It’s “choosing the easy option” and “being soft”. There’s no deeper meaning that I can discern.

Evidently, “real men” choose “hardship” so they are ready when “hardship” chooses them?

Also I think the pictured “(Alpha Male)” account is intentional satire of the Tates of the world.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

I actually hate this quote because idiots around me use this thought pattern to reject the results of rigorous scientific studies in favor of their isolated, personal experiences.

To them, “Science” is an much an authoritarian imposition as “The Party” and “Scientism” is the worst “cult”.

Yes, your experience is valid. But, it doesn’t trump shared objective reality, which good science reveals.

No, I think more MS users = MS shady shit. So, to discourage MS shady shit, I encourage people to not use MS software. I also think that people who are worried about abuse by priests should not tithe or otherwise donate to Catholic churches (belief matters less than action here; and it’s less reasonable to swap out belief system, I guess.)

That’s why your analogy seems backwards to me.

Doesn’t matter anyway. I guess I just don’t get it. Have a nice day.

The VM protects somewhat from network attacks and spread. But, I do imagine most vulnerabilities of Win10 would still be exploitable, and you would be sacrificing some performance, yes.

I didn’t like the name, but it was a nice option for Nvidia laptops esp. from System76.

I ended up replacing it with Ubuntu; but I can’t remember exactly why. I normally use Debian.

I’m not sure I get the analogy here… Do you think there will be less abuse by priests if there are more Catholics?

I’m been using Linux full time since 2004, and while I think it is good to let people know it is there, I don’t recommend it to people I’m not willing to personally support. But, I also let them know I just can’t help with Windows problems either, and they should address their complaints to their OS vendor.

I file Debian bugs if I have a problem with my OS, and have received fixes that way. This is better support that I ever received from MS during my first 2 decades of using MS OSes.

Thank you both for being parents. Once the kids are here, they deserve protection and nurturing, not regret.

On most metrics Tennessee is better than Arkansas. Are you referencing any particular defect in Teneessee? I’ve only spent a little time there; a weekend trip over the river to Memphis.

EDIT: Oh, I’m an idiot. Jack Daniel’s. Yeah, that economy is going to take a serious hit from CA and EU deciding they don’t want that product.

I’m not a wine fan, but I didn’t think it was particularly good or bad.

They have a microclimate there that is different than either where I grew up, or where I lived for most of my life. And, seeing as there are multiple vineyards, I’m guessing yes? It’s cooler than I’m used to due to the shade and general hilly-ness. If you want to “buy American”, they are definitely worth a try.

What about #Arkansas wine from Altus ?

(Sorry, gotta represent my home state, even if our government sucks.)

I was about to downvote the AI slop, but your reply gave it enough context that Imma leave it alone.

Alpha, the one after Gen Z, which is after Millennials, which is after Gen X, which was named that not because it was the 24th, but because they didn’t have a good name so they used X as a placeholder for an unknown name.

Generations are slightly bullshit tho. Birthdate definitely matters, but it more of a continuum / spectrum than discrete generations.

That is one possible destination for deportation, yes.

Administration “mistakenly” flags you as dead. FBI does a “stop and frisk”: you present your ID. That person is dead, claiming to be them is fraud. You have no citizenship papers, so you can be deported on the accusation of fraud, sans due process. At the destination, you can call for habeas corpus, if relevant in that jurisdiction.

Don’t expect the administration to “facilitate” your return in any meaningful way.

Yeah, we’d have to shift tactics. But, without IP law protections, the hacker community would double down on reverse engineering and binary patching. Debian etc. would still be available, but you’d also see spins on Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, and Google software based on decompiling, patching, and rebuilding, or just game genie / PC game cracks binary patching based on offset and signature.

The DMCA would dissolve and encrypted data that was expected to be decrypted on the fly (“streaming only”) would just be published fully decrypted.

It would be a revolutionary shift, but I’m not convinced it would be worse.

What would be worse is keeping IP law, but only having it enforced by million dollar yearly budget teams of lawyers and not protecting creators from having their works fed to “AI” and regurgitated as slop.

Ah, yeah, my father only threatened to fight me once, and he never did. (I think he felt I was directly questioning his authority when non-family members were present, but the memory is hazy at best now.)

It does sound like your experience is abnormal. (But, I’m not really informed; just working from my experience, and hearsay.)

I don’t think we were drunk, but I did eventually ask a friend which they were… and it caused the same conversion for me.

I don’t think my father would consider spankings, with wooden paddle or leather belt, child abuse. It was a threat that I fell afoul of a few times at school or home.

Depending on your age, that level of “child abuse” might be normal. (Not that it should be.)

Didn’t you hear? Due process is suspended indefinitely. /s (sorta)