People writing such biased and one-sided bullshit are part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Actual hate (and other) crimes happen as part of protests. So does wrongful prosecution for made up infractions to suppress certain opinions.

As long as legitmate protestors and the media supporting them blindly fails to even acknowledge the possibiltyof actual criminals in their ranks and thus fails to distance themselves they are simply enabling their opposition.

As for every topic, whether it’s political, social or anything else: If you managed to let it devolve into tribalism you have already lost.

Also nowadays cars are updated constantly. So you better already collected your evidence as they simply won’t do it anymore now (until after the courts have ruled in their favor for a lack of evidence…)

That’ll teach me to comment before reading

That’s okay. Given people’s habit of just reading headlines and then commenting, your comment has a better chance to be read than the article… 😉

You are looking at this from the wrong perspective…

It’s “causing brain damage to get more voters”.

Did an AI write these bullshit ramblings just parroting PR fluff texts provided by those distros?

In simplified terms:

You are allowed to modify stuff but it is not actually changing the install as is.

This is achieved by different techniques like file system overlays, containerisation, btrfs snapshots and so on.

The idea is to replicate the classical behavior you know from embedded devices that have their core functionality in ROM with even firmware updates only overlayed or modern smartphones: You can modify your system but in the end there’s always the possibilty to “reset to factory settings” as in: the last known working configuration.

This is just a theory but maybe worth a thought:

Could it be possible that acceptance in a certain community up to the point where it’s just a non-issue that is totally separated from what the community does, bring a lot of people to the public view that exist everywhere else, too, just not that openly?

There was in fact some minor friction on IT events some years ago where people objected to stuff partly looking more like a pride event. Yet the majority didn’t care and there was barely any active pushback. And so it normalised very quickly and now it is just how it is. In my personal view at least for the benefit of all involved.

Insulting police officers fascists ✅

Occupation of a public building ✅

Obstruction of an arrest ✅

“From the river to the sea"-chants, outlawed as the call for the destruction of Israel they are ✅

Why are those evil Germans deporting toally innocent people for the thought crime of being pro-Palestina (that they can’t stop breaking the law or criticising Israel without calling for a genocide themselves is totally irrelevant, you know…)? And how can they dare to violate their constitutional rights to free expression (that totally doesn’t stop when you need to break actual law to express yourself. *cough*)?

🤡

Democrats are a rediculous clownshow on so many levels…

Yet a “Democrats didn’t believe that bombs send to Israel as a deterrence for their very real hostile neighbours are used against civilians instead”-headline would be more truthful.

But hey. This way it’s more “haha, democrats are comically insane”. And as we all know by now the entertainment value is all that matters and that pesky truth should fuck off.

Apparently this is about neither DRM

It’s not about the DRM people think about… but the Direct Rendering Manager

I guess I’ll look for some guys on the street to invite them to trash my place and then sue my landlord for providing an defective door… 🤣

Actually lots of areas in Europe tested fluoride in water locally at some point. But they never found convincing evidence of this being preferably to getting fluoride the “classic way” (personalized in small doses already included in toothpaste).

Are USians not brushing their teeth? Or have they changed the toothpaste formulas to exclude fluoride, too, now?

How to recognize the flag of Greenland:

If Poland and Monaco had a baby…

The one has more military might then the 31, and it’s not close.

And the source is the same media that also tells you fairy tales about how the US can’t afford health care because they need to spend money on their MIC Europe…

That’s not even the whole story… He also told European governments to embrace far-right MAGA style populists.

If they could jsut fuck off silently and keep their insanity contained in the US this would already be an improvment.

UEFI standard requires support for FAT and then can implement other file systems for the EFI System Partition.

But no vendor actually implements any with the exception of those forced to include APFS by Apple. So FAT is the de facto standard for all ESPs for years.

TIL: Aluminium bottles are a thing.

Up until now I only knew thick reusable plastic, thin recycleable plastic and reusable glas as the usual materials for bottles.

Edit: Oh, wait… I’m stupid. I simply forgot that cans exist as I haven’t drunken cola from a can in decades.

The software is the problem if it’s produced with a corporate mentality of “ship first, fix later”.

“One of the primary arguments for manually installing and configuring your system is that it will teach you a lot about linux and operating systems in general. While there is a small grain of truth to this, it’s incredibly misleading. […] A significant drawback of the “manual means advanced” slogan is that it creates a narrative that is precisely the opposite of the truth. Computing is about automation, and advanced users are those who write software or use existing software to make their computing lives more painless.”

Sure… and how exactly is one aquiring the “expertise to automate” when they never actually did it manually to know what to automate?