TheInsane42 @ TheInsane42 @lemmy.world

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Time is a figment of your imagination, lunchtime doubly so. (as is age)

I turned 42 last year and will turn 42 again in 3 years, finally reaching the ultimate answer.

When buying a new car I can see why you would want a system that can handle the phone you have, but I can't see it being a show stopper. 20y ago I had a Nokia carkit to be reachable in the car. Now I just use the phone for navigation, fitted next to the radio (not on the window, hindering my view). The OEM radio works perfectly ('03 Volvo S80 with entry model, alas also with the entry speakers).

When buying a used car (The cars here are on average 10y old), entertainment is the last checkbox on the list for most (is it there/replacable). With new cars costing at least a year income, they are seldom bought. The business lease market provides the 4y old second hand cars. ;)

Debian user here... Just works and has been working since '95 here. After Slackware 1.3 and Redhat (non EL) 4.2 I was fed up with reinstalls for major upgrades, so I switched to Debian. It just works, most of the times. (for the first time in decades I had to revert a kernel to the previous version, that what you get running testing ;) )

Am I a guru, I doubt it but I don't care, I'm lazy enough to stick with what I know, but not to lazy to dive into new things. (but not until I absolutely have to)

As long as there are people playing a game, there will be cheats. However, I decide what happens on my device, not a game or software developer. When the developer thinks he can set requirements, he is barred.

Not a single piece of software is worth risking my device for.

Nah, when that happens here I'll offer a lap in exchange of the chair. Works perfectly. (for 5 min)

Sure it's not the current one?

A room of their own then I guess. (preferably in a building cross town ;) )

Check, where 'very large' can even be 2+ in worst case scenarios.

Bad control over the hardware. Android is 100% open source, but alas, not all drivers are. To be honest, it's by design of some manufacturers (Samsung for one, Mediatek is another) to keep drivers of hardware closed source so updating the OS of your particular Android based mobile OS lags hugely behind Android.

Android gets monthly security updates, which need to be included in the OS of the phone manufacturer. Lineage has weekly builds for their code which include the monthly security updates. Phone manufacturers are only required to 'supply updates for 2y after introduction of the model (not after end of sale), which requires them to give 1 upgrade (major version).

Alas, support for the wide variety of Android phones hinges now for 100% on the effort of the custom rom developers. For example: The 2011 Samsung Galaxy S2 has an unofficial Lineage 20 (Android 13).

To many devices running the same opensource software without the requirement to make the drivers open source.

Apple is completely closed, Microsoft has it's Windows closed with the option for hardware suppliers to supply the drivers (which need to be conform to their specs) Android is based on the Linux kernel, which would require hardware manufacturers that make drivers for the kernel to supply the drivers, but alas, as it's not a company, no methods to enforce this is available.

When you want consistent ANdroid updates, you need to either:

1. buy Google Pixel (Google is pretty consistent in updates)
2. buy a nice brand that offers 5y+ guarantee (include updates)
3. buy a device with active custom rom support, for example Lineage (worst case, you can update the device yourself as the code is available)

Now I'm curious, will she adopt you as personnel for her and her kittens. ;)

I like a little pull, as on the 1st go on each edge I can manage to cut myself without noticing it. (until I start leaking blood ;) ) Usually it's the 3rd or 4th go that's the nasty one after which it gets replaced. However, I usually replace them the moment the filter of the drinking fountain for the cats gets replaced, which is every other week. (that way I'm not to late, until I forget the filter as well ;) )

Inuse a DE with feather blades. I shave every other day and replace the blade every 2-3 weeks. (When I remember to replace them)

I bought a 20 pack of 10 blade boxes for €40 years ago, together wuth the Qshave that came with 50 blades (10 5 blade boxes). I have 14 boxes of 10 blades left, so at least 280 weeks of shaving.

The biggest problem is that we, as humans, are fed all kind of nonsense to induce polarization. All news we hear is that it's either black or white, capitalist or communist, Republican or Democrat. The biggest issue is the 2 points of vew most people see.

It even goes so far that in countries with a limited democracy (2 party system) a lot just refuse to see the other point of view, vote for 'their party' as the other is worse in their opinion,... (choose for the less bad one instead of a mninor one you really support, just to keep 'the other' from winning) For example, in the US the news is never independent, you either get a pro Republican or pro Democratic point of view. Social media keeps people even more in their bubble, so it's even more 'us against them'. Most forget that a good working democratic system can't exist with only 2 points of view, you need at least 3.

Why do I say you need at least 3, as that way not a single, one-sided view, can dictate what is the truth. With a 3 way perspective, all will need to talk to each other to discover what is the real situation. That's why the 3D world is useful as well. As we have history and science, I'd say we even need a 4th dimension to consider as well, time. What is good now may prove a bad idea for later generations and what seems bad now may be ideal later.

But alas, as long we we are fed the idea that either capitalism is good and communism is bad (or the other way around) and ignore a go between like say a liberal system with a socialistic base we'll keep this mess. (same like the 2 party systems in US ans roughly in the UK) Same about 'west vs china'.

Ok, the Dutch political system is broken up way to much. The last election in 2021, 37 parties were on the ballot of the 89 wanting to register) and we have a more fragmented set now (next election 22 november), but they are working together, as they need to. (even the biggest minority has to work together to get at least a few points of their program supported) That's a result of 3 major parties each not being big enough to rule with only 1 of the others, so they either had to work together with each other (all 3) or find support from smaller parties, so the most extremist ideas (religion based state, denying abortion, closure of borders for refugees,...) were kept in check.

Between extreme left or extreme right views (which are pretty similar), there are loads of moderate views as well that need to be heard and could prove a a lot more beneficial to humanity then just one of the extremes.

Source images: imugr, I just downloaded them to scale the 2D version down.

Edit: to get back on topic, there was a comic I just can't find that shows the biggest discrepancy of the anti-abortion movement. When unborn 'All life is sacred', but after birth, it's 'you're on your own'. Unless a community doesn't want to solve the latter (make sure everybody can have a good and healthy life, they have no say what so ever in the 1st matter. (and even if they do solve the latter, it's still that way) Alas there are to many people that force their view upon others. (and no, pro choice doesn't mean you have to have an abortion, they just state that it's your choice, not somebody else's)

Why would you need another package manager next to the one supplied with the distro? The one that is supplied has packages that are tested and guaranteed to work (when on a stable release).

Yes, they are (sometimes very) outdated, but those packages are working. Additional package managers just add to the dependency hell (introducing bugs).

Nop, the red neck states are forcing women to get a child they don't want.

It's pretty simple in the civilized world, when you don't want an abortion, don't get one. Don't think you can decide over other peoples medical procedures.

Alas, the US has left the civilized section of the world due to a loud-mouth that has some court appointments. Russia already left when Putin came to power, Israel is following, Hungary and Poland are on the same route (or already out, no clue on their state) As a species we're doomed when we don't watch out.

Believe me, even after 28y using Linux this is a tough one.

Is flatpack another package manager like snap with it's own dependency hell?

Haven't seen it here yet, same country, Vivaldi and uBlock.

Nice, forced spying on customers...

Yep, if you fail to be suitable to adopt, just make your own...

For some parents/kids I think they should introduce an exam on raising kids before they should be allowed to produce one.