I wonder if adults can just come up to one another and say "Hey, you seem cool, can we be friends?"

Extra spicy take: Way fewer people should own their own homes, and there should be no tax advantages or government backed mortgages or mortgage insurance or flood insurance for it. NIMBYs are in no small part a creation of people obsessed with their property value because their home is their largest chunk of their net worth. I would slap anyone who said they were going to take out 6+ figures of debt to purchase any one specific real estate investment. But because it's a home, somehow it's celebrated as Peak Adulthood. Leave real estate speculation to those who are fine with losing it all.

Relatives got a new computer and aren't ready to take the plunge for Linux?

GitHub

GitHub - Raphire/Win11Debloat: A simple, lightweight PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to customize, declutter and improve your Windows experience. Win11Debloat works for both Windows 10 and Windows 11.

A simple, lightweight PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to customize, dec...

You can even walk them through it on the phone in under 5 minutes. It does a whole lot to disable AI, all that crapware preinstalled, ads, popups, and nags that otherwise they'd have to deal with. I rerun it every major update on my gaming PC just to clean the latest sneaky shit off.

Spicy Take: Fuck the FOSS bro mindset of "We can overlook bad behavior of maintainers because if it gets TOO bad we can just fork it." And "It's okay to use 'open core' products even though the whole project couldn't survive without its corporate overlords who refuse PRs and public maintainer communities. I can count on one hand the number of major FOSS projects not from Sun/Oracle who successfully forked and became larger than the original. Forking a project results in one of two outcomes: <li><p>the fork dies because most of the contributors, maintainers, and users don't leave because they just can't be bothered to give a shit</p></li><li><p>Many people do schism, and the entire original AND fork decline in popularity as many people just go elsewhere rather than mess with it all </p></li> Fight bad behavior, corporate ownership, toxic bullshit, bigotry, wrong project direction, etc. where you find it. Not by saying a fork is the release valve. Among many others, this is a subtoot about Firefox

Again, kudos to the librarians for fighting book censorship, including age ratings on books, which would ultimately amount to book censorship with extra steps. Sure, have kids sections and adult sections, but if a kid wants to learn about something, let them do it.

Labeling and Rating Systems Q&A

Librarians employ objective professional judgment through selection, cataloging, classification, and readers&#039; services to make available the i...

Btw, this is the exact same for the internet.

Mild take: Video games are objectively better when you can play as a woman.

Whether I would choose heaven or hell depends a whole bunch oh who they're accepting in heaven.