Friday November 18, 2023
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# What's going on?

We get our first try of the beer! It's tasty, but less carbonated than I
thought it would be.

## How can we make computing in the large viable without the corporation?

Computing isn't accessible to most people, and it's been that way for a long
time. From top to bottom your average web application contains myriad
complexity, and average Joes do not have the skills or time to actually manage
their connected lives. To effectively administrate these applications to the
level the corporations that run our lives do, you would need at minimum working
knowledge of:

- A Linux distribution
- That distribution's philosophy to package management and updates
- Backups
- Networking, everything from layer 1 to 4, including IPv6