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Senate Republicans: loud evil laugh, mustache pinching, etc

Psh. That last one could easily be a scam. Maybe scammers haven't tried the fake class action settlement website angle yet, but they will, and I have no intention of being their first victim.

The best piracy is the kind with a sword in your hand and a parrot on your shoulder.

All people are essentially born with no assets

False. The children of rich people are born rich. That's a major part of the problem. It creates dynasties.

Public transport is unacceptably slow and/or prohibitively expensive in suburbs. It may work well in densely-packed cities, but that requires you to live in a densely-packed city, and that's straight-up dystopian in my book.

No kidding. I'm going to sorely miss this setup if I ever move out.

Even for developers, there is a very substantial cost to any deviation from the herd and little time or money for these projects.

If everyone thought that way, we'd all still be using MS-DOS. This is an absurd take for a Linux user.

PulseAudio sits on top of ALSA, so that isn't entirely true. ALSA alone isn't a modern audio stack, but it is part of one.

when it doesn’t work then it’s an ALSA bug and alsa ppl should take the blame (even when it works fine with full alsa, like my audio card).

Well, yeah. PA used ALSA APIs that most applications didn't, which exposed bugs in little-used, little-tested driver code. Nothing implausible about that.

The standard AC97 and USB audio drivers worked fine—I know they did because that's what I was using with PA at the time—but the drivers for more esoteric audio hardware had yet to be debugged, and Lennart couldn't feasibly test and fix all of them by himself because he didn't have the hardware. Others in the community did, and together they fixed the bugs and eventually got PA working smoothly on everything.

And it was designed more like a networking stack then an audio stack.

Of course. PA was specifically designed to be network transparent, same as the X11 protocol it was typically used with.

Sure it was necessary at the time (so that hdmi, and later bluetooth, would work transparently), but the “i know best” attitude hurt its execution.

Ah, but he was correct. He did, in fact, know best. Lennart Poettering brought an end to the clusterf that was Linux audio pre-PA. No one else solved the problem until he came along and said “no more,” and I must say I'm appalled at the ingratitude of his detractors.

SystemD on the other hand brought nothing of value. Did way more harm then good.

Nonsense! Before systemd, startup took forever, shutdown took forever, and it was a crapshoot whether shutdown would succeed or hang. Systemd hasn't fully solved this problem, but it's a lot better than what I had to live with in the bad old days.

Also, systemd brings with it a logging system with integrity checking, structured data, and database-like querying. Huge improvement over BSD syslog.

Also also, systemd has proper process supervision, services can depend on devices, unit/global start/stop timeouts, networkd, user session tracking and cleanup, user services, easy-to-use sandboxing, and on and on and on. There's all kinds of useful goodies in there.

How are they going to extinguish anything with an open-source project that is trivial to fork?

No surprise with Voyager. On the ship of the valkyries, there are plenty of opportunities for women to talk to each other about starship stuff.

That's because a lot of Americans are under the impression that poor people are poor because they're lazy, and not because they're victims of oppression. They even cling to this absurd belief when they themselves are the victims of similar oppression. Must be lead in the water or something…

we are evolved from savannah primates for whom the ability to make eye contact and hold it was a signal of “you can trust me, I’m not about to bite you.”

Funny. Cats are the opposite. To them, unblinking eye contact says “I don't trust you. I'm keeping my eye on you.” Hence the slow blink they're famous for.

Paper and pen don’t signal “I have decided to break this evolutionary/social contract” in the same way a phone or open laptop does.

Why not? Either way, you're breaking eye contact. When paper first became commonplace, people probably made the same argument, and there are photos of people on trains all looking at their newspapers and ignoring each other.

I’m a millennial and I still write notes with pen and paper simply because I can’t be bothered to learn how to format in a notes app of any kind.

I'm an older millennial, and I'll tell you how I format my notes: in text files. Markdown if I'm feeling fancy.

No. Handwriting is slow and makes my hand sore. Keyboards are way more comfortable.

If you live outside the city, how do you commute to your workplace in the city? Park and ride?

If your idea of the greatest country is one in which you can and probably will be imprisoned through no fault if your own, forced to perform manual labor until it kills you, and if you somehow survive long enough to be released, systematically impoverished in order to force you to steal to survive and thus ensure that you end up back in prison, then I have to wonder what you think goes on in the rest of the world.

Make no mistake, this country is extremely cruel. Living here is terrifying, and I'm not even black.

Can GrapheneOS be used with MicroG? I vaguely remember that being an option.

I wonder if that's intentional. Conspicuously mistreat him in jail so he's moved to house arrest, where he can escape before he's sentenced.

And it is entirely justified. What the US did and continues to do to black people is appalling.