Red looks surprisingly effective as well.

I can’t believe I had to scroll this far to find it this explanation.

My first thought was “wait did discord saying something bad about FOSS lately?” No, nothing unusual. Must be missing something.

Turns out some people see Discord as a sort of mascot for closed source, and that is what the joke hinged on.

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Actually it’s worse than that, isn’t it? They’re seeing the coexistence of closed source as being antithetical to open source.

Good luck with that I guess.

hang on let me check the big bi handibook…

yep, it’s ass.

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I did not see that there was a second thing you could be responding to. I’ll look that one up too…

yup, it’s rude.

Thanks for the heads up. Pretty fucked we have to live in a world where we can’t be completely open with our health care professionals.

There is no viable third party without voting reform.

If you really want smaller parties to have any chance, go help the people within the democratic party who are trying to make that happen.

That’s me, sorta. For the first time since I turned 21 (so almost 15 years), I can have just one drink and not want another. I didn’t even really try to cut back, it just happened naturally after I took up cannabis.

Looking back, it’s kind of incredible how much alcohol was bringing me down.

I’ve lost 50 lbs in the past year. It is almost entirely due to the fact that I replaced alcohol with weed after it became legal here. I sleep better, eat better, I’m less anxious, and I actually look forward to working out now.

It’s very hard to see any downsides.

Everyone who neglected to add the “/s” has become an unwitting data poisoner

I was thinking about this the other day. I support some very, very technologically limited users and I wondered if anyone out there is working on a distro/DE that looks and feels just enough like windows to get them by

I would never have considered this before they announced Recall. Now it feels like I’m waiting to see just how hard they push it

The difference is none of this kid’s peers will have a similar experience

Is it not clear which definition of Crypto he’s using?

Linus coming out against cryptography seems so unrealistically silly to me that it’s not even worth considering.

Voting doesn’t change anything. Not voting kills us.

We vote to buy time. We use that time to perform direct action.

These 2 things are not mutually exclusive.

This is what I’ve been trying to tell people, especially young lefties.

It just does not make sense to me why you would look at a broken system which gives a massive advantage to one party, see that the people trying to fix the system all belong to the other party, and arrive at the conclusion that both parties are equally at fault and the only solution is to throw your hands up in invisible protest.

It would be one thing if they just said they didn’t care, but they seem to be convinced they are actually able to affect change this way.

It’s like finding yourself in a fist fight and seeing your buddy just standing there laughing.

You no nothing about IT do you?

I’m not convinced you do, if you genuinely can’t imagine a scenario where someone with just enough permissions could be convinced to do this, legally or otherwise.

I’m not sure about that. In my experience, it’s how they justify everything. The ones I’ve known personally seem to genuinely believe their god wants them to inflict pain on others as part of some sort of divine warfare. They also tend to prefer the old testament, unsurprisingly

It showed up for me about a month ago. I put up with it for about a week and then broke down and finally switched all my browser search engines to duckduckgo.

The funny thing is, I tried making this same switch a couple years ago. I legitimately had a harder time getting the results I needed and ended up switching back to Google.

Google is worse than useless to me now.

How about Analogue August or Stop Scrolling September?

I’ll also say, Offline October is pretty dang good.

I hope it’s still hot!

I remember this sentiment being floated around a lot leading up to 2016. If 2020 should have taught us anything, it’s that things can get worse in ways we won’t expect.

A lot of people knew a global pandemic was on the horizon. That much was expected.

Trump knew. He knew and threw out the established response plan his first year. We did not expect him to be able to do that much harm.

Let’s throw out first-past-the-post voting while we’re at it.

So your solution is to vote in protest for a party you know won’t win.

I’m actually curious now, what possible good do you think that’s doing?