Related shower thought: does the Pope take holy shit?

The problem with it is, everyone defines “dicky” behavior differently.

And if you’re a real fan of Synology ecosystem, there is Xpenology basically porting DSM onto any hardware you want, compatible with all apps. Iirc, the only thing NOT working is QuickConnect (for obvious reasons)

Yes, by all means, it is time to sell. The upwards potential is unclear, while the downward movement can get you back to $30000. Most likely, you will not gain much more on this market at the moment, while potential loss is colossal.

Russia is one of the key destinations for piracy because of lenient laws and even more lenient police practice regarding it.

Always good to have some legal options, and the more they expand, the better.

Still, torrenting shouldn’t go anywhere indeed.

Nice!

Now, it would be good not to rely on good will of some individuals and actually enforce this for all the rich.

But still mad respect for the man.

I’m 128, it’s up to you to decide whether it’s high enough or not.

Generally, I am successful in my studies and pursue career in science. I am not a high earner, and doing mental work still drains me heavily. I take a few hours of dumb physical work every week to reset. I am more or less satisfied with my life, I do have a romantic partner and generally find it easy to navigate social situations, but I’m introverted and need to recharge. So, you can say I have a high burst productivity all-round, but I’m not good at a long game.

This is just me though, and one thing to remember is that there is no objective metric for intelligence, and it can be divided in many different ways. Some people are great at solving math problems, but are dead stupid in social situations. Some go vice versa. Some have a gift for certain areas of knowledge or skills where they are way above average, while having underwhelming performance with the rest.

For example, I excel at disciplines that require me to connect many diverse data points (my area of interest is microbiology), but I’m not that good at following logic through many layers of calculations and linking it back to source (as in physics/math; I’m still able to carry out calculations I need for my work, but it’s exhausting). I acquire language skills quite readily, and have good auditory perception overall, but have high reaction time and struggle driving or doing competitive sports/gaming (no, higher intelligence doesn’t mean faster reaction).

Overall, I’m just a normal human, fairly smart, fairly capable, but nothing supernatural and sometimes straight up underwhelming.

I agree that hetero relationships get quite a lot of visibility, but it gets little positivity, which some people are quite sensitive to, especially among teenagers. Also, it enforces LGBTQ+ and cishets as two opposing sides, which they are not.

Faced with (undoubtedly important) messages about how queer folks and their relationships are awesome and worthy of appraisal and attention, some of the hetero teens and even adults feel left out, like they’re not “cool” for just being the default.

Obviously, they are no less cool than anyone else, and their relationships are no less beautiful. And we need to talk about that too, in no way to silence the rest, but to underscore that truly any relation to gender and sexuality is equally valuable. The very pushback on LGBTQ+ is partly fueled by the resentment for this lack of hetero positivity, and we need to remove any ground for it.

LGBTQ+ and cishets are not on the opposite sides, they are all parts of the same spectrum, and so any confrontations between the two are as odd as bisexuals attacking homosexuals. To translate this idea, we should include cishets into the same positivity movement, while remembering the groups inside LGBTQ+ are still unjustly discriminated against.

Strong disagree on my part.

Immutable distros work differently from traditional ones, for which most guides and manuals were written. This is somewhat painful even for those coming from other distros, and it’s gonna be a nightmare for those coming from another OS. They didn’t even familiarize themselves with Linux yet, and people want them to run flatpaks, distroboxes and work with rpm-ostree or its alternatives. It’s like learning to fly a plane by saving a Boeing-737 on a crash course.

Immutable options are not for newbie users, at least not in the foreseeable future.

Having tried NixOS, I gotta say the ability to quickly restore everything from a single config (its main premise) is overrated when it comes to home systems. Invaluable for production environments, though.

The rest can be done on any other Linux, and it would probably be preferred by most.

On the other hand, the concerns themselves are real, and if they will be addressed in a way positive to everyone else, this will be great!

So, we’ll see. Under current administration, the risks for it derailing into the hate fest are quite high, but fingers crossed.

Honestly, if done without any hate to LGBTQ+, I’m all for it. We need a nice hetero representation, and hetero relationships are beautiful. This does include trans people forming hetero couples, and hetero-demi-/asexuals, and many more, so it can even intersect with LGBTQ+ in some cases.

All relationships and sexualities are beautiful, and hetero ones are no exception.

But I doubt it’ll be done this way.

Samsung SSDs are great and industry-leading in terms of reliability

I really cannot believe we fucked printers in so many unique ways.

• No universal drivers and software support, requiring entire settings pages to be about printers
• DRM everywhere, rendering third party cartridges useless
• Routinely bad security, making Wi-Fi enabled printers one of the common attack vectors

Etc. etc.

Threadiverse kinda captures it, but it also calls association with Threads (by Meta), like if it’s the parent of it, while in fact it’s not even part of it.

Honestly, the “human extinction” level of climate change is very far away. Currently, we’re preventing the “sunken coastal cities, economic crisis and famine in poor regions” kind of change, it’s just that “we’re all gonna die” sounds flashier.

We have the time to change the course, it’s just that the sooner we do this, the less damage will be done. This is why it’s important to solve it now.

Yes, my apologies I edited it so drastically to better get my point across.

Sure, we get more information. But we also learn to filter it, to adapt to it, and eventually - to disregard things we have little control over, while finding what we can do to make it better.

I believe that, eventually, we can fix this all as well.

People were always manipulated. I mean, they were indoctrinated with divine power of rulers, how much worse can it get? It’s just that now it tries to be a bit more stealthy.

And previously, there were plenty of existential threats. Famine, plague, all that stuff that actually threatened to wipe us out.

We’re still here, and we have what it takes to push back. We need more organizing, that’s all.

Same argument was already made around 2500BCE in Mesopotamian scriptures. The corruption of society will lead to deterioration and collapse, these processes accelerate and will soon lead to the inevitable end; remaining minds write history books and capture the end of humanity.

…and as you can see, we’re 4500 years into this stuff, still kicking.

One mistake people of all generations make is assuming the previous ones were smarter and better. No, they weren’t, they were as naive if not more so, had same illusions of grandeur and outside influences. This thing never went anywhere and never will. We can shift it to better or worse, but societal collapse due to people suddenly getting dumb is not something to reasonably worry about.