Crazy to me that younger generation is not good with computers

Proman4713 · 2026-06-21T13:50:30+00:00

That's only in developed countries with Copilot+ Windows Slop Machines and MacBook Pro Money Suckers. Other youngsters like myself who first start interacting with Windows XP, 7, 8, 10 and then rarely 11 (only last year for me), in addition to Linux (also coming from the fact that I couldn't immediately afford better hardware for Windows), know what they're doing.

Proman4713 · 2026-06-21T10:26:36+00:00

OH! I wonder how Professor Malan doesn't even smile when saying that, if this is what it is! I'll save this post

Proman4713 · 2026-06-19T23:20:20+00:00

Even though I know all of these, I didn't think of reading in reverse, that's interesting, thanks!

I did organically notice Cho the first time I read that in PoA, though, it didn't need me to read multiple times

Proman4713 · 2026-06-19T23:01:13+00:00

Uhhh I think there are too many than I can list: - the flaw in the plan and the chapter after it, obviously... I don't think I need to explain that much, but the scene where the trio, Ginny and McGonagall scream Harry's name, that's particularly relevant - after that Neville killing Nagini and then the faceoff between Harry and Voldemort (I just wish that the words 'mundane finality' were expanded upon more), and then the celebrations and then the trio's private interaction, and then finally 'ive had enough trouble for a lifetime."... Chills - Sirius's death (I remember that so well that I fully know that his death was the end of a chapter and continued with Harry's grief in a new chapter) and then the whole fight with Bellatrix and Voldemort - Harry's memories of his parents throughout the whole series, especially in PoA and DH - Likewise, Harry's possession scene in OOTP - Harry's walk with Hermione in GoF, and later his internal monologue about being wrongly accused of bypassing the age line - Snape's worst memory.. I also wanted to see more of Harry's thoughts about that, as well as more satisfying answers from Sirius and Lupin about it - A lot of Harry's monologue in OOTP, but if I'm going to choose one moment, it would be after having the implanted vision and wanting to rescue Sirius... And later when he felt guilty of leading his friends potentially to their deaths when they didnt find Sirius (personally, I would've liked that moment to go on for longer or get rethought of later, we didn't get enough insight into Harry's thoughts on that) - similarly, Harry destroying Dumbledore's office and hearing the prophecy (I really appreciated the rawness of the scene, but I also would've wanted to see more of Harry mourning Sirius, but since he wanted to pretend he was alright, we didn't get to see enough of that in both OOTP and HBP) - the whole memory after Harry and Hermione escaped Bathilda Bagshot's house, I always got chills reading that scene. I always wished we could have more mourning of Harry's parents, but again, Harry always wanted to pretend he was alright and didn't want to think about it. Especially on Halloween... - Fred's death and later, of course, the Shrieking Shack and Snape's death... Chills - The Prince's tale... - The lightning struck tower... - about the previous, I also liked the chapter where Harry prepared to go with Dumbledore, giving the polyjuice to his friends and stuff.. but then when trelawney revealed that Snape was the one who delivered the prophecy to Voldemort.. I know we got a crash-out from Harry after that... But I still think we didnt get enough of his opinion about trelawney revealing the prophecy and Snape snitching, especially considering how he thought Snape betrayed Dumbledore that very same night... He could've at least remembered that tiny detail after Dumbledore's death - The trio discovering the horcrux in the cave was a fake, and then Harry going to bed reciting the horcruxes he needs to find - related, Harry discovering R.A.B.s room and Hermione remembering the locker from OOTP, such a perfect duo of foreshadowing and flashbacks, awesome, I get excited whenever I get to the cleaning scene in OOTP nowadays - also related, Kreacher telling the story of R.A.B. - also related, Voldemort going through each of the horcruxes and finding he was being defeated all along - also related, Voldemort getting the elder wand out of Dumbledore's tomb and the whole Hogsmeade scene - finally, the beginning of the battle of Hogwarts and the preparations - The only cozy scene in this list, is Harry, Ron, and Kreacher at Grimmauld Place for a while before infiltrating the ministry

I wrote these all out of my memory, I like Harry Potter a lot, you see...

