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The president "has full trust in the capacity of the Hungarian public to make up its own mind based on objective, factual information as to what we do,"

Spoiler alert: they're dumb as a rock.

Sure, it's not really nice to generalize, and respect to those who actually are able to use their brains, I know there are a few. But the majority is either dumb or corrupted or both. They believe everything they see on TV or billboards without a doubt.

We had that in Europe too, but I don't see these anymore.

In my opinion it's not useless at all. Lemmy marks the comments as edited, but that's just to show the fact that it was edited. But if you add the reason why you edited, that makes it a whole lot more transparent.

Sometimes it could happen that I see a great comment full of great ideas from a great user, and it could be lengthy as well. Then later I go back to see the reactions, and I see the comment was edited. If I don't know what was edited on it, then I have to read the whole comment again. But if it's clearly stated that only typos were fixed, then I don't bother with re-reading the comment.

That's why you proofread before you post, don't you?

Why is it such a big deal? I don't regret anything. Back in the days when Google was a cool company and Chrome appeared, it totally made sense to use Chrome. After they gradually started to get more and more hostile, I switched to Firefox. It was just a matter of exporting and importing bookmarks and setting up some plugins. And changing the search engine.

Downvoted for the stupid title. Well yeah, it's not a lie. But it's unnecessary to create panic around it at this point.

The tremendous amount of issues with the 737 Max and its certification process have already been identified and rectified, and the already manufactured aircraft were also fixed, and the ones responsible for the disasters are (hopefully) punished.

While I'm not a Boeing fan myself, I guess, by now it's safe to fly.

Digital without a doubt.

• More convenient to travel with it
• Awesome how the e-ink looks just like paper and draws little energy
• Your entire library can take much less space
• Save the trees
• If it gets damaged, only your device will be destroyed, but your library (hopefully) remains (if you make backups)
• Instant access to basically any book (no need to wait for delivery or in-person shopping)

To me, my Kobo was one of the best investments I've ever made. Before buying it, I didn't really read many books

COSMIC being written in Rust isn’t revolutionary; Rust is great, but it’s just a memory-safe C-family language. It’s a fine choice to write a new DE in, but the benefits are mostly on the side of the developer than the user.

I beg to differ. First of all, the fact that the Rust compiler eliminates a bunch of bugs that would cause crashes in other languages, is already a major factor in making the user experience smoother. Secondly, generally speaking, according to my own experience, overall code quality has a proportional effect on the software. If it's written well, bugs are more likely to be caught during testing and less likely to occur after release. In a badly written software there are always more bugs. This point isn't Rust-specific, just mentioning that developer-related stuff does have an impact on the user experience. And by the fact that Rust is such a powerful tool compared to others, and COSMIC being the first desktop environment written in RUST, it is revolutionary.

Mir and Ubuntu Frame are open source, and since when have we required the FOSS world to be monolithic around one solution? We have multiple DEs, multiple browsers, multiple office suites and email clients, heck whole selections of different FOSS OSs. The variety, competition, and ability to choose is kinda the whole point. If Canonical think they can do a better job with Ubuntu Frame kiosk software with Mir, they can have at it.

Sure, I didn't say we can only have one solution for each problem. As long as a new solution is justified (offers unique features, better performance, more stable and reliable, or by other measures), then so be it. That will make the open source world better. For example, if they decided to write the Mir Wayland compositor in Rust, that would be a valid reason to keep pursuing it (although even then wouldn't entirely be convinced by that). I'm still saying, for the problem of segmentation it isn't very good that many small teams are creating software that otherwise already exist. I find contributing to the major ones more useful.

(Btw you seem to have a quite deep and extensive knowledge of the history of Ubuntu components. Upvoted for the detailed insights.)

Apart from what some commenters already pointed out (about the orientation of the roads there), I'm not sure how it's going in the US, but in Europe, we have a hierarchy, where the sign on a pole takes precedence over the sign painted on the road.

