I know I’m late to the party, but don’t do you think Aeon is ready to be a daily driver?

I currently run Debian stable, but I’m interested in Aeon as an alternative.

They aren’t burning fossil fuels. They’re burning CHOOH2, which is the product of a genetically engineered plant.

Everything else has already been addressed by others. It’s a dystopia. Public transit exists in universe, but it’s very dangerous (as is the rest of the city). The corporate solution is to upsell you cars.

I’m going to strive to do better going forward. Venting my frustrations out on an entire generation is childish and unproductive. Glad folks here helped set me straight.

This one hit close to home. I literally just talked about this here, where I was worried about libs ‘letting red states secede’ to own the right.

And I did the same thing for boomers. Seems like I need to introspect more. I’ve been making progress, considering I grew up in a fundamentalist, far right household, but I clearly have a ways to go.

Anyway, thanks for this. Of all the criticism I saw, yours resonated with me the most.

I agree. I guess I’m feeling schadenfreude because boomers are finally getting the short end of policies they supported their whole working lives. But nobody should be homeless.

I think maybe the description is a bit harsh, but for real, they eagerly helped prevent or overturn just about any social policy that didn’t benefit them. And now we’re stuck with the consequences.

I know a boomer couple that is extremely conservative. Lived in a nice house that got foreclosed on when the guy took out a loan and couldn’t pay it back. They berated their kids for being “failures” their whole lives.

Their kids are too poor to help them and the social services they opposed or helped gut won’t either. At least they have some bootstraps to pull themselves up by.

Yeah, I was thinking about changing over, because while I like PopOS, it has some issues on my rig. It wasn’t as troublesome as Fedora, but laggy animations, Pop Shop crashing, and its very outdated version of GNOME were starting to frustrate me.

I’m actually testing EndeavorOS in a live environment right now to get a feel for it! I’ve always been hesitant to try Arch in any form because my main Linux buddy warned me it was a quick way to ruin your system.

I use this PC a lot, so I have no problem updating it several times a week or more. So fingers crossed I don’t screw it up lol.

The most mask off one they had was the short they made celebrating Robert E. Lee. Unironically did the “slavery wasn’t that bad” bit in it. And there was a whole “Lee heroically killed John Brown and ended that evil abolitionist revolt”.

Naturally this has made them DeSantis’ preferred curriculum.

You’re right, in a weird, and very uncomfortable way, it’s been liberating to know that libs never gave a shit. It’s the truth, and it hurts, but at least I can plan for it, rather than wait for help that’ll never arrive.

That tracks. And to be frank, I don’t know if they’re wrong. Globally, it looks like neoliberalism is crumbling, including in America. The rise of modern fascist movements and the end of democratic pretense in conservative parties is a testament to that fact.

And as bad as liberalism has been, it’s kind of a “devil you know” going up against one that will be even worse. It’s a race to the bottom for us.

I think you captured their sentiment perfectly. Red states bother them, and their solution is increasingly to let the red states have their way. And I fear, when people like us start bothering them to, you know, defend our rights, we’ll get ignored.

I mean, fuck, union activists and BLM protestors already got that very same treatment. They’d rather live oblivious to this country’s problems than address them

I thought I was going insane with Fedora. Literally every flatpack I tried had major issues. Went back to an ubuntu-based distro after a month of fix attempts.

It’s got updates from earlier this year. It appears to be updated periodically since it was first written. Some sections are old, while others are fairly new.

I do like Tutanota’s approach to encryption, but communication outside of other Tutanota addresses is less secure than PGP. It’s just a symmetric, password-based scheme.

Since you will probably deal with a lot of non-tuta email providers, it’s a hard sell for me. In network, though, it’s good.

Second issue I had with it was the email client. I like my third party client and it’s built into my workflow. Tuta doesn’t support third party clients because they consider the storage of emails on your local drive a security risk. (That’s only true if your hard drive isn’t encrypted, and setting up encryption isn’t all that hard to do)

I use K9. It went through a rough patch a few years ago with the UI, but it’s much better now. Mozilla is involved and K9 is in the process of becoming the Thunderbird app.

Yeah, his requirements for an email provider are well above what most people need.

Email is not a secure means of communication in most cases. If the recipient isn’t encrypting, then your communications to them are vulnerable anyway. And in the vast majority of cases, they probably aren’t.

Really, the best thing about getting a more privacy conscious provider is not giving all your data over to Google.

When I was a little kid, maybe 5 years old, my family lived in this old house that used to be a Civil War hospital during a few battles.

All kinds of weird shit happened there, but one event stands out.

I was sleeping between my parents in their bed on the second floor. I woke up. It was late and very dark.

I looked to my right and saw the curtains blowing in. The windows were painted shut. I watched as the curtains start to slide off the wall. It looked like someone was holding them up. I shit you not. Like I could see feet just underneath the bottom.

The curtains moved to the foot of the bed, and fell.

I don’t remember seeing this, but my parents swear I told them that when the curtains fell, a woman with a yellow dress and no eyes had been holding them up, and that she stood at the foot of the bed for a while.

The curtains, according to my parents, we’re in fact on the floor at the foot of the bed. I can’t vouch for that though because I was a kid and frankly, don’t remember.

My best non-supernatural explanation is that I had sleep paralysis that night and hallucinated much of what I saw. I’ve had it chronically since, so it’s possible.

I don’t know though. It’s one of those things I think about late at night when I have too much free time. What the fuck did I see?