Really? They did a ton of work to make Linux accessible to the masses, have an active and helpful community to help out if you get stuck, works really well out of the box on most hardware and you’re pretty much guaranteed there’s going to be a compatible deb available for it if you’re looking for software outside normal repos. Seems like a no brainer tbh.

You’re surprised the most popular desktop distro is still around?

I cannot believe the downvoting coming your way for this.

On one - how the abuse of this cannot be foreseen by the most clueless person is beyond me.

On two - are people under the impression that the current child welfare system is adequate for the children that are currently in it? What about that system makes them think it would be suitable to increase the number of children in care.

Fucking mental.

I bought some on clearance about a decade ago, my wife thought I was crazy buying 20 bulbs, I gave 1/4 of them away and I’ve still not run out.

Oh Baader Meinhof phenomenon, I’ve been seeing that everywhere recently!

I don’t think it’s about people lying to themselves, it’s just some of the stuff it predicts seems oddly specific they don’t even consider it.

Amazing stuff, the devs were a decent bunch too, I distinctly remember pestering a dev to create a save game loader that would write saves from a disk to a vmu on the irc channel for wraggster’s dcemu forum. Might have to dig out my old Dreamcast if it still lives.

So we just stop reporting stuff?

Plex too fwiw.

Ah mate, that was a great community back in the day.

Any colour I should be using?

Are they not supposed to report news?

In what sense have they given up on the US re: tech?

And provide a succinct list of talking points and responses to chat to people at work about?

It’s exactly the same.

It’ll collapse or it won’t collapse or we’ll do something different, same as we always have. Pining for a rose tinted snapshot of 20 years ago or 30 years ago won’t make things better. It’s the same bullshit nostalgia fetishism the far right have for the 50s or 60s or whatever. Some things are worse, a lot of things are a lot better. All we can really do is support those we can support and make things better where we can.

Okay?

You’re saying things were better 20 years ago because there was false hope? By that logic 2020 must’ve been the best year ever because CO2 emissions actually dropped.

You’re kidding yourself, things may have seemed better 20 years ago but the economy was being bolstered by sub prime mortgage nonsense, it collapsed 2 years later and we’ve not had good times since.

Released under investigation, they don’t just arrest the king’s brother on a whim, pretty sure they’re pretty sure they can get a conviction.