Yup. Punishment vs rehabilitation is often the focus cited, but it’s more accurate to evaluate it on a scale of public necessity vs profit generator. There’s a reason why US has the biggest proportion of incarceration: It’s a system that is working as intended, and the rehabilitation vs punishment aspect is an afterthought.

I remember it very well. But once the encryption key for the region lock got onto the internet, fixing your drive was simple.

Did they still have x86_64 CPUs in 2015 apples?

Same. Got some leftover Fortinet from work that I’m using. Could be better, but my Fortigate 101E works miles better than my ISP default router. All I had to do was assign upstream wan to VLAN 10 and spoof the MAC address.

Norwegian here, can confirm: It’s regular tap water. It’s bottled quite some distance away from Voss, though.

I don’t have experience with hosting lemmy specifically, but from what I hear it doesn’t require much other than being a bit RAM-hungry. Add some swap space, use the instance primarily for yourself, and you should be good.

Hosting does not attract CSAM on its own. Anonymous uploads do. Only host services that you find useful yourself, and maybe sharing it with friends, and that’s a reasonably safe start.

Varies a lot based on country of origin and destination.

Here in norwegialand we have VAT between 15 and 25% depending on the type of goods when buying domestically as a private person. When buying something from abroad instead, such as online shopping, this is replaced by a customs fee/tariff of about the same amount. There are exceptions and caveats, but that’s the gist of it.

If it’s a thing that straight cis people are a dying breed, I haven’t noticed it. Nor have I noticed a phobia associated with it. I am one myself, and acknowledging that people who are different from me should have the same rights does not make me feel threatened in any way.

It’s worth noting that I edited in the “semi” prefix after they replied, because while that’s what I meant, the unedited post made it seem like I wanted to toss ostriches around.

Yeah, I forgot to specify that I was thinking of birds that can maneuver into a soft landing. I think penguins are dealing with enough already anyway.

My immediate thought too. We have homeless people here in Norway too. Homeless does not mean without housing or shelter.

Does sshd count?

Beyond the “default” stuff, I always seem to end up with a setup that involves linux + apache + mod_perl + postgresql for various purposes. And by the way, that’s the only proper LAMP stack in my book, and I will die on this hill.

Chav in the UK, Gopnik in Russia

Sphincters are important for other things too. It’s basically any muscle that forms a ring. While anuses (anii?) are obvious use cases, you also have one between your stomach and intestines, and one in each eye. Probably other places too.

I would think a box intended for mailing a turd would be built to contain the smell.

Jaws is basically “An Enemy of the People” (by Henrik Ibsen) in a modern wrapping.

And Avatar is pretty much space-Pocahontas

Possibly because I also have a small fan running inside the box

They still stink if you let some air through by farting. Boxes are rarely airtight, whereas assholes usually are.

Source: I have a plastic box that I often put some acetone in. And sometimes I fart. The two are not related.

Probably a little, at least while their oil exports are actively being hindered.

When a country’s access to the international market is hindered, or manufacturing for international markets is itself hindered, currency backed by said products tend to suffer.

Slava Ukraini! Heroyam slava!