It's not normal to be constantly afraid of anything. That's not healthy.

It's normal and advisable not to completely trust the government, but being constantly afraid is paranoid.

Slashdot was becoming too toxic, I moved to reddit.

Reddit wants me to use their obnoxious app, I moved to Lemmy.

Reddit is a business. If they can survive doing what they see fit, good for them.

I moved on. Life goes on.

Perl is funnier, as these are valid ways of exiting with an exception:

readFile() or die;

die unless $a > $b;

J, like in GIF...

It was not the most important thing for me, but I agree: 15-20 years ago, veg options (and sugarless too btw) sucked. You really had to be committed to the cause to endure them.

We're not vegetarians, but my daughter has allergy to eggs and milk. We buy cakes, pies, brownies, cookies, etc from a vegan bakery that honestly are delicious - better than most non-vegan equivalents. We all end up eating them, although only she actually "needs" them.

If vegan activists worked more towards kindly creating and showing the world vegan options that are as good as/better than their animal counterparts, it would help their cause MUCH more than pestering people, destroying property and making everyone hate them.

Jerboa

This is not any kind of censorship, it's just Reddit forcing people to use their ad-infested app.

But if you ask yourself "what's the worst that could happen?" you must realize that sometimes trying is NOT worth it.

Like this guy, for example:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Reichelt

https://youtu.be/MDUYPrKKM5M

Apart from actual system administration or kernel developing, there's no real "learn Linux" .

Video/Photo/Vector editing on Linux is not "learning Linux", it's learning to use a tool which runs on Linux. You can learn to use Blender, Gimp or Inkscape on Windows. You don't edit videos/photos/vectors with the Linux kernel. You can even "learn the linux terminal" installing bash on Windows.

You can also install Visual Code or IDLE on Windows and on Linux. Learning to code on Visual Code or IDLE is not really "learning Linux".

Also going on distro hopping looking for the "perfect distro" many times means the hopper simply doesn't stick to one long enough to learn how to customize the environment to their liking (which usually means the window manager).

Most of the things you can do on the GUI, even the administration ones are just layers and layers of tools to make things "easier" - and they'll be different on each distro and release. Command line administration will change much less, or at least less frequently.

Things I consider "learning Linux" are for example:

• installing Linux (specially a headless server)

• understanding how to use the package managers - again, on the command line

• understand how systemd works

• (hard core) dive into the kernel workings

• understand how grub works

• learn the general filesystem structure

• learn how to analyze logs

• learn user administration and how the permissions (and extended permissions) work

• learn how to integrate Linux to a Windows environment (join a workgroup or domain, share storage, authenticate users)

• learn how to check resources usage and how to troubleshoot it

• understand the nuances and of partitioning and when they are needed, as well as the different filesystems

• etc (and /etc)

And yes, many of those are not strictly "Linux", but are specific to a Linux system, unlike photo editing.

I like that I don't even care about it. The main user of it is my wife, who is non-technical. It's the only computer she uses, for everything (browsing, shopping, banking, word processing, printing) for 20+ years, and if you ask her which distro it is, well, she doesn't know what "distro" means.

She doesn't "use Linux" because she wanted to "learn Linux" nor to "try this distro". She uses youtube, instagram, the bank site, amazon, libreoffice, etc. The closest she gets to the OS is accepting the package manager prompt to update.

I wish one day most people can answer your question with "I don't know, whatever came with my computer", because it'll mean all of them are as easy to use, as unobtrusive and as unimportant to the user as possible.

But to finally answer it, kubuntu, some ancient, still updatable LTS version (can't even recall when I last upgraded), because it was easier for my wife to adapt, coming from windows 95 when she started using it.

Because the tire is topographically a radially flattened torus, when you turn it half inside out, it becomes a 2D möbius strip. At this point it effectively has only one side. When you push such construct horizontally against a solid, because the z-axis perpendicular to the strip has no negative values (it only has one side), if that coincides with the orientation of the ∇Np of the solid, the z vector wraps around the solid. When the tire snaps to its rest state (inside in), it's easy to see why it ends up around the pillar.

