Tenderizer78

Nowadays I mostly, unexpectedly, draw the line at whether the product is good. I haven’t really trained my mental ethics muscle because frankly most of the unethical stuff just isn’t high quality.

Often I use ethics not as a “line” but as a proxy for the quality of something. In a world where we’re bombarded with too many choices boycotting is more of an advantage than disadvantage.

In the rare instance when something is good and unethical, like meat, it becomes a case-by-case thing. In the case of meat I stay away from pork (because that’s the most inhumane) and obviously I don’t touch any American meat.

EDIT: The topic here was work. Which is a tough one because we’re basically not given a choice on jobs. I would never do a job that actively makes the world a worse place, but I would work for a for-profit corporation … except my quality argument still carries over here. For-profit corporations are horrible places to work.

I’m gonna dual-boot Bazzite and OpenSUSE once I get through a few games. I don’t trust Bethesda to not accidentally give me a VAC ban for using Linux, and there are three Itch io games I want to play first (Horror Vacui, There are Ghosts in these Stalls, Spookware, Corpse Ocean)

Correction: It’s illegal for the pot to call the pot black.

I’m not an expert but …

• I think Fedora and OpenSUSE are the best (with Fedora leading). Well-funded and they take security seriously.
• Arch and Bazzite are filling specific niches.
• ReactOS and NixOS I think are in beta, but I’m not paying much attention to either.
• In terms of desktop environments I think KDE Plasma leads the pack. MATE is strong on accessibility though.

Popular equals more money and more interest. In other words popularity and quality feed into each-other (not 1:1, but more than 1:0).

Unfortunately I’d need to be an American citizen to be president of the United States.

• Phones won’t start including a Linux desktop.
• Browser apps will be a thing of the past, you’ll need to install either a mobile or desktop app to use YouTube or Netflix or whatever.
• Sites like YouTube will also probably remove the subscriptions feed (which only like 1-2% of people use).
• Vendor lock-in efforts will be more forceful.
• I think more people will start touching grass.

And putting AI aside is a bit weird since it’s the big news story so:

• Companies will replace workers with generative AI, and as a result essential services will be worse (but more profitable).
• Generative AI will outside of the above be used as a (low-reliability but low-effort) search engine, for memes, and in animation.

I would try doing this for my Intel WiFi/Bluetooth card that doesn’t support Linux (WiFi works anyway though). Since the CTRL key is dead (again) and the whole build of it is not to my liking I think I’ll get an old Windows 10 laptop to replace the whole system instead.

I opened it and was immediately taken aback at how refreshing it feels to open a page that is entirely (mostly) just HTML/CSS.

What you just said makes no sense. Mozilla is already involved in Firefox and Firefox is far from a monopoly.

But everyone should … if Firefox had their act together.

Oh, I see, I thought you could only pick one on that drop-down menu. Which when combined with the warning that deselecting “unspecified” would hide basically all posts, makes the menu seem useless.

Likes:

• Small size, which makes it better. Quality over quantity.
• That it’s not American.
• Abundance of highly technical Linux/Security/Privacy discussion (I assume, could be technobabble for all I know).

Dislikes:

• No mute button. I want to see what the pro-Russia people post in the Privacy, Degoogle, and Linux communities, but I don’t want to hear their replies when it comes to politics. Actually, maybe there should be a “block only within this community” button.
• Replies don’t ever load. I have to open the comment in an incognito the see the replies to said comment.
• Can’t select a language for my posts on this instance. And in the Australia instance I have to scroll down through 100 languages to select English. I should be able to select the languages I know in my profile and only choose from them for my post.
• Still need a Reddit account for r/manga and r/liminalspace. Probably always will.

It’s clear Mark Rutte is talking to Trump like he’s talking to a child. He’s buttering Trump up because it’s clear superficial gestures are enough to please him.

It does reflect positively on the influence of America, but not on Trump himself.

If anything it’s a multi-track drift.

Does Trump not realize that this message makes himself look bad?

Mint is the best distro for people who need you to tell them the distro.

I use Mint on my Laptop but once Windows is done for I’m switching to:

1. Fedora, OpenSUSE, Secureblue, or something with KDE Plasma (security, stability, and ease of use priority)
2. Bazzite (for games, and dual-booted into to protect the security of my daily driver)
3. OpenBSD or something (so if something like Crowdstrike or Wannacry happens but for Linux, I have an alt)

DON’T GIVE TRUMP IDEAS.

Social media is reinforcing and entrenching our existing views. For millennials that all started as young adults so it mostly reinforced progressive views, for zoomers it got to them during their incel phase (if not earlier) and so it reinforces the views they share with Andrew Tate and the anti-woke crowd.

We’re bringing forward a generation that is DEEP into the incel rabbithole.

I’m not an expert, but OpenBSD may be a wildcard option. I’ll leave considering that to somebody else.