> the first is to end the historically unprecedented era of free and anonymous political speech by ordinary people. The second is to prevent anti-imperialist arguments and perspectives from reaching the eyes and ears of young western people. Young people will only hear the perspectives taught in government school and on corporate media. No choosing a different perspective early in life.
Yet my motherland, the nation with arguably the most liberal social media in the world and the least functional school system among "western regimes", is the most socially polarized, has voted in an insecure bully on a platform of hate and prejudice, and is about to plunge into imperialistic conquest, possibly against our allies for 70 years. I can't see how age-gating social media can do any more harm.
Well said. The value of free speech is that all perspectives are heard, so that the best hopefully prevails. Social media is not doing that. You only see the shit you already agree with or the most ridiculous and extreme points on the other side.
Me too! Metro design was, I don't know, a whole different league compared to Apple or the Androids of that time. I'm not sad that MS failed on that front, but damn, that was a good mobile phone UI.
Hey, Julian Jaynes! Haven't heard that name in a while. I remember that book fondly, compelling story telling. IMO Richard Dawkins said it best, it's either fucking nuts or fucking genius, no in between.
Not a Braun product, but also timeless European design: I have a De'Longhi KG79 which I've bought in 2019, and it doesn't show any signs of wearing out yet. The only maintenamce so far was that I gave it a thorough cleaning last year or so. It does its job flawlessly and is fairly cheap.
[EDIT: Looking at the Braun 4045 mentioned in the article: I used to have the Braun 3045, which broke down at some point. To be fair, it lasted at least 10 years, not sure how long exactly. I remember that the somewhat brittle coffee grounds container broke after only 2 or 3 years, but it could be pieced together with epoxy]
I have a Rancilio Rocky that will outlive the universe. I've had it for twenty years and have never maintained it. It weighs more than any other device I have at home. You can buy new parts for it from the manufacturer. It still grinds coffee like it did on day 1.
Hmh, I'm running Tumbleweed on a Ryzen 5 7600 and an AMD Rx 7800. Like you I don't fiddle with the defaults and this is my gaming rig (I'm working on starting just into Steam). I just have default KDE Plasma to launch Steam and play my games, I do my work on a Debian Trixie laptop. I have set up TW two years ago and only DUP-ed it since then. Actually, it is more stable then the Debian machine :o
I know, this is not helping you in any way. I only encountered weird instability with Linux when my RAM was not OK. Maybe check your RAM?
I guess, it takes one, to know one. It's a long-standing belief of mine that those who expound the toughest lines, the harshest laws, and the strictest regulations are the same people that actually would make these laws necessary, if they had the opportunity. Curiously enough it often are the socially conservative "law & order" factions, so I am not surprised that the right-wingers are made from similiar cloth.
Of course, and to be fair, many of the ultra-rights do not even pretend, they say openly that they are against the rule of law. So nepotism, cronyism, and corruption are obviously on the table.
You can also run a WinXP exe on any Linux distribution almost every time. That's the point of project and Linus' quip: The only stable ABI around on MS Windows and Linux is Win32 (BTW, I do not agree with this.)
I think it's not unlikely that we reach reach a point in a couple of decades where we are all developing win32 apps that most people are running some form of linux.
We already have an entire platform like that (steam deck), and it's the best linux development experience around in my opinion.
You are right. "Zersiedlung" is a term of art in land-use and development planning to describe the undirected expansion of settlements into rural areas. I happen to work in the periphery of planning and approval and the term comes up quite often. The English equivalent would be the mentioned "suburban sprawl".
This knife cuts both ways.
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