The article’s “valuing your time” argument is problematic in certain contexts. My brother has had so much trouble with his dual-boot (Windows and Linux). Yes, he could learn how to solve something in Linux every time a problem arises, but he also has to deliver his projects on time. Because of that, he mostly spends time on his Windows dual boot. Yeah, it sucks ethically and has its own pragmatic issues, but he has never had issues resolving dependencies or hunting down the most recent version that can actually be run in NixOS.

I don’t doubt these will become issues that will not be as problematic in the future, but right now my brother cannot use Linux reliably for his assignments.

Edit: My brother has tried what I use: Fedora and NixOS. He has also tried PopOS.

In Fedora, he found some of his software didn’t exist as .deb, and struggled to make .tar files work smoothly for him.

He tried NixOS afterward. He really liked the whole immutability thing, as well as the idea that apps would have their own dependencies.

His dependency problem happened in PopOS. If I remember correctly, it was a code editor that required a version of something that was different to what a package he used in his software was.

I think the order he tried was Fedora -> NixOS -> PopOS -> NixOS -> ? (Haven’t talked to him about it recently)

This was posted in “nonpolitical_memes”, but how is this not political? The definition of politics can depend, but let’s take it to be something like “deciding how political goods will be allocated”. Deciding how resources will be allocated is political. Evaluating how resources are allocated is political. The fact that someone considers something evidently political as not political is political (search for “depoliticization” online).

What does politics mean to you? What do you understand by depoliticization?

If people are here to receive recommendations, I'm preaching to the choir. But responding the question directly, a computer of my own. Being able to go online or work on digital stuff whenever I want to has changed my life for the better.

I hadn’t seen stuff by him in a while, and I love his new style! It feels so well made!

I love how you put it. I think the particular consequences of not making money quickly enough is pulling the plug in projects. Investors want money, not games.

You seem to be doing quite some things well. Maybe pay attention to your brushing? My dentist once had me brush my teeth in front of her and identified why in some teeth I'd consistently be clean and in others I'd consistently build plaque.

Her recommendations: brush from the gum to the tip of the tooth. Try to aim at the holes between teeth. Pay close attention to the part in front of your tongue, in your lower front teeth; that part can easily build plaque if you don't use the tip of your brush well to get in the holes between your teeth.

Metacognition becomes routine for humans. We are able to better de-fuse from our thoughts, and recognize them not as reality but as thoughts about reality.

Frame challenge: to avoid mass surveillance, a good FLOSS E2EE app ✌️😎

Ah. This makes sense! Thanks!

I'm not sure adblockers change the OS they report. Other tools I know for a fact do it.

Edit: However, as @aebletrae@hexbear.net mentions, adblockers don't have to change what OS is reported to change the overall statistics. They explain how in a comment below.

"It's difficult to see a future with more people in unions without also seeing changes in the workplace and American labor law" - Me hoping to make Siresh Naidu clearer, at the very least clearer to me.

lol yeah, dishwashers require a high upfront cost. But I think they are cheaper in the long run because they use less water (and maybe less electricity?) than washing dishes by hand. I did a quick search online and it seems to be the case. However, I wonder if those first links are wrong.

Ok, so I just read upon Proton AG, the company behind Proton, and they don't seem to owe investors money, because it was originally crowdfunded and now it finances itself with subscriptions. That sounds great! It is quite different to surveillance capitalism and enshittification (given that enshittification requires advertisers).

I am not advertising for Proton, by the way. To make that clear, I still wouldn't use them because they seem to have very limited VPN functionality in their Linux clients. As a Linux user, I wouldn't want that. However, if they fix that in the future, I could consider switching.

Edit: Similarly, I found this website https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/company-profile/tutao-gmbh summarizing its evaluation of Tutanota as ethical. It takes into consideration its ownership structure. Unfortunately, I cannot find details because there is a paywall for the information, but it could be the case that Tutanota does not owe money to investors and therefore is not seeking to maximize profits but rather provide a good service while compensating fairly its workers. I wish I could have more evidence.

I like that, if I only need mail with 20gb of storage, Tutanota is cheaper.

I don't know what to do. I'll have to think a bit longer.

What does your writing mean to you? Can you find a meaningful relationship between what your writing means to you and what your work means to you?

Similarly, what do you weekends mean to you? Can you find a meaningful relationship between what your writing means to you and weekends?

I don't know who needs to hear this, but you can try games Powered by the Apocalypse!

"Elections", " representative", and "federal" could exclude many non-American and non-Canadian countries.

Edit: Oh, silly me. I misread. I thought you wanted to exclude American stuff, not "political" stuff. Well that's another conversation. Is there something that is not political? Is there something that doesn't comment on the distributions of political goods such as significance, relevance, resource allocations (including time and attention), or value judgments?

I know encapsulation is desirable in part because of security. I figured something similar could happen by removing the ability to import anything from another program. However, I struggled to think about other situations in which no imports were desirable, and so I wondered…

Not to be a killjoy, but you can make out the two back legs and the tail… so the dog wasn't having a blast. Instead, maybe the dog was pensive and reflexive.

Even snakes are afraid of snakes

- Steven Wright

You know? It isn't that bad! The punchline could be punchier, but I like it!