monkeysuncle

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[–] monkeysuncle 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Beehaw is a pun of yeehaw, the thing cowboys say. Hence the bee with a cowboy hat as a mascot.

[–] monkeysuncle 11 points 1 year ago

Exactly. Especially a subreddit whose entire purpose is posting pictures, why would reddit care if all those pictures are of a single celebrity.

[–] monkeysuncle 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does it mean for the money to disappear? Can I just not spend anymore or would it disappear from whoever I bought from. If the latter, I couldn't in good conscience buy anything. I wouldn't mind if say Walmart lost some profit, but thousands of dollars worth of cash suddenly going missing would cause people to lose their jobs.

If the former, I'd buy as much electronics as I could from Walmart and then buy a bunch of scratch offs and lottery tickets. Those are the only two placed open around here at 11pm.

[–] monkeysuncle 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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[–] monkeysuncle 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The most basic benefit of immutable OSes like Fedora Silverblue is that you are prevented from messing up your system enough that you are unable to boot into it and fix it. This isn't strictly true, you can always go out of your way to screw things up (say deleting required partitions), but in normal usage you will always have a backup to boot and fix whatever you messed up. It also makes it extremely easy to undo things even if they aren't errors.

It's possible to do this without immutable OSes using btrfs snapshots before you change anything system-wide, in fact I believe MicroOS uses btrfs snapshots for their immutable system, but that adds cognitive load as it requires you to remember to create a snapshot. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed provides snapshotting automatically and adds entries to the bootloader for previous iterations, but it isn't immutable because you can still go and modify your root partition without taking a snapshot. MicroOS, however, has a read-only root partition so it becomes a lot more difficult to make a change without a snapshot. You can still do it, but you have to go out of your way to do it.

[–] monkeysuncle 13 points 1 year ago

I'll be the first to admit that I have no idea if the punishment fits the crime. I'm sure republicans are going to claim favoritism or something like that, and that probation is not enough, but I have no idea how stuff like this usually pays out.

The only frame of reference I have is Wesley Snipes who had 3 misdemeanor tax charges instead of two and got prison time, but Snipes' case was a lot wilder and more money was involved. Snipes didn't plead guilty though and didn't have a plea deal, so it seems reasonable enough to only get probation when you did plead guilty.

[–] monkeysuncle 2 points 1 year ago

I'll have to try that and see if it helps.

[–] monkeysuncle 4 points 1 year ago

The problem I have with that is you have to tip before you even eat the food. They could have screwed up your order, burnt your food, etc., but you won't know until after you've already tipped them.

[–] monkeysuncle 4 points 1 year ago

A small correction: Swartz didn't share the journal articles. There's reasonable doubt on whether he was ever planning on sharing them or not, but he was arrested for the downloading of the articles not the sharing.

[–] monkeysuncle 6 points 1 year ago

I've used RedReader for many years. When the api changes were announced I was certain I would never use reddit before, as I usually browse it on the phone. I still want to migrate away from reddit fully, but since RedReader has an api exception it's going to be more difficult to break my addiction.

[–] monkeysuncle 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

To be fair, I think most governments would refuse to leave if the people they represent don't want them anymore.

[–] monkeysuncle 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately none. I have an S10e with a locked bootloader. This is the first android phone I've owned that I hadn't used a custom ROM on. The last Samsung phone I owned was an S4 and I hadn't kept up with the custom ROM scene, so I hadn't known the locked bootloader nonsense when I got the S10e.

It sucks because there are no note security updates for the phone even though the hardware is still in good condition. I can't justify replacing a working phone even if I could afford a new one. I'm hoping eventually a vulnerability will be uncovered that allows unlocking the bootloader. There was one a few years ago I think, but it got patched before I even knew about it.

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