One of the original goals of crypto is to create an alternative to the USD. AKA the cornerstone of the “petrodollar”. And the primary funding mechanism of US imperialism.

Ethereum NFTs use a microscopic amount of energy, it’s a proof of stake blockchain.

What do I know with my 25 years of Linux experience.

It’s useful for any meaningful use of a computer.

That is why we use other init systems.

While this may be true (I really have no idea at this point), terminal is a superpower, pretty much the best option for anything except manually dragging and dropping files one by one.

They’ve got SD cards and headphone jacks too.

Graphene is designed to restrict a lot of choices (and root access) to be secure by default, Lineage is designed to give you root control over everything. Very different approaches.

Also most projects that promote not using systemd are weird ideologues at this point.

I guess literally anyone who knows it’s a bloated idiosyncratic pile of garbage which introduces unnecessary attack surface. Guessing you’ve never used any of the alternate modern init systems.

I maintain all kinds of crap, some systemd, some non-systemd, some straight up busybox. Systemd is not easier to use for almost any of my use cases. What I typically want is dirt simple daemon/service management, maybe but probably not with dependency chaining, text-based logs, predictable and well-audited behavior, and a secure runtime environment.

There’s really no excuse, proper project management would have replaced the UI and verified the new version included all the old functionality, organized well together with whatever new functionality they added. I think they were trying to keep old hats happy with the changes by letting them keep their old version, but it’s better to just rip the band-aid off if you’re gonna change it, now it’s a mess for everyone.

Doesn’t stop you from running a GTK app.

zbarimg decodes them on CLI.

gnome-disk-utility can. And PySDM.

American “libertarianism” is a correct identification of the issue with oppressive use of force by the state, coupled with a somewhere-between-ambiguous-and-incorrect interpretation of when force is oppressive and when it’s not. It’s my stance that American libertarianism (based on the NAP definition) with a properly calculated ethical interpretation of justifiable “property” simply reduces to anarchocommunism, as many unexamined assumptions about when a “property” claim is justifiable and when it is not simply accept a capitalist market economy, and any inequality that may result, out of sheer laziness. A lot of people find this way of looking at it jarring, usually because they just try to cram it somewhere on the “left/right” scale without really examining each ideological underpinning, or by really examining the range of thinking within the space. And some of that results from fascist groups trying to coopt the label as well. Good litmus test for that is asking a self-identified “libertarian” what they think about immigration, or the justifiability of a given war. The “MAGA LINO” types will justify immigration crackdowns and wars, the dyed-in-the-wool “libertarians” will oppose them, and so on with other oppressive policies that leftists also oppose. Which leaves the main point of contention being how the economic system works and how property distribution works, something which the “NAP” is ambiguous about. Therefore…

It’s nearly universally learned behavior, and it’s just a metric of people’s disposition to act selfishly or malevolently versus selflessly and benevolently.

If they would do evil given the chance, that makes them evil. It’s like a poorly forged piece of metal with a crack built in, that holds together until put to the test. The crack was always there.

There’s more angles to it of course - mistakes, temporary dispositions, etc.

They’re trained to.

“Lions are the boys and tigers are the girls.”

The female lions do kind of have a more tiger look. What with no mane.

You could argue it was an allegory, but then what the fuck would that even be an allegory for.

We need platforms where AI content is just banned. We’re past the point we need to start systematically excluding all this crap.