I studied political science and jazz...

Isnt that how all social media sites start out. Starts with nerd culture and eventually other people come in later?

Exactly my thoughts. Back in the day when I joined the Instagram in the first month of launch there were only professional photographers posting some great stuff, it was fun until celebs and general public started using it.
- Those darn celebrities, always ruining people's fun on social media.
  I wonder when one of them is going to show up on Lemmy...
- So normies are the original enshittifiers, then corporations come in. I knew it, I should have stayed a shut-in.
Starts with nerd culture
In a nutshell, this is the perfect social media for me!
That's how social media was invented. I remember when computers were things that only geeks and nerds were into. And then Neverending September happened, and suddenly normies were everywhere on the internet. We create something new to congregate, and they just invite themselves in after we make it popular. MySpace, Facebook, Reddit...even IRC and Geocities were taken over by them. We eventually took back Usenet at least, but only because it stopped being free for most people.
- I use usenet for media only. Are there still communities active via usenet?

Political science? Hmm, switch to all communities and sort for new. Have fun.

Haha, the appeal of political science to me is less about arguing with strangers about the news and more talking about broader philosophies and theories and then applying them to what we are seeing in the world. I feel like I can have a more nuanced conversation about the prisoner's dilemma with regards to x topic, or applying philosophies like American Pragmatism to solving problems.
Talking about the news without using some of the tools political scientists use has so many emotional trip wires that it can feel like I'm just keeping up with the Kardashians. That said sometimes I just can't help but keep up with the Kardashians.
- Is American Pragmatism a thing? If you explain it to me, will I feel better about myself?
- Recently the only news about politics I don't find disgusting is done by political scientists. You you recommend a book on the topic for beginners?
- Lmao.
  Try talking soil science with gardeners and permaculture geeks.
That's how I browse (all & scaled or all & new) and I'm a CS nerd. To make the experience less annoying I've blocked a bunch of communities mainly because they're not interesting to me (there's a lot of anime and/or porn communities, fucking hell), but it's generally a nice experience – I can run into all kinds of things that I hadn't heard of before. I haven't even gotten traumatized yet! Shame the only way to filter the feed is to block communities, but eh
- What am I doing wrong? I never get any anime content nor porn.

I’ll have you know that I wrote a semi-functional webpage in HTML when I was in college 😎

What web 3.0 implies are great, what it actually is in its current form is not. Simply focusing on FOSS should be enough for now and there's a shit ton of really good FOSS like this medical practise software as well as stuff inspired by Open Source culture itself like the Open Source Ecology.
No correlation I hope.
There are several nurses here I've noticed. We make sure we go everywhere.
Working in a psychiatric hospital and spending your free time in another

I'm glad you're here. Now there are at least two of us!

There are dozens of us! Dozens!
My education background is nursing and social work. I've only ever used Windows and very surface level. I've never programmed anything, the closest I've gotten to anything technical is troubleshooting a game that I've modded to within an inch of its life.
Though I'm picking up an old laptop from a school surplus next Monday to wipe and begin exploring Linux. My only other experience with Linux is the interface of my housemates NAS (which I use only to manage a plex and valheim server)
I'm an IT tutor in a community centre - basically just teaching grandma how to close all her iPhone apps. No experience or formal qualifications needed. If you can be patient while showing seniors the basics of the devices they've got at home, you're hired.
Our organisation currently pays too much for an IT managed service provider, who doesn't provide a comprehensively managed service, so my boss wants to end their contact and hire me as a dedicated IT management officer. My boss is 75 and is confident in my abilities because she thinks power cycling the router when the internet goes out is an amazing and high level skill, but I know enough to know how much I don't know. But I also know I can learn.
So maybe in a year or so I'll understand more of the jokes on lemmy.
- Your comment made me happy
- be patient while showing seniors the basics of the devices they've got at home
  I'm not a programmer either but I bet this is actually harder than learning at least a few coding languages.

Python? Where? All I see is people praising Rust here. Also, Ubuntu? That's the most hated Linux distro on Lemmy.

So this supports my point completely. No fuckin clue what you're saying.
- Gottem
- Don't worry, you'll learn soon enough
Yeah, the rust circle jerk is hard here... I'll be over here getting work done with my hated OS and my hated programming language. Living life on hard mode, man, I just wanna relax. 😵

Fuck openai

A corporate going down in history for the abuse of word open despite being anything but
- Their entire business is constructed by harvesting the open internet, then keeping the end result closed. Yet they are called "open"AI.
- When the company was named, they intended to create open source AI tools, but then greed.
- The FLOSS community should have the right to revoke usage of the word "open" from for profit companies like that.
~~openai~~ closedai

Bring on the political science and jazz posts! Would love to see them around.

