Out of curiosity, what is it you use it for? I pretty much only use it for SMS, for which it is kinda janky and unstable. Doesn’t always get contact names, doesn’t load everything from conversations, misses messages that I sent or that were sent to me, crashes if I scroll too fast, etc. I have Connect installed just to use SMS (cause I hate typing on my phone keyboard), but I’m honestly not even sure what the base software does.
If Israel didn’t have diplomatic cover by way of the US’s security council veto it might, but yeah.
To be fair that was also my experience with PopOS which is designed to be user-friendly. The answer to questions like ‘how do I take a screenshot of a region and copy it to clipboard without spamming files’ or ‘how do I switch audio devices between speakers and headset’ just tends to be ‘run this long-ass command you would never have figured out on your own’ or ‘Write a shell script full of such commands to do it for you and call it with a shortcut key’. I think this is a linux problem, not a distro problem, because it was the same way when I was using redhat 15 years ago or slackware 30 years ago.
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The world needs a lot fewer nuclear weapons, preferably zero, to be sure. But nobody seems particularly keen on giving them up, and if Israel has them Palestine - even if it becomes a state - will always live in the shadow of Israel’s military power.
I’m glad we have the UN to state the obvious (and then do literally nothing about it.) So helpful.
(I know the person in question is just doing their job, but.)
I just installed Nobara in a similar setup for similar reasons a few days ago after having several bad experiences with Pop, Ubuntu, and Mint. I wanted to move away from Ubuntu-based distros and Nobara seems like it’s focused on gaming (frequent updates, etc). It’s been… I dunno if great is the right word, but pretty good. I run into difficulties of some variety with almost everything I do (can’t install battle.net in lutris because it hangs at 45%, lutris can’t log into epic games store, etc), but I’ve also found solutions for them without too much trouble and the games that I have managed to install run great.
Don’t go near animals.
Animals breathe, just like we do, they can expel airborne viruses that can travel for hundreds, perhaps even thousands of miles. ‘Don’t go near animals’ is like saying ‘just don’t get wet’ in a rain storm: the world is full of animals and they utterly suffuse every aspect of our life in ways that might surprise you.
Vaccines work using either diluted toxins
I don’t know what ‘diluted toxins’ has to do with viruses and immunology since toxins are a rather different matter entirely, but vaccines work (the non-mRNA ones anyway) by infecting you with a weakened version of the virus so that your immune system can learn to identify it without it overwhelming you. Once it learns to identify that disease it will know how to produce proteins and such that can attack the full version (same DNA) should you ever come across it.
The immune system works by enough of the population dying off until only those with the necessary mutations are left.
Let me state in the sincerest possible terms: lolwut?
It’s not about mutation, the immune system can ‘learn’ and ‘evolve’ over the course of a single human’s lifetime (see: the description of how vaccines work above), it’s not something that you either have a good one or you don’t (autoimmune diseases aside) and the people with bad ones don’t live long enough to reproduce or whatever, your immune system - like your brain - learns by exposure. So being exposed to those diseased animals is literally the only means by which to become immune to them. Viruses do mutate pretty quickly though, so you get the occasional plague/pandemic that overwhelms people’s immune systems when they change enough to not be recognizable to our immune system anymore.
Humans need to go close to the infected animal to get infected.
To some extent yes, but ‘get close to’ is pretty broad: breathe contaminated air in the general vicinity of animals, drink water they’ve pissed or shit in, etc.
Oh, so being exposed to new viruses reduces the risk of dying to a virus you got … because you were exposed to it?
That is in fact how a vaccine/our immune system works, yes.
I realized a while ago that I didn’t even enjoy the time when I wasn’t doing the thing because I was dreading the thing or its consequences of not doing it the entire time, so I’ve been practicing just telling my procrastinating brain to shut the fuck up and go do it and it’s sort of been working.
Nearly all of history’s worst diseases have come from animals, and animals have those diseases whether we eat them or not. Factory farming certainly enhances the danger, but cows don’t stop existing just because we don’t eat beef. There is, however, also an upside to meat consumption: being around/eating animals all the time also builds up your immune system’s defenses against diseases that originate in those animals. See: indigenous people in the Americas dying in droves to diseases they had no immunity to because they didn’t farm/ranch animals. I mean and also the smallpox blankets, but you get my point.
