Niiiice

Gonna try it out soon!

I contributed money, translations and properly filed bug reports to various open-source projects. But I don’t think people who don’t shouldn’t speak out. Being unhappy with a certain change signals the direction for the devs to make their code better.

Besides, KDE is no hobby project; it’s a nonprofit with full-time workers on a wage. Nonprofits are always kept to a high standard of accountability, and are resilient enough to turn negative feedback into directions for growth. It is in part this feedback that led it to develop the best DE out there.

Not every Linux user casually writes init systems. Not every Linux user is a programmer, even. Even less have competence at promoting their project so that it would be meaningfully adopted.

“Be the change you want to see” is cool and all, but Linux userbase can have opinions.

As someone who relies on systemd, but wants to have alternatives:

While it is good that other login managers will still be able to start Plasma, making the default new login manager reliant on systemd is bad. It means that non-standard installations of KDE will now require more manual labor to make it work right. And while installing sddm is not big of a hassle, this sets a precedent that can later be expanded, making it a death by a thousand cuts for everything that dares not use systemd in its operation.

Hate towards fellow humans is one strategy to divide and conquer us.

It is counterproductive and plays into the hands of forces that want to exploit us.

People are way better than you are taught, and it takes some common action to see it.

Nah, the dude really was quite shitty on several personal accounts

Honestly, having SSNs as identification in the first place is the main problem

Thanks for making this place so cool!

Yep! Waited for a while to get here. Also, makes me feel like I’m an actual expert for once, lol

(It looks like one never gets truly good at their branch of science, since there’s always a discovery at every corner)

Also likely having very high testosterone levels

Love it!

I think nature-friendly architecture and sculpture is a big part of forming environmentalist mindset and promoting sustainability that doesn’t come at the price of elegance or convenience.

It’s one of those “gender war” kind of posts that do nothing to resolve the underlying issues and just stir up drama.

Lemmy is very reactive to such content, so it’s a common instrument to spark wars out of thin air.

Not really.

1. Emission is uncontrollable, which is actually bad as central banks lose control over inflation
2. Crypto can be easily obscured and moved everywhere, which means bad actors could easily convert their crypto to, say, Monero and move it out without raising alarms
3. Deflationary crypto heavily disincentivizes any spending, bringing economy to a halt
4. You can’t reverse crypto transactions, which is often necessary

Kind of, except the traditional financial system doesn’t have digital cash, which is where crypto currently steps in.

Any traditional digital wallet is custodial. Adding non-custodial options with immutable transactions could drag the investment away from a messy system that crypto is, and back into tradfi. But this won’t happen, because governments and central banks love the control they have.

To be clear: control isn’t necessarily bad, it allows to combat financial crime and corruption, keep the social system up and running, control inflation, efficiently manage funds etc.

But there is a legitimate (and illegitimate, too) demand for money that you can put into your own wallet and be the sole person to decide what to do with it, while enjoying the convenience of digital payments.

Yes. Actual crypto is stored on several (mostly cold) wallets, and what you see in your exchange account is just a number. When you withdraw crypto, it gets sent from one of the exchange’s wallets.

But as long as it’s on the exchange, your account is just a number on a paper, so to speak. This is important for the exchange’s function though, as it allows you to trade crypto without paying chain commissions.

Any trading/swap operation is just a switch in paper numbers.

I’d rather see them properly regulated rather than gone. But then again, many people prefer it to be a wild west.

In any case, custodial crypto accounts are here to stay, because not everyone trusts their own crypto storage over the exchange one, and properly securing your crypto in a non-custodial way takes some expenses, making it non-viable for small holders.

Institutional holders may also prefer custodial services to avoid accounting nightmare and shift insurance and other expenses.

Especially when your first distro is literal goddamn Arch with a few bells and whistles

Today, I use MPV to handle the most screwed video files

In my opinion, there are two key could issues with it: societal attitudes and desperation.

Society clearly discriminates sex workers, especially women, as sex work is associated with promiscuity and little limits. Ex-sexual workers are more likely to be harassed and face unwanted sexualized interactions. They have issues finding a long-term partner and may have to hide their past from everyone.

Another issue is that many people choose sexual careers not because they want it, but because it’s one of the few ways to make money quickly. This experience can be heavily traumatic, not only because of the aforementioned societal attitudes, but because of violation of intimacy and losing agency over own body.

So, legalization of prostitution is, at best, harm reduction at this stage.

Important nuance: there absolutely are people who enjoy working in the sex industry. Ideally, healthy incentives and shift in social attitudes would allow them to work in this sphere and others not to. But as things stand, we’re very much not there yet.

I think you should not be allowed to breed someone into existence when you have the date of their murder already in your calendar.

Well, that’s how we differ. All emotionally charged language aside, I’d rather see animals see some life than no life at all.

Besides, with the way you put it, this looks less and less like a genuine wish to unpack my views and more like an attempt to debate it.

I believe that we can and should make farming practices better, making a better life for these animals. And I think that, even with the views you have, you will agree it would at least be better than what we currently see.