l3db3tt3r

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[–] l3db3tt3r@piefed.social 9 points 2 days ago

The revelations that came out from the Edward Snowden ordeal.

[–] l3db3tt3r@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

Find the skills gaps that you have; find the thing that interests you about it; and dig into that fundamental piece, don't understand what the fundamentals might be, go check out .edu, or certification outlines with the vocabulary/knowledge you do have so you can build from the concepts (and benefit from their already determined progressions) , so you can developed additional vocabulary and knowledge of the discipline.

[–] l3db3tt3r@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think the gatekeeping part isn't the warning or cautionary advice being given, It's the failure to point, and give direction to, the relevant thing(s), the skill sets, the place to start in order to understand the complexities.

Like the hart-surgeon analogy given elsewhere in the comments; it's not just the dire warning of 'you can kill someone' - it's the humanity to say, well if you want to learn how to do this, you're going to have to start by having an understanding of basic biology, organic chemistry, human anatomy, etc, and to learn about those things go here...

[–] l3db3tt3r@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

I think you've missed the point OP is trying to communicate. It's not that these things aren't relevant, highly important, and good caution/warning. It's the gate that people are creating with these no depth explainers. "you need to understand" "if you don't know" -- then fail to provide direction to people who want to know, to learn these things, to figure out where to start; that's the gate.

[–] l3db3tt3r@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This article kind of reads like a nothing-burger. (and it's buried behind a paywall).

I'm not a big fan of 'tests' that go and try and cherry pick one variable to play around with to make a single conclusion, when it's really the system of various variables working in relation to each other.

The general population, and even general categories of competition, you're better off picking a tire that hits somewhere in the top 20% of performance in all relevant categories: Aerodynamics, Rolling Resistance, Traction (various: stopping power, cornering, surface type, etc), and Durability (mostly related to the additional weight) and making additional compromises as it relates to the thing you are doing, the environment, and your experience.

[–] l3db3tt3r@piefed.social 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The price of being on the bleeding edge.
But also, trust the process, it's a feature not a bug.

[–] l3db3tt3r@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

Also, I'll add, that I think that beginners learning this immutable, devcontainer, distrobox workflow offers you more space to practice and learn by doing. You'll will learn a lot by recovering from some misstep (rollback), and/or by blowing it up, to rebuild it again. (and I encourage you to do it often for the practice and confidence)

[–] l3db3tt3r@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Check out the 'dx' variants within universal blue It would be a good time to become familiar with rebasing.

I run bluefin-dx environment. (gnome).

There is a different learning curve to immutable/atomic systems and workflows. I don't think it's harder per say, it's just you'll have to be cognizant of the differences when searching for relative and relevant information when you come up against anything (like any opinionated *nix distro). Learn Homebrew, and Flatpack (and thier quarks running with atomic systems).