rustydomino

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[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

stuck nail houses 釘子戶 may apply in limited situations but there is no such thing as land ownership in China. When you purchase real estate in China you are buying the right to use the land for a period of time (I think it’s 80 years but don’t quote me on that number, I’m going off memory here) but the state owns the land. When the party wants to build something they are going to build it.

[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Look to public transit development in Taiwan as an example of how to do it right in a democratic nation. There are still loads of problems but the Taiwanese government can’t just take your land outright. Taipei especially has seen phenomenal growth in its metro development in the last 20 years.

[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (26 children)

It helps that in China you can’t own land. All the land is owned by the government. You only have “use rights” and for a limited time (something like 80 years - I forget the exact number). So when it comes time to build infrastructure the government just tells you to gtfo.

[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Who are you, to be so wise in the ways of science?!?

[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Well, what are you then?

[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I have found that: it’s easier if you stick to one (major) distro such as Debian or its derivatives, and try to stick to that distro’s package system (in this case, apt). Yes there is a learning curve. But once you learn it, you find that Linux gets easier to use. But more importantly, it gets more POWERFUL to use. I agree with your assessment that Linux is not beginner friendly but it is USER friendly in that it empowers the user. But yes you do have to put in a little work first.

[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

He is the goddamn president. He doesn’t get weekends.

[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?

[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Don’t they understand because they were PARDONED it means that they were GUILTY?

[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

There’s an entire YouTube channel dedicated to this. https://youtu.be/KLxoyeRvqDw

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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So this is not a question about how to do this. I know how to do this. I also know that (at least under GNOME) it is neither easy nor intuitive. It involves manually editing several different text files to define MIME types and associating an application with that MIME type. My question is: is there an easy to use GUI tool to do this. I don’t think there is. Associating a file type to open with a specific app is easy, trivial even, to do on MacOS or Windows. Why is this seemingly simple task so hard to do in GNOME?

 
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