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  • But I already knew this

    I certainly wasn't bragging about being circumcised

    Actually when you are circumcised you can feel that you are going to come, I mean I know for sure because I am. But it's still a lot of fun xD

    If you already knew, you weren't bragging, and it was not satire, then what did it supposed to mean?

  • You actually don't seem to know (which surprised me), so I will tell you. I'm from Brazil, almost nobody here is circumcised. I can say for sure, everybody, circumcised or not, can feel they're about to cum, that has nothing to do with having or not foreskin.

    There are people who report that being circumcised makes you a bit less sensitive so you last longer. I cannot confirm or deny that, although it makes sense. But feeling your about to cum is not an ability you unlock for being circumcised.

    You said in the edit that you don't understand why you got so much push back. You got it because your comment is very confident in an absolutely wrong fact, that shows a very strong lack of understanding of other people

  • Is this satire?

  • What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, Systemd/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Systemd + Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning Systemd system made useful by the Systemd corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX

  • Kernel level anti-cheat should be a crime

  • I'm not yet convinced that "violating the unix philosophy" is a bad thing. I'm not saying that it's not, I don't have a defined opinion about this yet

  • I don't think there's a precise name for that, since it can be a lot of complex things. A monopoly is a very defined thing, that was my point.

    A company can be prominent because it is just better at giving what the consumers want. That's the case of Google (as a search engine). I use Duck Duck Go, but very often I have to fallback to Google because DDG's results are just not quite right.

    It can be prominent because what it does is very expensive and so only a few can even try it. That's again the case with Google. Creating a good search engine is hard, and Google just got more money to throw at it. That's also the case of Apple. What they are selling (premium products with very high quality and stability) is inherently expensive, and such they don't face a lot of competition (Sansung I guess). Many big corp will lobby the government to artificially make the market more expensive so they can rule out small fish (don't quote me on that, I'll not elaborate further).

    A company can also turn itself into a conglomerate, merging, buying and assimilating other companies. That's the case with AbInbev here in Brazil. They assimilated most of the beer companies. It is very hard (in my opinion impossible) for this to turn into a monopoly, because there will be other big fish trying to play the same game (Petrópolis and Heineken in this case, for example), and there will always be those companies that will not accept being bought, hoping they will be the next big fish.

    I'm not making any judgement of value here, I hate big corporations, but I think we should put blame where blame is due, and not attack straw men and use water down terms, because that's pretty weak.

  • LMs aren't thinking, aren't inventing, they are predicting what is supposed to be answered next, so it's expected that they will produce the same results every time

  • https://onedev.io/

    This is the coolest one I know of Self hosted, open source, good simple project management

  • So, is google not a monopoly because there are other search engines out there?

    It isn't. There are other search engines. People use Google because it's the best, not because it's the only one available. If Google became a horrible search engine, people would switch no problem

    Does Apple not have a monopoly among US teenagers because there are Android phones available?

    Yes. Although Apple is preferred in this public (of which I don't know a lot about, so I won't try to guess why), Android is always an option. And a cheaper one, usually. This forces Apple to differentiate themselves by giving the best in what their users want (premium quality and status, I guess).

    Does Microsoft not have a monopoly in desktop computing because Apple and Linux exist or because phones exist?

    Same point.

    What is your definition of monopoly and how does Github not fit it?

    A monopoly is when a company is the only one in a market niche. Not the most prominent one.

  • It's more painful when you have to pay more than a month's worth salary and it's shit (Windows 11 Pro is R$1600, minimum monthly salary is R$1412, around $280)

  • Old Brazilian hack to use Windows: just don't buy it.

  • We've got one of these at my parents' place, I love it so much

  • Could you please inform me where this is, so I make sure I never travel there bringing a pack of beer

  • I've got a cheap blender. It does the job pretty well, surprisingly. Though I never make a lot of coffee at once

  • For a moment I read Rumble Tumble

  • This is impressive

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