RickRussell_CA

Currently, PopOS although I’m not really that enthusiastic about it.

What? Why would you choose that over Baptist Church of Missouri SynodOS, you heretic?

I went through two defective EVGA cards within the original card’s warranty period. On the second card, EVGA tried to deny my warranty.

They eventually made it right, after I shamed them on Reddit.

It must be Thursday

I’ve been using Ubuntu for years and I literally had no idea. Admittedly, I don’t deal with servers or anything, so I guess some of the stuff coming from their package respositories could be “snap” format and I wouldn’t really notice.

What the hell is a snap?

Slackware circa 1996

The purpose of hard age limits isn’t just to restrict the autonomy of minors.

It’s also to allow adults to know where they stand, with respect to the law, and eliminate ambiguities that could be used for selective enforcement.

As an adult, I can’t decide whether to sell alcohol to a minor, or have sex with a minor, etc. based on some concept of “real world maturity”. And if you give prosecutors flexibility in charging adults with crimes based on some mushy concept of maturity, you can probably guess who will get the shaft: poor folks, and black & brown & red folks.

I don’t know that hard age limits are “fair” to minors, I suppose I would probably agree that they are not. But we have to consider what is fair to the person who might be accused of a crime.

sometimes you have to make a point and you just have no other way of doing so

Well, that’s just an excuse for bad leadership.

It was never a question of being technically right or wrong. Linus’ realization was that his inflammatory language was viewed as permission by other people in the Linux community to be verbally abusive to their peers. People who had been valuable contributors to Linux projects explained to Linus how they had been berated by colleagues, and when challenged those colleagues cited Linus’ own language.

What Linus wants is working code, and you don’t get working code by giving tacit permission to your most aggressive & abrasive community members to attack others.

His kung fu is strong

Is joke. There is no potato.

I told Latvian cousin to buy store brand potato. He laugh, I laugh. There is no store.

Capri Sun and PBJs oh yeeeeah

I want to live on Playground Island.

felling

ISWYDT

Sure except I didn’t actually want it to convert to a link.

You can subscribe to whatever@lemmy.ml from any other federated instance, including lemmy.world. Use the one you like.

you’d like it better over there full-time

The passive-aggressive version of “don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out”.

Or… just let people live with their multiple personalities. It’s not like people didn’t have alt accounts on Reddit specifically so they could talk about stuff in a way that wouldn’t reflect on their primary account.

As long as people behave appropriately on an instance, it’s nobody else’s business what they do on other instances with different accounts.