It’s never unethical to pirate Adobe, but it’s always more ethical to use Free Software instead and deny Adobe the mindshare.
It’s never unethical to pirate Adobe, but it’s always more ethical to use Free Software instead and deny Adobe the mindshare.
Need more information: Why do you want all laptops? Why do you think you need multiple computers at all?
I had absolutely no idea that it was possible for devastation like this to occur from a hurricane all the way in North Carolina.
That’s because it’s only really becoming a thing due to climate change.
Upvote for spite!
https://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate-accountability-history-corporations-us/
TL;DR: the entire point of incorporation was supposed to be for public benefit, and it’s been perverted into a sociopathic entitlement instead. Perhaps even worse, the notion of “corporate personhood” wasn’t even the legitimate decision of legislators or judges, but a fucking clerical error that subsequently got treated as gospel!
How we move around fascinates me, and I think it’s a huge reason for a lot of social issues we face here in the states. I’ll go as far as most of them.
There’s a neat video I found a while back that almost sums everything up perfectly: The Housing Crisis is the Everything Crisis
I say “almost,” because the one thing it fails to do is take one step backward and realize that the housing crisis is itself caused by single-family zoning and lack of walkable density!
Does America not have places like British retail parks?
Of course it does! Well, sort of: American strip malls are like British retail parks, but BIGGER. (At least, judging by the pictures of the latter I just looked up.)
In the case of the grandparent commenter’s aerial photo, it’s sort of like Adam’s aura in Good Omens: aside from various kinds of relatively high-density residential in the corners (e.g. assisted living top right and what appear to be townhouses bottom left), pretty much that entire area is retail! There are at least four strip malls on four different blocks – the one with the Chik-Fil-A, the one with the TJ Maxx, the one with the Wal-Mart, and the one with the Aldi – and each of the four is probably bigger than a typical British “retail park” by itself.
Suburban America is literally comprised of two things:
Maybe that’s what a mall is.
Generally speaking, America has a few different kinds of “malls:”
Traditional commercial development – the sorts of “main street” shops you find in old small towns, if they haven’t been killed by Wal-Mart and torn down. (Not generally called a “mall,” but included in the list for completeness – it’s important to remember what we’ve lost.)
“Strip malls” a.k.a. shopping centers – like I said, “retail parks” but bigger. Also the most common type of American retail.
“Malls” – indoor shopping centers with large department stores at the ends, connected by hallways with smaller stores along them and surrounded by parking lots.
“Outdoor malls” a.k.a. “lifestyle centers” – kinda like a cross between a mall and a Disney-esque fake downtown, with groups of shops in separate freestanding buildings connected by outdoor pedestrian paths either similar in layout to an indoor mall, or resembling a city street grid. Typically built pretty far out into the suburbs and surrounded by parking lots. On the bright side, as the newest sort of American retail development, sometimes they’re mixed-use.
I live in Atlanta, in an intown neighborhood that was once considered a “streetcar suburb” although the streetcars have been gone for decades. For a neighborhood with single-family houses, this is about as good as it gets in terms of urbanism and walkability. (Basically, to do much better you’d have to live in a high-rise in Downtown or Midtown because we don’t really have medium-density neighborhoods.)
Point is, my area is not representative of Metro Atlanta as a whole. Probably 90%+ of the metro area population would report distances at least double, if not an order of magnitude larger.
Walking distances:
Straight-line distance to Capitol Building: about 3 miles (5 km).
LibreCAD is 2D CAD.
yt-dlp
isn’t illegal. It breaks Youtube’s terms of service, but you just told us about how your entire school district uses ublock, so…
IMO any time you’re playing something for an audience, you ought to use yt-dlp
to download it first, check it to make sure nothing is wrong, and play back that local copy. Not only do you ensure there’s no fuckery with ads etc., you also don’t get screwed if the Internet connection goes down.
How is it “full Linux” when Linux has always required an integrated MMU (which is why it’s never supported anything less than a 386)? I mean, yes, you can modify it to run on more primitive chips at the expense of having proper virtual memory support, but if you do that I don’t think it counts as “full Linux” anymore!
Atlantan here. Idk, go ask !shermanposting@lemmy.world or something.
On the contrary: that just goes to show what a fucking catastrophe for software freedom “Secure[sic] Boot” is.
In America, the way it’s supposed to work is that your parents aren’t supposed to need your financial support.
Exactly; fuck BSD too.
It’s worth noting that Apple has (for example) gone so far as to replace bash with zsh just because the GPL v3 was too copyleft for them to handle. In other words, fuck Apple.
It’s too “easy” for all the kiddos who tie their self-worth to their ability to follow installation instructions.
The Adventures of Captain Proton from Star Trek: Voyager!
Found the time traveler!
(The stable version of Gimp is 2.10.38, and even the latest dev snapshot – which is what I assume he means by “Gimp 3” – is technically “only” 2.99.18.)