That’s fine - I was just making a joke because the original comment referenced “international nerds” and you referred to yourself as an “international lemmy user.” I was joking that you were distancing yourself from the nerds, even though just being on lemmy makes it likely you are a nerd. All good!
I noticed you modified the label from the original message. Are you suggesting you’re not a nerd?
edit: Also, if we’re talking about the nineties, don’t forget our deployment of ninjas.
If I ever start a band, I’m calling them “International Nerds.”
Your second sentence makes me think an equal sign would be appropriate.
I wonder what would have happened if Terry Pratchett teamed up with Douglas Adams like he did with Neil Gaiman (someone whose work I enjoyed before recent revelations).
I didn’t know that, in this context, “Woz” was short for “Wozniak.” Hopefully he’s enjoying that Apple legacy!
Fair enough.
I’ve been ruminating on this comment for many of the last 21 hours, in part because I want to give a good answer and in part because I suspect I see the direction of the conversation.
I think the answer is, of course I don’t want my kid to die, but I want them to be able to without suffering when and if they’re ready to and mature enough to make such a decision.
QoL not declining kind of seems like a fantasy to me. Taken literally, living “forever” means that you’d outlive the planet, the sun, ultimately the universe. Sounds like a lonely and eventually boring life though, yes, you’d likely experience a lot of thrills before that point. IIRC, among other media, there’s a section of H2G2 that briefly addresses this.
Taken less literally, there are mornings during which I wake up and think “I have to go through with this for how much longer?” If I could spend the rest of time without physical or mental health once dipping, I might feel differently, but especially the latter seems unlikely to me (even if it is a laudable goal).
For anyone reading this with concern, I’m happy with my life, I’m not depressed and I’m not at risk. If you were going to say something about that, thank you for caring, but it’s not necessary.
edit: Added detail.
See the other response to justify that part, heh.
That’s why “in this context”!
TIL. Thank you!
What’s Molly in this context?
Awesome answer. Thank you for taking the time. I’ve enjoyed getting to know this part of your story.
You sound like someone with whom I’d get along well. My Linux origin story isn’t terribly dissimilar to your BSD one; I hosted a file server on a Windows server when I went to college. I met another, somewhat older as I went to college early, nerd there and he recommended replacing my Windows server with Linux. I don’t recall if he gave me the install disk. I think my first Linux system was Red Hat before they became Enterprise and my friend was right - it worked better than a Windows server. I tried to convert all of my systems to Linux at that point, but I still lived with my parents and they paid for AOL for Internet, which (so far as I could tell at the time) had no Linux compatibility. Also, I gamed a lot and back then there was nothing like proton or even (so far as I knew) WINE.
I had to look up what Tumbleweed was after reading your post. I haven’t used any form of SUSE for years and years. I use mostly Fedora for my workstations or CentOS/Alma/Rocky for my servers because I was an RHCE for a while (now expired, I think) and was most comfortable in that ecosystem.
My kid has never touched Windows AFAIK; the only Windows system in my network is my wife’s work computer (and one VM I setup while experimenting with something, but that’s gone now). The kid has two tablets and a laptop I put Linux on, but they’re too young to really care about anything but YouTube on those systems. I’ll get 'em yet, though!
What got you on SUSE?
It’s an interesting question.
After thinking over it briefly, I believe I’d like to die when I’m ready to die. I can’t declare in advance when that would be age- or time-wise and I can’t even necessarily define the conditions that would make me feel ready, as I’ve never yet felt ready to die.
Right now, I have a little kid and a decent quality of life. I don’t want to die until my kid can be on their own and I don’t think I’d want to live after my quality of life declined past a certain point though, again, I can’t say yet what that point would be.
I’m sorry, I know this is an unsatisfactory answer, but it’s the best I have at the moment. I’ll try to pontificate on the matter and get back to you if I come up with anything better.
I was a sysadmin, now I’m nominally devops. I haven’t done real development for probably 21 years, so I didn’t interact with SO’s or DLL’s much. (I actually did know what DLL means, but I have no clue why. Thanks though!)
I didn’t use pure BSD until I was eighteen - I think I used Macs a time or two before then. In fact, I’m pretty sure the first time I used BSD was installing it on an iMac I bought off of Craigslist and I did so to experiment with its firewall functionality. What did you do with it as a kid?
I’ve been using Linux for longer than I’ve been an adult, I’ve worked in the field for around fifteen years, and TIL what .so means. Thanks!
I don’t want to die, but living forever sounds exhausting.
Fair enough. Thanks for the answer!
Hope you get out someday!