LOL, no they won’t. They’ll just make you throw out your nail clippers and water, while routinely missing shit that’s actually dangerous.

On the contrary: that just goes to show what a fucking catastrophe for software freedom “Secure[sic] Boot” is.

“Zionist genocide whitewashing group StopAntisemitism has been named antisemite of the week by Everyone With a Goddamn Brain”

I learned Python after I already knew C, and I will forever be grateful for that.

I took an Operating Systems class in undergrad whose first assignment was to implement a simple web server in C, and it was fine. Later, I took the same prof’s grad-level class and had to do basically the same assignment again, and all I could think was “wow, this is incredibly tedious: this whole thing would be literally two lines of Python.” Python absolutely ruined my patience for writing C (or at least, for writing C socket code that has to manually juggle IPv4 and v6 struct addrinfos and whatnot).

Ha, you haven’t lived [in Hell] until you’ve tried to maintain a Jython build, with Python package dependencies (not just Java ones), in a production environment, in the 2020s.

Your local county extension office and nearby universities with agricultural programs.

Example: https://extension.uga.edu/publications/series/detail.html/71/home-garden.html

Bonus points if it’s fucking with the justices personally. Telling the IRA to adjust someone’s taxes upwards sounds like an “official action”…

“Adjust their taxes?” That’s it? You and I have wildly different ideas of what “fucking with the justices personally” would look like. I was thinking more in terms of aquatic mammals…

Then again, with that Freudian slip on your three-letter acronym, maybe we’re not on such different pages after all, LOL!

Haha Trump v. United States go brrrrr

This situation you describe is legitimately one of my greatest fears as a parent. I have little useful advice to give; all I can really say is “good luck” and to research terms like “elsagate,” “gamergate” and “PewDiePipeline” to see what advice actual experts (psychologists etc.) have about deprogramming kids from them.

I was raised allowed to moderate my own content because I was trusted to be intelligent and wise enough to critically select what I watched or read and learn from the mistakes I made if I consumed something negatively influential.

I was raised allowed to moderate my own content because my computer-illiterate parents had absolutely no clue what the Internet was capable of exposing me to. Frankly, it was only dumb luck on their part that I happened to have the right personality and skills not to succumb to inceldom, the Alt-Right, or some other kind of radicalization.

(Even more frankly, maybe I did succumb to radicalization: I am, after all, an urbanist leftist Linux user (among other weird things) who likes to hang out on Lemmy, LOL!)

I was afraid of that (which is why I phrased it less definitively than I could have). Good to know!

Haha paper mills go brrrrrrrrrrrrr

IIRC, the fun conspiracists moved to r/high_strangeness or something like that.

I’m just gonna be getting some plain old 2-1/4" red oak strips. (The kind that was typical “builder-grade” in cheap houses back in the day before wall-to-wall carpet was a thing.)

Yeah, I’m looking to buy flooring soon and, for the stuff I want, they’re like 50¢/sq.ft. cheaper than Floor & Decor. I guess I’d better go ahead and get it quick!

I don’t recall the reasons for the addition but /media is newer than /mnt.

Something to do with hard-coded mounts in /etc/fstab vs. dynamically-mounted removable media (USB drives etc.), I think.

I’m going for the Dr. Venkman combo: “Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!”

it’s soulless car-dependant suburbs that are like Windows!

Some suburbs are nice, too.

It’s precisely the streetcar suburbs that are nice, and they are nice precisely because they are not car-dependent.

No, because a kibbutz (planned intentional community) would be the “cathedral” in that analogy, and the city (incrementally developed community) would be the bazaar.

Linux is the communal kibbutz, Windows is the corporate city.

I was 100% with you until you decided to go and diss cities.

Cities are great and neighborhoods within them can have plenty of sense of community; it’s soulless car-dependant suburbs that are like Windows!

“Moderates” are a fiction. They’re just an excuse Democrats make for pandering to corporate donors while giving only the barest scraps to their leftist base.