Signal is at least e2e encrypted, so they can’t read your messages. But also, I do complain and refuse to use it for important stuff. Matrix/XMPP are much better.

It probably has worse privacy than e-mail or IRC, because it has the same level of encryption (transport encryption only, i.e. Telegram LLC can read your messages), but it also requires a phone number to use, linking your account to your real identity. In short, do not use it for communications if you desire them to be private.

Even if we ignore the blatant “chinaman bad”, this doesn’t make any sense. Why would they disappear people? This would still be a great outcome for them even with 80% success rate or something. The only difference between 80% and 100% is a tiny bit of nerd cred in recreational science communities. Even the logistical effort of “disappearing” people, while keeping everyone quiet about it, is clearly not worth the benefit here, let alone the potential international scandal.

Most jobs on the planet can’t be done with WFH, because they require doing stuff with your hands.

The actual solution to traffic is: viable alternatives to driving, such as rapid, comfortable, accessible transit and cycling infrastructure. (once that’s done, let’s ban private cars in cities altogether, they’re the worst thing to ever happen to cities).

BTW this is also the case for most network printers. You can just print to them by sending a pdf/postscript file with netcat. CUPS is rarely needed nowadays.

In my experience:

1. All printers are pain. This is a sad fact of computers.
2. If it detects&gets recognized in CUPS, you can usually fiddle with it and make it work eventually.
3. If it works on one distro, there will be some way to hack it enough for it to work on all distros.

F**k. You added two, so I have to censor one to keep the world balanced.

Honestly, “shopping lists, calendars, the weather” can be (much better) done by an e-ink tablet stuck on the door of the fridge with a magnet. There could be other interesting info only the fridge itself knows (electricity consumption, temperatures in the fridge and freezer, humidity, etc) but then all that info could also be shared via a bluetooth API or something.

I think if you have some use-case that Wayland doesn’t fulfill, it’s totally fine to just pin some version of Plasma and stick with it. Maybe even switch to Trinity. Chances are it will keep working for like a decade or more.

I still use kdenlive 18.08, because I know how to use that version, and it does what I need it to do perfectly well. They broke something I needed in 19.whatever (I don’t remember what it was anymore), so I just pinned it and kept using it ever since. Maybe one day I’ll try to figure out the latest version, but there’s no real incentive for me to do so.

Laundry (with a washing machine) is significantly easier than cooking (healthy/tasty food) tho. It takes me like 2 minutes combined to load up the machine, start up the cycle, and hang it out to dry; and an hour or so to cook a good meal for two.

This is an actually useful feature though. I used to have this same setup with dovecot&nextcloud (show invites in the calendar automatically).

Actually, fuck yeah. My parents also have one of those bad boys:

It’s really nice to bathe in!

I tried this a couple times already: once when initially moving most of my stuff to XDG, the second a couple years ago. Both times most apps followed it, but there were some that didn’t (don’t remember the details - maybe it was GTK related). I didn’t bother to investigate more, since it seemed like a chore. I guess I’ll try again when I get some free time.

Oh, yeah, that makes much more sense actually. Now I kinda want that setup, but I bet it’s expensive.

That’s still confusing to me. My parents had the water heater tank in the bathroom, between the shower/bath and the sink. The kitchen sink had a separate small water heater.

hot water circulation systems should be more common

That just sounds like a waste of energy. Why not have the water heater right next to your shower, so that there’s no wait? It’s how it was set up in my parents home. Really enjoyed that setup, never had to wait for hot water.

Heck yes!! One of three remaining dotfiles in my ~ (the other ones are .ssh and .XCompose, I suspect I can get rid of the latter nowadays too). Can’t wait for this to land in librewolf.

these aren’t traffic cops pulling people over because they’re driving while black, these aren’t people shooting your family dog or sprinkling crack on your corpse.

Yeah, they are worse. They are the guys infiltrating and destroying socialist and communist parties, propping up union-busting corpos, and defending big capitalists’ property.

Do countries need national/federal police? Yes. But FBI is doing so much heinous shit (as does every other policing institution in the US) that everyone working for them is a class traitor even if by willful association.

That’s very surprising to me. Do they not count random pirate boats and so, or did they really sink no vessels at all since then?

You don’t need to be sympathetic to someone in order to fight common enemies together. Temporary allies yes, friends/comrades no.