You are not in any position to say they are going to work against it if you are mistaken about a key component of it such as the financials.

I sleep better next to someone I love and trust because of what I assume are primitive monkey brain reasons.

You are literally in here trying to absolve the US from their role in an active genocide. You don’t get to moralise about damned fools.

If I still lived in America, I’d be voting Democrat because I think it’d be stupid to do otherwise, but your political stance is genuinely disgusting.

Why did they all go for the swipe model? That vastly reduced the size of their customer market while splitting that reduced market across several apps.

Let’s be real, a lot of people are saying it’s genocide. I’d say, if Israel stopped shooting journalists, even more people would be saying it.

He even had to change the ending of the rhyme to make it fit his worldview.

An outright instantaneous genocide would bring about too much bad publicity.

Crippling the sovereign functionality of Palestinians along with killing and displacing ‘enough’ of them to prevent them from clawing any of that functionality back is the goal, and that’s what is happening.

‘I’m not the one killing you, but I do support the people killing you, and may even be financially aiding their efforts.’

It is a bit odd that there’s an influx of anti Firefox and AMD stuff after Google and Intel were in the news for major things.

Excuse me. Can you please limit your posts to one paragraph each? Your valid points are killing the planet.

Well I’ll be damned if I’m gonna let some Internet rando think I’m an idiot.

It is degenerative, which is the point of the argument.

We fostered a society where both parents work, often far away from where they live. The time normally and naturally allotted to educating your own children has been steadily shrinking to make room for an education that normally lasts until adulthood. The expectation now being that your children will not pick up the family trade.

For some people, this trade off has been degenerative in some aspects, and that’s why they complain ‘school never taught me x’.

My dad did the same thing with me. It was obviously very helpful, but it’s not like there isn’t an obvious prerequisite.

Not everyone’s parents are financially competent nor will they have the time to successfully coordinate an effort like that on top of everything else they might be required to do.

Additionally, what function do we expect of school? Is it to equalise, for young adults, those opportunities normally limited by education? Then it should teach those things which are important that not everyone’s parents are capable of teaching.

The other point is that school is the main temporal and logistical barrier to actually teaching your children as a parent. Between work and school and the other bureaucratic necessities of life, there isn’t always significant time a parent can spend with their child.

‘It takes a village to raise a child’. Still true now as it ever was…we just seem to have lost our villages.

Some of your examples are just senseless. People don’t have DIY skills because of the increasing specialisation of our society. We’re not at home learning how to fix things, because we’re in school learning how to do other things instead.

This has been the case for so long in some places that a lot of peoples parents don’t have those skills to pass on in the first place.

That doesn’t preclude what I said, though. When there is installing to be done, it’s usually the tech friend that’s called in to do it. I know this by virtue of being that person and having been called on to do it several times.

And that raises a good point, since average users get their tech friends to do the installing anyway. I’ve switched many over to Linux because of this.

I’ve also switched a lot of people over recently! And I do wonder what will happen when a critical mass of tech-literate people switch over to Linux. A lot of people only get by with Windows because their tech-literate friends help them with it.

Haha for sure. I agree with all that. I’m a professional musician and play with random locals in pubs and friends all the time. I would say there is quite a healthy culture for that in Ireland.

I was mainly interested in software (that isn’t Spotify) that would allow me to explore more musics.

All the big companies trying to clear out the porn to make it monetisable, only for porn to be the answer all along…