Don’t underestimate the stupidity of white people looking for an identity to fill the void of meaning in their lives.

Since New Zealand isn’t very big, there’s a good chance we’re just a fad away from having millions of 22 year olds getting shitty imitations onto their faces thus ruining it for the Maori.

It’s not cultural appropriation BTW, because Kaylee and Braden absolutely do have Maori heritage 409 generations ago!

It’s the woo girl type of feminism. Simulacra of accomplishments are used as simulacra of performative progress. The real issues are glossed over and everyone can cheer for rich women.

I mean, obviously. They had no other choice after the woke mob and their “slavery is bad, mkay” destroyed the entire workforce market!!!

(/s, just in case)

And you really think “the elites” are the ones buying and selling here?

Yes, they have a lot of wealth in stocks, but usually they simply own a large chunk of their (or their parents) company and the rest is managed by a fund manager. And if you have millions or billions, you don’t need to think quarter to quarter.

What happened to librem anyway? They used to be all the rage, now it’s nothing.

One part is a reverse game of chicken, buy the dippest dip to realize most profit from less dippy dip buyers.

The other part is the assumption that this means the tariffs will never actually come or at least in a much relaxed form.

I mean, “safest” is a superlative, not a positive. It’s perfectly possible that all other pipelines ruptured three times or more.

That is …

Surprisingly deep.

Pronouns are not adjectives, they’re pronouns.

Maybe I’m talking weird, but how often do you refer to yourself by any non-reflexive pronoun?

It’s not gatekeeping, it’s a medical definition.

What’s so hard to understand about that?

You’re not OCD because you sorted Skittles by color once either.

But trauma, as I understand it, is more like a broken bone

That’s a medical trauma, yes. But the situation described here is a light bruise at best.

Yes, these terms encompass a range of severities, but at some point you have to say “No, Terry, a broken nail is not a trauma, and you can’t go to the emergency room because of it”.

People love the feeling of being super empathetic if they support this language. And others love the feeling of self victimization.

And the actual victims don’t get the attention they need, because Terry cries about having made a bad joke yesterday.

Of course there is. As I wrote above: if everything is a trauma, nothing is.

You can’t just expand the meaning of a well defined word just because you like the vibe of it applying to the victim group of the day.

… And that in turn means the term is practically meaningless - as you can see in the example above.

If everything is a trauma, nothing is.

Not every bad experience is traumatic. Abusing that word devalues the actually traumatizing experiences. Being an outsider in school and being raped by your dad are categorically extremely different experiences. Lumping them into “traumatic” is just not helpful.

Pff, I carve my own CPUs from compacted sand, like real men.

What is the battery situation like?

The older, cheaper devices are obviously, well, older and thus the battery degraded a bit. Linux isn’t exactly optimized for these things either. I would expect less than great battery life.

I didn’t know NixOS has its own chroot.

I’m “chrooted” into the system, howver, user-mapping seems not to work currently. Logrotate fails to build because of a missing user ID.

EDIT: I commented out all the “advanced” features and had to add some flags.

services.logrotate.checkConfig = false; in the config solved the “user or group not found” issue and add NIXOS_SWITCH_USE_DIRTY_ENV=1to nixos-rebuild (https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Change_root).

Now it seems to work and I could piece by piece reactive all the deactivated parts.

It’s a Seagate, yes. And that might actually do work, but currently it looks more like about 2 bazillions bad sectors.

Unfortunately, these nerds (in the negative sense) make it often almost impossible to find “decent enough” stuff. Try finding any information about the “pretty good, but not unreasonably priced” bracket in almost any niche. Almost impossible. Unless audio equipment costs at least one kidney, it’s essentially worthless, instead of buying a sub 1000€ knife, honed by japanese virgins, you should better kill yourself, and denim that doesn’t require 400 elaborate steps to break in is literally worse than Hitler.