fluctuating between 1 and 1.5 crimes per capita

They have a total population under 1,000, yet are one of the biggest tourist destinations in the world. The per capita number is essentially useless for comparison.

Which I believe is the joke you’re making, but I just wanted to put it on the record in case.

Competence.

Unquestionably.

Jesus flipped nicer tables than this.

It makes me angry, but not more than any of the other terrible, dehumanizing, antidemocratic stuff he’s done. To me, this is just more proof of what I’ve always known: maybe he’s not the Antichrist, but he sure is an antichrist.

You can migrate instances, though. So it’s mitigated somewhat.

Not a vulnerability or exposure. There’s no threat vector here.

There’s a “local” feed on Mastodon, too, but it’s not very well signposted.

It’s actually a messaging failure, because picking “the wrong instance” is practically impossible. It really doesn’t matter what instance you’re in, since that’s not what limits or expands your available content.

You might just do it now. You can probably be ok for a few weeks.

I honestly feel like I’m doing Linux wrong, because with one exception it’s been seamless. No driver issues, no framerate problems, no game compatibility problems for anything I play. I thought I was having issues with Bluetooth dropping randomly, but I’ve tracked that down to a hardware issue with the antenna.

The exception is that my Wi-Fi chipset has a bad driver that I think causes it to sleep after every packet, meaning that my Wi-Fi speeds are so slow that a speed test times out. This isn’t an issue for me because I was planning to be hardwired anyway, but if you’re going to put it on a mobile device you should check your Wi-Fi hardware; I think a fix is coming soon, though.

In fairness, I’m not a cutting edge guy (I mostly play stuff a few years after it’s released, patient gamers style) and I don’t play many games that have any kind of anti-cheat. But I regularly get three-digit framerates on highest graphics settings.

I’m not interested in getting into a distro war. I think we should encourage people to get into the ecosystem via whatever user-friendly means possible. Once they’re in, then they’ll be a lot more likely to try out another distro.

When I bought a new gaming PC a few weeks ago (where I live the pre-builts that were assembled before rampocalypse are still at a reasonable price until the stock runs out), I asked if I could get it cheaper without the Windows 11 license. The sales guy said, “well, it’s already installed.” I told him, “I’m literally going to take it home and wipe it for Bazzite.” He said, “good call, but seriously, they’re practically giving these licenses away, so even if we could it would only take like $20 off the purchase price.”

Kind of a bummer to waste that $20, but honestly the satisfaction of hitting “reformat” on a brand new, slop-infused, bloatware-infested, data-harvesting-ready SSD and watching it all vanish before I even used it was almost worth the money.

EDIT: Not to mention, I got back a significant amount of space. 15+ GB.

Do it! Just choose the most normie distro you can find (probably something like Mint or Ubuntu) and free yourself!

This was a personal device, not a mission unit.

The capsule isn’t. It’s the mission commander’s personal device.

The initial question from OP is present tense, though. “Does.”

I don’t think I see anyone else saying it: Because High School was the last school for the vast majority of people.

87% of adults graduated high school. 60-70% of high school graduates enroll in a college or university program. So that means that 52% or more of people in the US go to college. Obviously that’s massively location-dependent, but it’s just not true that the “vast” majority of people don’t go to college. It’s about half.

Maybe you’re talking about historically? But it’s been a long time since any percentage you could call a “vast” majority left school after secondary. Certainly the majority or a very large minority of Americans alive today had some college or trade school education.

Sandra 2: Bega Boogaloo

assumed the vast majority of people still wanted it to be better for everyone.

You’re still right. They’re just propagandized into believing that what’s better for a tiny minority of rich people will make things better for everyone else.

I mean, generally I agree, but what gives me pause here is that Graber is basically moving into a focus on federation full-time. A leadership change like this would be a perfect moment to pivot away from atproto and into a more walled garden, but Graber isn’t even leaving the company.

This could just be theatrics, but it’s at least interesting that they aren’t taking this opportunity to close it all off when they absolutely could.