Spaniard

Amazon is more than a shop. You can’t escape amazon web services.

The lingering feeling of instability. This is my second install of OpenSUSE, after I messed up something leading to my computer having some files which it wanted to update, but using urls which didn’t exist. After this, I’ve been feeling a bit insecure and afraid of doing something that ruins my installation. I know there’s the saying that Linux ‘just works’, but I’ve never messed up a Windows installation…

Regarding this. How often did you mess your windows installation when you started? Because I started around 8 years old with MSDOS and I screwed Windows many times, eventually I learnt what to do and what not.

Regarding software today it’s easier than it’s ever been in Linux. With flatpack, appimages and the different repos.

Anyway there is this scene in the show “Bojack Horseman” where the titular character was trying to do some exercise by running up a hill and he is tired, exhausted, another characters pass by and says: “It gets easier”, “uh?” answers Bojack, “It gets easier but you have to do it every day, that’s the hard part”.

What that means is, it will get easier, specially when you are young, but you have to be constant, you have to keep messing around and do backups.

Here is the scene from Bojack

That being said, I am huge fan of opensuse and debian but eventually on my desktop I went with endeavour-os, the only time I screwed it up it was easy to fix it by using the live-iso editing the config files and fixed, now I keep a journal when I change anything :)

Jewish from Poland living in Toronto.

Betterbird wouldn’t exist without thunderbird though. Same with all those firefox forks people are recommending, if Firefox goes under most of those would go under too.

Yep, tried everything and Thunder is the best for me.

I don’t even have kids and I have protection in place at home to block devices from accessing sites, not exclusively porn tho, gambling and social networks.

Porn can be bad, okay, but if we taught our kids properly it’s not that bad and curiosity is ok. Gambling is terrible and more and more people are getting addicted to it.

Fuck government paternalism.

Not even orks are so evil.

I am not here to convince anyone, just sharing my opinion and reading other’s opinion.

Sanctions started around 2014-2015. Even Spain buys gas from Russia.

What? God gave humans free will. God didn’t made slavery, didn’t made money, or democracy, didn’t made wars. Basically He created the world as it was during paradise and the rest is our creation.

Although I would argue Angels are like slaves but that’s not exactly the point of this and at least one rebelled so I don’t know to what point they are or were slaves.

There is this app that generates white noise on the phone but such a battery drainer it wasn’t worth it.

I’m glad Europe is uniting.

While still buying a lot of natural resources from Russia.

At least half of Europe is the very definition of hypocrisy the last few years.

Zelensky is impresive not because of what he says but because of what he does, I think the European Union isn’t demonstrating anything but talking a lot.

Smartphones are a national security threat too but… And not only smartphones, any kind of phone: https://theintercept.com/2014/12/04/nsa-auroragold-hack-cellphones/

The OT is in the Christian Bible because they can’t ignore it, and shouldn’t ignore it. But that doesn’t mean following.

An eye for an eye is incompatible with turning the other cheek.

Slavery is entirely a human creation, neither the Bible nor the Torah tells believers to enslave other people but what is says, all from the OT to the NT, is “give to Caesar what’s his and give to God what’s His”, I know it sucks but it’s not that different from Stoic teachings, that’s why Catholics (and other Christians) belief that suffering makes them closer to God.

Edit.

There is a huge debate in Christendom about the meaning of “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them." Some believe the OT rules stand, some believe that they don’t. Catholics are taught the OT like kids learn history in school.

Honestly from Nazism back in the 30’s and 40’s to today technocracy, I can see the similarities. Add some modern China.

I agree with the point that land is owned by the one strong enough to enforce ownership.

I also think you agree with my point that we don’t own our land, or even our houses, the State owns it and we rent it from them.

It’s just a bit of nitpicking in the naming because I prefer calling things what they are not otherwise they end up losing meaning.

You are right until the whole thing is settled it can go either way, it can even go back to “democracy” (two party system isn’t really very democratic)

Well isn’t that pretty much what my local government did?

Considering it’s history. It was Monarch land, then took by dictator, then took by Republic, then took by dictator, then back to Monarchy for a short period during democratic transitioning. Well technically they didn’t even buy it they just took it.

While the people living here, which with me it’s 3 generations of my family but another three before that of another family (the ones who built it), had to paid for it the whole time.

At least the duchess land was really cheap, like 1 testimonial cent even in recent times.

If that sounds fair to you, then okay, nothing different from Absolute Monarchies time except the Monarchs.

This isn’t exactly fascism, this is the first technocracy in the works. Every kind of dictatorship follows the same steps but the end results is different, in this case would end with corporations controlling power, in others was a single dictator, an unitary party, a monarch, and religious leaders.

I rather buy another Korean or Japanese car. As an European except for the electric r5 I have no interest in European car makers, much less from a company that should have disappeared after dieselgate.