We need to lay more blame for "Kids don't know how computers work" at the feet of the people responsible: Google.
Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.
Tech literacy didn't mysteriously vanish, it was fucking murdered for profit.
Linux is a very good and powerful alternative.
reminder: you cannot Personal Choises your way out of an Intentional Structural Problem
Fun fact! School Chromebooks block Linux. It's not an easy alternative. You are missing the point
I’m begging you to look at this.
my chemical romance talking about needing another guitarist: boy I wish there was SOMEONE who could thrash his small body around and play GUITAR for our BAND with some stinky WHITE DREADS. if only there was some 18 YEAR OLD who could DO THAT. I wish he would TRY OUT for our BAND and play the GUITAR
Frank iero on the couch unable to move his body due to weed:
This excerpt? Got it right here:
Oh, also:
my first favorite hobby is yapping. second is being extremely quiet and not talking ever at all ever.
Léo Forest Leo Forest (b. 1985, based Paris, France) - Chat, 2023, Drawings: Pencil, Charcoal, Pastel on Paper
april will be a good month [staring into the sink mirror eyebags prominent the most upset person youve ever seen]
recently at a bar someone told me i seem like id have a lot of pdfs
young artist posting your work online, heed my warning. im holding your face so gently in my hands, you have to stop caring about numbers right now and start caring about making the weirdest and most self-indulgent art you possibly can
STOP listening to the demon of capitalism and START listening to the angel of hedonism, i love you i believe in you keep making what you love forever ok?
In 2006 AOL search logs got leaked and it was the funniest day in the history of the internet
fuck it homebrew boop button. reblog this post to boop the person you reblogged from.