It’s “choosing the easy option” and “being soft”. There’s no deeper meaning that I can discern.

Evidently, “real men” choose “hardship” so they are ready when “hardship” chooses them?

Also I think the pictured “(Alpha Male)” account is intentional satire of the Tates of the world.

No, I think more MS users = MS shady shit. So, to discourage MS shady shit, I encourage people to not use MS software. I also think that people who are worried about abuse by priests should not tithe or otherwise donate to Catholic churches (belief matters less than action here; and it’s less reasonable to swap out belief system, I guess.)

That’s why your analogy seems backwards to me.

Doesn’t matter anyway. I guess I just don’t get it. Have a nice day.

The VM protects somewhat from network attacks and spread. But, I do imagine most vulnerabilities of Win10 would still be exploitable, and you would be sacrificing some performance, yes.

I didn’t like the name, but it was a nice option for Nvidia laptops esp. from System76.

I ended up replacing it with Ubuntu; but I can’t remember exactly why. I normally use Debian.

I’m not sure I get the analogy here… Do you think there will be less abuse by priests if there are more Catholics?

I’m been using Linux full time since 2004, and while I think it is good to let people know it is there, I don’t recommend it to people I’m not willing to personally support. But, I also let them know I just can’t help with Windows problems either, and they should address their complaints to their OS vendor.

I file Debian bugs if I have a problem with my OS, and have received fixes that way. This is better support that I ever received from MS during my first 2 decades of using MS OSes.

I was about to downvote the AI slop, but your reply gave it enough context that Imma leave it alone.

Alpha, the one after Gen Z, which is after Millennials, which is after Gen X, which was named that not because it was the 24th, but because they didn’t have a good name so they used X as a placeholder for an unknown name.

Generations are slightly bullshit tho. Birthdate definitely matters, but it more of a continuum / spectrum than discrete generations.

Where’d you get a picture off all my elder family members in one place!? (j/k)

Yeah, we’d have to shift tactics. But, without IP law protections, the hacker community would double down on reverse engineering and binary patching. Debian etc. would still be available, but you’d also see spins on Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, and Google software based on decompiling, patching, and rebuilding, or just game genie / PC game cracks binary patching based on offset and signature.

The DMCA would dissolve and encrypted data that was expected to be decrypted on the fly (“streaming only”) would just be published fully decrypted.

It would be a revolutionary shift, but I’m not convinced it would be worse.

What would be worse is keeping IP law, but only having it enforced by million dollar yearly budget teams of lawyers and not protecting creators from having their works fed to “AI” and regurgitated as slop.

It reverses the natural flow of the conversation.

Why is top-posting so bad?

Top-posting.

What’s the worst thing I can do when writing a reply to the mailing list?

1. No, we can test groksponk without flibbertygibbet. But, when rolling to production, flubbertygibbet will need to be in place before grokspunk due to how the gonksponk end-user documentation is written (at least, for now).

2. Oh, sorry, “doohicky” is how me and my team call them. They are actually <link to ISO specification for purchase>, specifically chapter 4, section 2 (in my 2012 copy it is titled “Hippydip Operations and Serialization”). Hopefully that connects well with the existing goober documentation, but let me know if you need further details/clarification.

On average a communication has more readers than writers, so it is better for writer(s) to use effort in order to save effort on the behalf of the reader(s).

This was especially true in the days of mailing lists and me having to beat TOFU users about the head with a clue-by-4. But, it remains true today. The median communication might be 1 to 1, but it’s much more frequent for additional readers to be added that additional writers, so maximum effort with writing is still true.

But, man, it is annoys the heck out of me when I compose informative, contexual email/SMS with several open-ended questions and get back: “yes”.

I’m kinda in the middle. I think so far my balance is about the same as it was 1 year ago, so I lost at least a year worth of progress. The slide is probably not over, yet, tho.

While I don’t doubt this, I’m also sure that tarrifs will also affect the pricing/availability of utility (non-status symbol) mobile devices.

We are going to have to deal with this for 4 years (unless some Rs will vote the remove in 2) and recovery won’t be immediate. I hope my current mobile lasts that long, but I usually only get about 3 years out of a battery. Replacement parts will be hit by tarrifs, too.

Nah this absolutely make no sense to anyone who’s been alive for more than a day.

It makes sense to me. I have been alive in excess of 10k days.

its straigh up impossible to enforce whatever garbage this “proposal” is.

Not true, I provided a mechanism for enforcement. We investigate perjury all the time, and the test for “unpaid” would be significantly similar.

Nah that’s silly and how would that even be enforced? “Unpaind word of mouth” - you going to interrogate people how they know something?

You would investigate if there’s a complaint or other probable cause, just like every other crime. Some people will get away with breaking the law, maybe, but as long as the law can be enforced effectively but not arbitrarily it’s not a bad law on enforcement grounds.

I am on record elsewhere stating that I believe there are better approaches than banning advertisement wholesale, yes. But, I’m not going to let the better be the enemy of the good while I’m living in the bad. An improvement of the status quo, even if it might be in the “wrong direction” is still an improvement.

Almost anything that can be remotely subjective (“best”, “better”, “more effective”, etc.) gets pushed into the “puffery” exception of (US) truth-in-advertising laws.

Even very objective claims that are untrue can be upheld, if they are (e.g.) based on an internal study. Even if there’s a better sourced, more repeated study with stronger claims (in the other direction) that is widely published. The companies involved just claim ignorance (which isn’t illegal) and offer to pull that claim from future campaigns (as if that addresses any of the damage caused by the false claims). Their lawyers can file continuances until the campaigns they’ve already paid for are complete anyway.

So, in theory misrepresentations is banned, but it happens and is often not punished when it does.

But, yeah, current advertising is largely not about making any sort of claim; it’s just telling a story the the customer and see themselves in, but is made somehow better (that real life) because the product/brand is present.

Price lists / labels at the point of sale are not advertising. Unpaid word of mouth is not commercial advertising. You don’t seem to be following the thread very well.

The communication methods mentioned in the summary can work for this. It might take longer than a quarter-year to peak/saturate the market but introducing such a novel product should require longer-term thought.