Electric shocks for behavior merely deemed undesirable or noncompliant are barbaric.
I could imagine them being justified to prevent self-injury when other options have been exhausted. Perhaps they’re preferable to constant restraint or sedation.
What do you think of Discovery Klingons? It seems like they came and went with little explanation, while the early TOS human-looking Klingons did get an explanation in canon eventually.
Thanks for doing this here instead of corporate social media.
This is a forum.
Forums and blogs could be classed as social media, but they predate widespread use of the term, and are fundamentally different from the corporate social platforms.
It’s the combination of an individualized engagement algorithm and user-generated content that defines modern social media.
I’ve used several iterations of Gnome, several iterations of KDE, Mate, Cinnamon, Hyprland, XFCE, LXDE, Fluxbox, and several other things I can’t be bothered to remember. I can be productive on any of them given some time to set them up.
I do have preferences though, and I like KDE on a laptop/desktop and Gnome on a tablet. I just wish Gnome would do something about its horrid onscreen keyboard.
I’m still using a phone from 2020. It’s fine. If I got something new, it would probably be bigger and lack a headphone jack.
A new phone would have a better camera than my old one, but it would not be as good a camera as my Olympus, which I use when I care about the result.
The airline probably owes you money under the EU 261 passenger rights regulation.
Thus, a seatless bus. A what?!
That’s pretty common at European airports. It’s rare in the USA, but I’ve seen it.
I had four overnight delays in three round trip transatlantic flights in 2025. The airline was at fault for three of them.
When the airline is at fault for a delay of four hours or more on a long flight that starts or ends in the EU, they owe the passenger 600 Euros, a hotel room, and meals, so those were long delays but not exactly terrible experiences.
Getting stuck for 20 hours in the Newark airport due to weather wasn’t as pleasant. The airline did not owe me anything because weather is not their fault. There were hundreds of other delayed travelers sleeping on cots in the halls of the airport. They did not have a cot for me.
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It’s worth thinking about whether dimensions like these are cause or effect, and political or personality traits. zlatiah points out that there are techniques for identifying which ones cause political behavior.
Let’s clarify some terminology.
Android is an operating system, not hardware. Android uses the Linux kernel, but differs greatly from desktop-oriented Linux distributions. Most phones are designed for Android, a bit like most PCs are designed with Windows in mind.
Desktop-oriented Linux distributions have a semi-standardized software stack with Linux, GNU libraries and utilities, a shell, X11 or Wayland, some sort of window manager or desktop environment, etc…
Other comments have explained how the hardware makes it difficult to have generic operating systems that install easily on any phone like we do for PCs, but they do exist. Ubuntu Touch and PostmarketOS are examples of desktop-like Linux distributions for phone hardware. It’s possible to install and use these on certain phones, but there’s usually a feature or two without a working hardware driver. Desktop Linux on laptop computers used to be that way too, but far fewer laptops have missing drivers now than a decade or two ago.
I have PostmarketOS installed on an older phone. I don’t think the user experience is quite ready for most people to use as their primary phone, even for me, and I’ve been running Linux on laptops for most of my adult life.
I have a .com for like $19.99 but pay to have my info redacted from whois stuff, an email address, all cones to like $42.99
Porkbun charges $11.08 for a .com with whois privacy. $30/year for email hosting might be worth it if you’re getting very good service, but I think you’re overpaying.
I had that in mind, but it’s been a while since I read it and skimming it today, it seems a little dated. The tone may also be a bit harsh to offer to OP in this thread.
Without seeing the entirety of the interaction, it’s hard to be sure.
Some people are assholes, and because nobody wants to interact with assholes, they usually end up congregating on whatever forum doesn’t ban them. Moderation is hard and ban evasion is often easy, so there end up being a lot of places like that.
The other side is that people in general ask a lot of bad questions, and a forum flooded with bad questions becomes useless because people who could answer good questions either get tired of it and leave, or spend so much time on the bad questions they don’t have time for the good ones. People get frustrated when they think that’s happening to a forum they enjoy, and programmers are famously better at communicating with machines than with people.
Here’s are some tips to ask good questions about programming:
LLMs don’t understand things. They repeatedly predict the next token given previous tokens.
I don’t think something without predictable patterns is likely to work as a language. A very complex grammar probably means the LLM will make grammatical errors more often, but that’s probably the most that can be done to make a language hard for LLMs. Other comments mention languages without much training data, but I don’t think that’s what you’re asking.
When I can’t use the old one anymore. Every time so far, that’s been because of a hardware failure.
I’m currently on a Pixel 4A. It’s running Android 16 (LineageOS), and I limit battery charge with AccA so that it doesn’t wear out. It’s currently showing 92% capacity, which seems pretty good for five years. I don’t think I’d actually like a new phone; it would be faster and have a better camera, but my current phone isn’t a bottleneck, and a new phone’s camera will still be worse than my Olympus. It would have 5G, but why should I care? Most new phones are bigger, and as an adult, my hands are not growing.
I love that answers like this are popular here. There was a time when phone tech was improving fast enough that frequent upgrades made a lot of sense, but now is not that time.
If 99% of applications that run on *nix desktops didn’t want to accept middle-click to paste text where that’s an operation that makes sense, I would agree with you. I do not believe that to be the case.
KDE and Gnome already have toggles for it, though Gnome’s is in gnome-tweaks because Gnome hates exposed settings.
I’d support unifying behavior between toolkits and apps to provide users with a single point to set their preference, but I use this feature a hundred times a day. I’d also like it to remain the default; *nix desktops should have their own flavor instead of just copying Mac OS or Windows, and middle-click paste has been a part of that flavor for 40 years.
Middle click to paste the X PRIMARY selection predates Blender.
Yes, I do know how old Blender is.
I am, with the obvious username. I mostly only post in /r/flashlight now, as it’s the most active community anywhere online for that niche interest.
They’re definitely not going to run out of oxygen. They might experience mild symptoms from elevated carbon dioxide or allergens.