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  • Mixed, but mostly okay.

    Pros: The world is massively overpopulated already. Our genes aren’t particularly noteworthy. I’m not very optimistic about the future. People’s happiness generally seems a lot less than it was when I was younger and I don’t see that changing.

    Cons: Not being able to pass anything on - my knowledge and experience, ironically much of which was gained through having time that would have been unavailable if I had had kids. As we both get older, our own care is concerning. Doing physical things around our smallholding is getting harder and a pair of young hands would be nice.

    I don’t begrudge other people having kids. We tried once but lost it and that kind of took the excitement out of it for us. Before we knew it, it was too late anyway.





  • Actually - a lot of closed source programs are still vulnerable to the supply chain attacks you mention where a bad actor has got access to their codebase. This has happened and been reported on, plus I’m sure, plenty of occasions where it was hushed up for reputational reasons. And - much commercial software still uses FOSS dependencies, so is also vulnerable to the same situation you describe for that. Worst of both worlds.

    I don’t think either system is inherantly better than the other in terms of computer security. Each has different and overlapping vulnerabilities.


  • If you’re like me, then some time in your thirties. I didn’t brush from early teens through until then - I had several abcesses and needed seven teeth removed, including my top fronts. Turns out I had undiagnosed autism, depression and low self image. Now I do brush, and it’s just a case of forcing myself to adapt to a routine. Even keeping some flouride mouthwash handy for a quick swill every now and then helps a bit. Hope you find your way.







  • Hasn’t changed my view much. I already knew Linux was a company that has a legal presence in the US and so would be subject to their laws. The only real surprise is that it’s taken so long to action this particular set of sanctions.

    I do think the announcement was poorly handled - it should have been explained either before or immediately afterwards to cut back on the conjecture. The git notice only said that these contributors’ names had been removed from the credits, not that they’d been stopped from contributing completely. Any company, including Linux, that does something they know is going to be contentious like this should bloody well get ahead of that curve and put the facts out.

    The world is at war. It’s not a bloody world war as we’ve seen before, but it is nation against nation by other means. FOSS is used so widely it is absolutely a target and nobody can be so idealistic that they cannot see the conflict, nor not know that it’s constantly being attacked. Where you live does matter. I wish that wasn’t the case - I truly do, but it’s naive in the extreme to pretend otherwise.


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    Plenty of men support abortion - it removes financial responsibility from them, after all. Protests at abortion clinics are often held by women as much as men.

    The more important demographic here is that most opposed to abortion are strongly religious.

    Look outside the US and you’ll see that countries that do support choice are less influenced by the Church. It’s not coincidence.



  • storing these files after I am done with them

    If you’re done with them, then move them onto a backup disk rather than keep them live and have a backup?

    I’ve been doing this for a long time. I move files locally to a “To-Archive” directory and once in a while, move them to several disks based on content. Films, tv, apps, games, books - that sort of thing.

    Once one disk is full, I use another old hdd in a disk caddy and label it “Books #2” and so on.

    I use a windows program called Cathy which indexes the files, making it easy to locate a file on whatever disk it’s on. Looks like there’s a linux version available too

    This works okay for me, and gives a use for old spinny hard drives. It’s not infallible, but for stuff that I could replace (ie, I downloaded it) then I consider it an acceptable risk. All media has a risk of becoming unreadable, but do be realistic about how much bother it would be to replace stuff.

    For data that’s unique (ie, I made it, plus OS backups) then I use an offline grandfather/father/son rotation once a month and once a year turn the oldest into an annual backup. (Fully explanation of my setup is here if you’re interested.


  • The bar chart might be more useful if they weighted the source with its number of users. Facebook isn’t 7 times more hateful than Telegram. It has around 3.5 times as many users - but also the two are used very differently. I use Telegram, but only as a free messaging platform for automated alerts.

    Then there’s the algorithms, which tend to feed you what you engage with and from those connections you’ve made on it. The exception recently is X which has a very strong political bias and has turned into something that pushes hate very strongly.



  • Fair play - it’s good that there’s choice and if it works for you, great. I also totally get the fun of building something yourself.

    The local storage is a big one if you don’t have a nas or home server on the network. Although, if you’re linked into the *arrs then I would think most people already do. It’s nice when new episodes just turn up automagically in Jellyfin.

    I tried Kodi before but I found the commercialisation of it very jarring. Jellyfin is entirely free - your fifth point might give it extra credit for that. The Jellyfin app doesn’t (afaik) feed any info to anyone, but you do need to load it from the Amazon fire menu, so you can’t entirely skip their advertising. It is the only thing I use the fire stick for, and the price is cheap compared to anything else - it cost £25 and works on any TV. Being a dongle, there’s no noise either.