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Cake day: November 8th, 2021

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  • Society doesn’t want to punish when two girls do it, as long as still do it with boys.

    But if two boys do it, well, they used to diagnose them with mental illness and chemically castrate them if not jail or even shoot them.

    So, it’s understandable some of this patterns remains, that if you do it just ONCE, it’s still a scarlett letter on you, you are “an admitted homosexual now” you can not longer take it back. Don’t worry, you won’t be treated poorly anymore for it, unless cultural attitudes toward the practice shift again, but you can’t “go back in the closet” as it were.






  • TL;DR (Summary)
    zr0 is expressing a flat rejection of Ubuntu as a valid Linux choice, likely due to Canonical’s decisions around Snap and other user-hostile defaults. They see no redeeming reason for anyone to run Ubuntu — especially with better alternatives like Debian or Arch available.

    List all said “decisions and defaults” that would incur such an unfavorable verdict from a seasonned linux user ?

    1. Snap Package System (snapd)
      This feels to many like vendor lock-in — a betrayal of open-source ideals.
    2. Data Collection (“Ubuntu Phone Home”)
      Though anonymized, the default opt-in raised privacy concerns
    3. Amazon Search Integration in Dash (Ubuntu 12.10–16.04)
      Eventually removed, but left a lasting stain on Canonical’s reputation.
    4. Abandoning MIR and Unity — Then Reversing
    5. Bundling Bloat / Non-Free Software by Default
    6. Canonical’s Commercial Focus
    7. LTS-Only Philosophy in Flavors and PPAs
    8. Centralized Development Model
      Ubuntu is technically “open source,” but most decisions come top-down from Canonical.
      Snap is developed behind closed doors, then pushed downstream.
    9. System Resource Usage
      Ubuntu’s GNOME desktop and background services (like Snap, Tracker, etc.) are heavy on RAM and CPU.
    10. Difficulty Removing Canonical Components
      Removing Snap, cloud-init, or motd-news (system message ads) often takes manual, repeated effort.
      System update may reintroduce unwanted packages.
      This gives a feeling of a system that’s working against the user.

    Do you agree with that assessment user “zr0” ?









  • Just answer honestly,
    While floorp has a more flowy and relaxed security model that still allows interaction with local files and is just overall easier to get into, I also like Zen for it’s peace of mind, with the ability to suspend execution of javascript on page load turned on as a default feature, however it can be quite uptight a what does and doesn’t constitute valid html



  • I have no shell configs of any kind because it seemed like everytime I used another computer, I would not have them and I would end up having the re-learn everything.

    So instead I google every command every time or ask chatgpt, like this

    I find it very annoying there’s isn’t a reliable way to use alias or shells, functions and stuff.


  • WIll I be able to take my shell with on to every other computer I meet ? I mean, these things are tiny, but how portable are shells ? I don’t want to learn a bunch of useful custom commands and then become frustrated to do anything on every computer other than mine.

    That’s why I have a qwerty keyboard, I don’t want to become useless whenever I have to use a keyboard that isn’t my keyboard…