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- Comment on Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next 3 days ago:
blahaj.zone
I’m afraid that you’re well past any hope of removing Arch from your life. The best that can be done is managing your install. I suggest sequestering Arch to an old Thinkpad to slow its spread.
- Comment on Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next 4 days ago:
… the offical linux shop I understand that Linyos Torovoltos grew up under communism and originally couldn’t legally sell Lunix – but the Soviets lost the cold war.
I’d rather spend a few bucks for a legitimate copy than risk installing some virus infested illegal version I found on some sketchy website.
- Comment on It's literally science 1 week ago:
That sounds like a lot of work …
Are you sure there aren’t easy solutions that only involve spending money and not effort? Maybe a pill or expensive chair?
- Comment on Bacon off the menu for Peppa Pig family show in Grimsby 2 weeks ago:
I glad to see Peppa Pig is adhering to the proud British tradition of traumatizing children with horrifying real-life interpretations beloved animated characters.
- Comment on Nice horsie! 🐎 3 weeks ago:
Selective breeding is no different than natural evolution in how drastically it can change an organism given enough time and the right selections for “fitness”.
So you could produce a domesticated, tame zebra – but waiting on and favoring the right mutations would take a very long time and be prohibitively expensive. It’s possible, but not realistically feasible.
- Comment on Anon gets nostalgic 1 month ago:
Music was about joy?
In fairness, I’m not sure those genres are “hipster”. Though Death Cab for Cutie is and most of their songs are depressing.
- Comment on Norway anon pirates 1 month ago:
Can I interest you in a NAS and an old laptop running debian plugged into a TV, with the Ethernet cable running to it duck-taped to the wall?
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 1 month ago:
I’d say the seasoning is different enough to call it a distinct thing, though the cooking method is identical. Like New York vs Chicago tavern style pizza.
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 1 month ago:
Boston baked beans with pork belly also deserves a mention.
- Comment on I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings 1 month ago:
It was called a McCormick Reaper.
- Comment on Internet picture of a monkey 2 months ago:
In defense of pet rocks: the highest they were ever sold for was the modern equivalent of $24 and nobody was pretending they were worth more.
- Comment on France seeks to ban social media for children under 15 2 months ago:
“parental controls”
Yeah … I was the kid that knew how to bypass those and “helped” other kids out in that regard.
- Comment on France seeks to ban social media for children under 15 2 months ago:
Or making it illegal to pass a stopped school bus.
Actual “protect children” laws don’t get talked about because absolutely nobody has a problem with them.
- Comment on Journalists convinced a AI Vending Machine Things to give them free stuff like a PS5 2 months ago:
I imagine some of the “guardrails” the AI was set up with involved emphasizing that it’s a capitalist since the goal is to make money.
“Free stuff is still capitalism” is a workaround.
- Comment on There is software/a technology company/a game named after most of the elements in the periodic table 2 months ago:
Still used by Garmin InReach SOS/communicators
- Comment on I dunno 3 months ago:
Don’t ask anyone over the age of 45 how they remember resistor color codes …
- Comment on I dunno 3 months ago:
8 5 - 5 * 2 + CR .
- Comment on Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’ 3 months ago:
“AI” has become synonymous with “Generative AI”
- Comment on Snatching the 12-gauge over the door with the quickness. [sound on] 3 months ago:
… So the people on the decentralized social media network that was created to get away from corporate bullshit don’t like AI?
I can’t imagine why that is.
- Comment on Anon asks out a friend 5 months ago:
As long as you’re not being a shitbag: who the fuck cares? Some people don’t like hookups, some do – and it can change depending on circumstances and what phase or like one is at.
Every day I become more convinced a lot of people get stuck at “teenager” when it comes to sex and relationships. It’s not hard: don’t be an asshole, don’t hurt people, and do what makes you happy.
- Comment on Make America Great! 5 months ago:
Oh, fuck off.
- Comment on Good news. :) 6 months ago:
Illinois is down.
- Comment on winter fans 6 months ago:
-15°C
Sitting beside a wood stove with a hot drink, good food, and sauna.
- Comment on Make America Great! 6 months ago:
Native Americans are still people, and it’s a universal truth that people suck.
All the horrible things people do to each other are just easier at scale when you’re not stuck using stone-age technology.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 6 months ago:
Weird … It looks like I can sign up for an account on dbzer0 even though I’m not actually an anarchist.
- Comment on "ok, imagine a gun." 6 months ago:
That is 100% the origin of the phrase.
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 7 months ago:
Go to the “Filters” tab in the dashboard. At the bottom of the list click “Import” and paste the URL ( raw.githubusercontent.com/…/LegitimateURLShortene… ) in the box. Then click “Apply” to save it.
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 7 months ago:
I follow some writers on Reddit even after I deleted my account and had the same issue. The worst part is it’s no just porn: it’s anything “NSFW” – even mildly so. Posts that were tagged NSFW as a joke weren’t accessible.
I changed my VPN to another country and Reddit was still asking me to log in and show ID until I cleared my cookies and cache.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 11 months ago:
- Comment on America is fucked 11 months ago:
