In EU new installments using refrigerants with GWP of over 150 will be straight up banned next year, at least for home usage

Because if a company gives up profits to be nice, another company will swoop in and get inherently rewarded by doing the profitable thing instead

Modern refrigerants don’t use R134

I question whether we are rapidly approaching the point where Linux is simply easier to use in a safe, secure, and practical way for the average user, because it doesn’t try to actively fuck you over like Microsoft does

It’s easier when you don’t need to jump through hoops to make a local account. It’s easier when you don’t need to turn off a dozen settings you might not know about regarding data collection or advertisements. It’s easier when you don’t have an antagonistic system that treats you like the product, not a user, not pushing you towards confusing things you don’t want

You’re gonna have to deal with holidays either way, if you truly are committed, then it shouldn’t matter when you start, and it’s hetter to just start

I’d you’re talking about cloud computing for gaming specifically (as you can of course use cloud computing for, well, everything), then maybe it’s not good enough in the US, I don’t know enough about that area to say, but networking is definitively more than sufficient in Europe.

I don’t know what sort of gotcha you’re trying to make. Yes those humans are immoral moral actors.

And also, no, I do not adhere to moral relativism, that is a position I outright reject. I definitively think that there are moral positions more “correct” than others. That is your position. Not mine.

Does that make me “better” than other animals? “Better” in what sense, though? Better in terms of discerning right from wrong and able to think about these abstract concepts? Yes. Abstract thinking is something that humans are quite uniquely better at, as far as we know. Better as in having more moral value, though? No I would not say so. If an animal has capacity for suffering, then that animal has a moral worth. And we should avoid causing it suffering if possible.

To be very crass, animals also rape other animals, and I hope to god that you will not use “but we are animals” as an argument there as well.

We are different from other animals in that we are moral agents. We can know the difference between good and bad. That makes us responsible to act upon that difference, too.

This was done by an archival group, primarily for the purposes of preservation. Don’t know if it helps make you feel better, but at least personally I think complete archives of human cultural output, if possible, are important. So much has already been lost over the course of history

I know you meant “companies”, but at this point, it might as well be on the scale of a country

I think commercialized gambling should be illegal too

I mean, dogs and cats can have mental illnesses or disorders, it’s just that they tend to be less impactful due to them being, well, pets. They have no responsibilities

From what I know, they can have traits reminiscent of human autism

Humans have a natural tendency to develop slang. Even in the internet age new slang and in-group languages/dialects are constantly formed

What might happen, is that, if people try to keep up with it, you’ll end up with older people fluent in dozens of various internet dialects

It’s not as simple as “only security through obscurity”. You could say the same thing for an encryption key of a certain length. The private key to a public key is still technically just an obscurity, but it’s still impractical to actually go through the entire range

IPv6 is big enough where this obscurity becomes impractical to sweep. But of course, as you said, there may be other methods of finding your address

It’s definitively something along the lines of “knows just enough to be dangerous”

Like, sure, I’ve also broken my Linux system, but I’m deliberately running distros like arch and doing things that the average user would never do, like, say, messing with the bootloader.

If you just install something like bazzite or mint, and use it like a normal user would, the risk for something breaking should be really low

Thet tell on themselves so bad

English scares me

…but would you use a soldering iron on it?

Oh jesus christ, sure, go ahead, keep doing just like you’re doing, I’m sure it will keep working out for you

And so, okay, instead of discussing like this, or rather arguing, I want us to take a step back and ask, “what is it that we’re actually trying to achieve here?”

Is the goal to “win” the argument? Is the goal to look at a different perspective? This isn’t a debate club, there is nothing to gain here, except our personal knowledge or understanding of something

And so, on that note, you said how this is exactly how leftists shoot themselves in the foot with arguments like this, but like, who is trying to argue here? And for whom? As far as I can tell, you are the one trying to win some argument, I’m just trying to have a discussion about terms in a, presumably, left-leaning environment where we’re all already roughly on the same page. From an external point of view, what people see is you mostly going off on others

When you say I’m chastising you, that’s literally your imagination, it’s not what I’m trying to do at all. So please don’t put words in my mouth, okay?

The point others were trying to make, is that it’s useful to talk about the working vs the owning class. And I further tried to get across that it’s useful to have this sort of knowledge, and that using terms loosely isn’t helpful for one’s understanding of a topic. This is something that I speak from personal experience. It’s basically just an argument for political literacy

But if I didn’t get that across properly, then I apologize. I could have spent a bit more time explaining myself