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[–] hellofriend 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think you have to consider personality as well. Aang is very much like "air". He's free and spiritual. Korra, on the other hand, is nothing like water. She's impulsive and hotheaded. It only makes sense that her most used element would be fire.

[–] hellofriend 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Personally, I think it depends on the sitch. Something immutable would probably be the better go for people coming from Windows and would help with IT costs since all systems would be, at their base, the same. No one is going to accidentally install something that breaks their system. And the main drawback of immutability (less control over the system) wouldn't be a problem because people shouldn't be installing things on government systems that are outside the scope of their job.

EDIT: In a sentence: a good distro is one that's good for your organization.

[–] hellofriend 2 points 2 days ago

Depends where you are. I can't speculate on the EU or its member-states. But here in Canada, your information is basically stuck at an organization unless you give consent to have it sent somewhere else. And it gets even more complicated when it involves a provincial-federal relationship.

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[–] hellofriend 61 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Makes sense for Aang to airbend far more than the others. Who's fought an airbender in the last hundred years? Plus, it's his native element that he's already mastered. He has far less experience with the others.

It's pretty interesting, given the above, that Korra is much more balanced in her use of bending. She's been practicing the first three forms since she was a child and mastered airbending during the course of the show. The writers seem to have put some thought into how both characters would fight given their respective backgrounds.

[–] hellofriend 10 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Solution: don't ship a shitty distro. This is the sort of issue that actual IT professionals need final say in. Not the MBAs. Not the politicals. The people who actually know what they're doing. Additionally, years ago Linux was in a much different place. It's really matured into something more suitable for both the average end user as well as professional adoption.

[–] hellofriend 6 points 3 days ago

Governments tend to have security standards that differ from most solutions readily available. Not saying this is the case, but it's a possibility.

[–] hellofriend 6 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Could easily fork a distro and pay a government agency or independent entity the same amount as Microsoft is currently being paid to maintain the distro. Or they could put financial backing on any of the current commercial Linux solutions out there. It's far from farfetched.

[–] hellofriend 7 points 1 week ago

Bodied and/or wrecked

[–] hellofriend 3 points 1 week ago

Thanks so much! I'll pay it forward :)

[–] hellofriend 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm super interested in Dishonoured. You're a pretty cool dude :)

[–] hellofriend 1 points 1 week ago
 

Almost every distro I've used so far ends up having problems installing Steam due to mismatching i386 packages. I've heard that they're being removed upstream. Anyone happen to know a timeline?

 

I'm looking to start a career in GRC. Been searching a bunch of different things (e.g. cybersecurity internal audit, GRC analyst, cyber audit, risk analyst, etc.) but everything that's coming up is mid-senior positions, manager positions, etc.

 

This is the laptop in question. It has an x86 processor so basically any distro should work on it. However, it is still a Chromebook which likely means Google fuckery in the BIOS. But it's great value for the money (can get it $300 off at Costco) and if I can plop Linux on to it then I'd love it.

 

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Been poking around All recently and I've noticed that there is more lemmy activity in Dutch than any other non-English language. German following that, and then Portuguese (I think, maybe Spanish). I see more Nederlander posts than even the UK instances. So what's up with this? Cheers from Canada 😙

 

Reading up on One Big Union. The Wikipedia article mentions that at the end of its days it was generating income via a lottery in its bulletin. This gave me an idea.

In the interest of diversifying news media, strengthening journalistic practices and integrity, creating non-partisan news coverage, and giving Canadian works a national outlet for publishing, I would like to start an online newspaper. However, I would like to limit ads since I find them distasteful at best and compromising at worst. This leaves subscription income and one-off purchases as the main revenue sources.

The issue with this is that people don't purchase news media anymore. They either look at an ad-supported website or they wait for someone else to buy a paywalled article and copypaste it somewhere. So the issue with a non-ad-supported model is that there's no incentive to buy. Hence, a lottery a la a 50/50 draw or some such. This would give people incentive to buy, increasing the circulation of the newspaper. So I'm hoping someone might be able to provide some insight into the matter.

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