It follows an executive order from Trump on January 27, in which he described a missile attack as the “most catastrophic threat facing the United States."

I can think of a worse one

It is depressing to me how many people are so effectively fooled by what can best be described as a glorified parlor trick. It’s not intelligence, it’s a probable output to a novel input. The hype around LLMs is like watching a magician pull a rabbit out of his hat, and trying to hire him to help you start a rabbit farm. That’s not what’s happening, and you should know better.

LLMs aren’t worthless, they’re great for language manipulation, because that’s what they are. But just because a string of characters makes a valid sentence in a language, that doesn’t mean the sentence is valid in the real world.

Mint is Debian based. Mullvad supports debian.

I don’t think you’re picking up what I’m putting down. The troubled teen industry is notorious for child abuse, and Utah has a history of allowing it. These schools are disgustingly profitable, they pay off politicians and police to look the other way, and if by some chance they do get shut down, the kids get transferred to another abusive school and none of the scumbags running the place get arrested, so they just go start another one. It’s an epidemic that the media has only scratched the surface of.

This is certainly the least troubling thing happening at a troubled teen school in Utah.

“Something needs to change or you’re not going to get my support,” said Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas

In b4 Chip Roy is demonized as an “activist rep” who is “subverting democracy”.

Note that they give you a different ISO when you choose AMD vs Nvidia on the bazzite website. So when you do the reinstall, make sure to grab the ISO for AMD.

gparted is a straightforward partition editing tool, in case you’re not aware, OP.

How do I invest in Florida dentistry?

I think you took away a different meaning from my comment than I intended.

The 4D chess of it all is, publicly criticizing Trump now sounds the same as Fox News and MAGA have sounded since Obama took office 15 years ago.

The strategy has always been to declare all these terrible things are already happening and make the public numb to hearing this rhetoric. Then later, when they take office, they can just do those things and the public doesn’t know how to react, because half the population was already mentally there. You say “Trump is corrupt! He’s destroying the country!” and people just say, “mhm, the president is corrupt, what else is new?” and go back to scrolling social media.

It’s the end-game for the Whataboutism strategy that the GOP has been leaning on for decades.

I’m convinced 90% of them have never run either and just like to complain about stuff.

Yeah, I guess they thought he was doing a big research project on diversity lol. Banned from libraries, sure obviously. Banned from book stores? Why? He’s good business! If I owned a book store I’d gladly sell him 100 books, and 100 more when he’s done.

I disagree with his views, and he definitely should pay for every book he burned, but I’ll defend to the death the right to burn things in protest.

Hm, I would have said it’s not arson if he did it on his own property in a safe manner. But I also don’t know if the definition of arson includes any burning of others’ property without permission, even if you were allowed to bring the property somewhere where you’re allowed to start fires…

As long as the fines he is now due cover the cost of rebuying brand new copies, I thank him for his donation.

Yeah, but I’m assuming there are many gains to be had if your compression method doesn’t need to be stream decoded for real time playback.

They would probably compress pretty well, I imagine.

i prefer google maps yet i still don’t want google and make do with OSM

Do you see the important difference between your example of preference and mine? My preference is a specific set of features, yours is a specific product.

fork it

Hah, I felt I already poked a dozen holes in that position. If you’d like to actually back up your position, I welcome it.

and an active discord

You keep bringing up their discord like that’s relevant to me. It’s not.

im going to overlook the problematic maintainer im going to give clout to

Yeah, I’m fully convinced you didn’t read my previous comment. For the record, I’m not downvoting you because I disagree with you, I think it’s valid to criticize others in the community for their behaviour, and I respect that. I’m going to downvote you because you’re not contributing to the discussion.

I agree they’re restrictive and arbitrary reasons and they’re also the reasons every single hyprland user has for chosing it. You have a different set of arbitrary reasons for setting your system up the way you like. It’s called a “preference”.

In order to fulfill this preference, is it ok for me to fork hyprland and call it something else? Or do I need to rewrite hyprland’s functionality from scratch and pretend it was all my idea? Can I reference hyprland during the rewrite or does it need to be clean room? Should i make a fork available for people who disapprove of the hyprland devs? But what if I’m not a good enough person? Oof, just noticing, i forgot to check the ideologies of each maintainer of the thousands of packages in my system.

I think it’s possible that the boycott idea makes more sense in a capitalist setting than a communist one. The reason we stop supporting JK Rowling or Chick-Fil-A is because being a customer directly translates to their success and thus the success of their ideology. But no one is making a profit from developing and maintaining a Linux package. In fact, typically the more people use your package, the more thankless work falls on you.

I’m simply interested in having control over my PC, and the FOSS community exists to exchange learnings and code to enable each other to do that. And like all of science throughout history, there are problematic people who contribute useful ideas, and I think we would be cutting off our own noses to reject those ideas just because they come from people we otherwise disagree with.

I’m ok if we stop giving this guy any attention.