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MentalEdge

@ MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz

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Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.

Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.

  • I finally figured out that my cat Miez doesn't like hopping onto the potentially wet window sill, so today I built her a ladder including entrance way

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  • Then you are guilty of the same thing. The above is a retort to the idea that my side has any relation to authoritarian thinking. It's not based on my assumptions around your reasoning, but literally a point you just tried to make.

    There are legitimate reasons to give a creature the opportunity to learn to fend for itself and as such expose it to the risks of doing so. Children who must one day become independent adults. Animals to be re-wilded and released back into nature.

    Neither, nor any other that I'm aware of, apply to domestic pets.

    I am perfectly willing to consider your mindset. My very first sentence is a question requesting you elaborate on what exactly it is you gain by trading in the safety of your cat. Because you don't actually mention what that is.

  • I finally figured out that my cat Miez doesn't like hopping onto the potentially wet window sill, so today I built her a ladder including entrance way

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  • Listing five preventably dead cats I personally knew is over the top?

    Why is taking the risk important?

    You are not re-wilding an animal that's gotten used to being in a zoo, in order to restore an endangered species.

    You are releasing a domestic pet into an uncontrolled environment.

    Why is it important to do that? And why does this importance only apply to cats?

  • I finally figured out that my cat Miez doesn't like hopping onto the potentially wet window sill, so today I built her a ladder including entrance way

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  • Worth it to gain what?

    You are not re-wilding an animal that's gotten used to being in a zoo.

    Your logic is like overfeeding a pet because it likes the food enough to keep eating it.

    Your cat is not a toddler that will one day need to be a functioning member of society. You can and should make decisions that ensure its safety in exchange for its freedoms.

    It's the same reasoning behind why you don't let a child hit the town until they're old enough. The difference, is that a cat is never "old enough". It's a pet.

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  • I finally figured out that my cat Miez doesn't like hopping onto the potentially wet window sill, so today I built her a ladder including entrance way

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  • Parasites. Disease. Pest traps. Poisons. Traffic. Dangerous climbs. Other cats. People.

    I know someone who had three cats get run over before they learned to keep them inside. They live on an island in the finnish archipelago that barely even has roads let alone traffic.

    Another friend lost two cats to a neighbour who fed them poisoned chicken.

    Go on. Tell me there's zero risk.

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  • I finally figured out that my cat Miez doesn't like hopping onto the potentially wet window sill, so today I built her a ladder including entrance way

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  • Like the other guy said.

    How can your conscience be clear, if the one in danger is Miez?

  • I finally figured out that my cat Miez doesn't like hopping onto the potentially wet window sill, so today I built her a ladder including entrance way

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  • You can ignore this comment, OP. I'm sure you've heard all this before and already have practice.

    This is for everyone else.

    A cat can live a perfectly happy life without danger. Do not let them outside without a leash.

    "Outdoor" cats die earlier and are at greater risk of parasites and disease. That is a fact. Most animal shelters include a contractual obligation not to do what OP does in their adoption agreements. Violating this requirement would be considered animal abuse, and grounds for them to take the animal back for re-adoption.

    Transitioning an outdoor cat to indoor life can be difficult, but what OP does is not normal and should not be. No-one should let a pet outside unattended. And most people wouldn't. But for some reson some people make an exception for cats. And only cats. This is a logical error.

    Animals are either wild or domestic. Not both.

    I'm pretty sure OP wouldn't let a dog roam free, yet all the same logic for why that is so, applies to cats.

    The needs of a cat that are fulfilled by the outdoors, can be fulfilled indoors. Places to hide, surfaces to scratch, toys to play with, etc. If your cat is miserable indoors, that's on you, not the nature of the animal.

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  • Netflix CEO says that DC will make more projects like The Penguin moving forward

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  • And then immediately cancel them.

    I don't trust anything Netflix makes. It doesn't matter how good it is or how much the fans love it, if it doesn't immediately blow up and eclipse Stranger Things, then it's not big enough for them and gets axed.

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  • SPLITGATE: Arena Reloaded [the reworked Splitgate 2 relaunch]

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  • Yes.

    Actually.

  • Has anyone been able to play efootball 19 on linux?

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  • I use Bottles for windows games that I don't have on steam or GOG.

  • Nextcloud logs me out whenever I restart

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  • In that case, something is invalidating the login. Are you sure that it is happening due to leaving your LAN, and not just coinciding with that?

    Does restarting the laptop log you out, or temporarily disconnecting from the internet? Could you test by switching to a wifi hotspot on your phone, and switching back, for example?

    The client stores your session token in the OS credentials manager (kwallet for linux kde, for example) and the issue can lie there, as well.

  • Nextcloud logs me out whenever I restart

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  • That's definitely not how it should work. Leaving your LAN should not invalidate a session.

    Is this in your browser, or are you talking about the desktop client?

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  • Recommendations for after installing Linux (Mint) coming from Windows for best practices for a casual user ?

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  • Flathub and the AUR are by far the most comprehensive, and flatpaks works on a lot of distros. So I checked those.

    They've also been getting their kinks worked out over the last few years and work much better than they used to.

    That review you found is two years old and was for version 1.1. Current version is 1.4. Try it out today, if it's been fixed leave another review letting people know. It seems to work just fine for me, but I haven't used it before.

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  • Recommendations for after installing Linux (Mint) coming from Windows for best practices for a casual user ?

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  • Material Maker is on Flathub, the AUR, and on Snapcraft (not up to date, but you shouldn't use snap anyway).

    No need for a manual install.

    You'll find a lot of software is available via package managers. Linux people don't like installing anything without it being managed by a package manager so the installation and subsequent updates are automatic and occur alongside system updates. So when people find software they like, they'll go out of their way to package and distribute it for others as well

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  • Yes. But you didn't.

    Knowing what something does is important.

    If you install a piece of software expecting it to do something it actually doesn't, that can leave a security gap.

    I wasn't just correcting you. I was making sure you knew that if you install a "firewall" it won't do the thing you're looking for.

    As for an actual answer, most distros will already ask you to confirm if you try to run a random appimage you downloaded.

    But you shouldn't need to do that in the first place. On linux, there's not really any need to go running random programs downloaded using your web browser, since you can just download software from trusted reposotories that aren't going to host malware to begin with.

    Unlike on windows... You don't need to risk it in the first place.

  • "Do you know what time it is, young man?"

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  • "Is... Is it food-a-clock?"

    "Very goood! Only you're three hours late. Now get to it."

  • The RAM pricing crisis has only just started, Team Group GM warns — says problem will get worse in 2026 as DRAM and NAND prices double in one month

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  • First, they came for our GPUs

  • Recommendations for after installing Linux (Mint) coming from Windows for best practices for a casual user ?

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  • And I'm telling you a firewall won't do that.

    It won't have anything to say at all about something you download and run.

    It's a completely different security feature. It handles potentially malicious network activity. Not software on your computer.

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  • Be Your Own Privacy-Respecting Google, Bing & Brave

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  • It's not federated tho?

    What do they mean when they call it that?

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  • oh with the firewall saving me from myself I meant if I download something thinking it's safe but isn't

    A firewall would not save you from that.

    A firewall stops random incoming connections. But if you download and run something bad, that'd be an outgoing connection, since the malicious program is then already on your system.

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