They are right. We eat babies and kick the elderly, don’t we?

Ah my man, hard disagree on “videos exist by themselves”.

Even if you have video, or oral accounts of something they are as flawed as the human condition is. The difference is the amount of bias, but they all have it.

In the documentary you’ll have the directors/production company trying to portray whatever they want to portray. In the oral accounts you’ll still have a skewed view, bound to that particular person’s experience. Sure in a sense can be more genuine, but should be scrutinized also. Who is the person? What is his participation in the events? Possible interests? Which social class? Etc…

We must not deny the bias, but embrace it. If we can gather as many different sources as possible, we should be able string a better perspective, but doing so also carries our own bias.

Nothing is neutral. And we don’t lose anything by admiting it.

For a man who wants to reach into space, it would be trully majestic to send him to the very bottom of the emerald mines that his ilk profited of.

Yeah, that’s true, but I think browsers and office software have two fundamentally different purpouses.

You see, a browser, altough surely used in professional settings, is also a broad enough tool that many people can use a lot for a myriad of other contexts. I may browse my work email, but also watch youtube on my free time, scroll through social media, download games, etc…

Now when talking about office suites, the objective is definetly geared towards the enterprises. Sure, you can use Calc as a way to quickly get a shopping list, but that is just the most superficial aspect of the software. In this environment, compatibility should, or even, must, be foccused on. The user doesn’t choose exactly what to use, but is forced to work with what his company provides or what works with his company’s files.

As such, altough I would love to have more innovation in LibreOffice, I totally understand why they follow a more compatabiliy-focused approach.

LoL, guess I should look into more serious ideologies. I’m specially intrigued by the theoretical framework found in Disney/Marvel Movies and twitter. Oh and how could I forget, the cornerstone of all modern political thought: Harry Potter and the Liberal Stone.

On a side note, is the trackpoint (the thinkpad’s red nipple) pattented? I know some dell’s have it, so I imagine they aren’t.

I would love to have third party keyboards with this type of integrated pointer device. That or some sort of tracball, which, by the way, are a great alternative to a mouse. Have been using them for 4 years now and never looked back.

Well if communism captalism is so good, why do you need to censor it?

As we’ve seen recently, I bet we could make americans want to bomb their own back yards with agent orange if there was enough media traction against the yards.

I wonder what flag they would use in their twitter though

Yeah, and is not restricted to aliens. I had a teacher that seriously believed the idea that phoenecians had sailed to south america, made a single inscription in a single rock in Rio de Janeiro, leaving no other evidence of their presence rather than crediting indigenous groups of the area.

The worst is that these ancient aliens shitty theories have gained an air of legitimacy, at least in my parts of the world. Nothing academic of course, but in the commom sense of the people it is a scarely common talking point. Kinda like an accepted conspiracy theory.

Absolutely. We can still have matrix instances for chatting. There is nothing inherently bad about an inpermanent format, it has its place. However as the need of having anything last for more than a week, with the possibility of being occasionaly accessed years from now, a lemmy, forum-like, format is a must.

In my mind information storing needs two major things set straight from the get go: organization and sorting of information, and searchability. Discord, to my experience, barely has either.

I simply do not understand how a software for VoIP became the de facto choice for forums. It pains me to no end to try and find info on endless rolling chat format. It is, quite literally, the digital equivalent of being in a party where everyone just shout what they want to say and hope that the people on the other end can filter all the other hundred conversations and actually respond to it.

This is only worsened when you want to follow a project, a game for instance, and the devs only use that shitty platform. Now you are deprived on any news, important bugs and troubleshooting in general.

I’ve never used a forum when they were in their prime. But boy, do I wish they were more prevalent.

That’s a very good point. I admire the angolan flag because of this.

Stalin’s greatest crime was melting his gargantuan spoon to build sturmoviks.

To elaborate, Portugal confined itself mostly to coastal areas. When idependence came about, most of the nothern states territory was still virgin jungle. The empire, in it’s expansion inward, then had it’s share of colonizing the regions and fucking indigenous populations. Even in the 20th century, already a republic, Brazil did some fuckery with indian slavery because of the rubber trade, but this time not so overtly. Guess who wanted the rubber? Well, if it isn’t our good american hero Henry Ford…

Tumbleweed is a fantastic distro and, in fact, the distro that made me settle in, stoping the distrohop. However, we must recognize that the openSuse way is a little different from many other distros, and the packaging options while vast, require more steps to get to than debian or arch, for example. New users might be thrown off by more commands needing sudo (to manager printers for example) or the codecs installation ( which is so easy that is almost a no braine, but still).

Overall openSuse became my favourite distro. My install of tumbleweed is now going for 3 years of everyday use, from gaming to image editing, all this without having the patented MS Windows bit rot. In all this time, only once I needed to do a rollback on a update. It is stable as a rock.

Would I recommend it to someone totally new? It’s hard to. The specifics of openSuse sometimes create some barries to new users. The file system (btrfs, by default), the codecs, the extra safe sudo policy, etc…

Now would I recommend it for a better acquainted linux user? Abso-fucking-lutely, best rolling realease you can find. Updates are relatively bleeding edge, and stable. And even if they aren’t, just roll back and go on with your day.

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Why? Don’t you know that socialism is when no ipone?!1!!!1!?

There is also Jerboa for android, it’s the official app I think. Worked better for me than lemmur.

Very interesting. I do wish we had more firefox based browsers though. A firefox based qutebrowser would be very nice, or some other take on keyboard usability, but keeping the firefox background. Unfourtunately, I’ve read that mozilla’s backend is not as modular as chromium, leaving many of the alternative browsers contributing to google’s web hegemony.