Dogs were hardwired by selective breeding to worship their owners. Not long ago they at least were loyal companions. You got one off the streets, fed it leftovers, washed it with a hose, it lived in the yard, and it was VERY happy and proud of doing its job. Some breeds now were bred into painful disabling deformities just to look “cute”, and they became hysterical neurotic yapping fashion accessories. Useless high maintenance toys people store in small cages (“oh, but my child loves his cage”) when they don’t need hardwired unconditional lopsided “love” to feed their narcissism.

:rip

:wq

Instead of going vegan or not having kids, I died when I was 5. Because living also creates more greenhouse gasses.

In fact, having a small footprint is just a matter of choosing how miserable you’re willing to make your life.

Unfortunately the Earth cannot sustainably support so many people living COMFORTABLY, and eating WHATEVER WE LIKE. The more people, the more miserable is the globally sustainable way of life.

Curbing population growth - not Thanos-like, but through education and availability of contraceptive methods - is the only way we can all have the cake (and the meat) and eat it.

Many wealthy countries have their population declining. Maybe if we get to the same level of wealthiness everywhere, less people would engage in procreation.

In any case, if we just do nothing and the doomsday evangelists are even nearly right, extreme weather, plage and famine caused by climate change will indeed curb the population. Eventually it reaches equilibrium.

In this case, the faster we get to the edge of the abyss, the quicker the situation will solve itself.

Some people just can’t let go. They break up, but stalk their ex on social media for the rest of their lives.

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How would the students fare if they had access to all the information available on the internet, used to train the AI, during the test?

In my home pc, I don’t use sudo because my wife is the main user, and in the ultra rare occasion I need to be root in the command line (for example, if she didn’t update packages from the GUI for long, I’ll update but I like aptitude better), then I use su. It’s a LTS 18.04 Kubuntu btw. Real users don’t need root. Distro hoppers and tinkerers (nothing wrong with it) do.

On servers, I also use su. I ssh as a normal user (root ssh is usually disabled), then often immediately su, as if I’m logging into the server, it’s for root work. I sometimes su - down to some specific “service” user to do that user’s tasks (such as git on a gitlab server, or ndbadm on a HANA DB server).

I only tinker with sudo if I want to create users that will have one single purpose, which needs root permissions, such as restarting a service. In this case that user will be in the sudoers file, with permission for a single script or command, and often that command will be its default shell in /etc/passwd, and someone can ssh (pre shared key) to trigger it if necessary.

PS: It happened sometimes that I was given a user with full sudo permissions to do root work in someone else’s server, but no root password. Then the first thing I do after logging in is “sudo su -” :-)

shhh… criticizing anything Lula or Bolsonaro says summons one of their armies of zealots…

I was going to say that it was a too optimistic expectation, with the never ending push for electric cars.

Then I read the article, and it starts with

Spiraling energy prices and economic slowdowns in European economies are mainly accountable for the decrease in demand.

So it’s actually very pessimistic.

Well, naturally. Wait to see what happens when it reaches puberty.

I need a leave for my pap exam.

Denied.

Why?

You’re a man.

Gender discrimination reported to corporate headquarters.

Luckily there are only as many different barrel plugs as there are imperial units. /s

Good luck ;-)

As it has been mentioned, it’s a barrel plug, but there are dozens of barrel plugs of different sizes, some even have the same outer size but the receptacles for the central pin have different diameters.

Check the polarity and voltage, and try to measure the diameters if you’re buying online.

If you’re buying locally, take the lamp with you and ask for advice to the seller.

As it has been mentioned, it’s a barrel plug, but there are dozens of barrel plugs of different sizes, some even have the same outer size but the receptacles for the central pin have different diameters.

Check the polarity and voltage, and try to measure the diameters if you’re buying online.

If you’re buying locally, take the lamp with you and ask for advice to the seller.

On twitter, facebook, etc you follow people. Then the algorithm creates a bubble where you only get opinions and points of views you “like”.

On reddit and lemmy you follow subjects. Then you get a wider range of opinions and points of views about subjects you like.

One type creates celebrity “influencers” and polarization of opinions. The other doesn’t.

I really, really hope it stays that way.

