GigglyBobble

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GigglyBobble,

I've been using Thunderbird since forever. It's not perfect but I like it better than bloated and laggy Outlook.

GigglyBobble,

Yeah, based on a legal request - that's how it should be. Our problems are not police listening in on criminals but unwarranted mass-surveillance.

GigglyBobble,

If by "better for touch" you mean a phone app: no, Thunderbird is for your computer. In Android I can recommend FairEmail.

GigglyBobble,

Sorry I missed that. I don't think you'll ever be happy using Windows on a touch device though. Too much relies on the traditional UX pattern, especially third-party applications.

GigglyBobble,

The pedometers are all so imprecise though that it showing 10k may well be 6k real steps.

GigglyBobble,

a lot of that comes down to low level features like GCD and ARC.

Ah, almost but this shows you're just bullshitting (knowingly or not). Those are programming features and neither serves resource efficiency but security and preventing other errors. Important things, but managing memory manually in C will be faster and less resource-intensive than any smart-pointer variant. Doing so flawlessly is hard though.

GigglyBobble,

My mother used Linux Mint as her last OS just fine. She struggled more with her phone than Linux. Just using browser, mail client and writing the occasional letter you're pretty much OS-agnostic.

However, while that does work, sometimes updates break something (regardless of distribution). Windows mixes shit up which makes the elderly not finding something again but Linux updates may result in the DE not starting for some reason. I moved to Linux 100% myself but I still won't ever recommend it to anyone who isn't fine with tinkering or has access to family tech support.

GigglyBobble, (edited )

Even in your example, you set everything up.

No shit. Have you installed Windows 10/11 recently? Do you seriously believe a 85 year-old will get this done on their own?

I share your overall opinion though: Linux is not "the best for most people". That would be phones nowadays. Many people don't even have computers anymore (I don't get how they organize their finances or write documents but I guess I'm just old).

GigglyBobble,

How do they break the law? The opt-in forces them to ask you first and that's what the annoying banners do. Sites that don't care about tracking also don't show these pop-ups.

GigglyBobble,

Old shitheads tend to be annoyingly resilient, unfortunately.

GigglyBobble,

Politicians don't give a fuck about the middle class though. To get rich after holding public office, you need to get in bed with the currently rich

Even if they are not completely corrupt: it's easier to talk to a couple of mega corp CEOs instead of those of thousands of small companies (who employ the most people in total). So policy will always favor large corps. And that's where the obscenely rich are.

GigglyBobble,

If you think any socialist politician would behave differently, you're just naive. Look at every socialist ever. Don't think they care about you just because they publish a good-sounding agenda.

GigglyBobble,

Read their arguments above. Also, is it this Andrew Dobson? An academic but hardly an expert on the nuclear physics.

GigglyBobble,

“Researchers say” isn't something researchers say though but journalists or "journalists" (bloggers etc).

GigglyBobble,

And what will happen? Didn't Q-Anon start fighting a supposed pedo ring in a pizza place? They'll totally turn on Trump now, right? Right?

GigglyBobble,

Or you might believe just because they're a great performer doesn't mean they have more expertise on a topic outside their area than the average Joe and is just as interesting. Yet, somehow people's opinion seems to matter more once they're in the spotlight.

GigglyBobble,

But it does carry more weight. If a celibrity voices an opinion it's almost guaranteed to become public.

That doesn't make it more valid though, it can still be bullshit. And that's why people may conclude it best, if performers focus on their area of expertise. I don't think less of people coming to that conclusion.

GigglyBobble,

Eventually all content will just be AI generated on the fly. No need to keep dumb content on precious storage that could be used to increase model size.

GigglyBobble,

Yep. 2023 still has a week to let the world go to shit for good.

GigglyBobble,

Ex-smokers are the most militant non-smokers. Why would it be different for ex Windows users/victims?

What is Something Scientific that you just don't believe in at all?

EDIT: Let’s cool it with the downvotes, dudes. We’re not out to cut funding to your black hole detection chamber or revoke the degrees of chiropractors just because a couple of us don’t believe in it, okay? Chill out, participate with the prompt and continue with having a nice day. I’m sure almost everybody has something...

GigglyBobble,

Its observed gravitational effects is evidence. Otherwise nobody would have given it a name.

GigglyBobble,

Nobody "automatically assumes" anything. Dark matter is the best candidate of possible explanations because it explains observation and still fits the standard model. Even if they find the necessary particles eventually, nobody would call it certain though. Certainty is a unicorn.

GigglyBobble,

Well, not really. Your first reply to me got downvoted because you setup a strawman - arguing against something that wasn't even the point.

Your second, the one you claimed said the same as mine, insinuated Dark Matter is just some mathy explanation among many. This doesn't give it credit. It's the current no 1 explanation with lots of evidence. Still didn't get downvoted though.

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