I chose the Lemmy devs’ instance thinking it would get bug fixes fastest. Had I known that this leads to constant discrimination, I wouldn’t have, jeez.

Hahaha yeah! And not to forget lemmygrad.

Also I dared suggest that Mozilla isn’t the devil and Firefox is still kinda the only browser preventing a full chromium monopoly on awfulsystems. Banned.

I really like rolling release. So much better to deal with updates one-by-one than in a giant batch every half year or so.

As said: installing the LTS kernel also works, I think.

And you wouldn’t use Arch for servers, you want something stable (as in “rarely changing”) there.

I agree that it’s be useful, and I think you can just install e.g. the LTS kernel next to the regular one.

But even without , the arch way isn’t insane either: when something kernel-related breaks, boot with a live system on USB and fix it.

Case in point: I dimensioned the EFI partition too small, so at some point, me using the zen kernel (which comes with a backup kernel image) messed things up and I couldn’t boot a half-written kernel.

then I

1. created and booted a live USB stick,
2. Mounted my / and /boot partitions manually into /mnt/root/ and /mnt/root/boot
3. Bind-mounted the live system’s /dev and /proc into /mnt/root/{dev,proc}
4. chrooted into /mnt/root (resulting in an environment using /dev and /proc from the live system and the rest from my system),
5. Used regular package manager commands to uninstall the zen kernel and install the regular one, and finally
6. rebooted into the now working system.

It’s not crazy, it doesn’t take long, you just need to know how the system works. Upside is that nothing ever breaks permanently, everything is fixable (except hardware failure)

I agree with all you said, but suggesting to use a specific browser only when not connected to the web is kinda funny.

The reason there’s no version in the filename is simply that Arch just doesn’t keep old kernels around.

The vmlinuz-linux just gets replaced whenever you update the linux package and the old one is deleted immediately.

The founders died from things they were for: uncontrolled gun access and unvaccinated exposure to viruses.

Conservatives are anti-abortion, so a karmic death from that would be dying before or at childbirth because of being unable to abort.

But of course that doesn’t pan out since rich conservatives always have access to abortion. The rules are for everyone else, not for them.

Sure, in isolation, but we were talking and I’ve been on the pro-Firefox side the whole time!

Exactly, thus Firefox.

No Firefox, no forks

Mozilla is literally the only browser vendor that ever gave a fuck about use privacy.

And the only one that has a nonprofit fountain structure that is designed to keep it that way.

Or do you know something I don’t?

No, why would they?

Free Willy as a whale:

Dismissiveness?

If it’s good enough for Lemmy (Kilmister), it’s good enough for them.

Me too, and I haven’t met a single right-wing person there, which proves their intelligence pretty conclusively.

Probably

huh, that is right up our alley, but were kinda always felt that there’s a secret echelon of “really professional companies” that gets contracted by NASA

I’ve been using en (not em) dashes for like 20 years.

They’re used more often in German typography, and I’ve only seen em dashes without spaces around them which is ugly, so I stuck with them.

It’s obviously option-dash for en dashes and option-shift-dash for em dashes on MacOS keyboards.

You don’t even need to learn that, you just think what the most logical way to type them would be, try it once, are correct, and know how to do it.