Surely Google has the resources to fix the bugs themselves. Most FOSS projects probably appreciate code contributions more than money.

I think the average user wouldn’t care, Linux just attracts nerds. And I think it’s totally fine and even good that people care how their computer works—it shows that users care about their software working for them, rather than just wanting to go along with whatever is given to them. I think a lot of the positions people take about these things are very silly, but I’d still prefer someone to have a silly opinion about X11/Wayland or pid 1 than to not have an opinion at all. It’s nice that users are being actively involved in deciding what they want their system to be; it’s a nice change from the average user who’s like “well microsoft is screenshotting my screen every 5 seconds and feeding it into copilot now, guess I’m going along with that”.

My point is that raids are for the purpose of gathering evidence. The way it usually works is that the state decides they want to criminalise you for something so they search your place for anything they can use to incriminate you—not vice versa, ie they dont already have enough evidence to incriminate you when they plan the raid.

I don’t know about a majority of people, but with the rise of the far-right across many countries I think it is a significant number of people who are at risk of this, and I think it’s rather short-sighted to assume only a small number of “cool people” are affected (thank you though). Like I am a nobody, I’m not famous, and there are lots of political organisers and militants like me you’ve never heard of being targeted for their political activities. You don’t need to be a Snowden to have some degree of state interest in you, and most state repression (raids, incarceration, arrests, etc) is relatively cheap to dish out willy-nilly.

Not true at all. Governments regularly raid political dissidents. It’s a disciplinary tactic in and of itself. I’ve been raided for plenty of shit and never been convicted of any crime.

I don’t like JS either but it’s not a big deal. You can whitelist sites with noscript.

Not really other than hard drive space lost. fwiw when I first installed Linux I did a dual boot setup but ended up never booting into Windows except to play games, but I just played non-Linux games very infrequently because it wasn’t worth it to me to reboot my whole computer just to play a video game. And nowadays the vast majority of games run just fine on Linux, either due to native Linux support (you’d be surprised at how many popular games have native Linux versions) or through Proton (a compatibility layer made by Valve that allows you to run Windows executables on Linux).

I guess the main downside is, if that’s you, and you later decide to make the whole drive Linux, I have in the past had problems with data corruption when I try to expand a partition after deleting another. It is a potential source of problems, as something could always go wrong with repartitioning, but I imagine the actual risk is still fairly low.

But if you’re sticking with a dual boot setup then it shouldn’t have any real “downsides”. Windows will work as normal and Linux will work as normal.

English is my third language, but I read a lot of English books as a kid and spent a lot of time in English-speaking circles. I don’t feel disadvantaged compared to a native speaker as I’m fluent and have been speaking English for a long time.

Immigration has made it so that there are loads of places on Earth you can go to have loads of cuisines. Most big cities for instance have migrant populations from nearly every (if not every) country and will have restaurants etc representing those communities.

My point was not about the presence or lack thereof of “authoritarianism”, but the comparison of the DPRK to the US. If it were only about “authoritarianism” then there are plenty of other countries very widely considered “authoritarian”.

Ironically this is EXACTLY the stance I take on the USA and the Trump family, which I am sure a lot of people in this community would agree with.

I think you’re rather missing the point as USAmericans do participate heavily in US imperialism, and reap the rewards of US imperialism. There is no North Korean imperialism to speak of, on the other hand.

I think placing the DPRK as the only place you’d want to visit less than the US, is pretty fucked up. I’ll put now, if it helps you be willing to talk to me, that I don’t “support” the DPRK (whatever that means), and think it’s a fairly normal liberal democracy (though as an outsider I’m rather limited on what info I can access on the DPRK). You don’t have to think the DPRK is “socialist” to recognise that they’ve been subjected to brutal imperialist aggression, are not a worldwide imperialist power like the US is, and generally the only reason I can see for placing them as literally the only country beneath the US is just imperialist propaganda. I think these conversations can get mixed up with conversations about “AES” but it should be important to be able to look at the DPRK as an imperialised country entirely separate to the “AES” discussion, in which context it should be quite obvious how it’s fucked up to compare them to the country that invaded them and killed a huge portion of the population.

The cuisine that gets claimed as “Israeli” is either from the Levant predating Israel’s existence, or just diaspora Jewish food. Nothing comes to mind as actually originating-in-Israel “Israeli” food, though I’m sure some settler has come up with some dish at some point since 1948.

That doesn’t justify denying a teenager the right to a trial due to their autism and then imprisoning them for life. There are far better ways of addressing the real harm a kid does than that.

Rockstar Games put a teenager in hospital prison for life. idgaf about their games

i3 doesn’t work with Wayland because it’s an X11 WM… You wouldn’t complain about X11 because Sway doesn’t work on it.

Btw, Sway is a drop-in Wayland replacement for i3 if you want to move to Wayland. i3 configs work with Sway; it’s an i3 clone.

If you mean political leaders targeted by imperialist propaganda, most of them have written books or other writings that you can read and get accounts from their own mouth. Mao probably fits your bill (vilified by Western media) and his writing is very accessible and easy to read (he wrote largely for illiterate peasants) so that might be something to interest you.

I’ve read accounts of women who’ve left the porn industry and there’s a lot of fucked up shit that happens in scenes. There’s definitely a non-zero amount of choking scenes in porn that are real choking.

I wonder if this only extends to “IRL” porn or if it also extends to things like fanfiction and animations? I guess if the argument is to not promote choking then it makes sense to extend it to all types of porn. But if it’s only about actress welfare then it’s not clear how the law would be applied to types of porn with no actors/actresses.

No but not due to hostility. We just don’t talk anymore the way you don’t talk to some old friends anymore, ie just drifted apart. All my breakups have luckily been amicable.

aerc+mbsync+notmuch

If you want a GUI, I was using Evolution before aerc and I was happy with it. I just prefer keyboard navigation which naturally is well supported by any TUI application.

What are you using that requires a selfie? I can’t think of any services or apps I use that require a selfie. It can’t be that hard to avoid if I’ve never encountered one.