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  • No he is a big proponent of FOSS and quite likes Linux. His Linux Sucks talks were more of a state of the union on big Linux distros and supporting software just going over pain points and what needed improvement. He used to be the public affairs manager for Open Suse if i recall correctly.

    But yeah sometime in the last few years he went hard conservative and not in the classical don’t change anything way. These days he complains about trans people, insists Rust is a woke cult, and at one point called for his followers to document everyone in FOSS who has ever said anything about supporting anti-facism so he could report them as terrorists. Dude legit lost his marbles and jumped off the deep end hard.










  • It’s semi-accurate, it’s based on a memoir but heavily modified. That said, boot camp is supposed to break someone down, get them to think like a soldier, Airman, sailor, or marine depending on branch. The Navy for example puts a lot more emphasis on critical decision making than the Marines, the Marines emphasize martial prowess, the Army is somewhere between, and the Air Force is kinda just a souped up summer camp.

    No one becomes a drill instructor to bully people, they do it because it’s all but required for advancement at a certain point in jobs that have a low promotion rate. There is some bullying in a sense but at least Navy side it’s fairly minimal and the experience is mostly focused on learning things then making sure you can perform your now learned duties under duress.

    The Marines boot camp (what’s in the show) is focused on making sure that when a lot of people are screaming different things you can still execute the task at hand, effectively making sure you can be effective and task focused even in chaotic situations. At least that’s what I hear from Marines, I also hear they do in fact do some shit like stealing toilet paper and stuff, the Marines don’t care if your smart, or make good decisions, just that you can execute tasks in chaos.



  • Ithral@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoLinux@lemmy.mlWhy?
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    3 months ago

    Back in the day I wanted to be a 1337 hAx0R so I installed Linux to get my wifi adapter into monitor mode so I could pwn wifi. Eventually I just didn’t leave Linux, probably in part because a few friends of mine ran it and refused to run Windows, we used to have LAN parties fairly regularly so yeah just convenient.