Brutkey

Gavin Chait;
@GavinChait@wandering.shop

@Gargron@mastodon.social @scottjenson@social.coop and would she count as Scott's "technical"? Largely people buy a computer, turn it on and use whatever OS is there, but Linux is a choice which starts with even picking the distro. Using it once it's installed? Sure, no problem. My mom can do it too. But I set it up.

Gavin Chait;
@GavinChait@wandering.shop

@Gargron@mastodon.social @scottjenson@social.coop and to go deeper on the challenge (having done tech support), I don't think the average person could install Windows or Android from scratch if it didn't come pre-installed. I'm not sure what the equivalent of "pre-installed" would look like for Mastodon?

Gavin Chait;
@GavinChait@wandering.shop

Sent forth the worst who breed —
Bind our souls to exile
Captive to serve their greed;
To wait in heavy harness,
On gammoned kakistos —
Those new-right, sullen morons,
Half-devil and half-child.

Gavin Chait;
@GavinChait@wandering.shop

_What gifts hath Fate for all her chivalry?_
_Even such as hearts heroic oftenest win;_
_Honour, a friend, anguish, untimely death._

I do not believe progress is inevitable. That there is some ever-perfectible future we are all heading inexorably towards.

Instead, “life is just one damned thing after another.” There is no inevitability about anything. The question of how we should respond to ethno-fascism is no different to the question of how an agnostic should respond to questions of ethics.