Knusper

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't usually count them. They just have to form a neat diagonal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

As a software engineer, the nicest thing is that the whole programming ecosystem integrates with Linux. Git, SSH, Docker, you get natively in your OS. Even dumb shit like file path separators, line-endings, file permissions. Most programming languages make the assumption that you're on a UNIX system (Linux, macOS, BSD).

Aside from that, Linux is fucking awesome as an SE, because everything is open-source. Find a bug in a program you use? You can fix it, if you want. Want to learn how a specific program works? Just look at the source code. Or its config file. Or its logs. Everything wants to teach you about itself.

And personally, I also just love the usability. The built-in file manager, terminal, PDF viewer etc. are good. The built-in text editor is no IDE, but it's up-to-snuff with Notepad++.
And I'm making these blanket statements despite there not being one built-in anything. You can choose between multiple GUI bundles (so-called "desktop environments"). From a minimal DIY setup (i3wm etc.) all the way to maximally feature-rich goodness (KDE). You don't have to use the same limited setup as your granny uses to launch a browser. You can customize everything to your needs and you get tons of power-user features.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's German for "cinema". No idea, if that's the context, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So, why do you care?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's tons of women, who need to protect their privacy in online dating, to avoid stalkers and worse. And that's specifically because many people want to get laid with them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This engine is not idiomatic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well, it sources where that quote came from, but the quote does not actually source their claim.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

These are some pretty big guinea pigs...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Please don't pigeonhole me as a communist. I hold these opinions out of personal conviction.

I think, the differentiating factor here is that I don't give a fuck about myself. If you kill me, who cares? I'm not gonna. I'm not saying, I wouldn't flinch, if you put a barrel to my head. I'm just saying that I don't consider it a particularly evil act to kill me in particular.

To take a contemporary example, I consider it much more evil to pump tons and tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, killing thousands of people, animals etc..
It's not as direct as holding a gun to someone's head, so you could argue that their intention isn't as evil, but the effect is much worse.

And ultimately, yeah, in my world view, it's never the poor who are particularly relevant in their evilness, because their lack of money severely limits their ability to be awful.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I think, it's just completely backwards. So many rich people got rich off of immoral behaviour, yet brand themselves as philanthropists. Those people have real-world impact on me. I really don't care about some starving guy in a foreign country. His impact on the world is practically non-existent.

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