iirc, this is standard behavior across Debian-based distros. apt-get may handle it slightly differently, but I’m sure there’s a switch for it, at worst.

Those made 1000x more sense.

Oh God, they can’t even do prepping right any more.

No, they live off eating paper. Crunchy little rectangles with pictures of royalty on them.

cIvIliAn tArGeTs dOn’T CoUn’T!!!

Seriously, why won’t anybody play nice with us? It’s a mystery…

Depends where you sail, but I’ve made some edits to that comment since anyways.

A single-hull can be made self-righting, in case it flips in bad weather. A 35 foot catamaran? You’re not getting that back up-right with a crew of one - you basically hope and pray a bigger boat comes along at that point.

… Now I’ve watched the video, there is no ballast, not even a dedicated bilge space, and with the shallow draft, I am uncertain how the boat in OOP isn’t too top-heavy to stay up-right. Forget the “Sovereign Living” bit at the end, I’mma need to see some solid design and build data before listening to another word from that guy.

In short: I take back any mean things I said or implied about Catamarans.

I was just stanning one of my favorite things about, and pet criteria for, properly-designed boats. I just sold my first sail-boat because I wanted a bigger one, with a better capsize-rating.

The simple math is, for almost every forced-laborer “blocked”(real-speak: denied entry, or deported upol discoveryd…), China will bring-in a CCP shill. If the forced-laborer isn’t qualified to do the work, then why try to smuggle them in? … but are only those qualified to do the work “worthy” of asylum? Once you’ve ensured they get paid appropriately(by China…) and treated with respect, they are no longer forced-labor…

… but yeah, x workers are going to be required to do the work. If a portion of them are “accidentally” liberated from hellish conditions back home, and their oppressors jailed, how is that not a win?

Save some (more)Uyghurs and arrest some human traffickers, versus force China to bring-in only spies and shills, because the best way to solve a problem is to deal with oppressors so long as they agree to leave their worst-off victims back home.

Yes, my way you end up with more bodies, and resources to house and feed imprissoned traffickers, but that’s why you send China the bill. It could ultimately be cheaper for Canada to do the right thing.

… or, you know, grant them asylum, and arrest individuals involved in the human trafficking of these people until China stops sending human traffickers?

Without a Plug-In? Hard agree, nor should they.

Its amazing to think the UAE and/or Oman went with opposing Iran rather than trying to get in on this, vs appeasing a genocidal ethno-state neighbor and a super-powered toddler-state on the opposite site of the planet.

You don’t have to be in the wreck to end-up “involved with” the wreck. Even if you’re not decent enough to stick-around to assist with the fall-out or give a witness-statement, there’s always the physical and time barrier of the wreck itself and the ensuing wait for emergency services, police, or even just a tow-truck.

What in God’s Green Earth are you talking about, “windows-or-nothing people”? Employers? Schools? Told a lot of them to kick dirt, but with them owning the buildings, that basically amounted to me walking away.

One of my favorite things about my current employer is that the “Windows” part doesn’t matter -it just happens to be the only thing the bespoke software suites we use will run-on, and the entire shift is spent in those applications anyways. I’ve almost got my boss convinced to ditch Acrobat Reader though, or rather, its constant demands to be allowed to present AI Summaries of confidential documents is doing the convincing for me.

The simple fact is, all four of my children can generally get done what they want/need to in Windows, Mac, Chrome, Android or IOS, including customization or “esoteric” stuff, and get on with their lives, without coming to me pretending there aren’t a million tutorials on Youtube for whatever and that they shouldn’t even have to check there first. Only one of them has shown the same aptitude, willingness, patience, what-have-you, for Linux. Another is just too young to tell where she’ll go with all that.

I meet my users and use-cases where they are and presume a heterogenous network/device environment. That becomes and stays true the moment you introduce a game console, a printer, a tablet, phone and/or a router of all things.

I like Linux, love it and can’t wait to get back to using it more in fact, but using only Linux isn’t going to leave me with any way to relate to or convince people who are sceptical and comfortable with another OS they are already comfortable with, and forcing it into the present state of my life is going to demand time I don’t have available for the next year or so, but it was my daily driver for years and will be again.

Meanwhile, I’m counting down a shorter-every-day fuse for when the one boy wants an Amiga or roll-your-own-“retro” device of some sort to go with his RaspberryPi, OrangePi, plus various consoles and old phones he’s torn-down to the compotenent leven and built back up(successfully … err … to a surprising degree anyways), and his brother just laid claim to my (kickstarter-era)Snapmaker A350 CNC/Laser/3D Printer.

Never said it was. lemmy.world has become more political in essence though, in the same insidious way as facebook and along one of the same major agenda lines, which is one of the two reasons I was saying that instance/server is not a good fit for a Sex Anything community, the other being that its an NSFW topic.

I just spent a day last-week un-subscribing and replacing all of the lemmy.world communities I had previously followed over the Zionism-versus-PieFed drama, but thanks anyways.

Honestly though, lemmy.world doesn’t strike me as a good fit for a Sex Advice community, versus one of the NSFW instances or, say, Blahaj

I almost mentioned “work-flow” en lieu of the list of options I went with earlier, but basically, over time you build-up habits and certain ways of doing things that to you are “that’s just how I do things, why do you ask?”, hard-or-even-near-impossible-to-explain, and look like a lot of work to another person, but add like, (often less than)a minute to your day.

I was trying to down-play the hassle without diminishing it, but its like learning a new tool or app or form at your job. Maybe noticably-annoying-or-even-painful at first, but once you establish your own “why?”, which you’ll probably forget or remember in-place of the “why?” they told you, you work it out, work it into what you were already doing, and it becomes something like background noise.

Now, an AI would write you a book on how-what-and-why-it does x, which may or may not in any way resemble what it actually does … I am not sure on my worst day I would actually recommend directly asking about that, versus, “are you an AI?”

Some people still want to feel like Windows is something they own, like back when it was something you installed on-top-of DOS. Taming the hostile mess its become is still rarely worse than de-bloating a new OEM PC ever was, and if you use your PC rarely-enough, there’s hassle aspects that blur into near-parity versus Linux(updates, anyone?)

… share a PC with others, and just keeping Open-Shell(plus PowerToys and/or StartAllBack, or sometimes Rainmeter for a laugh) on one’s profile looks sufficient, versus dual-booting or whatever. Personally, my Laptop can go un-used(by me, anyways) for months and months, and letting my family use it helps keep it up-dated and let’s me know if problems arrise before I run face-first into them in a moment when I just need the thing to work.

I’m looking-forward to each of my kids having their own capable laptops(just ONE more …), but until then, Windows updates are stupid-prone to breaking dual-boot, only one of my kids likes/uses Linux half-so-much as I do, and even he is in more of the tweak-it-until-it-breaks-and-start-over dabbler stage, so I let him keep to his own laptop and a pile of old used ones(and consoles…) that are older than he is. 99% of what I would use it for in the mean-time, I just use my phone.

None of that ever required AI though? I’m not sure AI would even make it easier, versus just curating the output of certain feeds, filters, plug-ins, scripts or crawlers a bit.

Questions/accusations about AI-slop aren’t as painfully near-indistinguishible from AI-slop itself as they were getting last time I ranted about it, but still, it seems rude and lazy versus an ask like “where do you find the time, and why bother?”

I knew eBay fucked-up, but $55 billion? That’s couch-change to a lot of businesses with much worse brand-recognition. At least their turn-key operation isn’t over-valued by orders of magnitude…

Open Source can also imply “Off-the-Shelf” parts, in the same way IBM made their Personal Computer with parts that were already on the market from other manufacturers.