Another way to interpret it is, “leadership pay has absolutely no impact on the success of a product.”

Yet another way is, “if you’re struggling, put your money into almost anything else than raises for upper management.”

I agree. I do appreciate the spirit of OP’s comment, that we are agents. I observe a lot of people who blame everything but themselves for their circumstances, and take responsibility for nothing.

However, sometimes you get the meteorite, and sometimes the meteorite gets you; we’re none of us 100% in control of our fates.

Thank you! It came from my brain. I’m not aware that it’s been said that way by anyone else, although I don’t think it’s a unique observation.

To be fair, it is a very long-winded post. I think it’s not an uncommon use case, though, and so deserved a robust sketch of the desired solution; Farmville and chat are sideshows, and what the people left on Facebook are really there for are the Walls.

Compiling has never been the hard part. The challenge is making it through the entire configuration menu system before succumbing to the urge to gouge your own eyes out with blunt sticks.

Once that’s done, kick off make take a long break; it’ll be compiled by the time you get back to it.

I hear build times are getting longer with the Rust parts, though, so do it soon before you need mainframe access to get a compile within your lifetime.

There are some excellent apps out there, and by and large they look and work better than commercial apps, IME. So I disagree with the assertion that I have to stay with commercial software.

What I was asking for, in my post, was not which apps have better UX than Facebook, but rather which of the very many OSS, federated (although, not necessary for my use case), self-hosted platforms fit the specific use, and ideally with a straightforward iOS mobile app. Doesn’t have to be pretty; just has to be able to quickly take and post photos to a private channel/community/wall.

Circles really is quite nice in all respects. I think they’re hindered by their choice of backend. I’ve been using Matrix for years, and key management has always been a hot mess. I wouldn’t be surprised if the issues we encountered were related to Matrix’s god-awful and buggy PK negotiation & management process.

The AMD graphics driver is reputedly the biggest that mainstream Linux users will encounter, approaching six million lines of code.

That does seem a bit … excessive.

This is so true.

The only thing the righteous hate more than a heathen is a heretic.

Sectarianism is a fractal war where the only indivisible faction is the individual.

I stub my toe. Is that a “have to?”

It was a typo. There are only 6.6 people in Ireland.

Hmmm.

I’d phrase it differently. Unrealistic expectations of the opposite sex [^1] exist by both sexes, but that there outcomes for women when the stereotypes of men hold true are often more dangerous. One is saying it isn’t sexist; the other is saying that there’s a vast difference in risk. This becomes one of those tautological arguments where women can’t be sexist because sexism is redefined to mean “it can only be sexist if it’s men doing it.”

The “Would you rather a bear or…” question could be reused in a very uncomfortable way. You could swap men with a group of yoing, black, inner city men and rural white men for women. But instead of demonstrating that men are the issue and women the victims, suddenly it’d be black men who are the victims and rural white men the problem. And, yet, the fear and the risk of confirmation of stereotypes is the same - only in this case, believing those stereotypes makes people racist.

These sorts of tautologies - only whites can be racist, only men can be sexist - is sloppy, lazy, and dangerous, because it prevents introspection and always externalizes blame. I’m not saying that you are arguing a tautology, but that’s the essence of this thread: minimizing sexism against men in the basis that it can’t be sexism if rape isn’t involved. Which is exactly how this thread went, isn’t it?

I want to reiterate that I agree that there’s a false equivalency; consequences for women can be higher. My argument is that it doesn’t make it not sexism to broadly brush all men with a demeaning funny little tweet.

Also: there should be a Godwin’s Law for rape. The conversation was about household stereotypes. That was a bit of a leap.

Greater opportunity, yes; however, cash is still legal tender in the US and it used to be illegal to not accept it as payment (this may have changed). And, as the payer, make sure you get a receipt so they can’t screw you and if the landlord doesn’t pay taxes, you’re not culpable - it’s their responsibility, not your’s.

Cash is fine. The receipt is important, though, for a number of reasons. Not many people are going to go withdraw $1,100 just to pay rent, unless they’re getting a discount for cash, which is a good indication there’s some tax dodging going on.

Even if you trade sex for rent, get a receipt saying you paid your rent.

Making it an excellent bargain.

However: it doesn’t sound as if she didn’t accept only because she wanted to be faithful; it sounds as if she was upset by the experience. So, fuck anon. He can go see if the landlord will accept something from him, instead.

This guy is looking at the long view. If you read it to the end, he’s starting his own garlic farm and is going to constantly undercut Jim’s prices, so that Jim won’t make any (or many) sales, until Jim goes out of business. He’s doing this even if it means a loss for himself; his goal is to ruin Jim’s business.

Now, this is what’s known in Birdman culture as “a Dick Move,” but Jim seems a bit of a dick himself. However, while it might screw up the beginning of my season, if I were Jim I’d simply pivot to onions.

It all comes down to how far OP’s poster is willing to take it. He certainly seems petty enough to pursue all paths, at whatever cost, to prevent Jim from being able to still produce at that farmer’s market; changing crops as Jim changes crops. If Jim’s invested enough, he could rotate his crops between a half-dozen different root stocks and the odds Vengeance Boy would happen to match whatever he’s selling that season would be slim and spoil his plan.

You mean, they’re mounting something that isn’t an SD card to the /sdcard directory? Like something truly evil, such as mount -t btrfs -o subvol=@home / /sdcard? Or do you think there’s not anything mounted there; it’s just a directory in the root partition? None of that would make any sense.

If they’re letting whatever automount tool (eg udevil) do its thing, this is practically impossible. And if they know enough to do it by hand, I think they’d have answered the direct question of “which filesystem” with a filesystem rather than a mount point. Don’t you think? We still don’t know what filesystem they’re working with, since they haven’t answered the question.

I agree; it probably didn’t occur to them. But it was a fairly common job in IT in the 90’s. Not a career or job description, maybe, but a duty you got saddled with.

I can see that, although TBH I almost never have to “admin” EndeavourOS. I just upgrade every once in a while.

Most important to me is being able to find and install whatever software I want, and I have a string preference that it either be installed in my ~, or be managed by the package manager. I really dislike sideloading software globally. And Arch does this better than most. AUR is massive, and packages are trivial to write and install in the rare event something isn’t in AUR.

It doesn’t matter. FAT filesystems - which are usually the default on SD cards, simply do not support ownership or file permissions. Linux emulates these attributes at mount time, but they apply to the entire SD card. You can mount an SD card and tell Linux to act as if root owns everything on the card; you that you own everything on the card; and it will be so until you unmount it and remount it with a different ownership.

These are filesystem level attributes, not device attributes. If you have a modern internal nvme drive and you format it with vfat, you will not be able to set permissions or ownership at the file level, but only at mount time, for the entire drive.

I have to completely avoid mirrors, myself. Walking down a city street on a sunny day is downright hazardous, lest I catch a glimpse of my reflection.

What they really got wrong was the clothing: so much anime/hentai.

This is a techno-goth.