Neat, thanks!

Examples? I feel like I could probably script more window manager-related things in my current setup, but I don’t really have any ideas what to script.

I recently checked out KaOS’ new iso with niri. It did look neat, but it had exactly the issues I just described. The window management shortcuts were unfamiliar, it took me like 15 minutes to figure out how to change keyboard layouts (in part because the general presentation suggested that there was probably a GUI method, but there wasn’t), I couldn’t even make dark mode work easily.

I could probably make niri work for me if I really wanted, but it’s a lot of work for no real benefit. I’ll probably just end up moving to sway in a couple of years when it becomes really unreasonable to keep using X11, since that one is actually designed to feel similar to the window manager I’m currently using (i3).

Arsestralia lol

I feel like opinionated linux distros that already firmly moved to wayland must already exist, but I haven’t really seriously researched this. KaOS, maybe?

I didn’t really have the patience for distro-shopping in recent years. I favor keyboard-driven setups, and the few times a distro offers that out of the box the shortcuts and config files are different enough from mine that it’s annoying to get into it.

Kinda depends on the specific reasons.

Who does that “for personal or political reasons”? I know that it’s sometimes done because there are a lot of hacking attempts but few to none genuine users from certain countries.

I’d be more annoyed about the misuse of “boomer” than about being called “old”.

“old” also means less healthy. No one wants to have backpain and the like, though the particular issue here is probably just the vanity of not wanting to look old (e.g. aged skin, thinning hair, those “I have pain in my back/legs/etc.”-postures, or even just having an outdated sense of style).

This stereotype isn’t China-specific, though. For Japan, the cutoff point would be WW2, which is the same as for most of Europe.

Interesting, seems like a very gendered issue.

Don’t east asian countries put tons of value on seniority? Is this changing, is china just not like that, or is there something else that I’m misunderstanding?

The EU and the countries in it are already subsidizing a lot of commercial activity that’s deemed “essential”, such as agriculture and auto industry. They don’t necessarily have to be directly competitive.

No I didn’t. You assumed that his intent was to defend from “all humans”. I argued that his intent might very well have been to defend from “all male humans” because it might have been an acceptable tradeoff.

implying that Sauron actually considered that his opponents might be female

In most magic systems, spells with more limited scope (e.g. just male humans) have a stronger effect when they do apply (or are just cheaper), for the sake of balance - but it’s also just basic logic IMO. Sauron was never omnipotent.

She’s holding a can of Strong Zero, which is a ready-to-drink longdrink made from spirit, juice(s), sugar and flavorings. i.e. not beer

There’s worse places to have an unwanted pregnancy than Switzerland …

Surely, we can figure out a way to feed artists without requiring a full-on revolution. Changing the way we pay artists is a LOT easier than doing a revolution and implementing a new system that actually has staying power.

IMO it should be extended to commercial use (if we keep doing commerce with things that can be copied 1:1, anyway). Of course not 1:1 copies under a different name, but there should definitely be more freedom for sampling and remix (in a general sense, not just in the context of music). The current laws are extremely restrictive. Guy in my country has been having legal battles for over two decades over sampling half a measure of drums (Pelham vs Kraftwerk).

We really need to figure out a way to pay artists that doesn’t come with unnecessary restrictions on art.

Cursive was a mistake. It’s still very common to write like that where I live, and most people’s cursive is really hard to read, especially when they’re not making an effort to write pretty (e.g. for birthday cards). The handwriting of most doctors and nurses who write in latin script might as well be arabic.