I like a wide variety of music styles, from Bach to Deep Purple, from Sade to Front 242, from Wagner to Technotronic, but according to my family, none of them were created after the 90s.

And I dress jeans with whatever is on the top when I open the shirt drawers. But I open the polo shirts drawer on workdays and the t-shirt drawer on weekends. My wife sometimes shuffles my clothes in the drawer so I don’t keep rotating the same ones forever. She also sometimes throws away some of my clothes, unannounced. Can’t believe she threw away a hoodie from my uni, brand new, from 1988. I can’t say fashion means much to me ;-)

1. The misconception that you need to “know linux” to use a computer with linux.

You need to “know linux” to administer linux servers, or contribute to kernel development. My wife is a retired pharmacist, and she uses exclusively a computer with Linux since around 2008. She knows that’s Linux, because I told her so. If I had told her it was a different version of Windows, she’d be using it anyway - she was using win95 at work before, so any current windows would have been a big change anyway (granted, nothing like gnome, that’s why I gave her kubuntu).

This misconception is fed by “experienced” Linux users who like to be seen as “hackers” just because they “know Linux”.

Nobody uses the OS. You use programs that run on the OS. My wife doesn’t “use Linux”. She uses Chrome, the file manager (whatever that is in the ancient LTS Kubuntu release I have there and update only when LTS is over), LibreOffice Writer and Calc, a pdf reader (not adobe’s, whatever was in the distro), the HP scanner app. The closest she gets to “Linux” is occasionally accepting the popup asking for updates.

Users shouldn’t need to care about which OS (or which distro, for that matters) they’re running their apps on. The OS (and distro) should be as unobtrusive and transparent as possible.

2. Distro hopping cult. It’s ok to try a few distros when adopting Linux, or even flirt with new ones after you’ve already settled with one. Even keep doing it forever, on a secondary machine or live usbs, if you’re curious.

Doing it forever, on a primary machine is stupid; NO FSCK DISTRO WILL BE PERFECT. Windows users whine and cry every time Microsoft shoves a new and worse Windows version up their SSDs, but they stick with Windows anyway.

Distro hoppers hop often because they give up at the first inconvenience. They never feel at home or make it their home, because they never actually use their computers for long enough with any distro. They are more focused on the OS than in using the computer. Nothing wrong with that, but they’ll forever be “linux explorers”, not actual “linux users”.

There will always be some other that has that small thing that doesn’t come default on this one. There will always be compromises. It’s like marriage. Commit, negotiate, adapt. Settle down ffs.

The OS/distro shouldn’t be important for the average user; the OS/distro shouldn’t get in the way between the user and the apps, which is what the user uses.

Of course there are distros with specific usage in mind (pen test, gaming, video production, etc), as they conveniently have all main utilities packaged and integrated. But for real average user apps, the OS shouldn’t matter to the end user, let alone look like the user should know what window manager or packaging system they’re using.

Then when they are faced with dozens of “experts” discussing about which distro has the edge over the other, and the gory technical details of why, and comparing number of distros hopped, well, it sounds like Linux is a goal by itself, when all they wanted was to watch YouTube and access their messages and social media.

When my wife started using a Linux computer I didn’t tell her which distro was there (she probably knows the name kubuntu because it shows during boot). I didn’t give her a lecture about Gnome vs KDE, rpm vs deb, or the thousands of customizations she could have now. “You log in here, here’s the app menu, here’s chrome, this is the file manager, here’s the printer app”. Done, linux user since 2008.

Linux will never be mainstream while we make it look like “using Linux”, or “this distro”, matters, and that is an objective in itself. Most users don’t care. They want to use their apps.

AI is coming after all of us.

Why would actors get any better legal protection than other professionals?

Why the headlines only mentions Apple, when it’s for every manufacturer?

The industry will spend billions on R&D to develop such an outrageous solution. Batteries… that can be… replaced! Who could think that would be a good idea?

“simply no reason”?

What about ease of use, simplicity, faster to quickly setup, backwards compatibility, and “crobtab is where everyone will look at when looking for a scheduled task”?

If systemd was implemented right, it would create the systemd files and autoconfigure default tasks by reading the crontab, for backwards compatibility.