Also Squidward, but in Russian

Сквидвард

Yay blue!

Yep, I went blue! Previously was purple, but blue are more chill

Let’s go sustainable AND reverse the damage already done.

Some opinionated individuals do have programming skills, and in a Linux space, there’s plenty of dev hands.

I see you, Howard

!upliftingnews@lemmy.world

!positivity@lemmy.today (shameless self-promotion)

Depends on the amount of people and the size of a ship

Prioritizing your comfort

No, prioritizing survivability of all and forcing us to make reasonable long-term solutions that would actually work for all. This decision will slash into male drivers’ life sustaining income while also perpetuating the “man = perpetrator” mentality that only reinforces the anxieties. We have to find ways to live together, not build walls to pretend we’re safe.

Purge dangerous men from institutions

Absolutely! No conflict here between us, harassment should not be tolerated in any way, shape or form. I just think that simply “removing men” is not a good solution even as a band-aid.

Some men are dangerous and better kept away. Most men aren’t. People understand this clearly when it’s told about other groups, but somehow not men.

As a man, I genuinely wonder how much actual harassment women face vs how much they hear about it, driving the anxiety.

I get to feel that a lot of these fears are real, but many are manufactured. But I can be wrong.

A small percentage of women will ever face any sort of harassment from male drivers.

At the same time, all male drivers will be affected by this feature, reducing their life-supporting income through no fault of their own, simply because they have “male” in their documents. I think that’s the point.

Even though they were considered repairable, they are now better than ever at that, and they require as little expense as possible to replace certain parts.

I don’t know what’s so hard about that. They had it good, they made it better.

These particular models are about to be released, hitting the market. With all renown Lenovo got for good long-term support, this is their most repairable product as of yet.

One thing to highlight: T-series Lenovo laptops are mainstream business products shipped at a huge scale.

This is not a small-scale experimental product for the tinkerers. This may define the biggest laptop segment if it works out well. It might be the first time in a while that something like this hits such a huge market.

It is very likely that smaller communities will form, based on the networks of trust. The local feed will begin to mean more, and local-only communities will proliferate.

You could still visit the rest of Fediverse, should you need something specific.

My memory seems to come online surprisingly late.

The first memories kick in around 6, but really it’s just a few small disoriented flashbacks. At 11, I vividly remember my first relationships, but not much more.

Comprehensively, I remember myself since about 16. That’s when I can finally tell the order of events, and can visually recall key points.

Interestingly, I have otherwise good memory.

First, because it protects otherwise vulnerable groups of people who fight for freedom and justice. Whistleblowers, journalists, independent intelligence groups need privacy to uncover the crime and abuse of the powerful without fearing repercussions.

Second, because being watched forcibly changes people’s behavior. People are forced to be “normal”, they do not allow themselves the same liberties they have when they’re in private. When this becomes default, it negatively affects mental health, inducing severe stress and anxiety.

Third, because there are cultural conventions at the backbone of our society and the way it functions that are trampled by the invasion of privacy. You are taught to be uncomfortable when naked around others, to close off when you go to the toilet, to talk through your deeply personal or intimate matters exclusively with a select few etc. This isn’t merely an isolated cultural quirk - it defines how we treat each other, how we communicate, how our sexuality and reproduction function (and who gets reproduced to begin with), how our relationships work, what kind of language we use, and more. Letting anyone or anything in just like that naturally makes many uncomfortable, and has the potential to be ultimately disastrous for the society we know - a kind of society built with expectation of privacy as one of its cornerstones.

Fourth, because the main groups that are interested in private information are governments (see the first point), those willing to manipulate you into buying something, denying your autonomy in the name of profit off your back, and those willing to manipulate your opinions, mainly political, to serve their interests.

Fifth, because private information is not always adequately safeguarded. Leaks can provide sensitive information used in fraud, blackmail, and by other malevolent actors.

I’m kinda sad that netbooks mostly died off as a device class. I’d love to explore newer options.

Self-hosting is cool! But having played around with it myself, I just found thin clients to be not so useful in a single-user environment. At most, it could be useful if you want high battery life and the ability to run something heavy from time to time. But being tied to a high quality network connection even for something that could be 100% local gets annoying very quickly.

Still, as a printing machine + occasionally connecting to the server for something more, it does deliver.

Recently got OpenSUSE Tumbleweed installed on an old 32-bit Eee PC.

The thing was an absolute ultra-budget potato 14 years ago when it was released, and yet, it still works just fine if all you need is editing some documents in LibreOffice. And, it lasts 6 hours on a single charge! (Originally 10-12 hours)

Running something meaningful on a $20 hardware is a pleasure like no other