my god you really aren’t. see the thing is if you look at the meme, it is a humorous visual pun of a picture of dozens of people playing the lute, a guitar-like musical instrument, and thereby partaking in “luting” as a humorous pun on the much-scaremongered-about looting that occurred following the BLM protests in 2020. these people playing the lutes could thus be referred to as “luters”
Firefox will occasionally act up if it’s updated in the background while it’s running. It detects this pretty quickly though and prompts you tobrestart thr browser when you open a new tab. That’s just about the only app I’ve had issues with though.
a single anecdote that could have been coincidence proves nothing bud. i’ve been running Arch for years and recently my laptop has been having some issues. the trackpad only works intermittently, the speakers will randomly quit halfway through a video, and lately it’s randomly shutting down with no warning when running a game. does that mean linux is terrible and nobody shouls use it cause it fucked up my computer and is a pox on all humanity? of course not. all it means is this laptop is a lemon. all those issues happen in Windows too, the once in a blue moon I have to reboot to run a game Proton doesn’t support yet; i’ve called a repair guy in twice to replace the trackpad, and both times the issue has completely gone away for a few months before creeping back again; the speaker issue gets triggered when the laptop gets bumped, so it’s almost certainly a loose connection; and i’ve all but confirmed the random shutdowns are thermal.
also, fwiw, i recently had to try to recover data from a physically damaged microSD card. plugging it into my laptop under windows, nothing happened. plugging it (via USB mind you) into the exact same laptop under linux and trying to mount it caused mount to lock up, requiring a reboot before it would do anything else involving filesystems.
am i still a linux fanboy? yeah. linux is infinitely better than windows for the things i need to do, most of which involve programming. but that doesn’t and shouldn’t mean that i believe microshaft winblows is the worst piece of software ever created and that arch is the one true OS that everyone would be using if only they would see the light (looking at you, Gardiner Bryant).
linux diehards get outta here. you’re making the rest of us look bad.
You can believe that climate change is real, because that’s what literally all of the scientific evidence supports. Fine.
You can believe that climate change is made up, or not caused by humans, or not actually that bad, or whatever position the conservative pundits have retreated to nowadays, because you’ve seen some evidence that that’s true. Fine. You disagree with me, but you’re willing to have a civilized debate where either party could change the other’s mind by presenting evidence.
I will flatly refuse to talk to you about anything if you believe that whether or not our planet is getting hotter year over year is a matter of opinion and therefore no more significant than someone’s favorite movie.
You can have a different opinion. No one will hound you for saying… I dunno, Asteroid City was better than Across The Spiderverse. And I’d have some choice words for anyone who did. What you cannot have is alternative facts.
Different schools of thought in science are just different ways of interpreting the data and different ways of explaining why what happens, happens. Scientists for the most part all agree on what happens. What they disagree on is why it happens and what will happen under circumstances that have not yet been empirically tested.
Of course some science is junk. Sample sizes are too small, or chosen too selectively. Some studies come up with results that are not even remotely representative of the reality. But that reality must exist, whether or not we have an objective way to measure it. And if 99 studies say one thing happened and one says something different, that should give you pause – either that one scientist has tested something nobody else has ever tested and come up with a better explanation for why what happens, happens, or that study is bunk. The only way to decide which it is is more science.
Science is not a body of knowledge. It’s a process. We will never understand every single intricate part of why things and people behave the way they do, and we may never be able to perfectly predict the future, but we can get a pretty good handle on it. When the future defies our expectations, it doesn’t change that what we saw in the past, happened. It just means that there are more factors at play than we thought, and we’d better get our nose to the microscope if we wanna figure out what they are.
You see something. That thing happened. If someone denies that it happens for the reason you think it happened, they might have a point that’s worth listening to. If they deny that it happened at all, they’re gaslighting you.
The earth is getting warmer. That much is indisputable. Temperature records across the globe taken by computers, scientists looking at thermometers, and ordinary Joes stepping out onto their porches and saying “huh, it feels hotter out than usual” all confirm this. People can argue about whether humans caused it. It’s impossible to definitively prove without traveling to an alternate timeline where the industrial revolution never happened, but ALL signs point to “yes”. Scientific predictions made 50 years ago about what the next 50 years would bring climate-wise have come true, and their predictions about what would happen in the 50 after that were pretty dire. It’s impossible to prove anything about the future, as I’ve stated, but someone would have to be a special brand of stupid to take that fact in isolation and use it to advocate against doing anything.
The enshittification of Google results does NOT just apply to Google. Even if we don’t count the “engines” that use Google as a backend, like Startpage and Metager, every search engine nowadays has been indexing fewer and fewer useful pieces of content. Time was, if you wanted to find a comment on Reddit or Tumblr or what have you and you knew some part of it word for word, you could put that portion betweeen quotes and you’d find it immediately. Now you’ll just get nothing. DuckDuckGo, Brave Search, Qwant, Bing, none of em’ll do it. Not even pushshift works properly anymore.
Do not get me started on the trash fire that is Searx. Hosting your own search engine sounds cool until you realize it means running your own indexer and only getting results from sites your individual instance has crawled.
Also, did you hear that Gigablast, the only open-source search engine apart from Searx, shut its doors for good earlier this year?
There are plenty of rebel flags whose literal stated purpose is not slavery. The red and black anarchy flag comes to mind. If anarchy is what they want to symbolize, why not fly one of those?
More to the point, we started this conversation because you said that repenting rather than digging his heels in was why the racer in the original post got canned. Do you think he was right to be canned? If so, are you saying that repenting is a bad thing?
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