But they did, I made a friendly comment, I was even self-deprecating about it, mostly to be funny, and they accused me of having prejudices. I don’t take well to being called prejudiced, I’m not and hate people who are. Then they randomly brought up racism, that was a weird exchange.

No. OK, you’re not being a rational person here so goodbye.

Well mine was a tongue in cheek comment too, and I thought quite friendly and fun, and then you decided to call me prejudiced. The main point I was picking up on was mindless internet scrolling which is something I do when I’m unhealthily managing my boredom, it’s a warning sign for me, maybe it’s not for you, but I thought I would share my perspective, as I did in a non-judgemental way. Masturbation is perfectly fine, it can be healthy, it can be not, when combined with mindless internet scrolling it didn’t sound healthy to me but that’s just me. I don’t get fishing either but I wouldn’t judge someone for it, just like I didn’t judge you, but you responded like I did judge you, it’s like we’re on Reddit or something.

Why, do you know me from somewhere? The key word there is “seems”; if you truly get fulfilment from mindless Internet scrolling, pot and masturbation then go for it. That’s just not my experience. When you posted that here did you not expect other people to share their own perspectives?

mindless Internet scrolling, pot and masturbation

That part seems more like succumbing to boredom than combatting it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m guilty myself.

It would need someone to set it up, but I have my non-techy family members on Silverblue and it suits the purpose as outlined. Also not sure why all the fear-mongering about btrfs, I would say it’s ready and suitable for mainstream use now, or you don’t have to use it.

It’s not about blocking ads for me, that’s a happy side-effect, it’s about owning your computing and taking the necessary protection against tracking. Before “ad blockers” existed I spent a lot of time manually configuring my browser to block websites from connecting me to unnecessary, potentially intrusive third party servers, after all it’s my browser and my internet connection. Now uBlock Origin does that for me, it’s not an ad blocker, it’s a wide spectrum content blocker and the user should have the final say on what they connect to. I think we should stop calling them ad blockers.

Steadfast. As a native English speaker it feels like a very strong, grounded word which also suits its meaning. Originally literally means fixed in place, it’s come to mean loyal and unswerving.

Free as in freedom. But also free as in cost for most PC use cases. Red Hat and SUSE are mostly selling enterprise services.

That’s not the argument here, actual antisemitism (which this is not) is still unacceptable prejudice against a people and not “stealth blasphemy laws”, this has nothing to do with religion.

What’s “on read”?

See 2025-06-01 14:40 from Konstantin Ryabitsev. Navigation is just below the post.

Anywhere where it doesn’t bother other people.

I mean I would think twice about using them as a single source for search, the same as I would think twice about using Google as a single source. That’s why I prefer to use an aggregator.

Well I’m not a fan of Brave or Google as companies for individual reasons, look up about Brave’s CEO for example.

I prefer to use an aggregator so at the moment I’m using searxng; the main downside I’ve found is that instances tend to get blocked from indexes eventually so you do have to move around a bit.

The fact that it uses Brave’s index is partly what puts me off using Mullvad Leta.

I guess I’m biased because when I first started using Linux some 20 years ago it was considered user friendly for the time. Plus I must have used it hundreds of times since I had a previous job which involved setting up a lot of CentOS servers, which could have blinded me to the problems. Still, I think it’s reassuring to do everything from a central overview page for your configuration choices, takes away a bit of self-doubt. I’m not complaining though, as long as the new one does the job.

Just upgraded. I think I must have been the only person in the world to like the old Fedora installation UI but everyone complained about it so it must be good news that it’s gone, as long as I don’t hate the new one.

I would say the vast majority of people are good, however people are flawed so a lot of people are bad at being good.

Bomb Sweeper. I’ve not actually played much Game & Watch since back in the day, so this is mostly from childhood memory and I have no idea how well it stands up but that was my favourite at the time and it’s nostalgia. It’s a multi-screen but the top screen was mostly cosmetic, you had to navigate some kind of maze on the bottom screen. I’ve still got it, I should dig it out some time.