RE: https://gamerstavern.online/@jamie/116392126448903323
This lady may be one of the best vocalists I've heard in a long time god damn.
A friend just asked me a few more questions about the reasons I decided to try and move to *BSD, given that these systems are, generally, far less polished than Linux, and do not support as many packages/programs. I vaguely gestured at the situatuion with genAI/LLM uprooting the trust in the Linux kernel, core system components and so on. She wasn't convinced; AI is everywhere these days, and avoiding it is a lot like trying to avoid other unethical things: very hard and probably will affect your quality of life.
And I get it. The situation is actually quite similar with "just install Linux": running Windows is bad, and for many people, moving to Linux (or BSD) is impossible. But there are _also_ many people who don't know they could run Linux - sometimes with more comfort than their obsolete and buggy Windows.
So I want to try and run *BSD and share how it feels, and maybe this way I could remove a few roadblocks for others. Ultimately, I just want to feel better about my computing habits.
Gawd sometimes I hate passkeys.
I have to deal with some fairly old people - people who have lost much of their vision and who have never been particularly technically minded.
The modern race-to-lock-everything has moved a lot of services (such as outlook) to move to passkeys.
That's nice - unless one is trying to deal with problems for an old person who is 800 miles away.
It appears that many of these services treat having a passkey as a one-way ratchet. Once someone (me) has set up a passkey (limited to my computer and phone) then the service switches to demand a passkey rather than the password to get in - but the old person's phone/computer does not have the passkey nor knows how to use it even if they did.
Our present Internet - largely programmed by young people with tech knowledge and good eyesight - is becoming increasingly hard to use by older people while things (like medical services) increase security that these people do not know how to use and can't be managed remotely.
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