What is your religion and what led you to identifying with / believing in it?
MrBubbles96 @ MrBubbles96 @lemmy.ml Posts 4Comments 175Joined 2 yr. ago
MrBubbles96 @ MrBubbles96 @lemmy.ml
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Raised Catholic. Am now a Deistic Agnostic.
Dunno whether there's a higher power for sure, probably won't know until I'm in the ground.
But if there is (and I swing more in the "yes" catagory than "no"), I choose to believe he made us like an artist makes his paintings or a clockmaker his watches: complete, with some imperfections, and (mostly) has left us alone to do our own thing. And the best way to know the creator? Through his works, basically by looking at the world and its wonders.
I like it a lot here too, tho I'm honestly not too bothered if there's much more activity in the future tho. IDK, i feel like growth is going to happen sooner or later (because it always does), whether that's a good thing or a bad thing remains to be seen.
Different strokes for different folks mostly.
Arch is a rolling release, meaning everytime something changes in a package or dependency, there's an update.
Mint is a stable release, and gets major updates every few months, with much more frequent security updates, but yeah, it's not an everyday thing like with Arch
While I don't like saying "this is better than that", since Arch is a rolling release, it's always up to date, and so you're not going to end up in a situation like "my built-in laptop sound card isn't getting picked up" (i mean, you might, but it's rare. After all, Arch can break sometimes times, just like everything, really) like you sometimes can with Mint and other stable distros. Also, Arch--well, vanilla Arch and something like Endeavour--comes with just the basics and everything else, you gotta add. I personally like this because I like knowing exactly what I'm installing and having only what I'm going to use...and also not deal with messing with PPA's. This isn't a point against non-Arch distros or anything, it's all just personal preference--but really, everything from "Should I do Arch with Cinnamon or something like Mint or Fedora's Cinnamon Spin?" is all up to personal preference
Yup, that's the word for it. Initial burst. Definetly not the last.
That's gonna be fun for the new mods to deal with lol in fact, i think they already are.
Reddit had years to build up its content, and Rome wasn't built in a day (something i feel a lot of people easily forget, and not just in this case) so in some ways I can't blame them for not moving. It's like you said tho, the best way to hurt Reddit is to post good content elsewhere, and IDK, I feel like that could have been better than just bitterly staying.
That's not for us to decide, i think. Lemmy might be a whole different beast, but if enough people come in and bring the Reddit expierence to Lemmy, it just might. Maybe not a 100% replacement, it'll never be a 1:1 replacement after all, but just enough.
Endeavour is as close as you can get to pure Arch with a GUI installer + pretty neat QOL features OOTB (reflector to update mirrors, the AUR's already installed and ready to go, etc). 90% of what applies to vanilla Arch applies to Endeavour when it comes to fixes, and the community is super helpful and friendly in my experience. It's kinda light on stuff when compared to other ready to go Linux Distros, but hey, that just means less pre-installed apps you either never use or have to uninstall
Manjaro is an Arch based distro that kinda sucks at being an Arch based distro (essentially, the updates are held back by a couple of weeks for better and worse, WIP packages sometimes slip through to the repos and can cause problems to your system, and you can forget about using the AUR--or well, you can, but the AUR and Manjaro are nortorious for not playing nice with one another). Troubleshooting the thing tested my patience personally, because like someone else here said: it basically found a unique way to break itself every time I updated the system and I just got....tired, eventually. Manjaro also comes with basically everything you could possibly need pre-installed and then some, so that's neat if you're not in the mood to hunt down all your apps.
If you're cool with using the terminal to update, install stuff (or you could also install pamac or Octopi, nothing's stopping you, and it works) and troubleshoot, try Endeavour. You can make it exactly like Manjaro without the defects with a bit of work if you want
If you don't mind being extra careful with what you install (really that's standard practice, but hey, I've never found a WIP package anywhere other than Manjaro, so make of that what you will), are willing to tolerate constant mild to severe breakage, and just using Flatpaks and appimages over the AUR, go with Manjaro
Nothing went wrong. Reddit knew from minute 1 they weren't going to negotiate this change (not in good faith, anyways).
Add to that, like everyone else is saying, the fact that they weren't actually pushed to change thier minds in the slightest by users when push came to shove; because yeah, some of us left, but a lot of us participated, said they weren't gonna back down...and went right back to Reddit when all was said and done.
(Not saying "the protests were a total bust" because, from what I understand at least, this happened to Digg in the past, and it wasn't immediately overtaken by Reddit. It happened in waves of users over time until it got eclipsed. Pretty sure it was bad policy change effecting users after bad policy change that made everyone start to pack up too, not just one. Part of me is hopeful that history is repeating).
But to circle back, basically the attempt was doomed to fail because the decision was made absolute long before any talk of protesting it was even a thought in anyone's mind.
Basically this. Not saying the "AUR breaking your system" thing isn't, well, a thing but I get "error aborting installation" warnings waaaaay more often than my system just outright dying because of an AUR package (which is to say, it's never actually happened to me).
