There is a similar dynamic at play with black people. White people don't like hearing that something in their mouth signifies differently than something in a BIPOC mouth

But it does. Deal with it.

Yep, 70s Winnipeg kid here, that's what they taught us to sing.

Nah.

For starters, who will pay for the hosting and bandwidth of a monolithic Reddit knockoff? How do we prevent it from becoming another shitplug of capitalism? (We don't, it goes exactly the way every other profit-seeking platform has gone)

And, MOST importantly: content moderation is impossible at scale; every Instance operator takes as many users as they can afford, in time and effort as well as money. The operators of monolithic sites end up doing things like hiring people in Africa and making them look at CSAM posts all day, so we don't have to.

No, giant scale is bad. It was always bad. I have been here since 1992, you are really peddling terrible and ignorant ideas here.

On Debian I have freely installed Gnome, KDE, and one or the other of the LX ones, and had no perceptible problems.

However, I just tried to shortcut installing KDE on a vanilla Ubuntu, and boy, they don't handle that well.

😂

I know that I have liked everything Waititi that I've watched, so I'll give it a chance on Jellyfin, probably. I loved The Remains Of The Day, in complete defiance of its non-SF nature. Have not read any of the writer's books but I have one of them on my phone right now, on the recommendation of some random blogger's post. Not this one.

But boy have I heard some vicious opinions about it.

I have only skimmed the comments so someone might have already mentioned it, but distrowatch.com is an excellent site to get your head around the differences between distros. For instance, they have a direct comparison page that will list all the package and kernel versions side by side. Here is Mint and Arch - as you can see, Mint is at a 6.14 kernel (fine for most apps and hardware) but Arch has the very recent 7.2.11, which if you have very new hardware, could matter to you.

I run Debian, which has even older packages and kernel, and everything works great. Very recently though, I switched my firefox to the flatpak version, because the Debian package version didn't have the fairly recent Split View feature, where you can put two sites side by side in your browser window - this has been desperately needed for as long as we've had wide screens. So that's one example of a more recent package being more desirable.

And speaking of Flatpak, that's yet another reason not to sweat your distro, cause you are not just limited to your apt packages, you can use snaps, you can use flatpak, You can use Nix. There's endless ways now of getting the latest version of anything, on any version of Linux.

Don't sweat it.

If you're happy with things and nothing is acting weird or badly, You're more or less golden, like folks are saying.

Where you might find that one day you want a newer kernel or packages (which is why you'd switch to Arch or one of its derivatives), is if you ever have very new hardware (or very old hardware that just got a driver pulled into the kernel - I own a Digidesign 002Rack that is ancient, but someone finally wrote a driver for it, and it's still a great piece of audio hardware) that only has drivers in the latest kernels.

But if you're just doing web, Office type stuff, even Steam games, you shouldn't need anything more than you have already.

I am a fan of the KDE desktop, myself, and I recommend that everyone try it out at some point. But you should be able to install it onto Mint and just choose it when you login, again, no need to change distros.

You almost murdered me just now with a tuna fish sandwich.

With you on everything here, but responding to ask you, please don't use the term "Epstein Class".

Reason: good people like you and me read it as "Scumbag Billionaires," but nazis and nazi-friendly people read it as "Jews". I have a lot of Jewish friends, I'm talking about people not afraid to call a genocide a genocide here, who do not need any more grief right now.

edit: turns out I was addressing a (now blocked) actual nazi.

Regular middle-class Canadians are the ones that voted for racism the other day.

Moreover, the question in your mind should be why and how our systems have all become so threadbare and lacking in any amount of resilience. Hint: "finding efficiencies".

But mostly, housing-as-investment-vehicle is straight up evil. There are empty apartments and houses sufficient to give everyone a place to live right now in most large cities. Government could be spending Billions on new, non-commercial public housing right now, and we know they could because they're handing that over to Venture Capitalists instead.

Housing is a problem for damn sure, but it's not the immigrants to blame. Nice try, but from a Middle Class Canadian who pays less than $500 per month for his mortgage while his friends live in warzones and pay three times as much for the privilege, you need to stop and look at Capitalism. Over time, you will see this more and more clearly, as your racist approach fails to make society any better, and in fact things just get worse and worse as long as you recommit yourselves to the dead future.

I don't buy it. If Datacentres were the powersipping butterflies you suggest, why all the new fossil power plants everywhere? I would probably not have given a shit about the datacentres, if not for all the new fossil pollution that is part and parcel of the construction.

Lies, damn lies, and statistics.