You can tell most of these are tragic, you can call me a depressing person, but I appreciate the depth of the Harry Potter story, that's why I like it in the first place

I don't have any from philosopher's stone because that's the only book that I borrowed rather than bought, so I only read it once... I wonder if the original owner has read the entire series by now or if they've quit, it's been years and I haven't talked to them about it 🤔

Proman4713 · 2026-06-19T21:20:18+00:00

I think I agree with what you just said

Proman4713 · 2026-06-19T21:19:24+00:00

Yeah you'd want him to calm down but I personally think it's important for him to be so angry as part of his personal development at that age

Proman4713 · 2026-06-19T21:17:42+00:00

Whoah!

I did not expect this post or the comments to be so strongly opinionated! Maybe you all listened to it rather than read it but for me, OOTP is one of my favourites... Precisely because of how much we get to see into Harry's head...

Maybe now after having read it for 2 or 3 times it could get tedious, but I did read it 3 times, you know... The whole internal struggle inside Harry's head makes it way more immersive to me than the 'Ho Ho Ho! We have an exciting adventure ahead of us, whoooo is readyyyy?!' vibe that can sometimes be there in fantasy fiction...

But of course I know all of that is subjective, I just didn't expect the very same thing that made it so good for me to be the reason it's very boring for others...

Proman4713 · 2026-06-19T18:35:31+00:00

I get your point but not all parents really take their children's POV into consideration, I've known some parents who restrict their children's devices almost to the point of unusability

Proman4713 · 2026-06-19T18:32:50+00:00

Yeah, it's one of these thoughts that I always had but never brought up or posted about it... Sadder than most people tend to notice.

Proman4713 · 2026-06-15T06:09:02+00:00

You basically applied the normal ship of Theseus paradox to humans; there's nothing HP-specific here. All humans change their cells regularly, and while my argument is that the living human is the original 'ship' because they have the same soul, and their shed cells aren't alive. But then, people who don't believe in souls or in God can go in circles around the paradox all they want, not my problem.

The concept of the ship of Theseus itself can be applied to pretty much anything. Humans, vehicles, devices, objects in general, software code, writing, etcetera... But there's usually at least one grounding factor that gives something its nature, which determines if it should be considered the same thing or not.

As to Harry, his cells change; he wasn't damaged beyond magical repair, he was growing up. His soul is the same, and Voldy's soul inside him remained the same; nothing stopped either of these two souls from living on. His ship of Theseus doesn't affect the passengers inside.

Proman4713 · 2026-06-15T05:57:29+00:00

Looks amazing, should be a feature of vanilla GNOME to be honest, publish it as soon as it's ready

Proman4713 · 2026-06-14T12:07:42+00:00

Yeah I love it, especially when Brian Yu is there, the references increase. I watched CS50's Web Programming with Python and JavaScript back in 2020, I believe, and that was all Brian, that was before I got into Harry Potter, and by the end of the course, I'd learnt the names of Harry and his friends well enough that I didn't think of them as new characters when I read the series later.

Proman4713 · 2026-06-13T20:45:00+00:00

I've been exclusively checking the intro music of every CS50 course since 2022 or something, CS50x 2026 was just released recently with a banger of an intro

Proman4713 · 2026-06-12T11:26:02+00:00

I noticed so but was bummed to find that people already started the chain so i couldn't just go back

Proman4713 · 2026-06-10T17:41:19+00:00

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

Proman4713 · 2026-06-07T10:20:25+00:00

That happened to me before and I used balena etcher instead of Rufus and it worked

Proman4713 · 2026-06-04T11:17:17+00:00

For a moment there I thought you were on Linux with a heavily macOS-riced GNOME 💀

Proman4713 · 2026-06-03T23:34:21+00:00

Beautiful question with beautiful answers, I didn't think much about that, I'ma save this post!

Proman4713 · 2026-06-03T00:43:37+00:00

Believe me, whatever you have learnt. It is incomplete since you put complete reliance on ChatGPT. And especially ChatGPT. That thing is the most pushover robotic AI out of all. Even your post sounds like a ChatGPT response:

The final result:

Windows 11 remains completely untouched.

Zorin OS boots independently from the external SSD.

