that /is/ the stereotype, but no not at all, please read some dogen

this is a dangerous argument - people may be living longer /on average/ but in many global north countries life expectancy for the least wealthy quarter of society has started to fall even as expectancy for the most wealthy continues to grow

(this argument can end up supporting a society where the poor can expect to not survive to see retirement)

yes, after the us attacked iran's desalination (which it depends on much less than other countries in the region do) opening the door to in-kind retaliation

surely now all of those projects, like systemd, who capitulated in advance will all roll back the changes they made to enable age collection, right? right?

looks neat, and the ai disclosure is appreciated

i remember this theory - there were a few issues, if i remember right:

the most obvious being there isn't actually a way to know how many people vote red or blue down-ballot (for the very obvious reason that nobody knows how specific people's ballots look) so the guy was making some wild assumptions,

which isn't shocking considering this same guy had run to the news crying wolf about a previous election (which it isn't as popular to be conspiritorial about) with similarly massaged logic,

and the very short list of districts which "inexplicably" voted as a block against democrats, if you literally just look at the election history, usually vote as a block and sometimes for republicans - claims it was statistically impossible or whatever really don't hold up to basic scrutiny,

genuinely i get it, it would be really comforting (in a way) to explain away trump getting elected again as the result of clandestine actors literally flipping bits or whatever, but they didn't appear to have done that so please stop credulously believing things like this without taking a few minutes to look into it and check if it actually holds water.

the dnc annointed deeply unpopular biden to run again and let him make a fool of himself long after it was clear he wasn't up to it and didn't have popular support, replaced him with his vp who wasn't willing to distinguish herself from him on policy and who sought republican votes at the cost of building enthusiastic support from the whole big tent of democrats, literally refused to even record feedback they received specifically about voters being fed up with the genocide of palestinians when canvassing and conducting surveys, etc. and on the republican side they have engaged in very loud very public voter suppression increasingly for a long time - we don't need to look for hidden (especially trivially disprovable) insight into what happened when there were such obvious reasons

it only "made sense" then to preserve the power of the elite pseudo-aristocracy, which is the same thing it does now too (despite the other changes that have been made)

the issue is the inability to use imap and smtp - i use mailbox.org instead

hopefully you know how to pick better friends now

doesn't most of his theoretical value at this point depend on the really really silly idea that spacex is going to provide space datacenters?

obviously, yes, don't buy a testa or use starlink but the idea that consumers have a say in this is an error born of thinking that the value of stocks has anything to do with actual value or even revenue

oh? o. o

i started off using ubuntu back in the day, but these days i refuse to use any of the distros downstream or tied to a for profit company (so not fedora, opensuse, or ubuntu - and by extension mint), and i prefer distros that are used as the base for other distros rather that ones dependant on another distro (so extra not mint, ubuntu, endeavour, or manjaro).

that leaves, essentially, slackware, arch, and debian.
i am too lazy to learn slackware, so for my main desktop i use arch and for other machines i own i use debian.

departing from the original question:
for new people i mostly recommend cachyos, debian, or bazzite depending on their ability & interest

i feel that, unlike the other 'arch but easier' distros, cachy actually adds something to the arch ecosystem (the optimized packages) and the installer showing videos of the different desktop environments all running on cachy is excellent

here, i found someone talking about this at the time that explains better than i can off just memory

he did cry wolf before - about the 2004 election, of all the ones to pick

(it is a patreon link but not paywalled) https://www.patreon.com/rebecca/posts/stop-saying-2024-116409433

i hope you're joking..

because the "get back to work, stop masking, and stop testing to save the economy" part of the covid response was /so/ evidence based and not just the CDC bowing to corporate interests, right?

if you figure out how to get this working i would be v grateful if you told me how

if it worked like that an age field wouldn't be in systemd for everyone everywhere because of the california law having passed

it /shouldn't/ work like that, but not enough people and projects seem willing to hold their ground atm

where do you see that?

not seeing anything when searching for it, do you have a link? looking on the github it's still merged so it's difficult to believe

i am glad you are enjoying it. like i said though, i prefer cachy as a project more than other arch wrappers because it adds more of substance beyond an easier (or prettier) installer

this looks great. before using it i would love to know - if gen-ai has been used in the creation of helix notes, in what capacity has it been used?