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  • Ubuntu Pro subscription - should you pay to use Linux?

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  • Paying for services isn't philosophically incompatible with FOSS, that's how companies like RedHat broke through back in the day, but paying for "quick and high-quality security updates" strikes me as alarming. Am I to take from that that they're holding back high-quality security updates from some users? Unless maybe we're talking about extended support for EoL software.

  • Considering their move away from VR and to AI, Meta should rename to Slop

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  • I think even Slop is too benign for what Meta is.

  • Please make a Trump superpost

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  • The question isn't whether it's important news, the question is whether it's relevant for this community. There are plenty of places to discuss Trump, so does it really have to be here as well? (That's an open question, by the way, I'm not saying either way here).

  • [Help Design Lemmy] How to describe Lemmy in a single Sentence?

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  • I think the main problem is "link aggregator" which doesn't make a lot of sense as the main function is discussion. For a minimal change you could go for "a discussion platform for the fediverse".

    If "fediverse" is too obscure; you could try just "a decentralised discussion platform". Decentralised isn't technical, you can't fully describe the fediverse in a sentence but "decentralised" gives a clue.

  • The Votely Political Quiz - Most Accurate 3D Political Compass

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  • If you made this yourself and are looking for feedback (that's unclear), one issue is:

    No branch of government should be allowed to accumulate too much power.

    Surely by definition too much power is too much regardless of your personal threshold for "too much", hence everyone's answer will be the same?

  • Do you prefer FOSS over proprietary software? How much do you use it?

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  • Almost exclusively on my desktop and has been for about 20 years, it's my computer and I wouldn't have it any other way.

    Not so on my phone exactly though but I use my phone as little as possible.

  • 2025 likely to be UK's hottest year on record, says Met Office

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  • Surely it's likely to have been at this stage, not likely to be.

  • If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?

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  • This kind of anthropomorphisation is bad, it shows a lack of understanding of the technology, it's a terrible idea.

  • Great British Railways flies the flag as logo goes back to the future

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  • I never said I wasn't happy

  • Great British Railways flies the flag as logo goes back to the future

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  • What’s insecure about using the British flag on a British state owned railway?

    It feels like a forced sense of pride. If anything the British national railway should be a national symbol in and of itself, it shouldn't need to be propped up by the union flag. I don't hate the design either by the way, but it seems heavy-handed.

  • Great British Railways flies the flag as logo goes back to the future

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  • Just because the rest of the world does something it doesn't mean we should be doing it too. It has been noticed as a new trend.

  • Any reason NOT to switch to ProtonVPN from Mullvad?

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  • Any particular reason for moving from Mullvad?

  • "My Week Without Driving" (Art by Sylvia Odhner)

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  • It doesn't have to be an either/or; a good bus network reduces traffic and reduces the land needed to be used for roads and parking spaces, creating a nicer, safer environment to live in. Also more buses mean less traffic which mean more reliable buses. Rail has its place too of course, they complement each other.

  • "My Week Without Driving" (Art by Sylvia Odhner)

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  • But the person is assuming the result would still be poor public transport. In a sense they're right, spending a lot of money to still take "an hour to get somewhere that a car will reach in ten minutes" would not be worth it because that would be a failure, but assuming failure isn't a reason to argue against it when lots of places do it well and benefit greatly from it. Reaching for an analogy, it's a bit like saying we shouldn't make an omelette because it'll be raw if we don't cook it and that would be a waste of money.

  • "My Week Without Driving" (Art by Sylvia Odhner)

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  • No one is going to willingly choose to take an hour to get somewhere that a car can reach in ten minutes. No one is going to willingly choose to stand out on a random corner in the snow, rain, cold, or extreme heat just to wait for a bus that might already be delayed, and whose environmental systems might be malfunctioning.

    That's the point of improving things, then it wouldn't be like that. But the previous sentence you said it was a pointless endeavour so I'm not sure what your point is.

    If you have bad public transport you can't argue against making it good based on the fact that it's bad now since if it was good then it would no longer be bad. I really don't know what else to say.

  • NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’

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  • It's always been a sign that you're a bit of a pillock to be honest, I don't think it's changed much in my lifetime.

  • Is Kagi search engine worth it?

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  • I'd like to use SearXNG as well but experience the same - I've tried a lot of different instances and settings but I always seem to get worse results than searching directly in the source search engine, for some reason? (note I don't use Kagi so this isn't an endorsement for them either)

  • I saw a Cybertruck in person for the first time tonight

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  • It's not sold in many countries, I've never seen one.

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    Which is worse: drunk driving or illegal street racing?

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  • Where did I say anything that implied otherwise?