LonelyWendigo

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[–] LonelyWendigo 20 points 2 years ago

Also, it's older than Rock and Roll. It's from a time when big sound meant more band members, but the current music ecomony doesn't seem well suited to supporting acts with lots of members. I long for asignificant fourth wave ska revival.

[–] LonelyWendigo 6 points 2 years ago

Duckduckgo is basically just bing results. But, I still use it for the bangs and lessened tracking. Being able to search any engine from the same search bar is remarkably convenient.

[–] LonelyWendigo 1 points 2 years ago

If you're going to all that trouble, why not try some open source alternatives next upgrade before shelling out for another license? You might be surprised how narrow the gap between Microsoft and libre office options has become.

[–] LonelyWendigo -2 points 2 years ago

Oh I got it, just wasn't as witty as you hoped. Thanks for the inane reddit level banter. I'm feeling all nostalgic.

[–] LonelyWendigo -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Doesn't really matter how you acquired it if you're sharing it without paying all appropriate licensing.

[–] LonelyWendigo 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's not arbitrary just because you don't understand the how and why of it. The expression could certainly be written more clearly, but that's an entirely separate matter.

[–] LonelyWendigo 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What you've described is exactly the ethos of conservativism. It's not really about socialism, guns, religion, or their idea of liberty; it never was. It's about defining an in group, being in that group and disenfranchisement or outright persecution of any that are outside that group. That is the only pole holding up the former big tent political ideology. Nothing else matters. That's why they are so easily manipulated as a group to advocate for political positions that run counter to their own personal interests.

[–] LonelyWendigo 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Exactly. I mean I installed it once upon a time on my server because it was well supported and most hardware I had just worked. I cut my teeth on Linux by using Ubuntu, so I'm familiar with where I'm going to have trouble and how to troubleshoot it if I do. I can tear down and setup a new Ubuntu server over a weekend if I wanted to and transfer all my stuff, but not if I had to switch distros. I could do it, but I'd rather not spend the extra time. Maybe I'm lazy, but I'm no noob. At this point for me, hopping distros is just a matter of the devil you know vs. the devil you don't. I've got more important things to DO with my machine and life than spend it fucking with and constantly breaking/fixing my setup. So, from what I've heard about it, Arch is everything that is holding back Linux on the desktop and everything I don't want in an OS unless I'm getting paid by the hour.

[–] LonelyWendigo -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Passwords are keys, not eggs. You wouldn't hide your house keys all over town, you'd keep them on your key ring and maybe give a spare to a single trusted person that explicitly would not be carrying it around town exposing your key to the risk of theft.

[–] LonelyWendigo 1 points 2 years ago

Holy mixed metaphors Batman.

[–] LonelyWendigo 6 points 2 years ago

Another thing that's satisfying is having a machine that knows when it needs to turn on the fan and never needing my input, which would be pretty ignorant on the subject anyway.

[–] LonelyWendigo 2 points 2 years ago

It's not as if the Schwartzchild radius is a physical boundary though; it's just the event horizon, a mathematical definition. If you were free falling into a black hole you might not even notice when you passed through it. The black hole is still a singularity and speaking about it's density this way is absurd. (I mean absurd in the way it makes no sense, not as an insult to you personally.) These concepts of density at the local physical level and cosmic level are very different.

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