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Temporary or not, these sort of bans will delay the growth (pun not intended, but I'll take it) of these industries when time is of the essence.

That is a great point!

That pic does look a little dry, but I'm very much looking forward to lab grown burgers. I hope and expect moves such as this are temporary, and as technology and understanding improve, we'll get our cruelty-free and (presumably) lower environmental impact burgers. (And I'd expect texture, juicyness, etc to improve over time.)

I am not a vegetarian but I enjoy many of the vegetarian choices for meat, from original gardenburgers through very nearly every other similar product I've tried. (I have not tried anything from Impossible except their sausage on a sandwich from dunkin donuts) But while they are nearly all very good for their own sake, none that I've run across have been true replacements for a burger.

Not directly related but you reminded me of this wonderful blast from the past:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8Ge8g7xkXM

And of course, the not quite as good, but still worthwhile followup:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlmCWPFOvh4

I definitely don't think blue is always right. Been a long time since I've seen them be less wrong than red though. And, I've seen what they do when we let them have power these days.

I will vote against red at every level, from local on up, because they have shown me (and all of us) who they are. I believe Republicans in power are a worse thing for this country than any likely negative impact from voting blue.

In the meantime, I'll hope that blue become better at living up to something more than just not being red.

Maybe R will reform themselves enough to be trusted with adult things before I die of old age. I'm not holding my breath.

Regardless, I appreciate your nuanced rebuttal, and can see that your aim was not as it appeared to me. However, I like to remind folks at every opportunity that influencers in online discussions who do "both sides" an argument are never doing it to promote balance, even though they always try to frame it that way. They are doing it to help one particular side.

For that reason, I still stand by the comment, am glad it was well received by others, and hope it will shape how they evaluate that sort of argument when it comes up.

Personally I think the only reason for this action is the Swedish Unions blockade.

I think they'd have let him be as shitty as he wanted for as long as he wanted if not for their profits being impacted.

There you go. It was all OK until it impacted $$. Glad they finally did something, but wish it would have been based on an actual ethical concern.

Thanks for the clarification, I appreciate it.

In any case, I have deep respect for everyone who learns the mess that’s my native language and nobody should feel bad for making minor mistakes.

As you are no doubt aware, English is renowned for rules that are rules until they aren't, and quite a lot of other ambiguities for non-native speakers, so I can appreciate this.

When I talk to someone who is clearly not a native English speaker, and they apologize for their English I usually point out that their English is way better than my (whatever their language is) since without fail it's not a language I can speak at all. Seems to put people at ease.

More and more people are reading every year. The latest generation are devouring books.

Can you cite a source for this? I say this not to challenge you, but because I really hope it's objectively true.

Any chance you can help me understand why?

I took German in high school (which was a long time ago) - and yes, I can understand the moron part because if you speak poorly in any language that can happen.

But if I say die bleistift instead of der bleistift, how is that going to confuse someone? Bleistift is still the German word for pencil either way, right? The gendering of inanimate objects always felt very arbitrary to me.

I'm partial to midnight commander but admit I haven't used it in a couple of years.

But don’t post, to use your terms, passive aggressive bullshit like “It’s working for me, so you must be doing it wrong”.

Quote me doing so.

Tbh, if you don’t want to help someone, that’s totally fine. Then don’t help them.

I can't fathom why ANYONE would voluntarily help someone who comes at them like in OP.

I'm fairly sure I have run this system dual-monitor though I don't do it routinely. I'll check sometime this weekend and let you know, if you are interested for comparison's sake.

If you think the bracketed passive aggressive BS in the title of OP along with comments within their post disparaging the same community who they expect help from is the correct way for anyone to go about trying to get help about any piece of technology from a community of volunteers who aren't paid to help them, then we're just going to have to agree to disagree.

Edited to add: The very substance of the post is "I know everyone here likes this thing, but I think it's shit and I'm going to tell you why" - how is it the fault of the community when that doesn't result in constructive discussion?

The problem, as I see it, is that the author of the original Gist does not really want wayland replacements for what he has, but rather what he has to also work on wayland.

It's like the Windows users expecting to use all the same software on Linux when they move over problem, but in microcosm.

Wayland does not work properly on Intel hardware: Again, I’m using AMD, so I can’t confirm or deny this, but considering the Intel drivers are open source, and I’ve heard about many, many improvements made on the Intel side of things, I think it would be reasonable to assume it has been fixed.

Posting this from Plasma Wayland on Intel right now. If something is broken, it's something not apparent to me.

Been a Linux-only user since 2007. Except in some very corner cases, every time I've seen someone complain about how people dogpiled them instead of helped them with a problem, it's been because they "asked" for help with a post that started something like OP.

I see examples every single day of of the community being helpful to people who have problems, even when user ignorance is part of the problem.

Catch more flies with honey than vinegar and all that.

When it fails on windows, it’s a stuff problem, but when it’s on Linux it’s a Linux problem somehow…

what makes it really unpopular, even like lukewarm-shit-unpopular, is the fact that it is some very poorly substantiated criticism.

What gets me is that this person is making very specific complaints about a very specific distro and setup, but then uses these complaints to shit on ALL OF LINUX.

And if we disagree with some of OP's conclusions we're the problem because "can't speak bad about linux on lemmy now can we."

OP will make another post about how unwelcoming the Linux community is next, and never wonder why their experience might be different than someone else's.

For non-tech users I think the problem is momentum, for technical users it's (IMO) Stockholm Syndrome a good percentage of the time.

May as well post this for you to read also. (Though it would seem you didn't read the article you are replying to, so my hopes aren't high.)

One snippet out of a lengthy article.

Many experts consider figures provided by the ministry reliable, given its access, sources and accuracy in past statements.

“Everyone uses the figures from the Gaza Health Ministry because those are generally proven to be reliable,” said Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch. “In the times in which we have done our own verification of numbers for particular strikes, I’m not aware of any time which there’s been some major discrepancy.”

Shakir said Human Rights Watch would not use figures provided by parties with “a propensity to misrepresent information.”

Why news outlets and the U.N. rely on Gaza’s Health Ministry for death tolls

And another:

Throughout four wars and numerous bloody skirmishes between Israel and Hamas, U.N. agencies have cited the Health Ministry’s death tolls in regular reports. The International Committee of the Red Cross and Palestinian Red Crescent also use the numbers.

In the aftermath of war, the U.N. humanitarian office has published final death tolls based on its own research into medical records.

In all cases the U.N.’s counts have largely been consistent with the Gaza Health Ministry’s, with small discrepancies.

— 2008 war: The ministry reported 1,440 Palestinians killed; the U.N. reported 1,385.

— 2014 war: The ministry reported 2,310 Palestinians killed; the U.N. reported 2,251.

— 2021 war: The ministry reported 260 Palestinians killed; the U.N. reported 256.

What is Gaza’s Ministry of Health and how does it calculate the war’s death toll?

2025 might finally be the year of linux

The year of the Linux desktop is right now, if you want it to be. For me it was 2007 - and watching the evolution of Windows since then has been a continuous validation of my choice.

If you want to use Linux, use it! It's ready, and IMO has been for some time.

(And just to be clear - choosing otherwise is OK too! I don't intend my enthusiasm as zealotry. Folks making an educated decision to stay is totally valid.)