Sounds like my experiences with Ultima Online. Right before they added paladins and necromancers, the shard where I played was quite “raw”. You really got the human experience, with everything: misery, dignity, psycopaths, etc.

Ah, you got me on the nostrils. Alright…

My point was that the discussion is silly/ absurd/ meaningless. Yet here I am… Caught in it.

So… Ears. Those have a membrane (so the air pressure inside transmits the sound to small bones)… I was considering that given a (healthy) membrane the hole is just a cavity. Bt then, the other side does have air. No idea how does it go in and out. But scuba or free divers do compensate the pressure on the other side of the membrane when descending… So the air in there goes in and out of the body in seconds. Might be connected to… Nostrils? Haha. My best guesstimate.

Fuck this game xD

Urethra doesn’t go anywhere either except for bladder, then nephrons (kidneys)…

Something similar applies to ears, right? And nose… But,

Also, what about the pores in my skin? :O

It can also be a tie. Like you two right here, both presented fair arguments… Anyway, I think you took the “hypothetical situation” to another case. I was seeing an angry mob physically punishing 1 person (rightfully or not) accused of pickpocketing. So, the “winning” side was kind of guaranteed because it would be many against 1. And, in my case, I didn’t see any weapons. At least, those were the ‘real life’ situations I saw in the news on my home country a few times… it always saddened me. Hence, my opinions here in this thread. Sure, I didn’t consider that in the US 11 out of 10 people carry bazookas.

Fair point. Thanks for providing it with assertiveness.

it could also be because I mentioned oracle :P

People!! Ugh. Downvoting me is letting your internalized opression taking over your moral!

What about a pickpocket that stole a stupid iPhone from a rich teen who would get a new one the very next day? And, in some less frequent cases, the pickpocket may have had actual needs like buying medicine…

That’s the reason we have a judicial system. Not even police are supposed to do harm, only prevent harm and bring into justice system.

I know the system has many flaws. That’s beyond the point. Those who prefer to go vigilante are calling for making it worse. Specially if we take into account the effects of inequality on a hands-on self-service judicial approach…

Come back! You dirty liar!!

Haha. This thread was priceless. I thought you were about to recommend playing 4k games connecting the deck to a TV… No idea if it’s posible, it should… Anyway…

So much words in this thread… Head over bazzite.gg and get f*ing started! You will love it!!

Omg, this turned out to be a thread with plenty explanations to USians that societies have laws, police, judges…

You can blame the orange guy all you want, but your culture is completely derailed. Murder (under whatever “reasons”) can’t be a national sport.

Weapon manufacturers really did a good job in the land of the free…

That’s awful, it means I would get my photo id stolen hundreds of times per day, or there’s also thisfacedoesntexists… and won’t work. For many reasons. Not all websites require an account. And even those that do, when they ask for “personal verification” (like dating apps) have a hard time to implement just that. Most “serious” cases use human review of the photo and a video that has your face and you move in and out of an oval shape…

No idea. Hey Siri, please read this post and answer OP’s question. Is it weird? /s

I had the same question. The best would be to consult a lawyer and see if there’s any precedent already set.

I could imagine police could easily film the process and a video would be enough proof for any judge. The phone shows a pin entry, a reboot, and then a welcome screen just like a factory reset has been done. Right?

You do you, of course. But, I think that combining the approach of immutable distros to either case would be a great way to add some security. Even if nothing is ever 100% safe, this would be very robust. Or, even without an immutable distro you can do Qubes or just any sandboxing (e.g. bubblewrap) to open documents and files.

In any case, being paranoid certainly is an elegant sport. Perhaps even more than golfing (:

Do you think Republican politics have the slightest responsibilities or none at all? I think all this thread, and the analogy itself plays into polarization, which is not a good way to actually put the much needed bridges… Everyone can do a lot. There are plenty of tasks and battles. Voting is one, very relevant every X many years. Focus on the everyday too. And on every neighbor. All needs should be covered. Do your best. Allow yourself to rest. We can do this.

iirc Mint removes a lot of Canonical’s enshittification (i.e. snap) so… No. LMDE is more of an experiment for whenever ‘cleaning’ out Ubuntu turns to be much work or impossible, as a viable alternative. But right now, both Mint editions are acceptable and afaik the only difference is about using PPAs.

PS. I might be wrong, but this is what I learnt when I used those distros (around 2012-2014)

Yeah, Ubuntu was great long ago. Nowadays its parent company is trying to push new standards (started with desktop environment, then with how to install apps) that are extremely shitty takes on open source solutions. They need to be more humble… Imho, Canonical is no better than Microsoft. It’s like they want to be in that position, next to the ‘great players’ and just try so hard. Knowing one’s place requires too much wisdom.

PS: I hoped all around Debian distros, my favorite is now MX Linux “ahs” version (:

In my case it doesnt appear in the App drawer but when I opened assistant it offered me switching to Gemini, which I did. Then within it, went to Apps to disable integrations like WhatsApp which by default was ON. Same with SMS and others.

Or if you prefer GUI on device apps, Shizuku and then use Cantata