They did the same shit to me. I refused and pestered them with numerous e-mails demanding them to just delete my account instead of reopening it. Finding a link to their contact form was a nightmare (it's hidden all the way at the bottom of their privacy policy). I also emailed [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] and a number of other generic addresses just to be sure they would receive something.

I got three LLM sounding replies where they asked me to follow a link to verify my identity with a government issued identity document, but after a couple more e-mails where I wrote that providing Persona or LinkedIn with my identity documents is against my personal security policy, they just caved and reopened my account calling it a "temporary measure to protect my account". Set a new password, logged in and deleted my account immediately. Good riddance.

There's also this.

I think most people yearn for the past, and always have. People who grew up in communist East Germany (the country) even long for the glory days of the German "Democratic" Republic too. The term Ostalgia (East-algia) was coined for that. I think everyone long for a past that never truly existed and was only rose-colored by the innocence of childhood and early youth. Fewer people die in violent conflicts each year (at least up until the invasion of Ukraine), childhood deaths decline, yet the world seems extremely violent and polarized. I think the world was always violent and polarized, but we didn't have social media and the internet to broadcast and amplify the violence and our differences.

Fuck how I detest these times we’re living in

I don't think it's possible to reclaim LinkedIn. It's not exactly a democratic platform and I doubt user outrage will change anything unless their user attrition rate goes through the roof. They can just tweak their algorithms, mute or limit the reach of users to hide discontent from others too. Better to just leave and try to get #fedihired instead.

Harvard’s CS50 (Introduction to computer science) is available for free on edx.org. It starts with Scratch and goes on to C the second week. Excellent lectures by David Malan and lots of weekly exercises you can do and submit for review that will give you a solid foundation to build on.

Hello fellow slacker!

Don’t use it

And billionaires

Sure thing!

Wallpaper (Lofi cat):

https://images.hdqwalls.com/wallpapers/cat-lofi-looking-outside-xx.jpg

Xfce/Xfwm theme (inspired):

https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1585133

Icon theme (DarK SVG):

https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1187019

Xresources:

https://okturing.com/src/17135/body

And fascism

That depends on what the beginner's goal is. Arch could very well be a nice beginner distro, as could Gentoo or Slackware or any other "hard" distro if you're determined to learn. My baptism of fire was on Slackware in the 90s (which I'm still on), long before "beginner distros". Trying and failing was a big part of the fun. If you're determined to learn, I don't see any issue with starting with a distro that doesn't hold your hand.

You can do some gaming, but it’s limited. I play a bit of Terraria and BG2 on my laptop that runs OpenBSD. I prefer Linux for gaming though.

https://www.playonbsd.com/games/

https://github.com/luka-hash/plan9cursors

And consultants

And senior execs

And large language models

I've been running Slackware for a long time and have no intention of switching unless Pat steps down and Slackware goes down with him. As long as my base install receives updates, I'm good. I take care of the rest.

Thanks, yours too!

Manually resolving dependencies, piping fortune through cowsay and playing Tux Racer for the most part… /s

I run Slackware on my gaming pc too. You can use it as a daily driver like any other distro. It doesn’t have a specific use case. It is what you want it to be.