blackbrook

There is also a large audience for outage of any sort. If you have a message of "people who believe X are idiots" you've got a big audience: all the people who disagree with X love to hear you elaborate all the ways the X people are idiots and thereby feel smart and smug and righteous.

The audience of X believers who might listen to a message of "hey, here's why X isn't quite right" is a harder sell. For one thing most people are not looking to hear how some view of theirs is wrong, and even worse, in this polarized environment all the people making hay off of "X believers are idiots" are helping inoculate the X believers against that message.

Those who actually push for regression are scary. But they don't truly push for regression, they push for a cherry picked and misremembered version of the past. And the bits they would like to keep vs rollback are different from how I would choose. But a lot of the elements of what we have now are not improvements on the past and I think we need to figure out how to undo some of the damage we've done.

And I think part of the reason we have so many scary regressive people is because they feel the ways that the world has gotten worse, even if they misdiagnose it.

I can understand that to someone not used to this, any gap at all might be troubling and one might tend to exaggerate it as "massive".

However note that these walls are fairly thick which narrows any visibility angles considerably. So to really see someone through the gap you would have to be at exactly the right angle and looking straight at them. Sitting on the toilet in one of these you can see some really narrow strip of the sinks area which also reflects the areas in which someone would have to be and looking straight at you to see you. People at the sink area have their back to you. People walking past them to another stall, are not looking to the side.

I'm not trying to convince you that they are ideal, or that your should like them, just that when the gaps are pretty narrow it is not as big a deal as you might think to get used to.

Again this is assuming these gaps are pretty narrow. I get the impression from what some Americans have said in other discussion that in some places they are quite a bit wider than I am used to, and what I said above may no longer apply.

There a certain ironic cycle there. The cycle you describe of building the suburbs, stores moving in, and people moving in is one part of the cycle. This leads to over-development (in that fucked up car-centric way we have, which leads to traffic congestion etc), and people start moving further out to get away from it. They end up on the edges of it "in the country" with maybe a 40 minute drive for groceries. But then often, the sprawl follows them and their bit of "the country" gets more and more like what they fled.

I've seen this conversation many times on Reddit, and from what people say I assume there is a regional thing going on on. I'm from a part of the US where toilet stalls do not have massive gaps. There is a big gap at the bottom but too low for anyone to be seeing under unless they are crawling on the floor. Gaps along the sides are quite narrow. 1 cm at most, and nothing anyone is going to be seeing you through unless they are some kind of freak putting their eye right up to it. These stalls are prefab panels you can easily put into a room. The gaps mean ventilation for the room takes care the stalls too.

I assume stalls started this way and became normalized, and in some parts of the country they've gotten sloppier, and sloppier, and normalized these huge gaps I hear people describe but never see.

This might be my bias, but I assume these are the places where everything is a suburban stripmall wasteland, where there are no sidewalks, and where it seems to me the whole environment is increasingly dehumanized.

Natural fibers trend to get softer and thus more comfortable. I'm not sure this is true of synthetics. What kind of materials are your clothes, OP?

There is definitely a caveat with nvidia. The nvidia repo is managed external to the main repos, so it is possible for a new kernel to drop in the system repo and the nvidia repo not yet be updated with a compatible driver.

I always wait a few days on such updates and watch the mailing lists for problems especially from nvidia users. So far I've only experienced problems due to prime wonkiness that required re-running a couple of prime commands. I haven't had to use the boot-from-btrfs-snapshot yet, but it's a nice security blanket.

Tumbleweed? Could you have been looking at Leap?

A thing that complicated opinions and statements about OO is that it is not a clear cut thing. It is a collection of features that have become associated together but which don't have to be, and not everyone agrees on which are required for something to be OO, or how important or useful (or harmful) each is.

What is most fad-like about it, IMO, is the conception that it is a coherent "paradigm".

I'd recommend openSUSE Tumbleweed instead. They originated the btrfs setup that lets you rollback in the grub menu, which has been copied by others. They are bleeding edge except that all packages go through an automated testing system before being rolled out so there's much less breakage to start with.

Well, it depends what dictionary you consult. Can you give an example of a long-lived thing that would be widely considered a fad?

There are fads that have persisted over a longer term by coming in and out of fashion, like say bell-bottom pants. But I can't think of something that would be widely considered a fad that has stayed in fashion for decades.

How has no one mentioned saskatoons / juneberries / serviceberries yet? Looks like a blueberry except it grows on a tree.