What would society look like if most people were autistic? - Lemmy.world

I would imagine most societies would look sort of like Germany or Japan, but the real question is which widespread social norms are directly or indirectly caused by endemic and widespread Neurotypical Disorder, as well as what those social norms would be replaced by For example, I would expect the attached poster to not exist for various obvious reasons. But how do you think an autistic society would handle the indication of listening/attentiveness?

Need help with running Windows off my flash drive - Lemmy.world

My goal is to have a dedicated USB for running Windows with persistent storage, so that if it would save something to the hard drive it instead saves it to the flash drive. I do not want to dual-boot or install it. Normally I’d be able to Google this and find my own way around. However, I don’t know what this is called. Some people seem to be calling this a bootable USB, some people seem to be calling it a live USB. And of course, none of the guides I’ve seen show them using it, shutting down and unplugging it, and then demonstrating the persistent storage on the next boot. The most I’ve gathered is that windows needs to be packaged in a special way to run like this, but it seems unclear what that means for me. So. What is this thing called? How have you gone about making a bootable/live windows flash drive with persistent storage? Any direction would be greatly appreciated

Invisible and intangible notifications‽ - Lemmy.world

To clarify, the inbox still functions. Stuff shows up in my inbox and will disappear from unread when I mark it as read. But for most of this week the bell has been saying I have one notification, and this morning it ticked up to two illusory notifications

Linux taught me self-confidence - Lemmy.world

I have never considered myself to be tech-savvy. However, there is a running gag in my immediate family where I claim to be terrible with computers (eg. “I dont think i could find that, my google-fu is weak”) which my family responds to by reminding me of that one time I did that one cool thing (eg. reminding me about I nearly got suspended because I showed my Health teacher how you could bypass our school’s firewall and buy drugs on a school computer.) This imposter syndrome continued for a while after switching to Linux, but after having to do a shit ton of troubleshooting I’ve stopped feeling completely clueless. I still have no clue what I’m doing, but it’s honestly really motivating to know that neither does anyone else—outside of the periodic Github technomancer. Linux proved to me that I am good enough, that I can carry my own weight and solve my own problems, and that any failures I suffer are not just fine, they are expected!

What's Newpipe's best competition? - Lemmy.world

fuck windows and every one of their individual copyrights - Lemmy.world

> (picture only spiritually related to topic) Not sure if this is the best place for this, but is there any good alternatives out there for the standard windows office apps (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc) And I’m not talking about Libre Office or OpenOffice or the other copyright-respecting ones. I’m asking for one that will let me do everything Word/PowerPoint/Excel/Photoshop can do, but on Linux, without running wine or dosbox. Especially all the tiny little fiddly things they’ve copyrighted. Stg, Microsoft must have read that comic where the Joker tried to copyright fish and thought that was a great idea.

fuck windows office - Lemmy.world

> (picture only spiritually related to topic) Not sure if this is the best place for this, but is there any good alternatives out there for the standard windows office apps (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc) And I’m not talking about Libre Office or OpenOffice or the other copyright-respecting ones. I’m asking for one that will let me do everything Word/PowerPoint/Excel/Photoshop can do, but on Linux, without running wine or dosbox. Especially all the tiny little fiddly things they’ve copyrighted. Stg, Microsoft must have read that comic where the Joker tried to copyright fish and thought that was a great idea.

Is this what the internet felt like? - Lemmy.world

I’ve been exploring the fediverse and subbing and posting all over the damn place. Realizing lemmy can federate with kbin blew my mind. Not to mention the possibility of turning my old laptop into a personal server to host my own instance. Is this what it felt like to discover how the internet worked in the 90s?

Randy rule - Lemmy.world