I certainly agree and thank you, no worries.
Sounds good to me and by the looks of things I believe you are right.
Thanks!
Really glad to see that, it hasn't been great since covid first showed up. Hopefully this trend continues.
Your account says you joined 2 months ago so unless it's an alt account, you haven't really been here a very long time which probably plays into it. Furthermore are you actually looking for anything creative or unique? It looks like you have primarily just hopped around on technology communities. I would recommend browsing for communities that have more creativity and subjectivity to offer.
Man, the business representative had so many opportunities to fix their fuck up and did nothing. Certainly a microcosm of larger issues though.
The US failed to succeed against ~100,000 Taliban in a country they could bomb and burn freely.
It cost the US 2 Trillion dollars for the war including expenses for hardware such as the 362,484 bombs they dropped.
The population of the US is ~347 Million.
If even 0.1% of the population actually decided to do something and made a coordinated effort, the US would be up against three times as many people and wouldn't be able to bomb them nearly as easily.
The US also really, really does not want anything like this happening in their borders, because it would interfere majorly with cash flow from it's citizens to itself as well as it's businesses it's in bed with. It also can't kill a lot of it's own people, because again, the money would go away. This means the more people that would oppose them, the less they could kill or capture without destroying themselves.
For this reason I think it's probably more viable than most people suspect.
The only real problem is that it's only flesh and blood that affirm freedoms gain, and people generally either feel well off enough that they don't want to do anything, or are simply too afraid to do anything.
In any event, no one ever wants to be the first one to act. They usually wait on someone else to first.
Yea you need a Kananaskis pass to go over there.
Clearly not IPV4.
I switched due to the following problems with Windows and benefits with Linux:
- Recall, the most privacy invasive software I have ever seen being spun as a "feature" which was shown to be insecure as well. It used to be that if you didn't pay for something, it meant you were the product. Now Microsoft wants you to pay them to be their product.
- Fucking ads everywhere in the OS itself
- It's slow as all hell
- I would try to do something as simple in the UI such as hitting "Sleep" and Windows 11 wouldn't do anything until the 4th click
- Windows no longer has a monopoly on games or music software - proton and DAW's like bitwig should now be forcing Microsoft to compete to make their OS better, but because capitalism doesn't work, they don't, and so I have no reason to stay with their OS
- Linux is fast as fuck. Games like Armored Core VI and Death Stranding run better in an emulated state on Linux for me than they do natively on Windows because Linux isn't running 1500 telemetry tasks at all times.
- Linux gives you choices of window managers. Don't like the UI in Windows? Tough luck. Don't like a UI in Linux? Change it in 2 seconds if you're using KDE Plasma, or switch to another WM like Gnome, XFCE, Cinnamon, etc so that the computer works the way you want. You want to have some WM functionality only sometimes that no one WM offers? Install 3 WM's, choose which one you want when you log in. Make the computer work for you.
On Windows 11 the final absolute last straw for me was when it stopped installing updates for me and gave me this:
So I couldn't even trust the system was secure anymore.
Windows is stagnated because all of their development focus has turned away from making a competitive OS with good and useful features for the end user, and instead focuses now on how to get more dollars out of each minor action a user could possibly take when using it. Linux just feels more modern, more powerful, more useful, more secure, faster, prettier, cleaner, and cost effective than Windows now because it is 98% of the time.
Depends on the bear. Black bears this can work, but if they attack you anyway you have to fight for your life or you are dead since they will keep attacking their prey until they are certain its dead.
Grizzlies... Be quiet and calm and talk in a low voice, also do not run if possible, if you run they will think you are prey. If they attack you, ball up, protect your neck and head, fight as well if you really have no other option. Making yourself seem big and scary isn't very effective with them.
Polar bear, you're just fucking dead.
For all of them, carry bear bangers and or bear spray.
Thanks for the suggestion, I do find this to be annoying in other communities, but as you said it doesn't seem to be a big issue here at present.
I intend to leave this post pinned for quite a while so that I can try to get a good idea of the general consensus of the community on the suggestions, so if it looks like most feel this is needed as time goes on then I would be glad to implement it.