Yeah, I too once thought flying cars were the best idea since sliced bread. I’ve since grown up and realized that they’re just airplanes with extra steps, cause it’s not like you’re ever going to be able to land it on a highway or whatever. It will always be cheaper to just buy an airplane and a car and use one to get to the other.
That’s a pretty good question that I wish I had the answer to. I downloaded the latest Nobara 42 ISO off their website yesterday (Nobara-42-Official-NV-2025-05-13.iso), I didn’t see an option to choose between 32 and 64 bit, so I assumed it would detect and install the right stuff. I just did a regular install process, the only options I selected were stuff like language, keyboard layout, time zone, filesystem, etc, there was nothing about the bootloader in there so I don’t think I selected the wrong one or anything?
Yeah, I love places like ProPublica that do serious investigative journalism, though I dunno if they count as ‘independent’ anymore.
That looks like a list of words to use instead of ‘very <something>’, not instead of ‘very’. I think people are going to be confused by statements like ‘the bill is exact accurate’.
Oh yeah I didn’t think about the fact that it’s porous, shit. Yeah I’ve had my ceramic skillet set for like 15 years and never done anything special with them, but also no salt water and stuff growing on every available surface. Fair point.
Oh, shit, I didn’t realize. I’m still getting used to this lemmy/instance/federation thing, my bad.
And ad-supported is far from the only model for journalism.
It’s not, but it’s what most of them use and they seem to be reasonably successful at it, so as a measure of the abandonment of journalism I think it’s a reasonable yardstick.
Sorry, what on earth is a Beehaw and how does it relate at all to this discussion?
So, where does it come from?
I meant the idea that the general populace is no longer getting their news (directly or indirectly) from sites like that. If they weren’t writing articles that got linked around the web they wouldn’t sell ads, and if they weren’t selling ads they wouldn’t exist anymore.
Huh, I haven’t treated my ceramic skillets special at all, just rinse 'em out when I’m done and throw 'em in the dishwasher, or if I have to hand-wash I can just scrub them real quick since they’re not nasty with food gunk all over them. To the best of my knowledge they don’t require special treatment, I only suggest not letting them sit with food on them because that’ll make anything harder to clean up.
Alright, thar cute little guy will forever be known as Chocolate Chip.
I’m also not expecting people to be able to understand complex technical troubleshooting or anything either.
No, you’re just calling them stupid for not having spent the time to learn things you with your technical expertise and high comfort level with technical subjects think ought to be pretty simple. I agree that everyone could benefit from increasing their computer literacy, but I also understand that people prioritize the things they care about and that they’re not stupid for not caring to learn the stuff you think they ought to.
Also for skillets you can just buy ceramic. As long as you don’t let them sit with food on them they stay pretty non-stick for years.
And the biggest hole in yours is that you can’t imagine that people have better shit to do than learn your job alongside their own just to make it a little easier on you. Call me when you’re spending hours every day studying up on medicine and law so that you can also find the answer to your simple medical/legal questions in 30 seconds online just like doctors and lawyers can.
What you have is a magical thing called ‘job security’ that others would kill for. You are needed to figure out complex technical computer shit because other people have other shit they want to be doing with their time. If they actually did as you suggested you wouldn’t have a job anymore. But instead of viewing that as a positive - instead of feeling needed and valued for something that you contribute to society - you choose to view it as a negative: any inconvenience exists solely to make your job harder, and how dare people not devote even more of their life to making yours a little easier? I know, I felt exactly the same way when I worked IT, and it’s a big part of why I left.
Yes, companies are simplifying and refining things, in some cases they do remove functionality, that’s just the way technology works. My dad called himself a shade-tree mechanic, but when I was growing up there was nothing on a car he couldn’t fix. Nowadays he takes it to the shop not because he’s prevented from fixing it but because cars have gotten vastly more complicated in the ensuing ~40 years and he - despite being a very capable and technically-minded person - just couldn’t keep up with it anymore because the business of doing his job and raising his family was more important.
If you want to be angry at companies for obfuscating or removing functionality then brother I’m right there with you. Just don’t be making assumptions about other peoples’ intelligence just because they don’t have the time or interest to sink countless hours into this just to make your life a little easier.
Where does this idea that mainstream media is being abandoned come from? I spend a fair bit of time on sites like lemmy (and previously reddit) and most of what I see all day long is articles linked from CNN or WSJ or NYT or whatever, plus a few links to second-tier sites like HuffPost, Salon, etc that are more about opinion or analysis than just reporting things as they happen. Sure, maybe some people get their news from twitter or whatever, but as far as I can tell the vast majority of people are still getting it from cable news or major newspapers, aka the mainstream media.
But the reason they were installed in those places is because the power is cheap. Which is a particular irony in Texas because despite having cheap power we never seem to have enough of it. Every summer ERCOT rolls out warnings that are like ‘zomg you guys I didn’t realize it gets hot in Texas in the summer, y’all are gonna have to turn off your air conditioners so we don’t run out of power. What? Of course we’re not turning the AC off in our offices, are you crazy?’ Yeah, sorry chum, I’m not suffering through 100+F degree heat just so some rich asshole can make a bit more money today.
What the fuck do you imagine a military - especially the Israeli military - does, exactly? How do you imagine they’re locating those hostages? I’m going to guess it involves a lot of rather unfriendly things done to Palestinians that they would classify as ‘harm’.
Oh do you guys have cheap power too? Soon you too can enjoy the constant droning hum of some rich fuck mining bitcoin on an industrial scale to get just a little bit richer just like Texans.
You missed the most important part of the article, at the end:
What Every Trump Article Needs
Every article about Trump’s immigration policies needs to make it clear that those policies are steeped in racism.
Every article reporting on what Trump said needs to make it clear that he is a serial liar.
Every article quoting Trump needs to quote him at length, rather than cleaning up his incoherence.
Every article about a Trump announcement needs to make it clear that he could very well reverse himself anytime.
Every article about a Trump reversal needs to clearly indicate that the White House is in constant chaos, and that its reversals are deeply destabilizing
Every article about something Trump says in a social media post needs to state that he often uses social media to impetuously propose irrational things that end up not happening.
Every article involving him “testing the limits” of the rule of law needs to clearly indicate that he has no grasp of his constitutional responsibilities and is acting so unlawfully that he’s basically running a criminal enterprise.
Every article about what Trump “believes” needs a caveat that his only consistent beliefs are self-interested.
Every article about Trump enriching himself needs to make it clear that enriching himself is his dominant guiding principle.
Every article about something the administration has done needs to question whether Trump is actually aware of it.
Anything less than that is basically a cover-up.
It’s less that I’m unhappy with the answer and more that I’m confused about why you would give an answer that I’ve already said I won’t use. But if screaming into the void is your jam then you do you.
And you’re so stupid as to not be able to understand that it’s your responsibility to decide what your kids should and should not have access to, not the government’s, especially when the only tools they have to do so just make it harder for the rest of us to get access to those things at best? ‘Won’t some one please think of the children’ has worn pretty goddamned thin: think of your own children, they’re your responsibility, not mine and not Congress’.
Yeah I was gonna say, there’s a whole-ass rental car industry exactly for that kind of purpose. But this isn’t the sort of thing you buy because it ‘makes sense’, you buy it because it’s cool and you have fuck-you money so that’s enough of a reason.