Physics and Free Software
If I wanted shit from you I'd squeeze your head
Ass jackal
You are among your people friend
Freakazoid!
The Iron Maidens
Do you negotiate your salary or the price of a car? Same thing to me
Israel doesn't waste time calling babies this or that. Israel bombs the hospitals where babies are born.
Given how wide a range your response are in the post, what you call "advertising" is better described as "communication". No?
I'm just imagining a swarm of mosquitos
So you put your food on layaway until you starve to death?
How much have you used linux before/what is your goal?
Originally it was because suggested results were a waste of time and I had used linux in grad school. I liked being able to use my computer how I wanted. As I learned more and more the ethics became a strong enough motivator I got rid of gmail and stopped using google maps. I'm 100% degoogled now, and I never looked back. Sometimes I have friends or people at work who want to collaborate using google products. I tell them I take an ethical stance against it. I will never go back.
Microsoft used to have a division for testing windows on various hardware configurations. They stopped doing that when they could just put different versions of windows on people's computers and use telemetry to check the differences. This could be an artifact of that.
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A transpobic twm and a nazi. Match made in hell.
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He's drop the n bomb multiple times on stream
I agree with you personal. I meant more that people are irrational and if dad comes out back and the kid is soaked and crying, the kids most likely going to say idk she did this to me for no reason
I like that approach. But when the parent only has their kid's half of the story, it's understandable why they would be pissed. I think most of us would be. Why did they do that to my kid? I'd want answers amd I wouldn't be happy about it.
Why would this in particular be important to him? I would think he wouldn't care
Does "more telemetries" mean "worse"? What if the least telemetry (greater than zero) had the Omega Mother of All Telemetries which crams everything the others do times 47 + 3 into one?

What kind of mindset do you need to be succesful starting and continuing to use Linux.
We all have opinions on how to procedurally get someone started using Linux. To mixed effect. I wonder if we could be more successful if we paid closer attention to the machine between the seat and the keyboard. What mindsets can we instill in people that would increase the likelihood they stick with it? How would we go about instilling said mindsets?
I have my own opinions I will share later. I don't want to direct the conversation.

Smokers and dog owners would make excellent postal workers
Through rain, and sleet, and dark of night

Should IP enter the public domain?
I'm speaking of creative works in particular. I'm generally in favor of the media entering the public domain when the artist dies, but when something enters the public decay, shit gets weird. Having Spongebob as IP keeps him on rails for who he is as a character. Change that, Spongebob as a character is changed by the public that could make the original unrecognizable. What's the line when a derivative work becomes it's own IP? What do you think?

Could someone ever take down Wikipedia?
Because they thought it was too 'woke' and wanted to burn the books.
FWIW you can download it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
Edit: Lots of good answers. When I ask the question I mean the main site. We would all have access to it. Hell I downloaded the text yesterday on two computers. I mean could the masses ever be denied access to wikipedia in the only form they are used to?

Fireworks Suck
Unless your goal is to set off car alarms, scare people's pets, and upset veterans who have ptsd. Then, they are amazing. Equally amazing for signalling you are an inconsiderate dick. Other people don't want to see or listen to your display of insecurity and lack of self satisfaction. Want to see the flashy boom boom in the sky? Go to fucking disney world. Otherwise, leave the other 99% of us alone.

I'm tired of Luigi memes
People glorify the actions he took, but have no intention of doing anything to improve society. Say what you will about assasinating someone who is objectively an awful person, the folks who spread these memes do little more than that. Spread memes. Want to make the world a better place? It's as easy as pickin up litter in the grocery store parking lot walking in or volunteering in a soup kitchen. Make the world the kind of place you want to live in with small steps rather than (or in addition to) glorify someone who took large ones.

What do you do to improve your workflow(s)?
It doesn't have to be on a computer.
On my keyboard, I use left alt as a layer for vim keys outside of vim, caps lock as ctrl, and right alt as escape. I'll combine them so I can move forward and backwards a word or delete/backspace a full word.
What kinds of things do you do?

What's a weird saying?
When examined, or just because it's weird on its own.
Example: Beat a dead horse
- You whip a horse to go faster
- It dies from being whipped too much
- You still want the horse to go faster
- You continue to whip it

What do you do when you get ghosted?
In a romantic relationship or otherwise. I'm being ghosted over a job, so I ask randos on the internet about what they do. WBY?
Edit: Thanks everyone for the advice I've been trying to follow. It helps having it reinforced. It's just hard for several reasons any of which would make it my top choice.
- It's in the city my sister lives in. I haven't lived near my family since I finished high school
- My job is inherently transient; I move every 1-2 years. This one gave me some permanency
- I've been doing the same thing for the last 10 years. This one gives me additional responsibilities
- It's prestigious and would come with higher pay
I'll be working on it, but like I said it's tough. It's almost like the universe gave me the perfect go fuck yourself.

What are inexpensive staples in your country?
The price of food and other basic commodities will soon rise in many places around the world. What are some commodities that are produced domestically or will remain inexpensive where you live? What do you expect will become more expensive? Please include your country of origin or region of the world in your reply.

What constitutes 'selling' user data?
The other day I was using firefox on a public. On my computer creating a new tab creates a blank tab, but this one it showed 'Suggested by Firefox'. One of the links was interesting, so I clicked on it. Would this be considered user data that would be sold? Some clarification from Mozilla about what constitutes selling user data would be great.

How much do you tip at a restaurant?
To those who live in or who have visited the United States.
Growing up in the 90's, the "minimum acceptable" tip was 10%, average was 15%, and a good tip was 20%. These days, I just round to the nearest dollar and tip 20%, but I've heard these days it's not unusual to tip up to 40%!
What do you usually do?

What are your alternatives to proton?
To replace everything. Mail, calendar, drive, vpn, password manager, documents etc. What are the pros and cons relative to proton? What are the mobile apps like? What assurances do you have they won't go full proton in the future? And other questions

How would the repeal of Section 230 impact Lemmt?
Here is the text in full if you are unfamiliar:
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

Can you self-host AI at parity with chatgpt?
My office computer has a Ryzen 7 5700, RX 580x, and 32gb of ram. Running ollama with deepseekv2 or llama3 is much slower than chatgpt in the browser. Same with my newer, more powerful home computer.
What kind of hardware do you need to run with comparable responsiveness to chatgpt? How much does it cost? Presuming such hardware is commercial, where do you find it?