I used modern gnome and I seriously don’t understand how it’s “more modern”, most changes feel a downgrade, I cannot divide apps by categories anymore, I only have a big menu that takes all my screen and shows me like 15 apps at a time, unlike “traditional” desktop apps I can control with Alt+Some keys I have the same toolbar filled with burger menus and icons with no text so difficult to use, gnome file manager is objectively inferior in features to Nemo, and don’t get me started on the desktop, when you click an application icon on the application bar it doesn’t even minimize like on every other desktop interface.

Either ubuntu ships a broken version of gnome or it just sucks, and there are also all kind of management issues that make development very inefficient.

Global warming is not about producing more energy, it’s about burning fossil fuels instead of clean energy (renewables, nuclear…) and about wasting energy.

But it’s not as easy, technically everytime you use your car you become “part of the problem”, or everytime you buy some useless single-use crap from temu, but I think it’s unfair to blame yourself for it. The system allows and encourages wastes and “problematic behaviour” because it’s either more profitable (see bigger cars in the US) or changing is more difficult and politically inconvenient.

As far as I know Mint and Fedora have the same choice of Desktop Environment more or less, I’m really curious to know what you refer to when you say “modeen interface”

If a password is centrally assigned and managed it is not a safe passqword, regardless of other security measures

Ok who says that a straight male should be attracted to female gender? Sexual attraction is physical (to most people) so a straight male od attracted to people with female primary (vulva) and secondary (boobs, ass, etc…) sexual characteristics. Just because a biological male with male sexual organs and a male-presenting body identifies as female, and a straight male ks not attracted to her it’s not disrespectful, fetishizing, transphobe, “super straight”, it’s just straight. In the same way as a generally straight man will likely not be attracted to a female transgender person who did hormome therapy and looks like a female but didn’t do the surgigal operation to transform her male genitalia in female genitalia, as straight male will probably not be attracted to a “woman with a penis” and that’s perfectly ok

Overturism can and usually is a cost and a nuisance for a popular city, especially when there are just too many tourists. Usually the price is quite low (a few € per day, much less than you would spend on accomodation or food), and it’s limited to the most crowded spots in the most popular time of year, and it’s just enough to discourage a little number of people

Unfortunately that doesn’t always work. For example on linux there are not high-quality DRMs available so streaming platforms are stuck at 480p/720p, forget your 4k

If a belief stands on authority alone it’s not something I believe, it’s something I accept, either because I want to change or as a compromise.

Incoherence, and it’s particuarly bad when I realize i’m being incoherent

Songs of the Gorilla Nation. It’s supposed to be a book about the autism of the author, but it’s just a weird love letter to the entire Gorilla population, described as perfect creatures every human should aspire to be, it’s pretty much like that simpson shimpanzee parody episode, except more sad.

There is very little content about autism, but you can tell there is a lot of resentment towards neurotipicals (who she calls neuromutilated) and a lot of toxic autism pride. I believe the author has a lot of unresolved trauma that she coped with cultivating resentment and obsessing over gorillas.

Didn’t learn much about autism nor gorillas, a pretty lame book overall.

“Steadily being replaced” is another hyperbole. Sure as general purpose languages they might be used less, but where they really shine (low level and embedded programming) they are not going anywhere anytime soon. Sure rust is taking more momentum but it will take decaded before it will be used more, if it ever will be

Well technically C, C++, JS and Python and C# are all more than 25 years old, despite having changed a lot they are still the same languages at core. Of course I would hardly call them underrated.

I imagine the guy being 3000IQ and wanted to leave, so he pretended to be scammed to be fired without quitting and divided the 5000$ with his pal

When I was very young (probably too much to be on the internet) I got onw of those viruses that lock your pc and ask for a payment because the pc is seized by the authority or some shit. Of course I believed it so I mustered the courage to tell my parent. Was very relieved when they told me it was a scam and 3 seconds of googling tols me how to remove the virus (it was just an autostart program).

When I changed electricity operator I got called telling from the operator I switched to and gave my bank coordinates to change the contract. Took a while to figure out maybe it was not them. How they found out I just switched to that particular operator they were impersonating is outiside of my understanding.

My grandma got a call saying it was “one of her child” she made the mistake to tell them the name of her child so they pretended to be one. She might have been old, but she was smart enough to hung up and call my uncle and of course he had no accident, but coincidentallt it was the only day in the week he was not with her. Did they know? Who knows

As a casual js user (I build some static sites for fun and personal use), I am under the impression that JavaScript “sucks” mostly because some things really make it look like JavaScript was invented as a quick scripting tool rather than the backbone of the WWW.

I’ll bring an example that maybe helps me learning someting. Why in javasctipt “1” == 1? I know the === operator exists, but why isn’t the default behaviour the safer one? Especially when the mantra is “don’t trust the user”.

Like, I get, I am a strongly-typed guy, but I see why weakly-type languges exists, but this feel frankly moronic, and all the answers I’ve seen are " because that’s how it is". That’s just copium.

Also when I tried to compile a single Cordova app to play around I needed some 5GB of npm modules that totalled ~200k files! Is that how modern app development is like?

Also, the particular webpage OP linked might be a little extreme, but modern software does suck ass, and is not user-friendly nor efficient. Just look at mobile communication apps, like Teams. The user experience is terrible, the UI is unrespive, the battery drain is crazy and it takes 800MB of space. Is this because it’s an electron app, or because it’s made by incompetent programmers? I don’t know, but we made incredible hardware improvements in personal computing, new software should be even more efficient and use them better, not get more and more bloaty to have the same experience on older and newer hardware

Death is not unexpected on whether it will happen, but when. Everyone dies, but you might be going to work one day and you die because of a moron burning a red light, or you might ne the healthiest person and get an incurable cancer, or people die from random hearth attack.

That’s not true, “retarded” (from the latin term for delay) was intially used as a medical term to someone with lower cognitive abilities, not an insult per se. but like other similar terms (such as “cretin”) it was eventually used more as an insult, until it was considered offensive by most and only the offensive meaning remained in the common speech.

That is a very healthy way to look up to it, good luck!

Not really a series, but who could forget great classic movies such as:

WHO KILLED CAPTAIN ALEX - Uganda’s first action movie and TEEBATUSASULA

Because web browsers are stupidly complicated and expensive to maintain. The only real competitor is google who has infinite money to maintain the chrome superiority and you need resources to maintain safety, fix bugs, and adhere to new standards, which get every time more complex (also thanks to google that doesn’t want competitor). You need a lot of budget for that.