Hey, I studied jazz too! Now I'm working on becoming a sysadmin lol

Music and programming both have a sort of logic to them

I'm not a programmer either, but I am a Linux and open source user so I can at least wade through the waters, lol

Same here. I count the days until it's discovered that I'm just a normie who agrees with the ideology of open source, and am hanged for my crimes of not knowing what a "cron" is, thinking stdout has to do with diseases, or wanting to play video games with 0 troubleshooting haha.
- This incident will be reported
- What do you mean you don't use Arch, hate cars and are vegan?
  😅

I sir am a Linux engineer and resent your insinuation that I'm a programmer.

What's Linux?

I know a little bit of Python thanks to ren'py, and I have Linux on my Steam Deck, so... I guess I'm in transition?

Not long before I have programmer socks and start binge watching Star Trek 👍

Hopefully you don't conform and assimilate into trekdom or Linux nerd popular memedom.
As a reddit api refuge, I realize just how much effort it is to A create content B maintain frequency
For power users its easier to run a bot to automate posting. I would suggest two things need to take place possibly 3. One a new community for just new community request, and we direct ppl there and combine the posters with ppl.who want the content?
As much as everyone enjoys the beans, I'm sure if content makers had insight on what content leechers wanted some shift.
Right now lemmy still feels like a private club, bit once the news outlets start looking to lemmy communities for information the shift will happen.
I just hope the spirit of lemmy being free but understanding support the mods, donate to the org and this will remain free.
Half the world uses Linux and isn't aware of it (Android).

To make things more confusing, I program, I use linux, and I talk about all of these stuff, but I am not a programmer :p .

If you program you're a programmer. No need to do it professionally to call yourself that.

Uns Deutsche gibt's auch noch.

Dieser Kommentarebereich....
- ist jetzt QUELLOFFEN!

In the early days, it was laborwave and esoteric websites, the programmer humor seems relatively new to me

I studied both political science and programming.

I can't think of a good joke, but I wanted to share.

you are one of us now...

For representational reasons, I miss the logo of the Rust programming language, but I have the hint of an idea why the creator of the meme didn’t put it in there.

wait, did they change the Rust logo? What happened?
- I’m referring to this controversy, just in case that wasn’t obvious: https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/17/rust_foundation_apologizes_trademark_policy/

Ya like jazz?

wiggles fingers jazzily
Do jazz shitposting communities exist? I don't have the time to create one, but I'd love to see some.
- I can create and mod one for you if you want but i can't post anything if you or any others are interested lemmy know (pun intended)

I studied political science

Oh, you're looking for NonCredibleDefense.

!NonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.works

the same thing goes for people who aren’t star trek fans. i didn’t even know there were so many different star treks until i made an account here

You will assimilate

I'm no programmer either, but switched to the penguin out of necessity, since my PC completely lost the ability to run Windows for no reason. But I vibe with KDE Plasma now, so it's not half bad.

(Someone tell me where I find my mounted devices as a folder pls, thanks)

Devices are in /dev. Bulk storage devices can be mounted anywhere on the file system, but by convention you can look up where permanently mounted drives get mounted by looking in /etc/fstab. Automatically mounted drives are usually put in /media and manually mounted devices should go in /mnt.
The devices should be in the /dev directory
Not sure what folders they are usually in by default, but I set my mounted drives to be inside of the /mnt folder because I didn't like wherever they were originally mounted to.
Assuming you mean hot plugged devices (thumb drives and external drives) KDE mounts them under /media
If you are expecting them to auto mount, KDE distros often don't have that enabled by default. Though I think Kubuntu has that enabled by default now so maybe that has changed. Go to System Settings -> Hardware -> Removable Devices to adjust the automount settings defaults and per drive settings.
If you don't have automount enabled you probably will need to browse to them in Dolphin once to get KDE to mount the drive first.

political science and jazz

Theodor Adorno, is that you?

Hell yea I love a good wiki deep dive
I am actually writing an analysis of the music industry and counter culture responses with regards to AI and the future of music! I'm calling it musical humanism. 🎷 🎺 🎸
- I would LOVE to read that
- Then seriously, check Adorno and his writings on Jazz. He was pretty early in calling out capitalism as diluting and anodizing music, (something I'm not entirely sure I agree with) and in my experience his writings are often cited when discussing how music is packaged and marketed.

Healthcare gang represent!

I just wish that other users were into sports too. At least a couple!

A couple people or a couple sports? I'd be happy to talk about sumo but we've only got 45 subs over at !sumo@lemmy.world

I know a little bit about programming, but I think that it's crucial to learn more, not just because of how messed up social media sites are, but because you can do so much cool stuff!