You can write a whole essay of theory, but my experience is running several arch devices for years and years with no problems and having ubuntu distro upgrades break so badly I just reinstall completely every single time.

Another hiccup is that LTS are not actually running stable packages. They are running Frankenstein versions of packages with backports that are not supported by the project maintainers, because the software has to be maintained for security if nothing else.

IMO micro plastics is the latest socieital “Boogie man”.

Yeah just like global warming right?

I liked heliboard. It doesn't require network access, has gesture typing that works well, though you have to manually add the library, lots of configuration, and some stuff I use all the time like slide on delete to choose how much to delete and slide on space to move cursor.

Basically it is both private and a pleasure to use (after configuring)

I've played FF8 more than any other FF and it's partially for what the author is complaining about.

I can see complaining about the battle systems because they're pretty loose, but personally I think it's fun to play anyway.

The complaint about the characters not having a much of a story I guess is technically true if you compare it to the hamfisted diversions from the main story a lot of rpgs do to force a story arc for a character, but all of the characters feel like they are part of the group for a good reason because of their back stories and they all grow during the game.

I would just have to disagree on the writing. The story is why I play the game every few years. In fact, counter to the author's claim that it is incoherent, almost everything you do has to do with the sorceresses and history of the garden, without ever feeling like you got sent on an inconsequential side quest in the middle of a crisis.

You're agreeing with the comment you replied to. Why the fuck are you trying to be so smug???

1% of ad views result in a sale? That seems implausible

The joke exists because there are people out there that do feel shame for their body,

Yeah. Because society is body shaming them. Like in this comic. It's baffling to me that people are so attached to their small dick jokes they'll do these mental gymnastics to try to assert it's not body shaming. If you want to be an asshole at least be honest and own it.

If what you mean is unpaid internships, they're great ways to perpetuate elitism because they select for people with rich parents.

Can't you disable all this in the settings page?

I've seen this argument way to often and it is completely pointless. The argument that this will succeed because something in the past succeeded is exactly the same as arguing it will fail because something in the past failed.

If you want to draw the conclusion that they're similar enough to use history in prediction, you'll have to show that they're similar and make a case for why those similarities are relevant.

I haven't seen anyone making this argument bother with this exercise, but I have seen people that actually look at the economics discuss why they're different animals.

There is also the tech itself.

1. internet - connect everything together across vast distances. Obvious limitless possibilities.

2. smart phones (you didn't mention here but this is the other one people use for this argument most frequently) - Anything a computer can do in the palm of your hand.

3. llms - can do some powerful stuff like rifle through and summarize text, or generate text, or generate code... Except you can't really trust it to do any of these things accurately, and that is a fundamental aspect of how the technology works rather than something that can be fixed, so it can't be used responsibly for anything critical.

I don't think it will pass this time... but people were telling me roe v Wade was safe when I was raising alarms a decade ago and now look where we are. The theocrats and facists mean what they say and they're way more persistent and capable than people give them credit for.

One thing that holds people back sometimes is that bash scripts that set environment variables don't work by default. https://github.com/edc/bass is an easy solution