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actual_patience, to asklemmy in Former religious lemmings, what made you quit religion or stop being a believer?

Here’s a couple silly reasons why:

  • I kept asking for supernatural things to happen, or to win something like a small school lottery. The fact nothing happened, let alone a clear punishment, did disappoint me.
  • When I discovered that Santa was fake was when my faith started to really crumble.
  • Sometimes listening to the Pastors speak gives me a nice sensation on the back of my neck. I later discovered ASMR. I sometimes still listen to old religious people speak, but I’m not actually paying attention.

Here’s the real reasons why:

  • Finding too many things I disagreed with or did not understand from the text.
  • Having a religious preacher fail to explain them to me.
  • Discovering other religions exist.
  • Learning what a cult is and making 1:1 comparisons to most religious entities.
  • Discovering how shitty the real world is.
  • Science (like, all of it)
  • History (also, all of it)
  • Discovering philosophy
actual_patience, to privacy in Nitter is shutting down

When businesses ask you to contact their help-desk via WhatsApp, it’s a utility. When people call and message friends, family, and colleagues almost exclusively on WhatsApp or Messenger, it’s a utility.

It’s also putting the government in a position in which it functionally would have to provide a platform for everyone equally, Neo-Nazis […]

Godwin’s Law People preaching [insert terrible belief] on a government platform would be removed and charged for hate speech just as much as they would be if preaching these things in public spaces. If your government gives people with terrible_belief.jpg the chance to preach on public property, that’s not a public property issue, that’s a government issue.

Ultimately, saying social media should be a public utility is like saying casinos and strip clubs should be public utilities.

No, it isn’t. If anything, turning certain popular social media apps into public utilities would limit them from being pure dopamine hits. Let other websites exist to fill the cesspool void. Not the one my grandma uses.

actual_patience, to opensource in Thoughts on Post-Open Source?

The fee could be really small but scale depending on factors like business size. Or there could be no fee outright for businesses smaller than a certain size.

actual_patience, to opensource in Thoughts on Post-Open Source?

Let’s not be nihilist here. It’s better to come up with solutions than to give up.

actual_patience, to opensource in Thoughts on Post-Open Source?

If you had also read the article BTW you would have realized that spoilers: it’s not about source code availability.

You saw the first few paragraphs about the Red Hat drama and didn’t read further.

Reading the whole thing you’d realize it’s a list of reasons why open source software hasn’t become popular with the wider public, and his proposed solution to this.

I just included the idea he is proposing, others can read the article to see his reasoning.

actual_patience, to linux in Help on BTRFS setup

Mount options also only take effect on the first mount of the device. Since it looks like you only have 1 btrfs device - only / needs the options, really.

I didn’t know this. Thanks!

actual_patience, to linux in Help on BTRFS setup

Yeah it’s supported. It’s listed in the docs for btrfs and arch.

actual_patience, to asklemmy in How are you all making it right now with grocery store prices?

Bulk buys

actual_patience, to privacy in Nitter is shutting down

First off, I think you are being very rude. I didn’t call you names or make assumptions, so please treat this with more respect than a Twitter thread.

WhatsApp, by comparison, is trivially easy to replace.

Olvid, a French alternative to WhatsApp, was made in 2019. It took a law passing last month banning all ministers from using non in-house messaging services to stop people from using WhatsApp. I wouldn’t consider that “trivially easy”.

Also, your reasoning is kind of skewed, because in order to even use something like WhatsApp, you need other, already existing services. Namely internet access.

You didn’t mention Internet access and so neither did I. I’m happy we both agree it should be a utility.

I don’t know if you’re just speaking from a non-American context, or just don’t know how “freedom of speech” is codified into law in the United States.

I already said this is a “government problem”. I said this in reference to the US government, because this isn’t really an issue for most countries :/

actual_patience, to linux in Make any Distro Immutable

I think flatpaks are good. The performance penalty for containerized software can be felt much more when you’re not using a good CPU. So containers do not “solve” my use case.

actual_patience, to opensource in Thoughts on Post-Open Source?

Yeah pretty much

actual_patience, to linux in Arch or NixOS?

I think you are understating the value of the Arch Wiki and AUR.

I am also a university student. I was required by one of my courses to program an Arduino using ArduinoIDE. My program, however, was not detecting my Arduino. By simply scrolling the Arch wiki, I found the issue, downloaded the fix via AUR and was able to get it working hassle-free. An equivalent of this process does not exist on NixOS.

I do not know what programs your uni requires, but if you do plan on using them on Linux, Debian or Arch, or their many derivatives should be the go-to simply for documentation and quick-fixes alone.

actual_patience, to linux in Make any Distro Immutable

Could you pass me a link to an example setup?

actual_patience, to linux in Help on BTRFS setup

“subvolume - cannot be snapshotted if it contains any active swapfiles”

Make a subvolume only for the swapfile.

has a chance to fragment

This is true for all files. Is it a bigger problem for swap?

has issues with hibernation (that I’ve personally encountered multiple times)

This one I can’t refute. How long ago did you have these issues?

actual_patience, to opensource in Thoughts on Post-Open Source?

Well the question is, how would such a license look like? Or would it be a contract and not a license?

I guess I should ask a lawyer these questions, but I wanted to see what others here thought about the idea.

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