Things are starting to improve on that front, at least on the OS level, even the Arch community is more welcoming these days. There is still a ton of gatekeeping in certain areas, though. Ask a beginner question on WineHQ sometime, for example.
I only play online games with friends because I don’t feel like dealing with fuckheads in my spare time. That does mean there are a lot of games which are probably cool but I won’t play because they are meant to be played in lobbies.
I’m thinking about my husband watching me use Mint. I am comfortable with the command line, I use Linux (and Powershell) professionally so I am quick to jump into the terminal to fix something. Everytime I do he complains that he could never do that.
There are still a few things you need to do in the terminal, like setting flatpak permissions - something many users will want to do - that would benefit from a graphical interface. Linux is almost as good as Windows or Mac in this regard but not quite all the way there.
Also people are terrified of the terminal. I think a lot of people who have been using CLI for years underestimate how intimidating it is for people who only use GUI desktops.
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This just results in deniable encryption.
It would be a catastrophe for sure, but there are some reasons to be hopeful:
Researchers have been studying this bug for awhile and human vaccines could be ramped up more quickly than with COVID.
Further, there are specific mutations that would be key for rapid human-human spread and the variant infecting these cattle don’t have those mutations (yet).
Cattle are not as good a transition species to humans as, for example, pigs. So while we should be watching this, it’s not quite as alarming as it could be.
Hanging on with 1.70E-31 health.
For me it was just the emotional tone. I only watched the first 5 episodes, but one of the things that makes Star Trek enjoyable for me is its optimism about the future. Discovery was really bleak (at least to start) and I couldn’t keep watching it. I’ve heard it gets better, so maybe I should give it another shot.
Houston is so big because the city has absorbed all the communities around it. It’s incredibly sprawled so the density is much lower than cities of comparable population. This creates all sorts of other issues, like the problem of paving over hundreds of square miles of wetland.
While it’s good to be skeptical, algae tanks like this are actually a good idea for the use-cases for which they are designed. Places where trees would be difficult and expensive to grow. The tanks more efficiently capture carbon, require less maintenance, produce fertilizer as a byproduct and the solar panels on the tank produce enough extra power for there to be a USB charger on the bench. The goal isn’t to replace trees with tanks but to use them where it makes sense to do so.
It’s a promotional photo for the 1989 movie Loverboy.
I might work in the buff, but probably wouldn’t stick thermal paste in my mouth.
An article worth reading in its entirety. Nordhaus’ models predict even a 6C increase as not that bad, this doesn’t even pass a common sense test. The fact that this fantasy outlook has sway with governments is terrifying and bodes ill for our future.
Sorcerer’s are the fantasy equivalent of someone born on third base while imagining they hit a triple.
To clarify, the material is engineered at Rice University, it’s not made from grain.
I went to a DoDDS school overseas and can confirm it was miles ahead of the public schools I went to in the US. The teachers were all well paid with a generous COLA. The school, while crowded, was in good shape.
The best thing though was that we had such high turnover year to year (about 30% of students changed each year) so there weren’t a lot of cliques and most people were pretty inviting.
Oh and getting expelled would result in getting deported which kept a lot of problems at bay.
It doesn’t make it warmer, it just gives you cancer.
Jordan just wants to keep Dennis Hastert’s legacy alive.
ChromeOS is Linux.