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Implied Causation #2: health insurance has a bearing on longer life

Another Manjaro user, there are dozens of us!

Not everyone was navigating using stars, most people couldn’t even read their own name and believed sky spirits would be offended if you took a bath. (I can exaggerate too!)

Thank you for saying this, same kind of strawman thinking along the lines of governmental privacy violations not mattering if you have nothing to hide.

I picked up programming using “C for Dummies” book at age 13 and absolutely fell in love with developing/tinkering. My school didn’t offer any IT lessons (yes I am old) so I couldn’t wait until I got to a college that offered CS classes. Once I started these classes, I started absolutely hating development, to the point I dropped the course six months in and ferverently avoided anything IT related for the next decade. Eventually I found my way back to it via homelabbing for my own projects through organic need.

The point of my long winded anecdote: a formal education may actually hinder your IT learning more than it helps. The best teacher I found was in fact necessity or passion. Formal education will also teach you next to nothing about skills needed for selfhosting.

I had nothing but trouble with Suse, Fedora and Debían on my nightmare of a machine (laptop with AMD/nvidia GPUs) and honestly thought that was my lot until I hit upon Arch, which I have been more than happy with for over 3 years now.

This was the final straw that made me switch to Linux in fact.

AI can be both a bubble and a useful tool at the same time, a crash won’t make us forget all about it, instead I have a feeling a crash may help mature AI the way dotcom bubble did web 2.0