blackbrook

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[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Where do you think 'the party' comes from, the people who make these bad decisions? Are you active in local politics? Do you educate yourself and vote in local elections? Most people act like the only election there is, is the presidential election, and wonder why they feel disconnected from the choices. Well there are a million small choices going into who that pool of bad choices is winnowed from, and who is making backroom decisions playing into it, and most people are clueless how any of it works, uninterested to learn, and completely checked out. Well that's how we end up here.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

Automated package testing before each update rolls out to users.

In the event that an update does break your system, you can roll back to the last snapshot from the grub menu (using the smart btrfs setup that is the installation default).

Also generally, maintained by very smart people, community is not toxic, corporate overlords more benign than most, IMO.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

Or while bending over and sticking your butt out.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's how that language construct works. That's pretty much the point of it.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I thought of that but, no, that tree includes languages that didn't exist then.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What is "year 0"?

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well if you think you'll have occasion to leave it locked up places, it might be an advantage for it to look old and beat up.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Couldn't you save a lot of money by scanning a few dozen at the same time?

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

"Leery"? I don't think that word means what the writer this it means.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

This is fine.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

i love when scientists take a swamp of arbitrary language terms and decide to impose some arbitrary specific meanings on them for purposes of their specific discipline and then convince people who don't really get how language works (i.e. most people) that the definitions are authoritative. it's fun to watch the cognitive dissonance when this collides with actual usage and people get all angry and righteous.

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