It totally depends what you buy. IKEA definitely does sell crap, so does every other furniture chain store, but not everything is crap. Really depends on what you look at specifically.

You think that’s a picture of my family? No! It’s the A-Team!

Take your time. The penguins will be there for you, when you’re ready.

I know perfectly well, what a straw man is. But I’m not gonna argue about it and leave the de-railing to you.

The point is, that your example is a made up fantasy, that never happened and you’re arguing against it to support your stance, while no one ever pleaded for that case. Doesn’t matter what we call it, it’s bullshit rhethoric either way. And it doesn’t make you look like someone who’s arguing in good faith.

Your news article also doesn’t support your fantasy. None of the people in this article are wearing flannel shirts or scraggly beards, basically it doesn’t tell us anything about the gender expression of these people at all. The only thing male about them is their genitalia (which is biological sex, not gender), and while I can understand, that this leads to confusion in an all naked spa, it is a completely different thing, than what you initially argued against.

Also your source is pretty obviously biased against trans people, their wording makes that clear.

Nope. It doesn’t debunk anything. Gender dysphoria is a mental illness, yes, but it is not the same thing as being trans, it is a possible consequence of being trans .

Not everyone who’s trans has that mental illness, but I guess they share the feeling, that they don’t want to express the gender identity of their assigned gender very strongly. So your strawman of the person who does everything in their control to appear as a masculine manly-man and to fit a masculine sterotype, while they identify as a woman is highly unlikely.

Look up what gender dysphoria is, if you really want to understand what’s going on.

This is also the reason, why your completely made up example never happens.
The person in that example idientifies as a straw man, and nothing else.

Punch me I bleed in my ass.

Literally listening to Children of Bodom, while I read this post. Alexi would have approved, I’m sure.

They are mapping out how climate change will affect Geman cities, by comparing their prognostic climate data with historical data of other places.

Thing is, had you asked anyone, about their recommendation on how to try Linux, most Linux users myself included, would’ve been happy to have given you advice.

WSL, just simply is not something to be recommended for that use case. Your stance of trying a non-recommended way to do something and reufusing the advice that tells you so, while insisting that you expect it to work that way, isn’t very sensible.

If you want to try Linux without dedicating a machine to it, there are options.
You can run a Live-Linux environment from a USB stick just to test the waters, you can even configure that with persistent storage to take your system with you on a keychain and run it on any computer that lets you boot from USB. Or you can go the dual-boot route.

Those are not that hard to do (with the exception of dual-booting, Windows makes that unneccessarrly troublesome). If you can read and follow a recipe, you can manage to do that. Still it’s not something, that the average joe wants to do, I get that. But when has the average user ever bothered to install an OS? Most people buy their hardware with Windows installed and never touch it. Until we get wide spread options of OEM installed Linux machines, that will always be more convenient.

Yeah, better let the internet mob, who barely takes time to read an understand a newspaper article, pass judgement.

That’s a judiciary system I’d want to live under.

Some of these people probably said that in Italian anyways.

And I don’t expect that kind of nuance from someone whose sister just got murdered.

So murdering people hasn’t been met with punishment in Italy before? That’s news to me.

Of course it has. I seriously doubt that these murderers were calculating their prison sentence and telling themselves "Oh, if I only get 15 years in prison, that’s not too bad. "

As a european, I love to hate on the imperial system. But expressing that ratio in units that you actually use when measuring the thing makes sense.

It’s not like you’re actually doing fancy maths with it, just cross-multiplication.

If you don’t conveniently know your body weight in kg, you might as well remember the ratio in relation to lbs.

You phrased it a bit too harshly to be constructive, but that’s basically the way.

OP you don’t have to ditch it all at once. Just make yourself familiar with FOSS alternatives to these apps and once you’re content using those it will be easier to ditch the proprietary ones.

"Hi,

I’m the real Nicole. I got all my pictures stolen, my identity has been tainted and life is very hard for me now, because of these scammers.

Please send help! Here’s my bitcoin wallet. "

As a rule, you now have to inject ‘I use Arch btw’ into every conversation. We’re the vegans of the Linux world.

Welcome on board!

Yeah. I thought about sending this to my spouse for Valentine’s Day. 💝😻😘 But the Nort America part kinda ruined it.

Will the bubble eventually burst? I think so. I just think it could stagger on for a few more decades before the belief it has value eventually collapses.

I don’t think the belief in its value is going to collapse on its own. It is already accepted to have value by enough people, to sustain that belief. (A bit like a religion, if you think about it)

The downfall of bitcoin will lie in it’s technological design. The whole premise of the underlying blockchain technology relies heavily on Moore’s Law to keep working indefinitely. The complexity of the cryptographic calculations that have to be solved for each BTC transaction increases with each transaction, so it relies on exponential growth of computing power, or rather energy efficency of computing (which is a bit differen than Moore’s Law), to remain useful. The more widely adopted the bitcoin becomes and the more it is traded, the greater the challenge to keep it operational. That is a very impractical limitation for it to be useful as an everyday currency. If, at some point, the time and or cost-efficiency of the crypto-calculations cannot keep up with the number of BTC transactions anymore, the operational cost (or inconvenience) will limit its use. And at that point, I think, the speculation bubble will collapse eventually.

Now when that is going to happen, I cannot possibly know. I’d invest in leverage products against it, if I did.
Maybe progress in chip manufacturing will still continue to exceed my expectations. Maybe a breakthrough in quantum computing will enable the BTC to become a universally accepted currency or maybe it will break its underlying cryptography and kill it dead.

Whatvever it may be, but my prediction is, that if the bitcoin is to collapse, it will probably have a reason rooted in technology.