The Father -> Richard Stallman

The Son -> Linus Torvalds

The Holy Ghost -> GNU+Linux

The Holy Temple -> Arch Linux

Uhh, it’s GNU/Linux actually

Another tip: Be careful linking images from hosts that you don’t control.

You don’t want to come back and find your funny.gif picture is now displaying a goatse.

and also, because the OG situation:

KolourPaint doesn’t support layers, so when you paste something, put it into place and deselect it then it is written to the bitmap immediately.

Use GIMP if you need to use layers. Tons of YT videos on how to do it (ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egyrVoXY7Ss )

After discovering the robbery, the bank installed doors and locks.

The earth has enough microplastics.

I’ve heard that the best billionaires really love Greenland, just let them roam free in northern Greenland (wouldn’t want to annoy any actual Greenlanders). Don’t worry about them, these Masters of Industry will pull themselves up by their bootstraps and have a fire and shelter in no time.

I’m waiting for the Rust re-write.

We know that the chosen one is out there, they have yet to make themselves known.

A meme? Lying? I can’t believe it,

3/3/26 never forget

Primarily, there are a few EAC games that haven’t checked the ‘Linux allowed’ box yet.

They’re giving good advice but, in my opinion, they are using the reputation of Mullvad to ‘privacy-wash’ their public image by associating with a trusted brand.

WhatsApp is not a secure messaging service, your messages are not private. Being end to end encrypted doesn’t mean anything if both ends are compromised by having the app installed on them (or being vendor rooted).

I understand and agree with you.

Various companies go out of their way to make plugin-ins for the platform that everyone uses and everyone uses the platform because of the additional support that it receives on account of being the most popular.

Microsoft is the one that ultimately benefits by being able to make anti-consumer decisions because each individual decision by Microsoft isn’t as bad as the friction required to switch and learn to a new IDE. Microsoft can move the product in any direction that they want as long as they do it in steps tiny enough to not scare people away from their platform.

In the end we’re the frogs that they’re boiling, eventually you gotta jump out of the pot.

Nobody is deploying these at scale to harvest water to sell, it’s way too expensive. Probably even more so than desalination.

These kinds of devices would be useful in areas where they didn’t have access to preexisting infrastructure. There the comparison would be between operating one of these devices or air lifting water in by helicopter. The fact that it’s expensive isn’t as much a concern when the alternative is to pay for airlift delivery.

It’s probably being A/B tested and you’re not in the test group yet.

Or, alternatively, OP is from an area that’s been designated as having an increased risk of fake accounts and these extra measures are being deployed selectively.

As someone who has thought about it, could you provide the data that you used to come to the conclusion that the amount of water being extracted from the air has any appreciable effect on local life?

From my thinking…

Death Valley covers 7800km^2.. Atmospheric moisture is typically contained in the first 10km of air. So there is somewhere around 2.5 quadrillion cubic feet of air containing 114 billion gallons of water.

The average Atmospheric Water Vapour Residence Time is around 8 days The median is 5 days and Death Valley’s topography is a valley which would trap more moisture, but we’ll use the average instead.

This represents a moisture turnover rate of about 625,000 Liters/second (or 1.45x10^10 gallons/day).

So, one of these devices would consume .000185% of the moisture that enters Death Valley every day.

It feels like people are just punching themselves in the face.

Yes, Microsoft has taken over a lot of projects which made coding easy. So either you submit to Microsoft’s control or you spend the time to learn to use the alternatives.

Emacs is basically older than computers, stable and has a huge amount of support and plug-ins. Nvim is newer, but vi/vim have existed since before electrons learned to jump bandgaps and has a similarly deep level of community expertise/support.

If you’re just starting off, your school is likely deep in Micrsoft’s sphere of influence so you probably learned VS Code/Visual Studio. Moving to Emacs or Nvim is much harder than it would be if you had learned them in the first place, but believe me (a random stranger on the Internet wouldn’t lie to you!) it is worth the time to learn.

Git is a version control system, not an issue tracker.

If you want issue tracking then you can use a system like forgejo or if you don’t want to self-host and are okay with risking creating a new centralized service which will eventually betray everything they stood for, you can use Codeberg.org (which is just a forgejo instance).

Another fun one is ex-Intelligence agents leaving government work to go into the private sector and create unconstitutional spying powers and obtain information which would be illegal for the government to obtain, which they then sell to the government.

Looks like this is a common enough issue:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#Noticeable_audio_delay_or_audible_pop/crack_when_starting_playback

When in doubt, look into the Arch and Gentoo wikis they have good information that’s usually applicable to you even if you’re not using them (mostly).