The hierarchy is:

1. Police officer's hand signs
2. Traffic lights
3. Signs on a pole
4. Signs painted on the road

According to this, you cannot turn left, even though it looks like a left turning lane.

Is there such a thing in the US?

Wow, I've used Reddit for years, and I have never ever seen such a guideline before! Now this is a really interesting post, and the comments are pretty insightful that make me think.

Yes, it totally makes sense not to upvote or downvote based on agreement or disagreement, but based on relevancy and accuracy. But what if the author is asking about our opinion, and someone has already commented my exact opinion? It feels natural to upvote it based on agreement.

Here's an example: there's a post asking about opinions, maybe advice, and then there are two comments. One that says "do drugs, kids, it's good", and one that says "no, don't do drugs, drugs are always bad". And I absolutely agree with one of those comments. If I upvote the one I agree with, and leave the other alone, maybe even downvote it, then the author of the post will see comments with weight. On the other hand, if I don't do anything, because "oh look, someone already commented my precise opinion, so I'm done here", then the author of the post might remain in doubt, because there will be two equally presented opinions and that's like no advice at all.

So all in all, it makes sense to have a system about what to upvote and what to downvote, but there are just things that feel wrong to upvote, even if the etiquette dictates that it should be upvoted.

Nevertheless, it would be a great idea to come up with a system (that can be applied in any situation) and stick to it.

Here's my take though:

What it felt like on Reddit by others:

Upvote: totally random

Downvote: totally random

What it feels like on Lemmy + what my impression of the voting system has been up until now:

Upvote: agree/useful/my girlfriend's post or comment

Downvote: strongly disagree/useless/spam/troll

From now on:

Well... this post definitely makes me think. I still have to make up my mind.

This old canard again.

Dude, I was just sharing my own opinion. Has anyone mentioned these before? I didn't know about that.

Came first.

Alright, I've just looked up both code repositories. You're right, the first tagged version of snapd was committed one month before the first tagged version of Flatpak.

For some reason the people who love to hate on Ubuntu for doing Unity never seem to have quite the same disdain for Linux Mint for doing Cinnamon, Pop_OS! for doing COSMIC, Solus for soing Budgie, etc.

Of the mentioned UI shells, I only have experience with Unity and Cinnamon. I can't argue about the rest. However: COSMIC is actually revolutionary, since it's entirely made in Rust. I'm actually looking forward to it and I'm eager to try it once it becomes stable. Cinnamon was made for a reason: back in the days, when Gnome 3 was released, its UI was quite controversial. Cinnamon aimed to provide a more classic experience while running on new Gnome. Unity was neither revolutionary (looked the same as Gnome), nor usable (it was slow af). Bottom line here is, if they're developing and maintaining their own solution for something that has a popular alternative, then better do a good job, otherwise don't try to force it on the users. Or do force it, and maybe someone will like it... but OP was asking about the worst distro, so I came up with one that I personally didn't find usable on the long run, and still is unrealistically popular in my opinion.

Mir has since grown into a very capable multi-protocol Wayland+ compositor and is a fine piece of kit, if rather niche.

Well, what I meant was Mir as a display server, but you got the point. Now they turned it into a Wayland compositor. Cool, but then why not do a favor to the open source community and contribute to wlroots instead?

• Bret Fischer' Docker courses
• Maximilian Schwarzmüller's JS courses are said to be good, I only tried his Vue course, that one is indeed good.
• Mosh Hamedani had great C# courses, but sadly he hasn't been updating them, so by now they're outdated. Could be still relevant for the basics.
• Asim Hussain's JS courses
• Aaron Parecki's The Nuts and Bolts of OAuth - I've found it a straight to the point explanation of the basics that should be enough for smaller projects, and also enough for you to make your further research when you need it.
• Not programming, but I would put Kody Amour's math courses here as well.
• Nathan Stocks' Rust courses are fine. I got them for free, if you watch out, you might find him posting coupon codes for free access to his courses. I haven't found them especially excellent, but for free they're actually pretty good.