Predator looks extremely goofy on preview.

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You can get a vps for $5/month or less. Installing vpn software with one of the automagical scripts takes 30 minutes at worst.

Yay, gtk3! /s

A lot of the prominent members of terrorist paramilitaries that later formed tzahal were from r*ssian empire a lot of theorists as well, specifically from territory of modern Ukraine mostly due to “pale of settlement” policy of the empire. I think that’s what gp hinted at (don’t know what language they spoke predominantly, mostly yiddish I think).

What DE or WM (and distro if relevant) do you use for your actual, professional work?

KDE/Arch

Was this a choice by you or pre-selected by the employer? Do they allow you to work on your own device if desired? (Excluding freelancers obv.)

Choice was made by me (everyone except one person at the time was running arch with kde as well 🙃). Yeah, bringing your own device was allowed as long as disk was encrypted.

Do you need to balance stability vs. customisability? Or is that a no-brainer for you? (=“Have you ever had to cancel a meeting because an Arch update broke your screen sharing?”)

No, this never happened to me with work machine, arch is extremely simple to maintain as long as you follow simple procedure of reading news and keeping out-of-repos packages to minimum.

How much time do you find reasonable to put into maintaining/developing your setup?

Maintaining - up to an hour a week. Developing - dunno, I haven’t changed things since kde 5 - 6 transition and it was a small change as well.

Did distro choice (or lack thereof) impact your choices for DE/WM?

Who knows, probably not.

Do you feel like your code editor, language stack, or job profile has an impact on the choices? For example, is your profile very specific (“I go to dailies and turn tickets into code / I work alone for weeks at a time researching stuff”), allowing you to optimise the setup further?

Well, emacs has some impact on my psyche worldview probably. 😄

Someone with a gun can just murder you outright with you having no way of defending against it. It doesn’t make guns something that’s beyond understanding. Same with anything that can damage another person.

Why would they need to keep secrecy and who exactly is going to get them into psych? People can deal with a child, and magic in harry potter universe is reversible and not permanent for the most part. There are multiple new families with magical children every year and they don’t recieve any guidance as well, yet they manage somehow without being assholes for the most part.

Article text feels like something in between ad and ai slop.

What’s there to understand? It’s not like magic or people with magic are from call of cthulchu rpg and damage sanity from interaction, they are as normal as you can get I don’t think you can make magic any more boring and mundane then it is in Harry Potter.

I mean, yeah, your points are valid as long as you squint hard enough and disregard some cartoonisly evil shit.

Recommendation to use librewolf is extremely unhelpful and/or dumb, it’s unusable by default for vast majority of people (everyone really) due to insane defaults that break every second web-page.

Videoconferences? Forget about it. Images that look normal? You don’t need them. And so on, even tor browser is more usable then this.

If you are still buying iot devices that can’t work without some ‘cloud’ it’s all on you. You don’t own it, you don’t get to decide how long it lasts.

It has a lot of practical uses.

loops

There is a extremely small chance that isolated groups of people numbering few hundreds are doing fine. At best they barely survive and not actively dying out, it’s pretty much impossible to do fine with population like this.

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Aren’t they actually third rate hacks in universe and install whatever with close to zero clue on what they actually doing?

This shit text was generated by llm, wasn’t it?

Who knows, there is small chance that they will continue to live like they do now. Realistically they are very limited in numbers, and resource poor, and essentially locked inside their current territories, so one small scale tragedy away from extinction.

Personally I think that their current situation is just an artifact of 20th century.

I have bambu printer they are good, but my printer stopped printing until I’ve allowed it to phone home for a bit, this repeated twice already.

I’m waiting for one of those right now as well!