:

“Egad! Oh dear, how uncouth! Somebody should do something! Sir! We unfortunately feel forced to inform you that we find this behavior most distasteful! Excuse me sir are you listening? We disapprove, I say! We wag our fingers, sir!”

“Oh look, someone is coming to help!”

[Confusing violence ensues]

worked to simultaneously make fascism cool

Y’know I cringe so hard now at that whole humorous “Muricah” stereotype. You know, gun-nut, God and Country, Reagan was so great, filthy commies blah blah blah. Always with a wry chuckle…it used to be a funny ironic schtick…Colbert parodied it really well.

…Except it’s hitting hard and fast that it wasn’t a schtick and no small percentage of people adopted it in all seriousness.

(Like how many people didn’t understand the Space Marine fascism in 40k was supposed to be over the top parody.)

“Oh, you mean ¿death panels‽ Where a bunch of faceless, soulless bureaucrats decide whether you’re worth saving or not? You know, completely unlike the wonders of profiteer healthcare!”

That’s so freaking terrifying to think about.

But we’re seeing it here too: People seeing their neighbors dragged away, and they will do any mental gymnastics necessary to separate themselves from the victims instead of defending or even standing with them.

And risk damaging the streetcar?

I imagine if a kampfwagen gets bumped by just about anything, the biggest hazard would be random stainless steel and plastic litter all over the street.

There’s also a non-zero chance it will just go critical and set itself ablaze. XD

LMAO I used to joke about the same thing, but the cannon was pointed upwards at a random trajectory instead. For the luls. 😂

Check your local library to see if they have access to the Kanopy streaming service. It’s a bit of everything, but lots of top-notch documentaries on there!

Lol! Source is like the second to last paragraph of “Prologue.”

A ton of Linux usage involves the direct or indirect management and commanding of daemons, too. <_<

I think we cracked it: Linux is free and open sourcery. XD

Lol I’m really curious about the etymology behind all these computing terms now!

I wouldn’t be surprised to find out something like “kernels and shells” was a historically common analogy though.