In this context, I think two operating systems are in the same family if software for one can be recompiled for another with minimal changes without heavyweight compatibility libraries.

In that sense, I would put BSD and traditional desktop Linux distributions in the same family even though they don’t share low-level code, and I would exclude Android even though it uses the Linux kernel.

Wafrn might be worth a look. I’ve been meaning to try it myself.

Mastodon’s character limit is pretty easy to change when self-hosting, but it has other limitations like a lack of even basic formatting and images inline in posts. I think that’s true of several of the others as well.

I’m still using a phone from 2020. It’s fine. If I got something new, it would probably be bigger and lack a headphone jack.

A new phone would have a better camera than my old one, but it would not be as good a camera as my Olympus, which I use when I care about the result.

The airline probably owes you money under the EU 261 passenger rights regulation.

Thus, a seatless bus. A what?!

That’s pretty common at European airports. It’s rare in the USA, but I’ve seen it.

I had four overnight delays in three round trip transatlantic flights in 2025. The airline was at fault for three of them.

When the airline is at fault for a delay of four hours or more on a long flight that starts or ends in the EU, they owe the passenger 600 Euros, a hotel room, and meals, so those were long delays but not exactly terrible experiences.

Getting stuck for 20 hours in the Newark airport due to weather wasn’t as pleasant. The airline did not owe me anything because weather is not their fault. There were hundreds of other delayed travelers sleeping on cots in the halls of the airport. They did not have a cot for me.

Here are some more options:

• Individualism vs collectivism
• Essentialism vs constructivism (are important traits of people fixed, or mutable?)
• Belief in conspiracy theories vs skepticism (people who believe one conspiracy theory usually believe many, also predicts mistrust in institutions like traditional media and scientists)

It’s worth thinking about whether dimensions like these are cause or effect, and political or personality traits. zlatiah points out that there are techniques for identifying which ones cause political behavior.

I had that in mind, but it’s been a while since I read it and skimming it today, it seems a little dated. The tone may also be a bit harsh to offer to OP in this thread.

Without seeing the entirety of the interaction, it’s hard to be sure.

Some people are assholes, and because nobody wants to interact with assholes, they usually end up congregating on whatever forum doesn’t ban them. Moderation is hard and ban evasion is often easy, so there end up being a lot of places like that.

The other side is that people in general ask a lot of bad questions, and a forum flooded with bad questions becomes useless because people who could answer good questions either get tired of it and leave, or spend so much time on the bad questions they don’t have time for the good ones. People get frustrated when they think that’s happening to a forum they enjoy, and programmers are famously better at communicating with machines than with people.

Here’s are some tips to ask good questions about programming:

• First, try to find the answer without asking other people. This is especially important when it comes to programming because the whole job is problem-solving. That means figuring out how a search result, LLM output, or published documentation relates to whatever it is you’re trying to do.
• Once you’re sure you need help from other people, clearly articulate what it is you want to happen, what you tried in order to achieve it, and what actually happened. Use more detail than you think you need here, especially regarding your expectations. Sometimes the mere act of composing a question this way leads you to the answer, which is effective enough there’s a popular technique of explaining problems to inanimate objects.
• Include the troubleshooting steps you tried from the first step above in your question. By typing it out, you may discover an error or omission in your process, but you also communicate to other people that you’re not just being lazy, wasting their time, and reducing the signal to noise ratio of their forum.

LLMs don’t understand things. They repeatedly predict the next token given previous tokens.

I don’t think something without predictable patterns is likely to work as a language. A very complex grammar probably means the LLM will make grammatical errors more often, but that’s probably the most that can be done to make a language hard for LLMs. Other comments mention languages without much training data, but I don’t think that’s what you’re asking.

He got mad at me for texting him an anti-CCP joke (both US Phone Numbers)

He’s right to be concerned. You should be using Signal far any communication you don’t want sucked into a mass-surveillance system (i.e. most communication). He might not want to have Signal installed when he enters China though.

When I can’t use the old one anymore. Every time so far, that’s been because of a hardware failure.

I’m currently on a Pixel 4A. It’s running Android 16 (LineageOS), and I limit battery charge with AccA so that it doesn’t wear out. It’s currently showing 92% capacity, which seems pretty good for five years. I don’t think I’d actually like a new phone; it would be faster and have a better camera, but my current phone isn’t a bottleneck, and a new phone’s camera will still be worse than my Olympus. It would have 5G, but why should I care? Most new phones are bigger, and as an adult, my hands are not growing.

I love that answers like this are popular here. There was a time when phone tech was improving fast enough that frequent upgrades made a lot of sense, but now is not that time.

I’m a little surprised that’s an active decision from carriers instead of whatever has compatible radios just working.

Most 2016 era smartphones have 4G.

I am not a doctor and I am definitely not your doctor, but this sounds like an eating disorder to me. Are you in a position to talk to a doctor about it?

I am, with the obvious username. I mostly only post in /r/flashlight now, as it’s the most active community anywhere online for that niche interest.

I’ve had at least three different people on different continents provide my Gmail address to various services. I’ve ignored most messages meant for those people, but one gave it to his lawyer when he was charged with a serious crime for which his conditions of release forbade contact with children. I took the time to tell the lawyer that’s nothing to do with me.

I was among the first hundred people to join Reddit.

Including Edge for Android, which puts it in a compelling position for certain use cases.