Yes, I’m tired of all this distro thing. Let’s stop giving distro advice to new users. Tell them to just pick any as it doesn’t influence their experience in the slightest.

To be fair, Israel is the country which could be critiqued the least under this aspect. Netanyahu did fight in the military in a variety of conflicts and his brother was killed while fighting. I guess the son did not learn their trade

they did not have ammo in their gun at the particular moment they were killed.

The Geneva convention is something I appreciate, war crimes is not something I appreciate.

Is Russia also not at war in your mind

This is a fallacy: Iran is at war, but that does not mean all Iranians are active combatants. Moreover, there’s a bit of a difference: Russia illegally attacked Ukraine, while on the other hand Iran was illegally attacked.

brutal theocratic dictator most well known for killing his own people and supporting terrorist groups throughout the region.

Sure I do agree. I’m not sure bombing the country is a good way to help those people. It does not seem to me that people in Libya are much better off after Gaddafi was murdered, same goes with Afghanistan and Kosovo.

I mean, Arch is a pretty nice place to start for someone who is interested in understanding how the system works and to get a glimpse of what is system administration. But if that is not the objective, and the person just wants to use the pc normally, then I guess any other distribution will be fine. At this point I feel there really is no point to all these different distributions. When Ubuntu came out it was the great new thing simple to use and friendly to new users. When Mint came out it was the brand new Ubuntu even better than before. But at this point… Pretty much any distribution is usable, do we really need so many?

There’s some 5 arch based that came out past year, God knows how many Debian based and so on. I feel this has become futile. Just pick any distribution, it will be fine: arch may break a bit more often than the other ones, provided you can set it up; pick any derivative if you don’t want to spend time setting it up. Debian may have packages that are a bit outdated, pick any derivative if you want a bit newer packages. Fedora will be in between. Suse will also be in between.

That’s pretty much it: do you want something extremely stable? Debian. Do you want the latest update few hours after they’ve been pushed by dev? Arch. None of these constraints? Literally any other distribution.

I’m not able to copy from the Facebook page, but apparently it was the same people on the boat saying they had the intention to infiltrate with terrorist intentions. That’s indeed a strange affirmation and was likely modified by the interior minister, but probably not too far from what they stated.

I was indeed mistaken.

Smugglers have reasons to be armed and sometimes are. In this case they got approached for a control, you can imagine that if they were carrying weapons they probably had some other illegal thing. At that point they could surrender to the authorities, but that would likely get them to jail. They were armed and thus shot on the ship in order to escape. Doesn’t seem too far fetched.

On the other hand: one boat with a few men and guns was directed to Cuba to make a coup. They got stopped by authorities, fired at them and escaped. This doesn’t make sense. How are you making a coup if you’re not able to pass the first control ship that approaches you?

I thought it was mostly Argentinians

Agreed, but it appears to me that they were equally experienced. He indeed was at risk as well. It appears like a case of unconsciousness and inability to evaluate risk. I brought people picking mushrooms on several occasions and indeed I’d monitor what they’re picking. But if I go with a friend who knows as much as I do it is unlikely I will ask regarding them picking a mushroom I don’t know. I had friends picking mushrooms which are known poisonous and they had their reasons for doing that which were completely valid and did not endanger anyone.

From the article it does not appear that the boy was much more experienced than the girl, it may be incorrectly described in the article as I have not read more information about this. If that is the case I would not see the reason to consider this a crime, as he was not in the conditions to understand the repercussions of those decisions. The fact that he didn’t call for help could indeed be criminal conduct, but it also be that he was under shock and couldn’t handle the situation or that there was no coverage. While this being a crime is understandable, it is probably hard to prove this was a crime.

Does not mean that with a large enough volume you can’t make vodka out of them. If you found yourself in a pickle factory after an apocalypse and you didn’t like pickles, making vodka out of them would be a fair option.

I do not give them any money as I do not use their service in any form. However, there are a few reasons you may want to if you do use their services.

1. If you enjoy the service it is indeed in your interest that it is profitable and keeps on working.
2. You’re saving yourself on installing on your phone a cracked application which likely contains some malware.
3. If you dislike Spotify for what they do and how they behave, you’re better off not using the service altogether.

And I mean, they do offer you a way to listen to music for free anyway, they just have you listen to some advertisement. It is a fair exchange in my opinion. The pricing of their subscription is also fair in my opinion, it’s some 10-15€/month and you can listen to all the music you want all the time, that is about the price of a single disc. If you don’t like the advertisement and don’t want to pay to listen, I’d turn to Soulseek rather than trying to use their service for free.

I myself prefer to have my own music collection and to buy the music from musicians I like, but I do see the advantages of a service like Spotify and I feel it is pretty cool that they offer their huge catalogue for free to anyone in the world.

If you use Spotify, I’d pay for the subscription. If you don’t want to pay for the subscription, I would download the music so that you have it on your phone.

I don’t care at all about DE, as long as it is not gnome. I run vanilla kde with minimal configuration. I tried many DEs through the years, tiling wm and so on. Now I just want something that works and that I don’t worry about. But gnome, I don’t get it. I did try it a couple years ago and my colleagues at work use it, it feels like it is hindering me. I don’t like how the application switcher works, the software launcher and so on. When I use it it feels to me I’m fighting the UI in order to do very simple things.

I had to stop: it was becoming an expensive vice. In the end cocaine is much cheaper than eating high quality tomatoes every day.

If you have a healthy life style and eat well, it does not matter what you place into your salad. Not that I ever did put anything too caloric in a salad, I guess there was a period in which I added yogurt, but I wouldn’t feel bad if I wanted something caloric in there. Hell, I’d like to be rich and afford various types of nuts to throw into a salad.

Friendly reminder that Parmesan generally refers to an American counterfeit product. Please refer to the cheese as Parmigiano.

I Say this because the US seems very proud of producing counterfeit products and wants to maintain a monopoly on such goods https://en.edairynews.com/us-blasts-eu-for-monopoly-on-south-america-dairy-meat/

I don’t understand. I’m pretty sure raising a child depends on the choices of the parents. What do you mean, that in areas with higher population density it is easier to get fresh food? And that thus the parent’s choices are not influential or only possible because of the environment? In my experience fresh food is more accessible in low population density areas, thus I don’t really follow.

While I do agree in general, Open ai is not a public company. Valuation logics of private companies are quite different than stock market.

I guess if I were an artist I’d look at this and feel justified suing Spotify for 1 billion dollars for the lack of protection of my music.

Same, i have lossy compression; but I favour opus.

96kbps is quite good sounding compression. You may hear a difference with the original, but in most cases you’ll have to focus very hard to hear it. As far as I know what they archived was not MP3 compressed but rather opus or ogg.