Well, if I lived in the world of American liberals and conservatives I was taught about growing up, the game would be over the moment fusion power became cheap, and everybody would be happy.

In the real world though? We’ll wait way too long, then get excited when it finally starts to happen, and then right before The Big Day some smooth brained asshole will blow up part of the reactor or fly a plane into the facility or something.

Yeah, just like all that anti-white sentiment towards the US because we elected a president who almost passes for off-white.

Though I suppose there could be other reasons if we dig deep enough.

In the past few minutes on Lemmy I have seen a graphic that France is the largest weapons exporter behind the US, and now this. Thanks for being awesome y’all.

For what it’s worth, I have switched three machines of mine from Win10 to Mint in the last year, and in each case it was much easier and faster to install than Windows. And of course, daily use is much faster and smoother than Windows, but that is true of all distros. It’s just worth mentioning because mint is made to be the full featured user friendly experience (some might even call it bloated) out of the box, yet it’s still a rocket in comparison.

One was a typical work-issued Dell laptop w/ port replicator + M365, one was an old PC at home I built several years ago, and the last was an even older PC I built like 14 years ago.

Just yesterday at work I installed Win10 in VirtualBox so I could test a Windows app that gets built alongside our main embedded Linux software (used the VM since a certain popup window secondary to the main app wasn’t immediately working in Wine). Holy crap was it painful after being used to the Mint installer.

Then when I got home I decided to turn on that 14 year old system that’s been off for a month (when I installed the latest point release 22.1) to let it update. Even using the GUI updater, and even though it had to update the updater itself before updating however many dozen packages AND the kernel, I timed the entire process at five minutes flat. On the computer from 2011, with a pretty old & small SATA SSD system drive. And you can use the PC like normal until it’s done, when it shows a banner suggesting you reboot when you can because of the kernel update.

Again, nothing special in the Linux world where software is actually created with users put first. But still noteworthy for being the “easy” distro that looks a lot like Windows when you first boot it up.

I’m not posting this to say anything negative about Arch, either. That kind of distro is very important to begin with, and Arch in particular seems it’s good enough that it might be the new Debian. Especially with SteamOS switching to it.

Silicon Valley and the social Darwinist tech bro culture is a very “there but for the grace of God go I” situation for me.

Raised in a white conservative family & area, was an angry and edgy teenager that kept getting great grades, understood that being a “good” person meant building wealth, and bad life experiences were personal responsibility issues, etc. Went to a high end university. And even in my early adult years, I liked to listen to talk on my commute more than music, and it was pre-smartphone so I didn’t have my Howard Stern mp3s and therefore everything I listened to on the radio was Republican bad faith propaganda during the W era in the US.

But not to fear. The same inquisitive nature that got me into computers/STEM and out of religion as a minor, also helped me straighten out the meaning of life as an adult. In middle age I’m into the ole triple L: Lemmy, Leftism, and Linux, lol. My software engineering job is at a very much non-silicon-valley place that’s only 3 miles from my modest house via quiet twisty country road, and instead of a Lambo I have a family, a koi pond, and a ton of other pets. I was always into nature and wildlife (especially aquatic) as a kid and it never went away.

The best reward on a Lemmy comment is an interesting and thoughtful reply.

Your #4 seems inaccurate, unless you were just walking us through your changing perspective as you joined.

This place is very left leaning and I’m sure it’s loaded with people who happily call themselves socialists while shouting down the MLs/tankies.

The main difference afaik is that they support authoritarians.

Part of me wants the fediverse to take over because the world needs open systems and not corporate outlets for ads and propaganda.

But this place is really fun how it is and I want to be selfish and keep the precious all for ourselves.

I think we have a lot of wiggle room between the two, fortunately. If we get 10x the users with the barriers to entry doing the same filtering as now, this place could really be hopping. But if we get 1000x the users and start doing Reddit numbers, who knows what it will be like.

Knowing humans, maybe there’s a critical mass at which Lemmy would fracture into multiple fediverse islands. But each could still be vastly larger than all of Lemmy right now.

That’s on par with the fundraising goal for my kid’s elementary school. About a dollar per person in the district.

Totally different situation though, since these suckers at the school are going to spend it on a bunch of kids who haven’t even labored in the mines for it.

This place is so much better for actually discussing things.

Sounds to me like we need universities and maybe even governments to be running Lemmy instances.

the agency is soliciting pitches from private companies to monitor threats across the internet — with a special focus on social media.

We wouldn’t want to be held back by any restrictions placed on actual law enforcement agents, I guess?

My assumption is they will get taken to the cleaners by some company that will set up an AI monitor that barfs false positives at the agency all day.

Brilliant! Girl’s a legend.

Mazda has been flying under the radar doing things right for a long time, in my experience.

I’m currently driving a 2012 Mazda3 that we bought new 13 years ago. It has been completely reliable while our 2013 Honda has needed some repairs. It is fuel efficient (40mg hwy), and it is still fun to drive. In the automatic transmission’s manual-shift mode the shift lever goes in the correct direction for driving dynamics (pull back to upshift, forward to downshift). In the normal automatic drive mode it seems to use an accelerometer to downshift when braking downhill.

My very first car was a mazda MX-6 from the late 80s with a 5-speed manual transmission. I bought it with 180,000 miles as a cheap junk “first car” and drove it for another 40,000 miles over the next few years. It needed some repairs, of course, but it was fun to drive and did a great job getting me around the state while I was in the late college to early independent adult years.

Now I’m middle aged and my drive to work is just a few miles via quiet twisty country road. I think I’m gonna get an MX-5 Miata next. 6-speed and soft top. That sounds nice.

For years I thought a fast dual motor EV sport sedan would be my next vehicle (whatever the non-Tesla model 3 performance equivalent would be) but a roadster would probably make it more fun to get up and leave the house. Plus so much cheaper and, given the small amount of miles I drive, probably more environmentally friendly. It would definitely generate a lot less microplastic pollution form the weight difference alone.

Hey girl! Would you like to become the mascot of Lemmy? The pay is $0 and people will mis-species you, but you are probably immune to doxing so it’s all good. None would stand against you.

That was a very helpful post, so I could make sure I was subscribed to all three communities listed and not just this one, lol.

Edit to add: on my instance there are communities that are hidden by default, but not blocked at all. If you subscribe to such a community, everything shows up like normal for you. It seems to me this is a better option for communities seen as controversial or problematic. And of course defederation is always an option when needed.

Thanks for this. I’ve recently been recreating my home server on good hardware and have been thinking it’s time to jump into selfhosting more stuff. I’ve used Docker a bit, so I guess I’ll have to do it the right way. It’s always good to know what choices now will avoid future issues.

I finally wiped the windows partition off my main home PC last week. Feels good, man.