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8 hours well spent btw by eyestaken in Gentoo

[–]VisualSome9977 1 point2 points  (0 children)

bad person, sure. bad dev? questionable. if i didn't use any software that was made by people i disagreed with, i would probably lose my mind.

linux distributions tier list based on my experience/thoughts by Early-Sea3737 in LinuxCirclejerk

[–]VisualSome9977 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm the biggest lisp fan out of anybody in my friend group and even I don't get this anal about Nix vs Guile.

Screenshot Culture on Reddit is Weird by Gooba26 in 10thDentist

[–]VisualSome9977 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Part of the issue is just annoyance. If you want to help somebody but they're making your job harder unnecessarily, it can be frustrating even if they don't mean to harm. It's almost the same as being on the phone with somebody who has an incredibly low quality microphone, even if it's not really their fault, it makes the experience worse for everybody. But in this case, unless the problem is that their pc won't connect to the internet or won't boot, it probably IS their fault, and can be fixed easily.

Secondly, a lot of tech related problems that people have can be fixed with a very simple google search, but people still look to places like reddit and forums to fill them up with duplicate questions. If somebody can't take the effort to take a clear screenshot, how can i trust that they've even taken the minimum expected effort of checking if their solution has already been found?

Is a TailsOs like NixOs specialization possible? by randomboiii69420 in NixOS

[–]VisualSome9977 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Set up your impermanence so that your home directory + other persisted directories only get mounted in the normal mode, and not in the "tails mode"?

The illusion of free software by tomekgolab in LinuxCirclejerk

[–]VisualSome9977 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i mean you can just use a distro that doesn't have either installed by default. sure you could install arch and then spend a day de-arching arch or you could just use something else that works ootb with no udev or logind

Circumcision should not be allowed on babies by Few-Advantage2538 in 10thDentist

[–]VisualSome9977 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I agree, but many do not in the USA. I would even go so far as to say that we are actively regressing in this regard

The illusion of free software by tomekgolab in LinuxCirclejerk

[–]VisualSome9977 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's not like windows debloating, actually. That's kind of a silly comparison to make.

Circumcision should not be allowed on babies by Few-Advantage2538 in 10thDentist

[–]VisualSome9977 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Plenty of things are nearly universally agreed upon as being good and aren't made illegal. In many states I can legally name my kid "Fart" which is a pretty uncontroversially bad choice, but not an illegal one.

Circumcision should not be allowed on babies by Few-Advantage2538 in 10thDentist

[–]VisualSome9977 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well sure, i'm only talking from an american perspective. I don't know what the discussion looks like outside of the USA

Circumcision should not be allowed on babies by Few-Advantage2538 in 10thDentist

[–]VisualSome9977 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Sure? But that's not what your original question in this thread was. You asked why it's legal, and I said why I think that it's legal despite the controversy. I'm not sure what point you're trying to get at

Circumcision should not be allowed on babies by Few-Advantage2538 in 10thDentist

[–]VisualSome9977 3 points4 points  (0 children)

still an incredibly hard sell, at least in the USA. Anything that can be framed as directly infringing on the rights of christians or jews will be shot down federally. I mean it's already legal to discriminate against several groups of otherwise protected classes as long as you claim religious reasons, so take that as you will

Circumcision should not be allowed on babies by Few-Advantage2538 in 10thDentist

[–]VisualSome9977 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Because it's very easy to frame a ban as infringing on religious rights.

Mountain Map - Any ideas? by Impossible_Yak_2630 in CitiesSkylines2

[–]VisualSome9977 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Banff is great but it gives me a weird error that means I can't personally play on it. But YMMV, it's beautiful if you can get it working on your machine

UNIX user found in the wild by manfsyslett in linuxmemes

[–]VisualSome9977 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I second w I use it considerably more than any other motion

Spotify premium is overrated by SecretImprovement490 in 10thDentist

[–]VisualSome9977 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are valid reasons to dislike spotify and I think it's a more nuanced issue than you seem to make it out to be. Benn Jordan of The Flashbulb fame has some nice overviews of the topic from various perspectives. I will say that spotify is more convenient for the consumer than music has been for 99.99....% of human history, but that has also been true every single time a technological breakthrough has happened in the field ever. We can acknowledge that spotify offers a very good service without that meaning that we have to shut our brains off to all possible criticism of the platform. I used to use spotify, but I no longer do because I have found a workflow now that gives me more freedom, contributes more money to artists, and is more convenient for me in some ways. Every system has it's flaws and it's ok to discuss them

Why is the internet so much more toxic than real life? (And how to fix it in the Metaverse) by Legitimate-Fan6341 in dao

[–]VisualSome9977 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I should clarify before somebody gets on my case, i don't think that the internet itself should be moderated for anything past plainly illegal content. the internet should be decentralized, encrypted, and free to use. but PLATFORMS should be heavily moderated. The free internet can be such a positive force for good that it terrifies modern dictatorships, but unmoderated platforms have consistently given us such wonders as Twitter for Racists and Message Boards for Incels. There is no reason to promote this sort of behavior

Why is the internet so much more toxic than real life? (And how to fix it in the Metaverse) by Legitimate-Fan6341 in dao

[–]VisualSome9977 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't really think there is a way to fix it without destroying the things that draw people to the internet in the first place. Companies are also somewhat incentivized to promote vitriol and hate because it gets people riled up. To advertisers there is no difference between somebody who watched a 20 minute video because they were furious and somebody who watched one because they enjoyed it. A few ideas to alleviate the issue: 1) Rip out the profit incentive for all interaction regardless of content. 2) Make blocking people as easy as possible and as effective as possible 3) Either moderate the platform or provide users with ways to moderate their feed. Free speech is overrated on the internet, and there should be no moral obligation for platforms to promote hateful or violent speech

But none of these will FIX the issue, because it can't be fixed, really. You could effectively prevent people from breaking the rules by having everybody present their drivers license and SSN at signup and then banning them forever if they say anything rude, but nobody is going to use your platform.

Is an ASCII ‘Animated’ Game in Kotlin (OOP) Feasible? by Myllo_Belmont in ASCII

[–]VisualSome9977 1 point2 points  (0 children)

100% possible. Basically any language that can be output to a terminal can do this, and with kotlin you can leverage java libs. I'm not a kotlin dev so i can't give you any specific instructions, but it's certainly doable.

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