This 3D animation demonstrates the concept:

https://youtu.be/xvFZjo5PgG0

It was working for me with some glitches (for example always opening with sorting all/hot instead of what I had set up, subscribed/new).

Then yesterday it auto updated, and the glitches are gone.

IDK, but it took me a good 30s touching the posts in your screenshot trying to figure out wth was happening.

I think it'd be a risky route to take, as it creates the possibility of the general populace electing "lemmy influencers" and ruining it all.

Something wrong there.

I've a Samsung A71, SnapDragon 730, certainly much less capable than your phone, and I can switch apps while using google maps without any performance hit. I usually drive/ride with Waze though.

Does it happen only when it's in your car, or anytime you use google maps? Do you have android auto?

Do you have many map details switched on? (3d buildings, traffic, air quality, etc)

Have you tried it right after rebooting the phone?

I've never used them.

If I like an app or site, but the ads are annoying me, I do one of these:

• If there's an option to pay the creator/aggregator to eliminate the ads, and the cost/benefit is worth it, I'll pay.

• If there is no option to pay, but the app/content is worth the ads annoyance, I'll keep using the app/site and watch/skip/ignore the ads.

• If there is no option to pay, or there is, but the price is higher than what I perceive as the app/content value, I'll stop using the app/site.

For example, I paid for Baconreader Premium, but I watch YouTube ads, and I removed several sites from my google home page feed because they had more ads than content.

I'm also stop using Reddit, as I don't think it's worth enduring their obnoxious native app.

And no, I don't use pirated software, nor watch or listen to pirated movies or music. If something is priced above what I consider it's worth, I just don't use it.

Yes, Baconreader Premium could be consider as a "reddit ad blocker", but it operated within Reddit's approval. Now Reddit changed their rules, and it's their rules.

You answered "trying" as something that "is ALWAYS worth it" - which was OP's question.

If you now say you need to "weigh the pros and cons" - which I agree - then trying it's not ALWAYS worth it, no?

Then as someone else commented, each person has their own risk tolerance, so once each person weigh the pros and cons, trying will be worth it for some and not for others.

So answering "trying" to "what's something that's always worth it" is rather paradoxical, as what you probably meant then was "trying it, but only when it's worth it".

So many. Unfortunately most of you will miss the lyrics, which are real poetry. Here are a few:

A rosa (1917 song by Pixinguinha, rendition by Marisa Monte in 1991)

https://youtu.be/t15qR2bigB4

Bahia com H (1981, João Gilberto, sang by himself, Caetano, and Gil)

https://youtu.be/phs2GTDNFJc

Luiza (1987, Tom Jobim)

https://youtu.be/EmjiSI3Fyic

Maybe a safer option would be to simply be able to add specific users' posts and/or commented posts to your landing page (which could even be implemented in the front end), never collecting or keeping any statistics of how many "followers" people have.

I agree; I mentioned headless server because that would be a more "pure" and general Linux administration - learning how to administer a SUSE Linux using the graphical yast tool won't translate as well to general Linux admin as if you learn and understand how to fo it in the command line and config files.

And absolutely; one can use Firefox, LibreOffice and any other tool on Linux, but I don't consider that as "learning" or "knowing" Linux. My wife uses exclusively Linux for 20+ years (because when she left her job where they still had Windows 95, that's what the desktop at home ran; kubuntu). She does text editing, internet banking, shopping, browsing, printing, everything there (even updates sw through the gui package manager), but she doesn't "know Linux".

You can setup a Linux system for a computer illiterate, and they may happily learn how to use it for their social media and streaming consuming, and whatever endusers do in their computers, without ever knowing that's "Linux".

Strictly speaking, that already happens. How many Android users know they are running on a Linux kernel?

That's why when OP said "learn Linux", I prioritized the admin on command line; as you don't need to really "learn Linux" to interact with it through automated/graphical admin tools (no shame on doing it, they're sometimes quicker and more practical than command line).

What I mean is that learning how to use cPanel or Yast is useful, but you're learning how to administer as system through a tool, which in theory could even be adapted to administer a non-Linux system.