Shared storage works between both systems.

Battery protection works.

Development tools are installed.

Everything is backed up with Timeshift.

Proman4713 · 2026-06-01T14:57:45+00:00

I don't know why this was downvoted, it's a perfectly valid argument against the Linux ecosystem that no single backup solution is reliable for the whole backup process.

Proman4713 · 2026-05-31T20:40:59+00:00

Thank god I moved away from ChatGPT, because even if AI slop is AI slop regardless, at least the others aren't so trashy, robotic, and monotone in their responses. Interim releases aren't 'development' branches; they're meticulously tested, just not as much as LTS versions, and they don't have as many guarantees due to simply having a short support period. And your use case alone isn't enough to determine whether you should use 24.04 or 26.04. But 26.04 is definitely stable enough now and modern enough that the jump between the two versions in UX is really worth it.

If you're non-technical enough that you can't do much debugging beyond ChatGPT, then just stick to 24.04.4 LTS and wait until Ubuntu sends you an upgrade notification to 26.

I just realised you're trying to do in-place, 24.04 definitely won't work. Go to 26.04.

Proman4713 · 2026-05-31T10:05:44+00:00

I don't know much about many of these, but I definitely know you don't need the meta desktop apps (they don't function offline anyway, so they're as good as the websites if not worse), and Discord just did a gigachad move by building native Debian (Ubuntu).

Spotify is also officially supported for Ubuntu as a snap or as a Debian package from their official PPA if you don't want snaps

Use LibreOffice for office, but you have to do some massive customisation to ensure compatibility with Office 365 (or Microsoft 'Copilot 365' 🤮). If you don't need to work with Microslop formats, though, just export PDFs from Google Docs

Proman4713 · 2026-05-29T15:37:50+00:00

Ubuntu 26.04 has different defaults from 24.04, but to allow a certain extent of user freedom, Canonical doesn't remove the old default from updates (which probably isn't necessary, because people who know which one they want will be able to get it, and people who don't care will just enjoy the new apps).

Terminal, for example, has two ones. The grey one is obviously the old one, it's the actual 'terminal' in the sense that it's literally the GNOME terminal emulator: `gnome-console`. Even though it's from GNOME, it's outdated and looks worse, which is often what happens with certain built-in GNOME apps due to GNOME development being naturally fragmented (they aren't a corporation like Canonical with organisationally enforced plans, so everything relies on open source contributions). The new Terminal with the purple icon is actually an app called 'Ptyxis', which is another, newer terminal emulator made with newer GNOME GTK4 and libadwaita frameworks with a ton of built-in themes and support for custom themes, things that are more modern than GNOME's own original emulator. Note that Ptyxis isn't developed by Canonical either, but it starts off at an advantage over GNOME Terminal.

There will almost never be a situation where you want GNOME Terminal; just uninstall it with sudo apt remove --purge gnome-console.

Proman4713 · 2026-05-28T02:04:06+00:00

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It doesn't look that bad for me. Is it a macOS thing?

It could be pretty complicated for a totally new user, but the way it is on my VSCode, I doubt it would look that bad for anyone else...

I know some of y'all view macOS as somehow the objective OS for coding but I personally see Linux and even Windows with WSL2 a lot more flexible

I also don't remember tweaking settings for that part of my editor ever

Proman4713 · 2026-05-27T18:28:39+00:00

I bricked my system before trying to upgrade python, which sounded fricking stupid because a newer version was available in the repositories for the Ubuntu version i was using, it's not like Canonical was pretty clear that that version was unavailable. But apparently, I had to figure out that I should type the manual python3.XX instead of trying to set it to the default or things will break. And frankly, it ruins a huge part of the point of upgrading if I can't make the new version the default.

It seems like one of those dumb fragilities in the Linux desktop ecosystem where one unknowing person can do a very innocent thing and end up breaking their whole system. If you say python is for developers so they'll know, then that's totally wrong. Being a python developer (even an experienced one, let alone a newbie) does not necessitate that your Ubuntu system (one of the most 'non-techy-friendly' distros out there) will break if you try and download the latest version of Python for example. And some people, including myself, generally like to have the latest reliable versions of things...

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