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Yeah but he was being pedantic over the word “impossibly”. If we can make 1 atom thin sheets, then it’s not impossible, right?

The fuck? Get off the internet for a bit and touch some grass

They serve different purposes, what’s wrong with having both bikes and cars? People live outside of cities too, you know

On the surface it is true, but in reality all of those things came at the expense of people’s liberty and the people themselves - they jailed or killed anyone that didn’t agree with or was seen as an enemy of the state, resources were actually incredibly scarce and there was a lot of famine (just in the less important parts of the empire), nobody trusted anyone and people kept stealing things for themselves anyway. Oh also child labor and many many more things like that.

Like I understand the good part of communism, but oh God is the USSR the worst possible example of that, they didn’t even have real communism anyway.

Is the recent XZ backdoor (and something that had to do with SSH too) anything to worry about in terms of the probability of there being a backdoor even in open source router software?

Not trying to dissuade anyone here, I love open source software, I’m just wondering how much effort is reasonable to be put into securing your local network (i.e. buying your own router, also installing open source software, or writing your own router software if you don’t trust existing solutions) given that not everyone is tech savvy and you get diminishing returns for every additional security measure. And when is the usual point at which you would say “okay, this is secure enough”?

My router is not from an ISP, but it does get frequent firmware updates and I don’t use any cloud management features, only local configuration.

I’m curious, does running open source software somehow exempt you from getting malware?

Touché, though I love knowing names like paracetamol or acetaminophen, ibuprofen, diclofenac, acetylsalicylic acid etc.

I can’t come up with many names because I don’t remember every single drug, but when I see a drug, I always read the chemical, never the brand, and I’m glad for my country and my parents for that.

ITT: Americans who can’t fathom generic medicine names

Tylenol isn’t the medicine, paracetamol is. I love having grown up in a European country which mandates pharmacies to very clearly inform you, not just in some fuck ass place, but repeat to you 3 times, that there is a cheaper generic version which does the same thing.

Yeah but he drank himself to death by writing Requiem

…for you.

TL;DR there are good and bad things, positives and drawbacks about all OSes, educate, don’t gatekeep.

I have a laptop that runs Windows fine, then installed Linux on it.

1. The trackpad was not well supported and glitched often, as was the fingerprint sensor. I personally am not going to not use fingerprint because some neck beard says it’s very insecure and blah blah blah, I don’t care. The fingerprint is for me to have any sort of authentication prompt.

2. Often times, the computer would boot up without recognizing the WiFi adapter (classic).

3. The DE that I used, Gnome, was riddled with shitty defaults and random weird behavior, also missing settings from the main settings app in Gnome 43! Not Gnome 1 or 2, 43. Isn’t that a bit embarrassing? I’ve used KDE before, I like that one, though I like the aesthetics and simplicity of Gnome, I wish it just didn’t come with retarded defaults.

4. Bluetooth connectivity was hit-or-miss as well, sometimes not getting my device, sometimes not wanting to pair it, etc.

5. The app store on either Fedora, Manjaro, Ubuntu or PopOS! all had some kind of missing, broken, or unintuitive functionality that seemed quite obvious how it could be fixed, just that I couldn’t be bothered.

6. Screen sharing with audio doesn’t work on Discord, could not find any 1080p60 streaming software that was free or paid or anything. Scoured all of the internet and GitHub, so I’m not switching.

I could go on. Basically there’s many shitty things about it. There are also loads of things I adore about Linux, like fast boot times, lower RAM and swap usage, less background apps, better extensibility and customizability, great development experience etc. I love Linux. However, it feels like work to actually get it to work sometimes, which gets in the way of most people’s intention to just use the God damn computer for stuff they want to use, and it working.

Let people choose what they want, don’t berate people for not choosing what you like, instead educate on what they may be missing out on, but at the end of the day, respect their decision. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

P.S. My laptop wasn’t a DXFGFH Fuckbook 3938WGT or whatever with a Bluetooth adapter from Jupiter, it was a recent, but not bleeding-edge, ASUS VivoBook.

Yeah well it’d been difficult for him to be him and to live to a ripe old age, given that he was a severe alcoholic and overall incredibly crazy

Wow, that must mean that we’re in captivity! /s

Even if animals in captivity did live longer (which @WallEx@feddit.de contradicts), wouldn’t it make more sense to think it’s because of better treatment and healthcare?

Thanks a lot! Funny thing is that the website works fine now, something must’ve been bugged

Website is completely borked on my phone on Firefox

More like pay gas

Actually, where I live there is (or at least was) a business that allowed you to buy something akin to “gasoline futures”, basically you could just buy X liters of gas or diesel and then use them up overtime using a client card or something like that. Not too sure how it worked, forgot the name too.

Lmao why would gravity waves point away from the universe being a simulation? Also you put a comic strip as your source, you have less than zero credibility in anything.

Yeah I don’t like simulation theory because it assumes that technologically advanced societes would run simulations. It’s not guaranteed at all, it’s a weird assumption to make in the first place given that the best thing we have, which is VR, is not a simulation of any universe, it just tricks us (not the simulation itself) into thinking there is one.

I’ve always thought that reality is something that just is, because if this were a simulation then there must be a true reality outside this one, which begs the question why ours wouldn’t be the one true reality.

We, or at least I, don’t know why there is a reality in the first place and why we get to experience it. I think that reality is either 1. something that just is and life is just a random coincidence, which will later end and will never recover, 2. an almighty god just exists and created us for some purpose, or 3. there is a circle of life, people living out lives and being reborn, the universe living a life and being reborn, for reasons nobody can explain.

In conclusion, reality is weird because we are conditioned to always expect there to be something (how can there be literally nothing?), but also that something to be somewhere. We are on Earth, Earth is in our galaxy, our galaxy in a cluster and so on. Therefore we expect the universe to also be somewhere, created by something, and that brings out interesting theories.

Everything in life can be deeply emotional, just not for everybody.

Unless your spending outweighs your earnings (in that case not even credit cards will help you), there is no reason to use credit.