Take a lot of time researching content management systems / frameworks. Consider hosting and licensing costs, tech stack, user / customer preference. Avoid lock-ins.

Finding the broken combo that will beat the superboss

dm: “you are knocked prone”
me: "actually,

Encrypt me with a strong password

That’s great! I feel the same way. With Windows it was always, “OMG why can’t this just work”, but with Linux it’s more like, “hm, I bet I can figure this out.”

(Also, you can already contribute to FOSS by filing good bug reports and improving documentation, no programming needed.)

Stalin will take your lunch money

Oof, that collarbone

You’re right about the location, my mistake. I never said it was photoshopped. I still think that vandalism is the obvious explanation here.

Is it, though?

It’s not real.

1. That’s not the same block. E: Apparently, it is
2. The location from the original screenshot is here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/8rdfbZJzGmKSQKBR9 (The pin seems to have been removed for me.)
3. Not sure how a real restaurant with a different name makes this any better

I think it’s pretty clear what happened, no? Somebody vandalized Google Maps with a racist joke and took a screen shot.

As in, you verified there’s an entry on Google Maps?

Yes, racial slurs are very cool and funny

Velociraptor = ∫ Acceleraptor ⨉ Timeraptor

I totally understand where you’re coming from, and I’m pessimistic that any flavor of Linux will be an acceptable experience for the person you’re describing. Something like Silverblue may be least obstrusive, but compatibility will still be a prominent problem.

Alternatively, you could show them surface level cool stuff that’s easier to do with Linux. Like blocking all ads, running your own Minecraft server, downloading YouTube videos, building your own PC with cheap parts (and maybe even pirating movies and TV shows, depending on your own practices and relationship to that person). There’s a lot to love about Linux even if you don’t care about privacy and open software as abstract values.

See also

• Don’t Copy That Floppy

I recently read “The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands” by Sarah Brooks. I didn’t especially enjoy it, but it might fit your bill. The setting is explicitly multicultural and incorporates real-world ethnicities, but cultural difference is not an important theme. No stereotypes jumped out at me, although one might argue that some amount of cultural appropriation is necessarily involved when White authors write protagonists of color.

This book may not be re-read. If you plan to read it more than once, please purchase an additional copy for each read-through.

Red Hat 8/10
Debian 9/10
Mandrake 10/10
Caldera 8/10
SuSe 8/10

Well, that’s settled then!

When I was 10 years old my father told me the grain joke. Do you know it? This extra-terrestrial reports on her travels through space. She has studied the earth. ‘‘An interesting planet’’, she says, ‘‘it is inhabited by grasses of various sizes. Some live in shallow water and others on dry land. They all have two legged creatures working for them. These creatures eliminate other plants so that the grasses may grow without being disturbed too much. They also keep hungry beasts away. At the end of a season, the creatures carefully assemble the grains of the grasses, so as to sow them again on the next possible occasion and set a new cycle in motion. The creatures keep a few grains for themselves to feed on, but overall they expand the grasses’ living space a bit more every year. It is very impressive’’.

Mol, Annemarie. 2008. I Eat an Apple. On Theorizing Subjectivities. Subjectivity 22 (1): 28–37. doi:10.1057/sub.2008.2