And usually, when I see that warning, I go "kay, not even gonna bother" because if I ignore it and try to brute force the install...yeah, that potential breakage is on me, not the AUR
None. I prefer native packages. AUR usually has me covered and hasn't broken my system...ever, really. Yet, anyways. (Well, it might have broken my Manjaro install, but it is Manjaro, so i probably sneezed wrong)
....but, if I had to pick one? Flatpaks. Outta the three, they've given me the least trouble and just work right out the gate. Still prefer native packages tho
Tbf, the OP pretty much made his stance clear out the gate: he refuses to believe "Musk has always been like that" answers. If he's not even willing to entertain the idea at all, and the vast majority of the replies are going to (correctly, IMO. Musk is no different than Jobs, or Edison) say that he was, yeah, he was never gonna engage...
Being "Smart" does not exempt an individual from being an idiot in some aspects/making idiotic comments and decisions. To fuck up is to be human, after all. Could have been chemical damage like you said, could have always been like that and just never had a chance to show it like others here have said. The reason's honestly irrelevant. The fact remains that Musk is kinda like that one person who seems pretty cool from the few interactions you've had with them, but when you sit down and have an actual conversation with them, they start saying things that make you raise a brow. And it is very, very hard for people to actually change in any meaningful way, so best bet is: he was always like that, but well, nothing lasts forever. Especially the masks we all use to hide ourselves from others. That's what people are saying.
That he's a rich brat who bought out most of the things he now owns rather than build them from the ground up is a known fact too, contrary to how what most people think and what (I'd assume) he'd like you to believe. People are also saying this.
People aren't saying he isn't smart, they're saying he's an idiot, protrays himself as smarter than he actually is, and is arguably, a fraud. All those aren't mutually exclusive.
You don't believe someone that's a narcissist and egocentric as all hell can't also be smart about thier public image? You should reconsider, because that's pretty much what happened. And he isn't the only one. Personally, I've always lived by a simple golden rule:
All those billionaires that wanna convince you that they're "cool and not like the other billionaires", they ever pull a Jimmy Carter and build houses for the poor, becoming a lecturer at a university, or do any other humanitarian work that requires them to physically bust thier ass working hard like the rest of us? No? Then they're no different.
If you don't wanna take the overwhelming documented evidence that shows he was always like that and didn't magically become unhinged one day tho, by all means, believe what you want.
I personally don't see it as racist in the context it's used (to me, context and how something is used is everything), then again, when I first heard the term a few years back, it was in the context of an acronym: Racing Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements. Nothing racist about that, I mean...I see several cars owners, racing or otherwise, tricking their rides up with spoilers or annoying loud exhausts all the time. All ethnicities, not just strictly asian. It might have come from a racist thing*, and if it did, that doesn't mean that that's what has to define it for all time.
I also agree with tables; you can't exactly choose a "nicer" alternative for something everytime a couple of people get offended by a word. It's just not feasible, IMO. IDK, I was raised with the mindset of: There's going to be people in life that are going to take offense to something you do or say even if you didn't mean to offend in the slightest.
*it could have, but I'm not entirely sure personally. I checked out the wiki article you linked, and find it odd that when originally looked up the term RICE on wikipedia, there was no racist conotations at all (and i know this because i often used to refer to that article when i explained what the acronym meant to others), or if there were, it was a footnote, but now it's front and center. Not saying you're wrong and this is some revisionist piece at all, just noticing that, is all. Like I said, this very well could be the original meaning.
Fuck: Rice (Just based on how often I eat Rice in my diet...it was either gonna be F or M lol)
Marry: Pasta (Marry, because of the sheer amount of combos you can do with it)
Kill: Bread (sorry Garlic Bread...)
Honestly, mostly solidarity.
Sure, the fact that my preferred Reddit app was going the way of the dodo and the fact that they weren't even trying to negotiate in good faith were reasons, yeah, but at the end of the day, I was just gonna grit my teeth, patch the Reddit app with Revanced, and have that be my personal and insignificant F you.
Then I realized a bigger F you was to deprive them of content, future or present, (mine, specifically. As insignificant as it was) so I did.
And here I am
Man, do I hate that with such a burning passion....
Like, the amount of times I've had to sit someone down and go "I'm not a decent human being because The Bible showed me to be or because my local priest told me I'd burn in Hell if I wasn't, I'm a decent human being because my ma raised me to be--because her mom raised her to be that way, and so on. She never threatened me with fire and brimstone nor told me it's what Jesus would have wanted, just that people ought to be kind to one another. God didn't teach me manners and how to be kind to others, she did." is unreal. How it's so hard for people to grasp is beyond me
Also, the indocternation of children without thier consent makes my blood boil. It's cool if they believe in Christ, Allah, Brahma, or none of the above...but that should be thier own choice, not something chosen for them. "Come freely of your own will" and all that. Because if you're forced to love something for fear of punishment, is it really love?