Hive mind is when people disagree with me

Radio fucking sucks, amigo. Literally the most homogeneous playlists ever unless you are close enough to a college radio station or a major city that can support anything other than top 40 or the same 100 classic rock songs.

Like are shell commands different between distros, or do I have to install something to have certain commands?

Yes and no, kinda. So the most popular shell by far is Bash, which includes its own built in functions, and can also be extended with custom functions which certain distros may include in your bash config file by default. But generally, Bash and the GNU coreutils are standard, although some more “hip” distros will include other shell prompts such as zsh or fish by default, but even those tend to come with bash for script compatibility or easy switching for user preference. Some distros may include programs by default, but most of the time those are easily available in other distros through the package manager.

How do I even know what commands I do have?

compgen -c (or compgen -c | more for a scrollable list (press q to exit)) should do the trick, but that is a built-in bash command that may not be available on other shells, but generally you can find all the programs able to be called from shell inside the

/bin

/sbin

/usr/bin

and

/usr/sbin

directories. All these directories are added to a variable called $PATH, and when you type a command into your shell, these are the places that get searched for a matching program to run. You can use echo $PATH to see all the directories on your machine which are searched, or even add your own directory containing custom scripts or utilities so you can use them anywhere like an installed program.

Jesus dude, how desperate are you for interaction?

And then there was the weekly Dracula thing popular on Tumblr a few years ago where they take a non serialized novel (as far as I know) and split it up based on the dates of the correspondence within, going a level further than serialization and delivering the story “real time” as the letters and newspapers were sent/published in the story.

exactly, I admit to sharing some of the “bro its so easy” attitude, but that should result in simple answers instead of berating, like a “no stupid questions” but for linux thing

Lots of highly addicting stuff is legal, I don’t care if people do cocaine. Make it legal and safely accessible so drug addicts can participate in society and not have to fund cartels

There should be a “Linux hotline” community where people can post whatever is stopping them from switching and get solutions

Like all the people bitching about the reddit hivemind just because they have an opinion that isn’t literally dominant.

Imagine Chrome not allowing you to visit specific sites and then Firefox not allowing you to visit a different set of sites.

Imagine a worse, less fitting analogy

You can literally spin up your own instance in 20 minutes and see every instance ever if you’d like, it’s a choice and its good to have

xenophobes scared of everything and defederating everyone

Go join a monolithic network if you are not interested in the features of the fediverse.

baby its not xenophobic to defederate, calm down

Others have mentioned it, but to elaborate, Alcoholics Anonymous is not merely sitting in a circle and sharing your problems, but a belief system which requires you to submit to a higher power to move forward.

Ability to choose with whom to federate with is a core concept of the Fediverse

If you don’t want any defederation, join an instance that doesn’t do it.

Any reason 6 in particular?

Every day at work when I listen to music.

Most people don’t have standards.

expanding “fair use”

I’m not talking about fair use, I’m talking about public domain; complete freedom to modify or redistribute.

Said pain should be rewarded

Yes, by temporary monopoly

Amazon shouldn’t be able to find something just outside of the copyright window to copy and redistribute.

Why not? Project Gutenberg provides an incredible service (and LibriVox) which is based entirely on the concept of old works naturally falling into public domain. Imagine how absurd it would be if you still had to pay the publisher of Charles Dickens to read A Christmas Carol.

some content farm could just copy a video, reupload it, then rake in all the profits

Do you see content farms making bank with public domain content now? This is a ridiculous scenario, you obviously have not thought out this issue and instead are just justifying your feelings on the matter. Old things belong to everybody, culture is meant to be shared.

because copyright for small creators is rarely enforced

That’s a completely separate matter bud, go ahead and advocate for enforcing the law for small creators, I’m talking about what the limit for those protections should be.

I don’t see this working out well in today’s world because old stuff is brought up and popularized seemingly often

That’s a feature, not a bug. Humans have always built upon that which came before, that’s why Robin Hood is a beloved story because each generation could do what they want with it, or King Arthur, or Shakespeare.

Nobody owns ideas, if you come up with something neat, sure have 20 years to try and make it successful, otherwise it’s free real estate. Anything else is a perversion of human nature.

Like this case?