JubilantJaguar @ JubilantJaguar @lemmy.world

European. Contrarian liberal. Insufferable green. History graduate. **I nev

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And the second is going extinct.

Mice? What is this thing you talk of?

Exactly. I do it pretty regularly and I've been using Linux for 20 years.

And yet people here are still saying "no biggie". It's pure status quo bias.

Come on, having a 3-key combo for such a common task is a PITA. There's a reason people have been complaining about this for decades.

Zero and I feel bad about it.

In (very partial) mitigation, I regularly contribute bug reports and other detailed feedback on lots of issue trackers.

Here's the fundamental problem. I benefit from a whole bunch of FOSS projects. I absolutely cannot afford to donate 5 USD to each one per month. Even donating $1 to each would be unaffordable - and of course that makes no sense because of the fees problem. It's the same problem with podcasts, and indeed basically all internet content.

We have to find a way to make non-DRM micropayments work better. It's the only alternative to the poisonous ad-based information economy. I so want a solution like Flattr to become widely adopted. That is: I decide a cap on my monthly donation total, and then that sum is divided up among the projects I choose according to criteria I choose.

This is the correct but boring (but correct) answer.

Yet another not-a-showerthought.

In no way is this a "showerthought". Seriously. This community is being devalued to worthlessness.

Come on, this is not a "showerthought", this is just an opinion. Put it elsewhere.

Moderators, please wake up.

This is the sort of specialized question that should be asked in a specialized community, rather than here. It even concerns a country, and communities always exist for countries.

Besides evidence (what you see in front of you), there's also reason (what you can deduce from first principles).

I'd say the key concept of science is that knowledge can be built upon. That there is not yet an answer to every question. That you can say "We don't know but we're working on it". This was absolutely revolutionary in human affairs.

Who is this "we" you talk of?

And that's on TV. Watching it as a spectator: wait, wait, wait, wait, wait (wait... wait...], WHOOSH

Cricket. Not even close.

So, a bookmarks list basically.

Prediction: you'll never actually read most of what ends up on this to-read list.

just a voice reading a text [...] Simon Whistler

The ultimate voice reading a text IMO. Specifically, a voice reading a text that it has clearly never seen before and where the producers have not even bothered to explain how to pronounce the names in it. IMO Simon Whistler is like Justin Bieber - essentially a product of the YouTube algorithm. In this case, a hipstery guy with an amazing beard and a posh authoritative accent talking confidently about... whatever. To me it just screams inauthenticity. But it's obviously what people want so congrats to him for riding the gravy train.

Blah blah blah. Unencrypted data is the wrong default in 2025 for any OS. Linux should not be a poor man's OS.

Sure. But defaults are important.

The main public library in Paris opens on every single day of the year except one, and it's not Christmas Day. It's 1 May.

I found that to be a revealing statement of values.