If the virus originated in a wide area around Yunnan/Hubei (the latter of which is where Wuhan is) then it seems pretty unlikely that it came from a single source within Wuhan, right? I agree that the headline might be a bit ambiguous, but it’s like saying ‘It came from all over Texas’ vs ‘It came specifically from El Paso.’ But I haven’t read the study myself.
I’ll give that a shot, thanks.
That’s a pretty good question that I wish I had the answer to. I downloaded the latest Nobara 42 ISO off their website yesterday (Nobara-42-Official-NV-2025-05-13.iso), I didn’t see an option to choose between 32 and 64 bit, so I assumed it would detect and install the right stuff. I just did a regular install process, the only options I selected were stuff like language, keyboard layout, time zone, filesystem, etc, there was nothing about the bootloader in there so I don’t think I selected the wrong one or anything?
Yeah, I love places like ProPublica that do serious investigative journalism, though I dunno if they count as ‘independent’ anymore.
Oh, shit, I didn’t realize. I’m still getting used to this lemmy/instance/federation thing, my bad.
And ad-supported is far from the only model for journalism.
It’s not, but it’s what most of them use and they seem to be reasonably successful at it, so as a measure of the abandonment of journalism I think it’s a reasonable yardstick.
Sorry, what on earth is a Beehaw and how does it relate at all to this discussion?
So, where does it come from?
I meant the idea that the general populace is no longer getting their news (directly or indirectly) from sites like that. If they weren’t writing articles that got linked around the web they wouldn’t sell ads, and if they weren’t selling ads they wouldn’t exist anymore.
I’m also not expecting people to be able to understand complex technical troubleshooting or anything either.
No, you’re just calling them stupid for not having spent the time to learn things you with your technical expertise and high comfort level with technical subjects think ought to be pretty simple. I agree that everyone could benefit from increasing their computer literacy, but I also understand that people prioritize the things they care about and that they’re not stupid for not caring to learn the stuff you think they ought to.
And the biggest hole in yours is that you can’t imagine that people have better shit to do than learn your job alongside their own just to make it a little easier on you. Call me when you’re spending hours every day studying up on medicine and law so that you can also find the answer to your simple medical/legal questions in 30 seconds online just like doctors and lawyers can.
What you have is a magical thing called ‘job security’ that others would kill for. You are needed to figure out complex technical computer shit because other people have other shit they want to be doing with their time. If they actually did as you suggested you wouldn’t have a job anymore. But instead of viewing that as a positive - instead of feeling needed and valued for something that you contribute to society - you choose to view it as a negative: any inconvenience exists solely to make your job harder, and how dare people not devote even more of their life to making yours a little easier? I know, I felt exactly the same way when I worked IT, and it’s a big part of why I left.
Yes, companies are simplifying and refining things, in some cases they do remove functionality, that’s just the way technology works. My dad called himself a shade-tree mechanic, but when I was growing up there was nothing on a car he couldn’t fix. Nowadays he takes it to the shop not because he’s prevented from fixing it but because cars have gotten vastly more complicated in the ensuing ~40 years and he - despite being a very capable and technically-minded person - just couldn’t keep up with it anymore because the business of doing his job and raising his family was more important.
If you want to be angry at companies for obfuscating or removing functionality then brother I’m right there with you. Just don’t be making assumptions about other peoples’ intelligence just because they don’t have the time or interest to sink countless hours into this just to make your life a little easier.
I just started a novel project a few weeks ago and have been using scrivener because it’s just what I saw recommended the most. But now I’ve switched to linux and have been looking for FOSS linux-native alternatives so this is perfectly timed. I tried anytype briefly but it feels like it’s designed for programmers. By which I mean it’s extremely powerful and flexible, but just doing simple shit like creating a bunch of pages in a tree structure requires an hour of hunting and watching tutorial videos.
I like the look of novelwriter that someone else linked, gonna give that a shot.