Th4tGuyII

Jafar my guy, just order the Sultan to make gay marriage legal than order him to marry you - problem solved without being just shy of a pedo.

“Where we’re going Goat, we don’t need boats - but we do need that cabbage”

FTFY

“Gods, I swear you fix one thing in a ritual, two more take its place - my teleportation no longor puts me in the ground, but now my clothes arrive backwards and occasionally I’m puside down - didn’t even touch those bits of the spell!”

“Gods, I swear you fix one thing in a ritual, two more take it’s place - my teleportation no longer puts me in the ground, but now my clothes arrive backwards and occasionally I’m upside down - didn’t even touch those bits of the spell!”

Haste makes waste - if you want quality content, let the dev and their team take the time they need.

I wouldn’t know anything about that - but it certainly sounds interesting, including what @cynar said

I’d think of it like this…

• The universe is ~13 billion years old. However for the first few billion years, the universe was a wildly dangerous place to live. A sea of Hydrogen generating Supermassive stars, exploding within just 100,000s/millions of years, and generating many of the heavy elements that exist today. Even if a planet could form in these conditions, chances are it would’ve been annihilated before life could develop.

• I don’t know exactly when the universe started to “stabilise”, but let’s say there is ~10 billion years of time that a planet like Earth could’ve formed.

• The Earth is ~4.5 billion years old.

• Single-celled life arose ~3-4 billion years ago.

• Complex multi-cellular life arose only ~500 million years ago during the Cambrian Explosion - so much needs to happen for complex life to arise that it could take a long time even in the best case scenario.

• Humans arose only ~100,000 years ago… albeit had the dinosaurs not been around for so long, we could have come about maybe 10s of millions of years earlier.

• From there basically everything comes down to how long it takes for a race to figure out farming, adopt a sedentary lifestyle that allows development of non-survival related disciplines, and to industrialise.
  In the case of humans, the oldest cultures are around 10,000 years old, and we industrialised only a couple hundred years ago.

If we make the assumption that we’re not exceptional amongst any intelligent lifeforms, then it would make sense to assume that it takes roughly 3-5 billion years for a race to reach where we are now.

That means we could be late to the party, and everyone else has already wiped themselves out, but it’s just as likely we’re right in the thick of it but just too far away from anyone else in our cohort to see anything, and vice versa.

It’s basically just the Fermi Paradox - and the only way we get an answer is when the void answers back.

It may have been a little slow at times, but it just worked. It wasn’t constantly trying to advertise to you, trying to get you to download apps, trying to force AI onto you, trying to harvest your data, forcing you to use online services, it was just an operating system and a good one at that

At the point where Putin can quite easily have any popular opposition stricken from the ballot, imprisoned, or worse still coincidentally fall from a building or endure some “freak accident”, is there all that much use in pretending any opposition ever had a chance to win?

Generally about every 4 years - I feel like it’s the sweetspot between longevity and keeping up with the technology, plus that’s usually around when updates stop and physical issues start

You’re not wrong - I was just pointing out it’s always been that way. The rich never played fair, they played to win.

It’s not like they didn’t look through your financial history before then - they just didn’t have to show their working publicly, which meant you could ne discriminated against for any number of things

Exactly. Information is a luxury - you could go your entire life without learning even a shred of information, but you’d still need to eat.

Firstly, capitalism isn’t going to just “poof” away just because there are more resources available. The rich will just hold them back to create artificial scarcity - like is done with diamonds.

Secondly, even discounting that, there are plenty of resources that are genuinely scarce no matter how much money you have to throw at the problem.

But if you’re referring to just the scarcity of information - then you’re still not quite right as not all that information out there is good information - a lot of it is misinformation (i.e. propaganda, etc.)…

And even that discounts the fact that for many people, they don’t have the tools/capability to access the information, or simply can’t access the information full stop (I.e. due to censorship, etc.).

As long as there us incentive to do so, malicious actors will exploit the source code whether it is open or closed…

Making something open source does make it easier for malicious actors, but it also allows honest actors to find and fix exploits before they can be used - something they won’t/can’t do for closed source, meaning you have to rely on in-house devs to review/find/fix everything.

If you want to see your “Karma” Kbin natively has a reputation feature - Having said that I disagree with the idea entirely.

It isn’t a good way to gauge trustworthiness as it can easily be farmed by posting large amounts of mediocre content that people are likely just to upvote passively.

It’s far better to just look at someone’s post history to see the substance of their contributions to the site - obviously that takes more work to check, but it’s also way harder to fake.

No, my point is that they’re lost causes and they’re untrainable.

Ah… I still don’t get how that’s meant to refute the previous person’s point that elitism and the “git gud” attitude around Linux contributes to it’s inability to become mainstream.

If anything your reply only reinforces their point, because you seem to be suggesting we throw anybody who struggles to learn it to the curb.

Is your point meant to be that these people who already have trouble learning GUIs would somehow have an easier time intuiting command line?

If that’s correct, that’s an absolutely BS argument

I’m not a Linux fan boy by any means, but you’ve at least got to give it a fair deal…

Saying Linux sucks because of Google’s Android is the equivalent of saying you hate all vegetables because Brussel Sprouts suck.

I think that’s a per installation thing, cause mine has always had issues with sleep mode - ironically no problem with hibernation though haha