One of us.

True… i compile mine as well.

So you’re a killer?

Linux does have proprietary blobs, Canonical has signed some NDAs, so not that far off from Android (which is linux-based and certainly has proprietary firmware).

and you cannot measure a value without influencing it.

Which, to me, kinda defeats the whole purpose. I’m yet to wrap my head around this whole quantum thing.

looking at you qt-webengine and firefox

You do know gentoo has binary versions of the bigger packages, like LibreOffice and browsers like Firefox, right? Right?

The 3210 no, the N types maybe but i’ve never owned one. Ask Val Kilmer.

you really can’t pay people enough to watch child abuse

I wonder what the package was, besides the salary. And the hiring requirements.

Makes me wonder if the lawsuit is legit or if it’s some But think of the children™ institution using some rando as cover.

because muh gun rights.

I think it’s a bit more complicated. These are worth a watch at least once:
Let’s talk about guns, gun control, school shooting, and “law abiding gun owners” (Part 1)
Let’s talk about guns, gun control, school shooting, and “law abiding gun owners” (Part 2)
Let’s talk about guns, gun control, school shooting, and “law abiding gun owners” (Part 3)

My old Nokia easily outlasted those.

I’m sure a single mainframe consumes considerably more that some mining farms.

Also bluntly, her background of being Chinese and Swiss is a good look if they plan on marketing internationally. Her age probably plays a big role. No one wants to follow a company with a CEO that’s too old or too young.

You mean not cis straight white old western male, got it.

Perhaps try to interact with other people on mastodon instead of expecting to grow a follower base? It ain’t tiktok, ya know?

having them understand what a “federated platform” is, is too much to ask

Email is the usual analogy.

trying to find a Mastodon instance to make an account on was irritating.

Your average person will just land on mastodon.social without bothering to read the TOS… i mean rules, you know that.

And you missed a real key argument: network effect. If average person’s friends are on platform XYZ, that’s where average person will be (although this is stronger with messengers).

Mastodon gives you an autoscrolling firehose of unfiltered junk on all, or an empty wasteland of subscribed tags, with nothing inbetween.

If only people make an effort… most mastodon clients allow you to configure the timelines and if you have an empty wasteland of subscribed tags well, you’re subscribed to some very niche stuff… try posting about it, maybe others are listening - that implies effort, though, so be careful.

and to what scale so that there’s literally a ‘syslog-ng engineer’ job posting

Asking the real questions.

Ink bombs like some ATMs have.

Echo chambers are on par with human nature: we fear the unknown and flock to like-minded people. It takes a degree of discomfort to read something you don’t agree with (explained rationally and with civility) and trying to argument in kind - it’s easier to down-vote and here we are…

It’s on my todo list.

I think Ubuntu offers ZFS in the installer now, so not really, just go to the advanced options.